Topic: Could this Live Bitcoin giveaway be true? (Read 425 times)
AFAIK, these channels if they have huge amount of subscribers have been hacked through these cons idea of giving them some partnership and sponsor deals or advertising opportunities. They give some link where these outright owner of big channels to sign up but those are phishing links and that's where the magic happens. Once the scammer takes over of the credentials and login details, they're replacing the real channel with their scamming name and put up a running video about these giveaways. I've seen a lot of this 2016-2017 and up until now, they never stopped.
Hmm, How stupid approach to scam people, if they are using this that indicates it's working somewhere and it's disappointing that after the availability of information to this extent people are still getting scammed.
And that is the sad part, it's already 2024, and still people are falling for it. We have seen this kind of attempts or attacks many times already and have been warned newbies as well. But I guess there will be no scammers if there are no victims.So it means that there are still people who falls for this trap and so it's going to continue, unfortunately. But we should continue to give them warning in this community like this thread and for sure there are newbies, maybe registered or not registered that might read it and see our comments. Self awareness is still the key for us to not be the next statistics and lose money to this criminals.
This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, and it's not even the second time; neither will it be the last time. Michael Saylor has complained about this himself. I guess it was earlier this year. I can't find the link to the tweet, but it's obvious such AI videos have been going around trying to use it to scam victims.
Those who fall victim to this type of scam are those who still believe there are means of getting free money out there and are also blinded by their greed; if not, where in Christ's name do those who offer to give you double of what you send to them get their own money from?
Those who fall victim to this type of scam are those who still believe there are means of getting free money out there and are also blinded by their greed; if not, where in Christ's name do those who offer to give you double of what you send to them get their own money from?
Who is watching this Fake Michael Saylor live crypto giveaway event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc
since the video and the channel have been taken down, I can only assume that they used AI to copy Michael Saylo'rs voice and mouth movement, I remember seeing videos like that but with Elon Musk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc
I do not know what is happening on YouTube. But this is the channel that is Microstrategy that is registered in United States: https://m.youtube.com/@microstrategy
The one you posted is registered in India: https://m.youtube.com/@Microstrategy-y9c
That video is definitely belonging to scammers.
It is a scam.
On YouTube, click on 'report' to report it as soon as possible.
I wonder if they planned to copy the number of subscribers too, I mean the number of subscriptions in their channels was only 2k+ apart. anyway, looks like the @Microstrategy-y9c account has been banned(which is very surprising), can't find it on youtube anymore. The one you posted is registered in India: https://m.youtube.com/@Microstrategy-y9c
That video is definitely belonging to scammers.
It is a scam.
On YouTube, click on 'report' to report it as soon as possible.
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Who is watching this Fake Michael Saylor live crypto giveaway event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc
The offers are too good to be true; I feel it is AI-generated.
Promising double in five minutes of whatever amount in bitcoin or Ethereum that you send to an address that is on a website that you can access by scanning a QR code.
Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc
The offers are too good to be true; I feel it is AI-generated.
Promising double in five minutes of whatever amount in bitcoin or Ethereum that you send to an address that is on a website that you can access by scanning a QR code.
Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.
Pretty common schemes happening in youtube and don't know why this platform let those scam videos like to spread freely there.
People watching those videos need to know that there's nothing like that could give them huge money by just doing nothing and if there's certain amount asked to increase their chance to win then its more better than they should think that video what they see is a scam. No one would give them an instant huge money because bitcoin and those people in video is not doing charity. That's why people should stop watching this video and immediately report it.
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Could this Live Bitcoin giveaway be true?
I don't know why you even ask such a question when the answer is completely clear to anyone with even a little brain in their head. In addition, such videos with so-called "celebrities" have existed for years, this is one of the benefits of artificial intelligence. Fortunately, this kind of cheap scam is very easy to spot, but over time, as AI progresses, it will be difficult to distinguish whether it is a real person or artificial intelligence.
