Topic: [ETH] I was scammed on Youtube. What to do? (Read 1090 times)

What can I say , it's a pity ,I'm sure you learn't your lesson and I hope others learn from your mistake. I really wonder why people would  do give aways and then demand for your own Eth, sometime it's just greed that leads to this type of loss,well asking if it can be gotten back,just forget it and move ahead. Never trade that part anymore.

This is really disheartening, you were really played and you find it hard knowing the truth because you were all after getting your own share of the giveaway. Both on YouTube and twitter there are many scammers with similar tactics, promising attractive returns of what they don't have. What makes you think that someone will give you his ETH just for free like that? The scam was all written there but you didn't see it. Henceforth, be careful, 90% of giveaways are scams, also know that no one will can give you free ETH therefore all those promising huge returns if you send them your ETH are only but scammers.

It is precisely this manner of filing fraudulent schemes that leads to maximum results.
People, looking at the fact that a well-known service, or media personality, is connected with the scheme of distributing free coins or lotteries, lose their heads, and critical thinking with it.
In other words, they shift their responsibility to the media person who supposedly controls the process.
What really is a lie.

Wow, they robbed people for 400 Ethers? I can´t imagine that I would send my money to someone to get instant 2x profit. It doesn´t make any sense, it is clear proof of scam. But it seems that people are still greedy and unteachable. They are doing same and same mistake.
So if I get question if ICOs and altcoins will experience big pump like in 2017, I say definetely yes. As you can see we do same mistakes every time.

it's a bad experience but it will be a good teacher to teach many people about that mistake
the point that I get from your experience is to be careful in investing
besides that there are still many ways a scammer looking for victims even through ICO that looks reliable but suddenly ICO extended etc.
I hope this does not happen again to others

Unfortunately there nothing anyone can do to help you recover these coins. People get wiser with things like this but people who have been in the game for long won't fall for this.

In a digitalize world police can't be of help, it's a total waste of time, next time the guy will be smarter not to trust anything they see online, I've never for once send out any money or coin to anyone, instead I am the one winning or earning coins, none leave my wallet unless I want to sell, people like learning the hard way

If your story is true, then it will be a good life lesson to you. I am very sure that you will remember that for the rest of your life. I will just give thanks to you for sharing your story so I can share it to some newbies that I know. If your story is not true then I have just waisted a more than a minute read but It will not be a loss since everything is possible to happen in Crypto. I hope that you will somehow find your way to somehow recover.

This might be a lesson to you. You can call a police or any authority that can handle a cyber crime like this however there's no assurance that the scammer will be caught. Remember that there's no such thing as easy money even though it's a real investment make sure that you understand the process or the steps on what will happen and if there's something shady or something you can't explain then probably it's a scam and it's better to get away from it to make you safe.

It's hard for you to get back that money in this market, so I think you can only take that as a lesson and avoid it in the future. In this market there are many scammer, so you need to be careful in every situation. And you always remember that there is nothing in this market for free, and there is no type of investment that can give you huge profits.

The story is unbelievable! But in the cryptocurrency world, I think it is possible. I have come across many scam situations like yours, but just by having a realistic view that no one will naturally bring you money, you will never fall for a scam.

Well you seem late in getting the news of these scam giveaways and your greed gets the best of you, it's not going to be the last one many more offer like this are still coming up I just commented on one in the scam section, but it's good that you posted it, this is for awareness

The Youtube channel is now disabled because of the many reports.

My suggestion is that you contact the platform that provides a program for the campaign on YouTube. maybe through a channel be it tweeter or telegram you can find out why this can happen to your wallet.

that is a huge loss but scammers will always be scammers,actually this has been in here for a long time its just happen that you are greed and noob to become a victim.

the very moment that they require you to send ETH meaning this is something you must be doubt.scammers are good at it and the problem here you bite the bait mate.

like the other advice this can be reported to the Police(if your country has the power over cyber cases if none?then consider this as a learn from experience thing.
Good thing that you had realized what really is the situation and what to learn.

