Guys, be aware of a new scam! Stay safe with your funds! - page 5.

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Quote from: hirngespenst on February 24, 2020, 02:53:25 AM

As the crypto community become smart, scammers are not just sitting there. They are making new plans to scam people. Recently a smart scam idea they whelp and that is youtube live streaming! Lots of people are falling those scams even one of my crypto mentors shared that link to participate!

Scammers are hacking youtube channels which have at least 10K subscribers to 80K! Then they collect some famous crypto meetup or interview videos! Later they make live streaming with that downloaded video, and announce a giveaway of 100K BTC or 100K ETH, BCH, XRP and so on! Can you imagine how smart this shit idea is? However, at the corner or left side of that live streaming they add a live transaction banner where you can see that if you send 1 Ethereum, you will get 5 or 10 Ethereum instantly!

If you ever fall in that trap means you are done, you fall in the scam and lost your money forever! Guys, be aware, always check a coin's official twitter handle to verify every giveaway! Don't fall in the scam, let scammers cry and die!

You dont ever have to check someone's twitter or anything. Big they ask you to send money to get money it's a scam...ALWAYS. If something sounds to good to be true than it usually is. Please dont ever send money randomly to "verify" yourself, otherwise you kinda deserve to lose it. Undecided

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Quote from: tranduong123 on February 24, 2020, 10:13:27 AM

I think this scam is nothing too special. It is still the traditional method when targeting the greed of people. I think only naive and greedy people believe that they can take money when they do nothing.

from what already stated above by OP and it seems like this the scamm tries a new trick and that's something new because scammer is also spending his money to buy the subscriber and then tried to collect the money by using the popularity on his channel. The fact that so many scammers can run away with the investor's money.
We must become even smarter from day to the day.

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This is good advice because lots of people don't know the difference between a legitimate proposal and a scam, but generally if it sounds too good to be true, that's because it probably is so make sure you stay away from these types of offers

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Quote from: hirngespenst on February 24, 2020, 02:53:25 AM

As the crypto community become smart, scammers are not just sitting there. They are making new plans to scam people. Recently a smart scam idea they whelp and that is youtube live streaming! Lots of people are falling those scams even one of my crypto mentors shared that link to participate!

Scammers are hacking youtube channels which have at least 10K subscribers to 80K! Then they collect some famous crypto meetup or interview videos! Later they make live streaming with that downloaded video, and announce a giveaway of 100K BTC or 100K ETH, BCH, XRP and so on! Can you imagine how smart this shit idea is? However, at the corner or left side of that live streaming they add a live transaction banner where you can see that if you send 1 Ethereum, you will get 5 or 10 Ethereum instantly!

If you ever fall in that trap means you are done, you fall in the scam and lost your money forever! Guys, be aware, always check a coin's official twitter handle to verify every giveaway! Don't fall in the scam, let scammers cry and die!

So sorry to these Youtube channels that were hacked, it's not easy to grow your Youtube channel with those huge subscribers, it's a new scam method employed by scammers because they cannot scam people from ICO anymore, so they have turned to Youtube give away.

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Quote from: hirngespenst on February 24, 2020, 02:53:25 AM

As the crypto community become smart, scammers are not just sitting there. They are making new plans to scam people. Recently a smart scam idea they whelp and that is youtube live streaming! Lots of people are falling those scams even one of my crypto mentors shared that link to participate!

Scammers are hacking youtube channels which have at least 10K subscribers to 80K! Then they collect some famous crypto meetup or interview videos! Later they make live streaming with that downloaded video, and announce a giveaway of 100K BTC or 100K ETH, BCH, XRP and so on! Can you imagine how smart this shit idea is? However, at the corner or left side of that live streaming they add a live transaction banner where you can see that if you send 1 Ethereum, you will get 5 or 10 Ethereum instantly!

If you ever fall in that trap means you are done, you fall in the scam and lost your money forever! Guys, be aware, always check a coin's official twitter handle to verify every giveaway! Don't fall in the scam, let scammers cry and die!

I guess this is one of the reasons why they have started banning some Youtubers account that is majorly crypto oriented. It is also a way of watching things been perpetrated by these fraudulent people. I am very happy that this post will somehow enlighten people on the nefarious acts by these young lads.