I don't know why all these platforms don't deal more with suppressing such scam attempts - if scammers use AI, why not use it against them in such a way that videos like this are detected and removed as quickly as possible, and accounts are banned.
I don't even need to think about it before answering that it's a scam attempt. If MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor wanted to do a giveaway for some reason, information about that would be available in advance on their official channels and websites. It wouldn't just appear out of the blue on YouTube or any other social media. Crypto doubler scams have been around for may years. The only thing that's changing is the person they are impersonating.
Yep. Probably due to Saylor being at the helm of some bullish BTC-related news, he was chosen as the person to impersonate.
Makes sense.
I don't even need to think about it before answering that it's a scam attempt. If MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor wanted to do a giveaway for some reason, information about that would be available in advance on their official channels and websites. It wouldn't just appear out of the blue on YouTube or any other social media. Crypto doubler scams have been around for may years. The only thing that's changing is the person they are impersonating.
Anybody that is coming into the crypto space without any experience might most likely fall for this cheap scam, they can get greedy and want to make fast money, only to lose their hard earned money to the scammers. We that have experience in the crypto space will easily know from a glance that it's from scammers, it's an old trick that ignorant people always falls for. Michael Saylor, and Microstrategy, will not do such a giveaway instantly and unannounced, they will surely promote the giveaway from their original source. Scammers are not relenting in their schemes to steal from people, that is why being informed about different tactics of scams is very important. 
I don't even need to think about it before answering that it's a scam attempt. If MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor wanted to do a giveaway for some reason, information about that would be available in advance on their official channels and websites. It wouldn't just appear out of the blue on YouTube or any other social media. Crypto doubler scams have been around for may years. The only thing that's changing is the person they are impersonating.
The problem here is how youtube allow this kind of scams, when they take it down it's too late, a lot of users already get scammed with it because the attackers promote these videos and youtube shares it with the users.
If you go to youtube and search for bitcoin giveaway and filter by live, you will find the scams live, simple as that.
If you go to youtube and search for bitcoin giveaway and filter by live, you will find the scams live, simple as that.
Not in a single universe a person would give their BTC away currently.
So I agree - simply skip such events.
It couldn't be true, of course.
Anyway, I checked the address posted by the scammer, the Bitcoin address at least. There were a total of 6 deposits. All made on the 17th. That's the day the video was live, right? The largest deposit was 0.1BTC and the smallest was 0.00012424BTC. So, the deposits range from a few dollars to thousands. I didn't check the deposits made on the Ethereum address.
I can only hope that nobody fell to that scam, but something in me tells me there might have some.
Wow, that's a decent sum of money for such a petty scam. Unfortunately, it's extremely likely that these 6 deposits were actual victims and not transactions of the scammer himself. On the positive side, the video has been taken down, however, the damage has already been done, AI has become way too advanced in such a short timeframe that it's already producing realistic content, imagine its capabilities in the next few years. This isn't a new scam, nor is it cryptocurrency related, a few weeks ago I remember reading a similar story on the forum about an elderly woman falling victim of an AI generated video of New Zealand's prime minister.Anyway, I checked the address posted by the scammer, the Bitcoin address at least. There were a total of 6 deposits. All made on the 17th. That's the day the video was live, right? The largest deposit was 0.1BTC and the smallest was 0.00012424BTC. So, the deposits range from a few dollars to thousands. I didn't check the deposits made on the Ethereum address.
I can only hope that nobody fell to that scam, but something in me tells me there might have some.
I could understand why an elderly person could fall a victim to such a scam, however, those who are involved in cryptocurrencies are usually a little more cautious and knowledgeable about internet scams.
Anyone that wants to invest or get involved in crypto should do one thing immediately after learning about crypto. That is searching about how to avoid crypto scammers and hackers. People that will send the money are those that have not learned how to avoid scammers and hackers before. I remember when I know about cryptocurrencies, I saw this as one of the scammers way of stealing money from people using Elon Musk deep fake video for it also on YouTube.
