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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

For us, the only weapon for this scam is to,

- Educate ourselves. There's no such thing as free BTC. Not even people who are very rich such such Elon Musk and Bill Gates will give anyone free money. Don't be greedy.

- Report those malicious websites to Youtube/Google, and to it's domain registrars so that it will be taken down.

- You can used this websites to check for scam bitcoin addresses,

   https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/ and https://scam-alert.io/
  
- Stay alert and be vigilant.

- Frequent this board: Scam Accusations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0)

Where there is money or something of value, there are scammers. We can't stop scam from happening. It's been there for centuries. All we can try to do is try to put up warnings or guides of how people can safeguard their cryptocurrencies. It's up to the people to take responsibility and stop being so greedy and careless with money.

For example the Youtube/twitter bitcoin scams are reported every day but some people out there still fall for them

Well, that is right. In addition, use your ^{[common sense]}, --always put in your mind that there is no free given money on the internet most especially those random people's account asking to double your money in just a few minutes. Educating ourselves is the best weapon against these scammers, no one will fall to the traps of scammers if there are no dumb and greed people. I do hope that the recent twitter hacked account that scammed thousands of bitcoin in different dumb people will give a lesson to them to realize their mistakes.

There is no way to utterly stop these scammers, they will always find away to come back either by creating a new profile or a new scam scheme.

What can be done is trying to minimise the damage by reporting scammers' profiles to whatever platform they use and writing comments on those videos/tweets to warn others viewers/followers.

These scams are build on greed. Do you really think Bitcoin or the community has something to do with these scams?

When I see someone who tells me to send money to him and he will give me back 2x the amount I just laugh.

Would you send Elon your USD if he tweeted that for every 1000 USD he will send back 2000? I guess not. Why do people send these scammers cryptocurrencies?
Maybe because they don't treat their crypto seriously? Maybe because they don't think it's real money? Maybe because they think it's cheat money that can be hacked and multiplied?

Long ago there were fake blockchain hacking programs circulating in the Internet. Stupid and greedy people were installing them thinking they will hack blockchain and get free bitcoins.
The twitter scam is just another iteration of the same thing and you greedy people are still falling for this.

If you ask me what I can do about it my answer is nothing. I don't even want to do anything about it. Greedy and lazy people want everything to be done for them instead of thinking before they act.

Start sharing these sites to educate other people about it. Not all of us are aware of these scams so in order to avoid it, we share these sites for them to be warned and never click it. It is how the community can do about these scams, educate one another. Another thing is just learning more about these scams by ourselves.

sometimes there are loopholes to make this a scam, the lack of supervision on social media platforms about the bitcoin scam causes many scammers to be free. prevention is also not maximal so I think we ourselves have to be careful with scammer projects that are in public

During the last Twitter hack/scam,  Coinbase blocked withdrawing coins to scammers account, and there are some people who work on making an automated system for flagging as much of these doubling scam addresses as possible. Maybe one day someone will develop a browser addon that analyzes web pages and warns about scams, but people who are advanced enough to use such addons probably don't need them.

Unfortunately, there's really not much we can do about it. We can warn newbies about it every day, but a lot of people aren't reading this forum or other social platforms about Bitcoin.

YouTube just like to spread awareness to the public in regards to scamming issues and to guide people on how to deal with this. I'm not in disgrace with that seeing on their Homepage instead you can be thankful that they give support for this and so the public will be informed.

Is was really hard when we all not be cooperating with this because we can't also stop those greedy hearts to fall into this kind of scheme. Scammers will take advantage over them and they can easily manipulate their minds. If we are about to help the community by minimizing these scamming activities, we should also have to help ourselves to change such greedy instinct into nothing.

Always prone to scam if there is something valuable on the internet and the most victims are greedy and naive newbies who want to have profit easily, the only way we can avoid to scam is observe first and be vigilant.