Goodluck into your next Journey mate and hope Crypto will not Hurt you to the edge and continue investing in crypto.

Folks i thank you a lot for all your replies. Even for the not so nice ones. I think critics and correction is vital for everybody especially me. It was not easy for me going public with it, but i thought it should be there for others to dont get scammed.
Also, in todays video by this guy crapto lark, he also talks about these scams. https://youtu.be/Xq4nY9UeQxs?t=541
At Minute 9:00 it starts. So he also said there are mayn of these scams currently happening on Youtube. I Wonder what can we do about it?

Finally i was not asking for donations. I thought that maybe there is a Ethereum employee over here and since they could freeze the account were my ETH is still on, they can pass it back to me.
In all honstely thats what crypto is mmost lacking. If you do a mistake the funds could be lost forever unlike FIAT account. This will hinder mass adoption in the very long run.

Have to agree with LogitechMouse here, a lot of people should have known they would get scammed. If you have enough money and educations and knowledge to access the internet and then actually own Bitcoin, then you should know a scam just by using common sense.

Seriously, I get it. Greed blinds us to common sense but still, you should have done some research first. Lesson learned right?

These few lines is a sign that it is a scam. If you are knowledgeable enough, you will notice that this is impossible. It is like Bitcoin Doubler in Bitcoin or the "100% in X amount of days scheme". The more ETH you will send, the more ETH will get scammed for you . I hate to say this but being a newbie is hard especially if you are holding a huge amount of money .

Whatever the comments and messages are, the fact that this is "too good to be true" is already a sign that this is a scam and yet you fell into it. Can't blame you since I will assume that you are a newbie in crypto but you're stupid to hold a huge amount of ETH yet you are not that knowledgeable when it comes to scams like this.

You and the others who waited are the most naive persons in the world. Hate to say this but it is true .
 
You have 3 choices.
1. Call a police and share to them what happen to you.
2. Trace the scammers if you can do it.
3. Move on and take it as a lesson for you.

You will not learn if you don't commit mistakes like this trust me at least now you learned something right . Don't do it again and move on.

You should report those kind of stuff on YouTube so they can't scam other people again. This is one of the reason why Youtube had an issue about deleting crypto related videos. Because it's part of their terms and policies. Youtube cannot distinguish every video if it's trying to scam other users that's why it should be a lesson to you not to trust easily even if it looks real. Because a scammer wouldn't let others to notice they are not real. They'll make efforts just to make it real. Scammers are good at that.

I really feel sad for you but the only mistake here is yours. You should never trust any random channels who pretend to be the official ones. You should always open the official website and dig for some information over there because any giveaway or something like this would always be listed onto their official websites.

The scammer actually scammed you much easily and might perhaps be motivated to scam few others. Youtube is never a trusted platform in terms of cryptocurrency investments. You should never listen to those youtubers who keep on promoting any coin or service and in this case, you actually trusted a random guy who just had a channel named etherum?

Moreover, why didn't you care watching the current view number onto the live video? I am sure any official live chat from etherum would have hundreds of thousands of views which in case of this scammer's live video would have less than thousand? Am I correct on this?

Indeed mate, the only thing you can do is to block and report the channel and also to raise awareness you can post it on social media or forum so that they cannot be victim of that youtube channel and take that mistake as a lesson for you to not trust anything good in the internet for scammers lurks everywhere inside the internet. Your ETH will not come back to you so work again so that you can earn it back and so not make the dame mistake.

I have taken part in a number of legit airdrops and they'd never ask you to deposit anything with them. You'd always be asked to sign a message or something like that. The only case where deposits were required is when exchanges were forking coins for you but it's a special case. It's not a giveaway and you can do it yourself if you want.

A golden rule is to remember that when you send coins to someone it's not like sending fiat where they have their account with a name and address. It's giving full control to someone you don't know. Do you believe that if you sent cash to a stranger via mail, typing the name XXX and a random street name they would return it to you? It's the same with cryptocurrencies.