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This scam idea is quite new to me, i have not seen nor hear about it before.
All scammers operates the same way, they setup traps and add baits, the traps only catches the greedy ones, if it sounds too good to be true then it is.
Thanks for informing us.

el kaka22

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I guess considering even the famous twitter ETH one got like hundreds of thousands of dollars in total (not all at once but combined total) I am not shocked that people are still trying to find a different way to scam people since there are so many gullible people on earth.

Think about it, there were people who opened names resembling Elon Musk and then they asked people ethereum in return of giving more ethereum and some people fell for it, that is as idiotic as I can think of, it requires almost no work, just write under Elon's every tweet and then people will give you money. If there are people who are stupid enough to fall for that type of scam, I can only imagine how much people could make from bigger scams that look a lot more legit and professional.

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We all have greed in us but it depends how we handle it ourselves, the fact is trying to get something for free without breaking a sweat is not normal, the moment you start thinking that nothing is for free in this world those scam offers won't attract you

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As the crypto community become smart, scammers are not just sitting there. They are making new plans to scam people. Recently a smart scam idea they whelp and that is youtube live streaming! Lots of people are falling those scams even one of my crypto mentors shared that link to participate!

Scammers are hacking youtube channels which have at least 10K subscribers to 80K! Then they collect some famous crypto meetup or interview videos! Later they make live streaming with that downloaded video, and announce a giveaway of 100K BTC or 100K ETH, BCH, XRP and so on! Can you imagine how smart this shit idea is? However, at the corner or left side of that live streaming they add a live transaction banner where you can see that if you send 1 Ethereum, you will get 5 or 10 Ethereum instantly!

If you ever fall in that trap means you are done, you fall in the scam and lost your money forever! Guys, be aware, always check a coin's official twitter handle to verify every giveaway! Don't fall in the scam, let scammers cry and die!

Of course as we make way to improve the security, hackers are also finding their ways to still hack accounts. Ways of hacking are also improving. So we must be always prepared. In PH there is an awareness campaign for the internet "Think before you click". There are so many fake news, fake sites so be responsible for every click especially for us since we are dealing a money in here. Imagine all the things you've earned and saved will just fall into somebody's hand. It badly hurts.

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Quote from: joseyphil82 on February 24, 2020, 03:21:32 AM

Scammers always need something to show off so that people will have interest, the only thing is too good to be true offers, we've post many posts about offers that are too good to be real on this forum but many wants to try their luck out in the hope of making quick money

Definitely right. Even though there are a lot of warnings for fraud in this forum, still there are people who are victims of such scam. That is one of the reasons why the scammers are still here because they can still get people in their hook. My advise if you are newbie in this line, watch and learn first all about scam and fraud before investing.

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People are still falling to scam tricks, those people are the ones who don't want to learn, there is no way to prevent this from happening if no one is ready to listen to warnings, people just like learning only when things don't go as they planned

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Quote from: hirngespenst on February 24, 2020, 02:53:25 AM

As the crypto community become smart, scammers are not just sitting there. They are making new plans to scam people. Recently a smart scam idea they whelp and that is youtube live streaming! Lots of people are falling those scams even one of my crypto mentors shared that link to participate!

Scammers are hacking youtube channels which have at least 10K subscribers to 80K! Then they collect some famous crypto meetup or interview videos! Later they make live streaming with that downloaded video, and announce a giveaway of 100K BTC or 100K ETH, BCH, XRP and so on! Can you imagine how smart this shit idea is? However, at the corner or left side of that live streaming they add a live transaction banner where you can see that if you send 1 Ethereum, you will get 5 or 10 Ethereum instantly!

If you ever fall in that trap means you are done, you fall in the scam and lost your money forever! Guys, be aware, always check a coin's official twitter handle to verify every giveaway! Don't fall in the scam, let scammers cry and die!

This is not a new form of scam, I've seen it since 2018 and it has been working for a long time. This is a clever scam that comes from hackers and it has made many people trapped, I personally have been tricked with it but fortunately that is not too much money.

