Topic: YouTube Binance impostor: what is happening right now? - page 2. (Read 306 times)

Recently?  I wonder how hard it is to get your Youtube account hacked--I guess it depends on whatever your password is (the obvious answer) and how easy it is to recover it once it is hacked.  I wasn't aware that this was becoming a problem, but maybe I've had the naive belief that it would be hard to pull off a hack/scam on Youtube.  Makes me wonder if this is at least somewhat in response to Youtube's banning of crypto videos not too long ago.

Oh crap.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but damn.  Who in their right mind would send bitcoin to an address in a Youtube video, even if the channel is claiming to be that of Binance?  Hopefully that didn't represent the person's life savings.

@seoincorporation, It's actually not that hard, all you need is a verified youtube account with a checkmark. You can then change the brand name of the channel.^[1] Youtube channels are considered as Brands rather than something personal so changing a name isn't hard on youtube. I have seen this happening to one of the channels I follow, the same happened to them as well, all of sudden a binance Livestream came out of nowhere and that channel had nothing to do with cryptos later in few hours the YouTuber mentioned on his twitter that his account has been hacked whats even worse is that they removed him from the ownership of the channel and he lost total control of the channel and youtube support weren't able to help him, The guy had around 100K subs and he lost it all in a blink of an eye, so yeah people should start caring about their passwords as these scammers are getting cleaver every passing day. I highly recommend using something like keypass as brute-forcing is becoming easier...

Here's a list of all the addresses I've found on the YT fake livestreams that are active right now, in case someone wants to do some in-depth research:

ETH:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x8c427c26766aec6b8c148a08c52ed5fab2d52ede
https://etherscan.io/address/0xea4B4498900Db9a3a03b0CbABB1e19E7bbA401f0
https://etherscan.io/address/0x4b06aa26fd16e32b8c66168ef6e5d536f25711f4
https://etherscan.io/address/0x8c5a64b136e24b345dc75d169bb258a2a9a9e121
https://etherscan.io/address/0x6a24d8dc533006cce707fd304d7b024a89f9e97e
https://etherscan.io/address/0x7055bbABCE4e3AC4Ea2b9c3fB2CA4141Bf3C19A6
https://etherscan.io/address/0xFFBE86B44c1F30f6CD9cE77Cf0C6399A9bba44A6
https://etherscan.io/address/0x51F401EB18A81E7ef6a52BD20E90dEa00F029c45
https://etherscan.io/address/0x651E714648946bEE5d04A1114806e818CCdA5b31


BTC:
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/3HUqbKwGTuGEGSu1ifJPrx9caL9wwXxxuR
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1Px6KZ7CbwHWj492fSjgadxHF8nc5s73Cu
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1bin16278hB79v79HGzuHYAmpMLWTREeV
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/3JRXCBbbBHoDzpwxzKU2cTPjgjCLuWXp5t
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1PJYDmgfS9JmzZanKuj397zsY66kvz4qqu
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/3NCvHcHFALYRn7cjeHfmdJeMvccCAhCWgY
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1265Gc2Jqn1prMk6KKY2HN1SEnA9nNJ8Vo
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1FLJci2Dah2GzCcu2Cur2bkyNwsSxH79gk
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1GkPywwoBXapMDd3svVzvCjUaoNsD9GyVu
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/39aDKUukKu1L2h6nUtfh1aj2ADawqtAJd3

BCH:
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/address/qq8nm7wknd0d8cqd40gucg0fmw06r7xhpuhrsxkx4l

XRP:
https://bithomp.com/explorer/r385PmcKKqyb45b6Bc8LQLuRfgjGHz1FaC
https://bithomp.com/explorer/rEVHZDenLxo1JCfy3whFSdRyGue1oBotk8
https://bithomp.com/explorer/rEEhZ32ndjGwKgwYHjP79XkXi9M4zcYexx

These wallets are currently holding a total of $26,538.64‬, or approx. 2.690BTC.

