Topic: Crypto Scammers Host Fake Live Broadcasts On YouTube w/ Well Known Personalities (Read 77 times)
April 05, 2020, 07:34:20 AM
This is a very well known fraudulent practice by scammers and criminals. As far as I can remember, there have been thousands of youtube accounts being hacked since last year of September. And those criminals turn this channels to create fake giveaways. Yes, they issue the first ban in December, but it didn't stop because up to know, you can go to Youtube and search for fake Binance or Elon Musk or Vitalik Buterin and you will still see a lot of fake giveaways still plowing on their platform. So it is about time that Youtube will have to take a closer look again.
April 05, 2020, 12:54:43 AM
It is not just youtube there are even blue tick twitter accounts impersonating those people you listed above. Easy to avoid though. Just use common sense.
If you don't have any common sense, you shouldn't really own too much money anyway.
The way I see it is just another way of money flowing from dumb to clever.
If you don't have any common sense, you shouldn't really own too much money anyway.
The way I see it is just another way of money flowing from dumb to clever.
April 05, 2020, 12:50:04 AM
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Crypto Scammers Flood YouTube With Fake Livestreams Featuring Several Well Known Crypto Personalities...
You know how it goes, if you're in crypto circles on Twitter there's no way you haven't seen it dozens of times before - "Send in $100 worth of and recieve 10X that amount back!" coming from accounts that look like those of CoinBase, Vitalik, CZ, even Elon Musk famously had to speak up because so many scammers pretended to be him doing an ETH giveaway.
Sadly, when we covered the story of Elon Musk we discovered the scammers wallet address had a shocking $179,284 worth of ETH sitting in it.
Just out of curiosity, within the last 3 months I checked the wallet addresses given out by scammers on Twitter a couple times - both were empty, it seems Twitter was drying up for scammers. They needed something new, and it seems they found it.
Old scam finds new victims at YouTube...
YouTube gives live streams priority on search results, so there's a good chance you'll see these scams running right now by searching for bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc. This also sends newbies searching for videos to learn more about crypto right into scammers hands.
Here they’re able to add one extra twist that makes things a bit more believable - when you click on the live stream you'll see a real (old, recorded) interview with a well known crypto personality, and text on the screen makes victims think they just missed the announcement of a giveaway...
>> Continue To full article (with screenshots)
You know how it goes, if you're in crypto circles on Twitter there's no way you haven't seen it dozens of times before - "Send in $100 worth of
Sadly, when we covered the story of Elon Musk we discovered the scammers wallet address had a shocking $179,284 worth of ETH sitting in it.
Just out of curiosity, within the last 3 months I checked the wallet addresses given out by scammers on Twitter a couple times - both were empty, it seems Twitter was drying up for scammers. They needed something new, and it seems they found it.
Old scam finds new victims at YouTube...
YouTube gives live streams priority on search results, so there's a good chance you'll see these scams running right now by searching for bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc. This also sends newbies searching for videos to learn more about crypto right into scammers hands.
Here they’re able to add one extra twist that makes things a bit more believable - when you click on the live stream you'll see a real (old, recorded) interview with a well known crypto personality, and text on the screen makes victims think they just missed the announcement of a giveaway...
>> Continue To full article (with screenshots)
Getting harder to feel sorry for the people falling for these...
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