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I am sure that scammers have nothing left to do scam, their legerdemains clearly indicates scam so the crypto community which is getting smarter day by day can easily understand the ridiculous attempts of scammers and the new people who are involving in crypto they just have to be aware regarding this issue I believe awareness will protect them from scams for sure.

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So, they managed to have another idea by hacking a youtube channel to gather more victims.
This is something that we should be aware of, they may be doing the same trick as they are promising to double the funds to be sent to them but the thing that we must be alert is that, they have a way to get a youtube channel that has a lot of subscribers. That way, they can make their offer a legitimate action.

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I think this scam is nothing too special. It is still the traditional method when targeting the greed of people. I think only naive and greedy people believe that they can take money when they do nothing.

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I also heard about Scammer's news by streaming on YouTube using someone else's Youtube Channel that has been taken over.
The hacked channel is not a channel with a small subscriber, the hacked subscriber has around hundreds of thousands of violators.
Even youtube channels TV private in Indonesia are also victims of hackers.
The hacker shows Live Streaming CEO Binance shows as if doing an original giveaway by sending some Bitcoin and ethereum and will get double the balance sent.
The scammer managed to trick the victim who was not thorough and believed in the live streaming.

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Quote from: hirngespenst on February 24, 2020, 02:53:25 AM

As the crypto community become smart, scammers are not just sitting there. They are making new plans to scam people. Recently a smart scam idea they whelp and that is youtube live streaming! Lots of people are falling those scams even one of my crypto mentors shared that link to participate!

Scammers are hacking youtube channels which have at least 10K subscribers to 80K! Then they collect some famous crypto meetup or interview videos! Later they make live streaming with that downloaded video, and announce a giveaway of 100K BTC or 100K ETH, BCH, XRP and so on! Can you imagine how smart this shit idea is? However, at the corner or left side of that live streaming they add a live transaction banner where you can see that if you send 1 Ethereum, you will get 5 or 10 Ethereum instantly!

If you ever fall in that trap means you are done, you fall in the scam and lost your money forever! Guys, be aware, always check a coin's official twitter handle to verify every giveaway! Don't fall in the scam, let scammers cry and die!

I remember something similar than this but lesser amount of eth to be sent. The time that airdrops were hot and the devs needs you to send some eth, it isn't different and just the revision where in this it is live.How many people did they fool? Some let's just be vigilant and stay away from that shady activities anyway.

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old players or seniors in the crypto world should know that sending one etherum or bitcoin and making hundreds or even thousands is definitely a scam. and if there is a link like we should not fall into that trick. precisely in my opinion the most dangerous is a malware virus that directly attacks our devices and steals our keystore and personal data.

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Quote from: thisnewcoin on February 24, 2020, 09:13:40 AM

This is the new scam procedure nowadays, many people already fall for it. The way these scammers do this, people can easily fall into this trap. Recently Binance CEO talked about this scam nature in a medium post. Everyone should do the same to create awareness about this scam. I saw BCH and Ripple scam streaming recently, even their youtube channel logo looks very genuine!

Scammers are getting good everyday. They will try and try as there are so many gullible people that will fall into this trap because of greed and ignorance. Simple search will give you warning signals already, so those who will send money to these scammers didn't do any basic search and I'd say, it is their fault. Just take a quick look at these articles to give you idea how they are doing this.

https://coinrivet.com/fr/crypto-scammers-take-to-youtube-live-streams-to-defraud-victims/

https://beincrypto.com/scam-giveaways-on-youtube-live-persist-as-cryptocurrency-content-creators-are-censored/

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Is this like the Binance youtube channel that was just discussed recently by people here in the forums? I heard that there was like a livestream put also into the said channel and they were having giveaways to those who sent a certain amount of ETH first.
Sometimes I tend to trust the number of subscribers a lot as the level of my trust into whatever the channel offers or states as a fact, but it seems like having sub bot as well as rate (comment and like) isn't that hard to some people to make their channel grow without an appropriate effort required.

If a Youtube channel claims to be the official Youtube channel of some platform, check their main site first. Fake channels with even a massive amount of subscribers won't be that easily detected by Youtube algorithm, imo.

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