The channel and video cannot be opened anymore. You could change the links to include a copy.

Youtube will block the channel once it got enough reports related to scam but they are not responsible for you got scammed so you can't do anything by appealing this to Google.

This is completely your fault,why you still trust these kind of giveaways which are really too good to be true,if you have waited for few minutes and see what is actually happening there might saves you from that 7 ETH scam.

You can't trace those scammers even with the complaint on your local police station because hackers know how to hide their original location on this internet world.

Let's take this as costly lesson.

Usually we should strictly avoid schemes who provide higher returns because earning that money easily is not really possible. That is just a trick used by scammers to attract some newbies and scam those innocent people. OP lost a good amount of ETH which he was been saving from a long time. This only took place because of the greed OP had in his mind to bear higher profits. This explains us how riskier our greed can be.

This is the time where we should kill our greed and move onto some another task where we could only earn with our hard efforts and never to run behind freebies. Scammers have a evil nature and they would never feel pity for anyone so the chance of them returning your money is actually "Zero."

This is so sad for your case. I am hearing about this scheme and unfortunate you end up falling in this joke scam of some hype youtubers. There are many awareness and cautious post already from this kind of scam. That's big money if youll ask me and sorry for your loss. Lesson learned if someone send you a proposal that is too good to be true never ever entertained the idea no matter how many convincing stuff he said and send to you.

As a newbie this is the most heartbreaking event that will happened to you. Anyway, maybe you already did regret it. So starting from now on stop interacting with the likes of them especially stranger keep introducing themselve as professionals.

currently there are many modes of fraud and are now increasingly sophisticated in their actions, but in reality can be avoided if you try to take the time to communicate or read about things like this in many forums available. use common sense every time you want to take action, what you will do makes sense and is acceptable with wise thinking. because every step you take will have a good effect if you want to be wise in moving. unfortunately you do not want to report to the authorities if absolutely necessary so that there is a deterrent effect.

Transaction in the blockchain is absolute and it can't be rolling back after the transaction gets a single confirmation by the block. What he can do to make sure if he will never try to join in any suspicious airdrops again in the future. There are a bunch of scammers around us and we must always be careful anytime in any situation.

Yes. That's what I'm saying, you just have to look for the legit ones. We have this on our forum in the games and rounds section, a lot of giveaways are happening there starting from promos of different casinos and other individuals just want to have fun.
But it's sort of marketing for people to try their website out by giving them free amount to explore their platform.

Too bad you fell for this  . What ethereum employee are you talking about? Those are just some scammers posing as official "ethereum employee" (and they don't even exist in real life!) and scamming poor naive people like you! If this was a real giveaway, why would they ask you to send them the ETH first? If they really wanted to giveaway coins, they would just ask for your wallet address and send you free coins over there.
There is nothing much you can do sadly. Think of the amount you lost as a payment for this valuable lesson.

Giveaway means giving a thing for free without any conditions if a giveaway has a state that requires you to send an amount of money, it means not a giveaway but a contest or campaign.

All giveaway must be free and without conditions.

Most of scammer is always active in popular site like a Youtube. And Youtube is the Top of Streaming Videos website.
This mean the popular site is the popular place of scammer.
I never trust crypto in youtube and everyday there are have live videos bitcoin giveaway. This is 100% fake. Be carefull.

Seriously there is just no reason for your lost from my point of view I mean 3ETH can be invested and profit made back if you know one or two thing My suggestion is know that nothing worth it comes cheap work and keep faith and it will be well but dont waste what you already got, it might take time to regain it

After seeing what happens to you, I don't think you can do much or hope your personal ETH is returned. but I see that the fraudster's ETH address has become ashes or pishing, and the fraudster will never be able to enjoy the loot from your assets. other times beware that In this cryptoqurrency world nothing is truly free or becomes rich overnight.