So they must leave that offers and never take a look back because that can make their minds tell to them to try. Research will be the answer to find if that is real or fake so people should not lazy to research because that will be their own good to stay away from the scam. I already get in a scam in the past and the scammer using the similar way like that and yes, I lost my money so I consider that is my worth lesson and will not doing the same. legendary
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Who is watching this Fake Michael Saylor live crypto giveaway event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc
The offers are too good to be true; I feel it is AI-generated.
Promising double in five minutes of whatever amount in bitcoin or Ethereum that you send to an address that is on a website that you can access by scanning a QR code.
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Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.
And... they're active again. More active than 2 years ago. They know that the bull run is happening already and because of this, many newbies are wanting to make money in the crypto space hence, investing into crypto. They're the ones that are the most vulnerable when it comes to this kind of scamming attempts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc
The offers are too good to be true; I feel it is AI-generated.
Promising double in five minutes of whatever amount in bitcoin or Ethereum that you send to an address that is on a website that you can access by scanning a QR code.
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Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.
For me, it's a cheap way of scamming people, but it works and it's because there will always be newbies out there that will fall into this kind of trick. Now the video has been taken down already, but if we've been into crypto for quite some, we will notice that this is not true. Now with the emergence of AI, these scammers will utilize it to make way more attractive videos just to scam these newbies.
Scammers are using the same methods because they see that it works. They're just evolving and using better ways to scam people. Just think of this quote. "If it's too good to be true, it's not true."
The problem here is how youtube allow this kind of scams, when they take it down it's too late, a lot of users already get scammed with it because the attackers promote these videos and youtube shares it with the users.
If you go to youtube and search for bitcoin giveaway and filter by live, you will find the scams live, simple as that.
If you go to youtube and search for bitcoin giveaway and filter by live, you will find the scams live, simple as that.
It couldn't be true, of course.
Anyway, I checked the address posted by the scammer, the Bitcoin address at least. There were a total of 6 deposits. All made on the 17th. That's the day the video was live, right? The largest deposit was 0.1BTC and the smallest was 0.00012424BTC. So, the deposits range from a few dollars to thousands. I didn't check the deposits made on the Ethereum address.
I can only hope that nobody fell to that scam, but something in me tells me there might have some.
Anyway, I checked the address posted by the scammer, the Bitcoin address at least. There were a total of 6 deposits. All made on the 17th. That's the day the video was live, right? The largest deposit was 0.1BTC and the smallest was 0.00012424BTC. So, the deposits range from a few dollars to thousands. I didn't check the deposits made on the Ethereum address.
I can only hope that nobody fell to that scam, but something in me tells me there might have some.
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Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.
I have seen this kind of thing even when Bitcoin was not as famous as it is now, but at that time the website did pay and stopped when no more users made deposits.Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.
A few years ago, even Elon Musk's name was used to scam with the same system but not Bitcoin if I'm not mistaken Ethereum or Dogecoin.
I agree this is aimed for newbies in crypto because they are inexperienced and only think about how to increase their assets, and using the name of a famous person and also someone involved in crypto makes it look legit and newbies will get caught in it
This is an old scam pattern that have just been rebranded to capture the latest big name in the industry. I still remember those days they were hacking the Twitter (X) accounts of popular figures and asking people to send cryptocurrency to receive double. Many people fell for those scams those days until people became aware of those tricks and it phased away. Now they have came back with another format, probably using AI to make it look real. Such a shame that some people will still fall for this, probably due to greed. "Anything that sounds so good to be true, probably isn't"
It has only one obvious answer, no. Why would anyone on their descent mind to giveaway such amounts (doubled bitcoin), where do they get that money to do the giveaway? Of course, its too good to be true, so better to report that video on youtube to avoid newbie getting victimized.
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