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Topic: Twitter/Youtube Bitcoin Scams - page 5. (Read 546 times)

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August 09, 2020, 04:11:35 PM
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What is the crypto community doing/(able to do) about Twitter and Youtube crypto scams? The other day I was recommended a SpaceX live stream that was promoting a btc/eth scam, and this was on Youtube's homepage. I've seen these scams on twitter for years, and they only seem to be getting worse, so I don't have much faith in either of these platforms solving the problem any time soon.

Is there anything we can do as a community to prevent people from sending their crypto to these scammers? Could we build bots that crawl these social networks and add potential scam addresses to a database that wallets/exchanges can check against before letting users atomically send their crypto? I know the most obvious solution is to educate people to recognize scams, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Here's some related links
https://www.coindesk.com/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-sues-youtube-over-bitcoin-giveaway-scams
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-twitter-scam-bots-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-a9314356.html
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