It seems to me that people who fall into such scams never learn from the mistakes of others. They have too much desire to get easy money, but in return they receive losses and bitter experience. Fraudsters have always exploited human weaknesses and will continue to do so.

Good thing that the channel was already nuked, so that no more users would be harmed from this further.
YT algorithm in making recommends is kinda screwed up sometimes, so don't trust it too much when you're having the thoughts of joining those.
Have you checked how many subs did that channel had? They could be having chat bots in their live chat, for the purpose of making it a legitimate channel for giveaways.
That live event in the video could be just an edited video file that was originally from past video but was altered, because these scammers would know that they'll be caught in no time by getting tracked.

It's a total scam, they will give false promises of returning more than double but it's all fake. No return will be given and the amount that will be sent to them will be lost forever in the hands of the owner. OP already admitted that he was not aware of it and bite the scam but I disagree with what you say about any giveaway is a scam.
There are legit giveaways there that are really for free, you just have to figure out the legit ones.

It's a sorry loss and it's because of greed that you fail to do the right thing and that is asking the community if the giveaway is valid and legal, it's not the only one there are also on Youtube, telegram they did not dare posts here in Bitcointalk because they will be caught.

Did you read the whole thread? He is not just reporting it to us, he is also asking for donations which is equivalent to begging here in the forum. That's one of the reason why I can't take this story seriously. A newbie account who knows about cryptocurrency but got scammed from a too good to be true giveaway and is asking for donations, isn't that quite suspicious?

Sorry for your loss mate, but there is nothing you can do about it. Try to learn a lesson and not to fall into such scam schemes again. Unfortunately, crypto industry is full of such thing that are on every single corner.

It was obvious that you and many others fell for this scammer or group scammers that carried out this dastardly act. This has been a known scam but with some high level of professionalism included, nevertheless, next time you should be able to do more research about such things before you embark on transaction with the person online.

Frankly speaking, this will create more awareness among others who may or might be planing for such like you. Internet has no free money, more also, does it has second chance when the mistakes have been made.

Report this immediately especially on youtube because for sure scammers are using a hacked account to scam people and unfortunately you’re of the victim OP. Its must to share this kind of scheme so your friends and other people wont fall on this, don’t trust anyone in this online world and ask someone if its legit or not.

You must have checked on the reviews/comments, his subscribers, history of videos, etc to quickly judge if he/she is genuine.
I have seen such "doubling" kind of scam in my telegram. Even I have not subscribed to such telegram groups, people somehow manage to add me to their scammy groups.

But, when I ask questions about their genuineness, I get removed from that group and my telegram screen also getting closed. This happened to me in the name of binance like they are starting a new decentralized exchange and for that they were giving away free ETH. Be careful always. No one will give you free money for doing nothing.

right now it looks like this channel has been successfully deleted and this might be a lesson so don't ever be fooled by the lure of giveaway or investment that offers to doubler ethereum, I hope that in the future,cases like this will not repeat or maybe youtube can filter out this kind of content so there is no more victim even though this seems impossible.

There are many cases of YouTube account hackers hacked because they once downloaded an application containing a virus (I know this because one of YouTube reviews applications offered by advertisers via e-mail and at some time the account is logged in from different places when the application is installed). And this is where the scammer uses the account to do livestream as you say, it is very sad to hear that you and others have lost some ETH, and this can all be lessons for all communities to be careful.

Yeah right those scammers knows how to work with their prey, they will give such a nice promises in order to attract investors that will be scammed after. You need to add more research before you enter and use your money for any investment that will be available in any platforms. Be guided by this forum by continuously read and be updated.

I see a lot of people are quick to tell you how naïve you are. Well, stuff like this happens to newbies. It is understandable. At one point in our lives, we become naïve.
I hope you have learned from this mistake. Scammers are out there. Scrutinize, ask questions, and stay guided.
Thanks for posting this. At least, some people will learn from your mistakes.
And you didn’t have to beg for contribution in the end. It’s against the rules.  