There are tons of bogus method in scamming people, some old tricks will work and recently that has happened on Twitter, hacking high-profile account and asking to double your Bitcoin, if you will analyze, it has the same trick, "Bitcoin Doubling" which is they promised to double your Bitcoin in a couple of hours. If you heard this kind of offer, you might start to doubt or else, stay away from them.

If you will watched a video on Youtube that you think it is scam or fraud, don't hesitate your self to report it. Just hit the report button on the video player menu. And in Bitcoin transaction address, just follow what btc_angela says.

I don't know If there's such thing as database or software that prevents users to send their cryptos to a certain scammer, and I doubt It's possible to stop a scammer using such tools.
But the very least thing we can do as a community is to inform everyone by posting awareness through social media platforms or in any crypto related forums.

No, I guess what the OP means is that YouTube has been supporting these live streamers from promoting scam specifically in cryptocurrency, and what's really disturbing is that, It was recommended and posted on the homepage.

pretty summarizes what to do with these never-ending scams in YT and other social media. and remember, those rich persons will not give free money to just random people, they usually spend on established charities and nonprofit organizations. so dont get your hopes up that someday they will just throw money into thin air.
and one more thing, if you are in doubt, your bestfriend google is here for you to check potential hits whether they have unresolved issues or existing scam allegations. thats the power of internet. you should not let yourself deceived by these overwhelming offers and rewards!

Social Media Platforms like Twitter or Youtube, can’t or would not assume a genuine or legit business posted on by a simple mere suspicion and without any complaints or case directly reported to them with the authority to verify such.

And by checking them means a waste of time or more manhours that will be something that Twitter and Youtube accounting can't handle for 330 million users worldwide and 2 billion YouTube.

And it is also the fact that Bitcoin Scams is rampant.


As a community, we have always talked about or giving warnings regarding this.
But as an individual bitcoin user we can just use a little brain, that's all really.

It's a YouTube fault.

What we can do is keep reporting those videos that show in our recommendation. They have been silent with all of these scam ads and videos that got a lot of innocent viewers.

People greedness is the major key for scammers to make several tries over and over using various methods.
Some scam shemes are so clever to be easy spotted by a regular internet user. Scammers can give proofs of their credibilty for a long period before running out with money. I can mention all the scam exchanges who promoted themselves in both youtube and twitter, and most of those shitty ICOs. I can't blame Youtube/Twitter as they don't moderate scams, just like bitcointalk forum.
While some other shemes are so funny to be trusted. Even if Elon Mask himself promises to send back to me x4 the amount i will send, i wouldn't believe him. Just like the famous shemes created by Yobit exchange promising people to get 10% daily interest for their holdings, and promoted in forums and social platforms (including twitter). For those idiot shemes, the platform used to promote them is also responsible for what people may lost.

Right, I meant that scams were getting to the front page of youtube and weren't listed as scams. To make matters worse, some of these videos had over 3k likes and 30k+ views; coupled with the fact that they were promoted by youtube, they end up looking pretty legitimate.

I always report these things, but I feel like they don't come down fast enough. Some people in this thread seem to be claiming that the victims are greedy for falling for scams, and while that's certainly true in some cases, it's not hard to imagine that some people are just desperate or confused. Maybe for 90% of people, common sense helps them avoid these things, but there's clearly still a portion of bitcoin users who are actively falling victim to scammers. I don't think that every person can be helped, people still fall for fiat scams all the time. However, financial institutions and payment processors have invested heavily in fraud detection systems, shouldn't we do the same?

Not only is education the most obvious solution, it is also the best solution. You cannot effectively tell a person not to get into a scam without making him/her understand why it is a scam in the first place. It is hard to prohibit a person from investing in what seems to be a golden opportunity without enlightening him/her first.

Education is happening, albeit rather slowly. It is probably because the bait dangled in front is so enticing that a person who is not yet educated on crypto might think of it as a fleeting opportunity which he/she has to grab while it's still there. Not to mention that a lot of people are greedy and are easily blinded by offers of easy money.

not really. you can't prevent people from being stupid. when someone is willing to jump in the shady van with the promise of candy there is nothing you can do to prevent them from being screwed! not to mention that they are adults so they should already know better not to trust and do some little research or even use their brain. some scams are too obvious it is ridiculous how someone falls for it.

no because that centralized database can also start scamming whoever uses it.