Found links between the following BTC addresses:

• https://learnmeabitcoin.com/tools/path/?start=1Px6KZ7CbwHWj492fSjgadxHF8nc5s73Cu&end=1bin16278hB79v79HGzuHYAmpMLWTREeV
• https://learnmeabitcoin.com/tools/path/?start=1Px6KZ7CbwHWj492fSjgadxHF8nc5s73Cu&end=3JRXCBbbBHoDzpwxzKU2cTPjgjCLuWXp5t
• https://learnmeabitcoin.com/tools/path/?start=1Px6KZ7CbwHWj492fSjgadxHF8nc5s73Cu&end=1265Gc2Jqn1prMk6KKY2HN1SEnA9nNJ8Vo
• https://learnmeabitcoin.com/tools/path/?start=1bin16278hB79v79HGzuHYAmpMLWTREeV&end=3JRXCBbbBHoDzpwxzKU2cTPjgjCLuWXp5t
• https://learnmeabitcoin.com/tools/path/?start=1bin16278hB79v79HGzuHYAmpMLWTREeV&end=1265Gc2Jqn1prMk6KKY2HN1SEnA9nNJ8Vo
• https://learnmeabitcoin.com/tools/path/?start=3JRXCBbbBHoDzpwxzKU2cTPjgjCLuWXp5t&end=1265Gc2Jqn1prMk6KKY2HN1SEnA9nNJ8Vo

I don't know any Ethereum/BCH/XRP analysis websites I can link addresses through. Hopefully this helps boost the start of anyone who wants to go further in this analysis.

wow, this is a high-quality scam. How can they have a binance verified account in youtube, that's a crazy job behind this scam.

At this point they have scammed a big amount of money, i hope youtube does something about this scam before more people keep losing their money.

The reputation of Binance isn't what is at stake here. It's people's money. Someone just sent a 0.2BTC tx to the address they've placed in the video.

For reference in case the video goes down, this is basically most likely a hacked verified YT account someone took over and started a Live on, changing the channel name and everything as if it's Binance's.

The BTC address in their video is: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3Asy3jfxQ6NDDRdUmfQ5CA4UNSL2agBELq
The ETH address in their video is: https://etherscan.io/address/0x03209fc3305f22226fba633d23498ecbf41896a0

I took a look over their ETH address and apparently two addresses have moved funds FROM Binance to this ETH wallet. At first glance, I thought I could track down the address (I initially thought the hackers withdrew money from their own accounts to this address), but I was wrong.

WalletExplorer is of no help in the research of the two addresses. In fact, this is not the only livestream on YouTube that's scamming people. Go to this search query and you'll find a ton of these fake livestreams: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=give+away+btc&sp=EgJAAQ%253D%253D

I have contacted Binance a few minutes ago to let them know about the ongoing scams, providing them the necessary links. They will probably ban these addresses from withdraws so their users cannot send funds to them, and the YT accounts/videos will be reported. At least that's what they told me. Other than that, there's nothing we can do unless we take all addresses and try to somehow link them to the owner (scammer).

What happened is.. the Twitter scammers have moved to YouTube.

You can go and report it as inappropriate content,

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802027?hl=en

there have been thousands of youtube accounts being hacked and taken over by the hackers and posting crypto related stuff like fake giveaways.

Just type "Binance giveaway" in the search button, you will see a lot of videos about it. I guess it's time for the community to help fight this cyber criminals by reporting it.

Edit: I contacted the Binance live chat support and told them about the issue. They said they'll look into it.
For now, we can report the channels on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Cl2g2xFTZoAEldxYVzQFg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYP6V7c4M026AXMr4ng6aQA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY3sxY1IkEC4c210mDrU83w
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS4g09DPtz7u_S1hTStWtlA.


So I was surfing through YouTube and something caught my eye. A subscription to Binance exchange. I knew I was not subscribed to it, so I decided to investigate. This is something I've never seen before. Geohistory, a great channel with historical events explained through maps, has clearly been hacked, and the channels are now called Binance. Apart from that, they are broadcasting right now what is clearly a scam scheme. Here's one of the broadcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqN5GwYVDLI.
Has there been any reaction from Binance yet? The impostors did not only hack the creators I liked, they are spoiling the reputation of a great exchange. Is there anything we can do to help stop this?
I'll try contacting Binance via a chat support on their website.