You have not been following various thread warning about give away threads by asking you for a deposit to instantly receive a double or higher value. You should have used such money on charity rather than wasting it on scammers. The ETH is gone and can't be reversed. These scammers fill telegram, twitter, and Facebook, they are even into airdrop.

it's easy to answer that. He was not aware of that before and he was a part of the newcomers in the crypto. From what has already said by him and he is a new user in crypto. He was writing if he doesn't know about how the blockchain works these days, The tx can't be reverted and he has already lost his money.

Surprisingly, 10 years ago there was a similar scheme in which scammers asked to deposit a certain amount of money into a wallet, and in return sent a random amount of money that should always have been more than the down payment. People sent money, first to check a little, in return they received a threefold sum. After believing that the scheme worked, people sent huge amounts, of course, nothing came back. Time goes by and the methods do not change.

If you are falling for such rudimentary scams then I implore you to seriously reconsider investing in altcoins like ETH, because your opinions about the coins can likely be swayed easily one way or another by simple methods of manipulation and you won't be able to hold onto your positions for as long as it takes to make a profit.

This one in particular is one of the very common scams that exist within the crypto space, mostly targeting newbies like yourself.

Follow common sense and you'll be able to avoid almost all of the scams of this type. If an extraordinary sum of returns is being promised then it's probably too good to be true.

We all know that this crypto space are full of scammers but the thing is he is just reporting it to us in order for us to be more aware about on what situation he is up to. Scammers are everywhere in the crypto space and what we need to do is to share all of our experience to them in order for them to be more practical and more knowledgeable about what the scammers are planning into, and the best thing to do is to do dome research and ask someone in order not to br victim of scammers again.

so many people in any forums or some groups have always warned us who jumped into crypto world to don't trust anyone. even your friends. and you, fall for scam because you trust a person even you don't know him. be careful when you used your money. if you feel something fishy, just leave it.

One thing surprises me - how do people like You fall for obvious scammers?The whole problem is greed. You making a coin transfer wanted to get rich in an instant. But this does not happen. At least on planet Earth! Be vigilant in the future.

Your story looks too real to be debunked. I cannot really fathom if you are speaking the truth or not, but if you were actually a victim to this, it will be better for you to just to learn you; lessons straight up. Seeing that some people still fall victim of this, is quite surprising to me.

Also, do you know why I thought this is a cooked-up story?
You said you are new to crypto or that you are a newbie and yet you could write so well in blockchain terms. That made me feel you know a lot and that probably you are just eager to beg, but in a dubious way, for ETH from people, who might be easily touched by such a pathetic story.

Jeez. I am so impressed, not by the scammers but by your naivety. I just can't believe how people fall for this even if they know that the cryptocurrency space is full of scammers. This is plain sight robbery. Why didn't you do your research first before sending the money? You are either naive or this is fake. You even plugged your eth address for donations.

Maybe, just maybe, you are the one who is robbing here?

Did you report this first in youtube or you just made up a story for some donations?
You know begging is illegal out here.
It is your fault. Why bother other people to give you something just because you made a foolish decision?
That is, if it is really true.
You know, too good to be true things like this are never to be put attention to.

You want it back then report it to someone else.
Or maybe trace the one who made the live video by getting help from the YT management.
Not here.

You can't do anything about it by now, even reporting this to your local police.

Charge this as an experience, there are thousands or even million victims like you in the cryptosphere everyday. So next time be attentive and don't be greedy. Used your common sense, if its too good to be true if it's too good to be true then it probably is.

Here is another example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ejjrp9/i_stupidly_lost_3000_in_a_crypto_currency_scam/

These types of videos have been happening more and more lately, and not only for ETH, but for BTC, BNB, XRP, etc...

And always with the same premise, "INSERT_COIN_NAME giveaway" on a INSERT_COIN_NAME channel which has 50+k subscribers, yet only 1 video on it, the one currently playing.