Nothing, it's either crypto enthusiast are dumb enough to fall for this scam.


They're business empire, they don't give a dime, about their platform being used, or shall we shall taken advantage of scammers.

Youtube and Twitter are really asking for another adpocalypse. Twitter have already a shortage of advertisers, and Youtube had this problem before when advertisers boycotted it because of a Pewdiepie's video. I can clearly see it happening again; advertisers not liking that such videos are consistently present on the plateform and Youtube not taking them down soon enough. Same applies for Twitter. Youtube are extremists in these kind of concerns, they either take big measures and actions to solve a problem or ignore it completely, I guess that as long as it doesn't hurt their pockets at the moment, they will turn a blind eye to it.

I like people like you who care about the future of cryptocurrency. And as a community, I also care about this. It seems that this fraud is difficult to avoid, because of the limited knowledge of people about cryptocurrency. moreover they (the scammers) use social media as a tool to seduce someone to enter and get trapped, where we know that social media is an easy target to spread any information. This requires awareness, knowledge, and sharing of information whenever you see a suspicious (fraudulent) site to the public. although this is not the most effective way, but at least we have tried to help people not to be tempted by the lure of big profits or the like.

I don't think we can prevent other from sending their own crypto to the scammers. I mean, any kind of tactics just to give some bait to the victims and these victims were fell to the trap because of so many reasons;

• Eager to earn instantly
• Money doubling
• Giveaways
• Huge rewards
• High money returns, etc.

One's real experience being scammed is the lesson learned to be vigilant next time. Scammers already entered popular social media platforms such as youtube, facebook and twitter. The latest hacked and scam related issue from twitter and youtube was taken action already. But that doesn't mean scammers will stop, they will still continue with their new tactic to scam.

the best way is to continue to provide reports and encourage them not to be given space to easily use the facilities so that fraud occurs repeatedly.
but everything is true your word depends on YouTube itself whether you want to accept recommendations that have been repeatedly notified so that it becomes an appeal not to give space.
the problem is there because they also need it because maybe from the advertisement received. a dilemma but this is a reality so that we also want to accept this as a form of existing reality.

If you find crypto scams on the twitter or youtube platform, it's best to make a report to the platform's support department.
Indeed, we need 2-3 reports so that Twitter or YouTube takes action by removing the content. I also do not know why does
Twitter or YouTube seem less active in deleting scams, but when it comes to politics it is much faster.

We have seen a lot of similar problems on different popular social media platforms so it's not new at all. Even if these platforms such as Twitter and YouTube try their best to take down those scam giveaways or anything related to it, there are still people who fall for scammers and they can't do anything about it.

We always see that it's best to educate ourselves and other people but we cannot really teach everyone on the internet. I guess we can just do the simplest way by reporting those scammers and maybe giving awareness to other people as well.

The only thing we can do is to keep reporting them anytime you come across them. The reason why the scam keep increasing is because those and other hacker see that they are still earning from the project. YouTube specifically need to review the way they accept ads because I think they have the worst ads management process. In case anyone know a better way to quickly detect this scam you can also suggest for those social platforms

We could do the same thing.
Use Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook as a weapon to educate those who may possibly be a victim of this attempts.

We cannot control how many will follow us or read it.
But, there will always be the possibility that someone will read it and avoid this scams.
It may be a low chance but a chance is still a chance. 1% is better than 0.

when people talk about these crypto scams, one thing they usually forget is that they didn't really start with cryptocurrencies. these scams existed for many years even before internet and now they are changing their form.
because of that, there isn't much anybody can do about it. if you look around this forum alone you will see dozens of topics warning others about the scams and educating them about how they can verify them. this forum is also top rank in search engines. and yet people get scammed.

