It can be hacked or sold channels. You can not verify and know the truth that those channels were sold or hacked.
Don't rely on Youtube channels for investments and if those channels run some requests like you have to send your money first, it is scam offer.
Always don't go first with your money, you will lose it. Especially crypto transactions are irreversible and you are making trades with people on the Internet. Even they are strangers and you don't know who they are.
True for the most part, though a quick Google search could potentially identify any public sales of a channel, which could prevent you, and others for falling for any type of content that the malicious user puts out once they've compromised the account. Don't rely on Youtube channels for investments and if those channels run some requests like you have to send your money first, it is scam offer.
Always don't go first with your money, you will lose it. Especially crypto transactions are irreversible and you are making trades with people on the Internet. Even they are strangers and you don't know who they are.
This is the biggest thread for the YouTube community and the owner of that channel. Because of this, not only the youtuber but some innocent people who can't understand and fall into this trap because of the trust of their channel also lost their amount. Because of this, the bitcoin community gets hate from youtubers and subscribers too. Just think of the people whose channels had millions of subscribers and got hacked. How did they feel at that time? His whole world is like an earthquake. Though he will return to his channel, the time he has spent away from it has been excruciating.Though this type of hacker employs the same technique, which is to register as a brand on YouTube and send their link to the hacked channel.As a result, people are more likely to click on those types of brand links.Whivh is like a fear. This is a thread, I think, for brands and youtubers too.
I think Youtube as a platform should identify this as a risk, and while Youtube might not like that their users are making brand deals with companies, instead of the companies coming directly to Youtube, they need to put out some education course out there to try, and reduce these instances. This is completely user fault, and unfortunately this method of compromising an account will always be there, since people are generally quite greedy, and skip either in excitement or without actually thinking about what they've just clicked on, and who they gave their data too.
I don't think the Bitcoin community will suffer overly so from these types of attack, I'd like to think that most people know that Bitcoin doesn't have anything to do with the way the account was compromised, and it is directly the person operating the channels fault. They have to take responsibility through their negligence.
as long the email of account owner safe they can recover it
Let's hope Youtube can find some way to stop this, because I think a blanket ban will be an options if they do not do this.