They post links to these in my TG group almost weekly, so i go there, and report the video for terrorism and child pornography (hoping these 2 flags would make the YT staff check them with priority).

In a nutshell, no one gives anything for free, especially not in the amounts that people get greedy over. Yes, a faucet here or there will give you anywhere from 0.001 - 0.01 cent worth of coin daily, but that's about it

First off, considering your ETH gone, you can't recover it and maybe those scammers are laughing at you because he had fooled you. Let this be an expensive lessons to learn, sadly.

Second, you have to understand that there's no such thing as free Bitcoin or Ethereum, no one will give you that even offline (fiat).

Third, you can check this board: Scam Accusations and Beginners & Help. There are members here who dedicated their time and money exposing these scammers before they can victimized more newbies like you.

It's one of the specific issue with people nowadays, they never learn until they are on a similar situation. They don't think before making a certain action and that is the reason why they end up losing their funds instead of acquiring. We should be aware that it's one of the various way of fraudsters to deceive and get the advantages they needed from us. For that reason, we should never let ourselves get tricked by their offer particularly when money is a requested since we don't have an idea about individuals perspective with regards to money. Do not let your greediness fool you on settling on the correct choice, it's sad to see that you have been exploited by it however I hope that it makes you understand your mistakes. Let that experiences guide you to abstain from doing the same mistake. It's indeed better to report it on the authorities, they will surely find a way to caught those fraudsters and make them suffer the consequences of their actions.

Yes they will, it's clear they always get one or two gullible people to fall for their schemes, at least before the video is put down or the post reported and deleted, depends on which method they chose to operate with. People just get too excited and fascinating about giveaways this days, and the scammers know this and they seem to be operating more with this method of late now. Maybe when people stop letting their avarice get the better of them, then they will be able to take a deep breath and think before sending 1 eth to get 10 more eths, and imo no user on this forum should fall for this anymore, the awareness on them due to threads like this should be an "eye opener"

Agree and they can easily make a new gmail and make a new channel to have new another victim. What OP says is just a warning for new people who can easily be fool by thier own greed to have money easily.
 Its easy to avoid this situation just dont be greedy to earn money and you can easily notice what is scam or what is not. All those promises a high return is all scam or going to be scam.
Dont ever believe with screenshot proof of income they can easily make one if needed.

The account has been terminated this is what showing when I access the channel
There's a possibility that it will launch a new channel again with the same format because many people are so greedy not to as first the community and wants to always become the first one, they have become a part of the people that have been scammed.

Those scammers are creating fake videos that show if they were sending the giveaway to their address to make it looks legit for everyone. Based on the story and it's much more familiar as a ponzi when you are sending your money and you can double your money instantly and OP gets scammed caused by this scammer was stealing the official logo of ethereum to make it legit.
The problem was if OP lacks knowledge about that. There will be no give away even vitalik has already mentioned in on his official twitter account. Any giveaways are scam.
There was no way to recover his loss and what he must to do to learn even more about that.

should read more and see the posts that have been widely available in btt, so things like this are not always repeated. What is surprising is that the lure given always makes people forget themselves that behind that there is a desire to profit from those who are not aware. true your words are not a few who repeat mistakes because ambition receives instant and quick profits.

Go with the prima facie that every giveaway, airdrops and free money are a scam attempt.
In this case you have lost it and would never get that back. Anything you are taking from here is a lesson. And you are not the only one, hundreds of people are falling for these scams everyday. Some even repeat that or are completely frustrated with the way crypto works. Blame yourself and move on.

It is a very known scam lately and they have migrated on YouTube, showing videos to make it look legit. But with the scheme of sending them ETH for what? the giveaway? you should have already noticed it that it's a known scam that started on twitter and then just made it alive again through YouTube. Sorry about your loss and thank you for informing the community to make this issue alive again because there are still channels and videos that are active.

Lack of education i think this is the cause why people got scammed from this way and those who know crypto i think already know this that there is no free money in crypto world so you have to works hard to get money and the way how to get money also pretty non sense for me because so easy and previously i had been heard about this that there was a suspicious program which if people send 1 Eth to the particular address then they will doubled it however unfortunately you never get your money back but at least you can report that channel to youtube and warn people about this

That was greed , are you all noob for this kind of investment?
If they can give 30 eth for capital of 3ETH do you ever think they will need investors to invest in them?
And that big amount of return you should have already an  that idea or atleast think twice before investing ,there's no way they can give that return shortly if they do they will bankrupt .what ever ,legit company cant give that return for a short period of time.

One of the most important things you should realize at this point in time is there is an extremely low chance that you will ever see those stolen coins again. Even though this might've been done by a professional sort of group, it's still very difficult for even the police and other experts to precisely trace down the people behind this scam, and there's an even greater chance that this won't really be investigated deeply and the people behind the scam might never face any consequences for scamming you and other people.

Even despite this, as long as you've learned from this and you become more vigilant about similar schemes in the future, it's still a win. Some lessons will cost you money, and this is one of them.

The video is already down and the ETH addy is tagged as scam. Sorry about your loss, it wasn't a small amount at all.

And now what to do?

1.-Call the local police to report the scam.
2.-Try to trace the schemes.
3.-Alert the community about the scam, that way more people will be able to avoid it.

Your naivety is amazing. Such manipulations have existed on the market for many years. You sent three ETH and received the answer that you sent less than the required amount; didn’t it bother you?
Do you really think that someone will just give the broadcast. Think for yourself why people ask you to send them three ETH to give you back three times as much.

After all, they can immediately send you six ETH and you will not have to send them anything. Unfortunately, it is because of people like you that scammers continue to create such traps.
Welcome to the crypto world.

I am sorry that this happened to you, but in the crypto world such errors are not forgiven. Scamers cannot receive your funds without your help.

If you got cheated it is normal that you go to your local police office and report the scam. Unless someone report them, then police cant take any actions against scammers.

You and the rest of your colleagues have a long way to go in learning no to be gullible and to always educate yourself before falling for a cheap scam like this. I do not think anybody in his right sense will send you any token as compensation for the ETH you have lost. Thank God the ETH address of the scammer has been flagged. It is high time people do research before making a transaction with anyone. Even here on Bitcointalk, Participating in any form of giveaway will result in a temporary suspension of your account because most of them are always end-up terribly. My advice to you is to desist from any form of a giveaway. cryptos are earned through hard work and not sit down, send money and hoping to get double in return. Even Father Christmas do not give gift freely all the time

Guys i want to share my scam story - where i was scammed and lost almost 7 ETHs - with you for 2 purposes. One is to warn others not to fall into there youtube giveaway scams and the second reason is if there is any way to stop these scammers and burn the lost ETHs (or even if its possible to get my ETHs back?).

The situation was this:
On 27th of December 2019 i was opening my Browser and Youtube. And YT recommend me a current ongoing live video about Ethereum on their main page. It was titled something with Ethereum giveaway whatever...

The channel was named "Ethereum" and showed the original logo, so it seemed its the official channel. It had some videos from the past also listed so it looked legit.
So that live video i was watching showed a summit in nice quality, where we could see Vitalik Buterin on a summit and it was portrait as if it was a live event. I was listening a few moments to it and then i saw in the description something about a holiday givewaway by Ethereum Foundation to further accelerate the use of their coins in the crypto ecosystem.
They were offering like random increase to deposited ETHs. So for instance if one was to transfer 3 ETHs, you could get IIRC up to 9 ETHs back.
It was staggered and the more you deposit to their address, the more you could get. The max ETHs they would send out was like a 1000 or so? And they said it was coming back from the same adress you deposit it to.

At first it sounded fishy, but new to the crypto ecosystem i heard about real giveaways in the past, in form of airdrops or bunnyhunts and so forth. So it wasnt that fishy and sounded legit to me a bit at least.
My thoughts were like: Ok Ethereum was above 1000 dollars in 2017 and now they are down to 130 some because of the burst bubble and some of the ICOs on their platform going to zero, so they really want their coins to be used more. Kind of a PR action.
The live chat was also filled with lots and lots of postive messages about people receiving like 30 ETHs or some that supposedly deposited way more than 3 ETHs got back up to 100ETHs. There was one official support employee in the chat who moderated it and provided "support".
Thinking about that today, i was for a moment a bit sceptical reading that many of the positive messages were actually coming from russian kyrillic YT users names.

The transfer:
Well so i transfered the first 3 ETHs, which was actually only 2.99 ETHs because of the fees and in the live chat they told me i had to transfer more because their random bot in the background is not triggering below 3 ETHs and the support staff guy assured me that it will be added up, once more than the minimum of 3 ETHs are received in their wallet.
So i did and transfered another 0.49 ETHs and i was so overly impressed that i thought well ok i'll send them all that i have and made directly after it another transfer with my remaining 3.29ETHs. These were all the EThs i ever had.
I waited and waited and also others were writing in the chat about why i takes so long... So is started the blockchain explorer and saw that they only had like 20 ETHs in the adress... This was the minute when all the alarm bells rang. I immediately asked this in the chat why there is only like 20 ETHs and so on. I was even posting my Transaction hashes and this was the point when the only thing they were posting was like "Im sorry we are currently busy and will get back to you in a few moments".
Suddenly the chat closed and the live video was over. Thats it.
 
The reason i waited so long is because im actually a rather good herated person. I know the eastern europe and russing wages and the way they live over there... So i thought maybe its a young random guy now having 20-30ETHs and be able to make a living for him and his family you know...I was also terrible sick and was unemployed for 5 years in the past so i know how tough life can be. It was my hard earned cash from my job and actually thoese ETHs were the first crypto coins i bought in my life.
But Using the blockchainexplorer and seeing now what ammount they collected i think that this is a professionally organized scam group behind it and we should do something about it. Who is liable in such a case?

Here is all the Data:
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpSnN_WtZ-602vWKKhS48mg
Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65CCPhsWMww
Scammers receiving address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xc9746c60b47aebbf13ba8e45144e4c2ddb3f0cba
Scammer transferred it later to here (currently 332 ETHs on it!): https://etherscan.io/address/0xb70f65c1faa2f1160d006b585ebf564781e8dae6
Scammers also transferred it later here (currently 498 ETHs on it!): https://etherscan.io/address/0x9838eb7bdbaedfb5a28d67be763eadd61cb3e428

Here are my Transfers:

DateCoin                         Amount TransactionFee   Address                                                                                        TXID                                                                Status

2019-12-27 12:48:30 ETH   3.29   0   0xc9746C60B47AEbBf13Ba8E45144e4c2Ddb3F0CBA   0xaa31f7c69a6a079096b14aebf50f769dbc95427fe00307b62ed16c838997f8c6           Completed

2019-12-27 12:41:15 ETH   0.49   0   0xc9746C60B47AEbBf13Ba8E45144e4c2Ddb3F0CBA   0xf3408936a49660ca9a0ac5b57fc20025a557ea6d05caea4a9cf4702f6e0e4d34           Completed

2019-12-27 12:32:19 ETH   2.99   0   0xc9746C60B47AEbBf13Ba8E45144e4c2Ddb3F0CBA   0xfb5c2be9bfd55253b9066f3ae4cd8122f6b2b162e63672874438f55da2e0b1ae           Completed

Here is my Binance screenshot about my transfers: imgur.com/a/3IqBNVb

Finally if you reading this and you are maybe a employe from Ethereum, or if you have a lot ETHs and you feels you may want to contribute to recover my loss, i have my ETH adress available in any case.:
0xc1C5985042425aEfB8F018683a0C23859AD11e73

Thanks alot people. I really appreciate all your input. Sorry for my english, its not my native language.