Centralization isn't necessarily an issue here, as the exchange/wallet shouldn't entirely stop the user from sending their crypto. At most, they should warn them that the receiving address looks fishy, so they should reconsider performing an irreversible transaction.
You could also open source the code and make it so that a link to the scam is required to add an address to the database, allowing others (including any exchange/wallet that checks against the database) to verify that the address should be there.

Every website and social media could be used by those scammer so there shouldn't be a surprise about it.
And the answer to your question on what we can do to prevent it is to educate everyone spread out some info about those scam project of course we couldn't convince everyone but at least we did our part.
We just need a solid proof about it and a good explanation because some people would really be hard headed and would defend it.

We can't stop scams.
But yes we can avoid those.
We can also be careful and can save ourselves from getting scammed.
These silly fellows keeps on spreading the scam whole over YouTube and twitter and also make the Bitcoin's fame down.
The best solution we can do to these is that, just report it to YouTube or Twitter support.
Moreover if we remain attentive then we will surely be free from these type of scams.

We should always be mindful of that since not everything that we are seeing on the Internet is true. We need to be mindful of the people around us and educate them that what they are seeing on Youtube is not always legitimate since it is easy to put up commercials or advertisements that might have bad outcomes. Twitter is also one of the Social Media Networks that is capable of reaching so many people within a click of a button and as users within the Cryptocurrency Industry, we need to voice out what we see is wrong.

I would add Linkedin and Instagram to that selection. I don´t know how often I get approached with the most hare-brained scam attempts, usually connected to mining or trading. My favorite was the girl who told me about the trading system she has that pays out 800% weekly. haha I´m certain some greedy and maybe hopeful newbies could fall for that.

Too good to be true, better to keep away don't let greed victimized you by this scammers. The chance for newcomers to fall to this kind of act is very high, as they are thinking that this venue of investment is just that easy.

Most of those scammers are good in alluring their target victims, showing good proofs that they are really getting good from this kind of scheme.

Always make sure to do your research and the best place to do that is to keep reading from forum that talks about the same industry that you are planning to invest your money.

Scam would always be around us no matter what, Before I knew Bitcoin I already heard so many scam investment Ponzi schemes and other schemes as well.
They just found an easier way to do it here in crypto currency so the only way we only need to be smarter and don't fall easily to their sweet words and promises if it's too good to be true then it is a scam and avoid it just use your common sense and you could easily avoid them.

All we can do is educate ourselves; Buyer Beware. Our transactions are irreversible so we don't have the "safety net" of a CC chargeback; we must do our due diligence and make sure we are sending to the right person.

Who to encourage? YouTube?

If it's YouTube, they are not listening and these scams are still appearing in advertisements. I'll wait until the day finally there is no more any single scam advertisement they have on their platform.

They need to exterminate it.

Keep in mind that "scam thing" will be here forever. There is "NO WAY" it will be erased.

There's a big flow of money circulating in crypto so there is no way we can shut down those scam-relating things.

Just continue to spread awareness as much as you can. As you know, even for experienced people, they still fall on the trap because there's a human nature that tells us to take the risks ignoring what our common sense tells us.

It's not our mistake anymore if there are people who still fall on the trap despite having lots of experience encountering a scam. Just do our part to report those scams if we see it on social media or lurking on top of our favorite search engines.

There is nothing we can do to prevent investors from getting scammed but we can prevent ourselves from falling into this kind of traps.

These kind of scams are already common if you are into the crypto world for quite some time already. I've seen different types of scams already that have been done by these scammers. From networking company using Bitcoin and ETH to these ETH double blah blah bullshit.

Now what can we do to prevent these investors to get scammed?? None. Let them experience it the hard way. Like I always said, an investor will not learn if they will not experience it. Let them learn and if they got scammed, they will realize and adjust to it.

A mass report can be the best solution for no other people to get victimized by watching this scam video in their YouTube channel because YouTube really doesn't make any step if no one have report about it. Educating ourselves is really the first thing we need to do, so we could avoid getting into scams and fraud activities that is spreading in the internet.

Absolutely I´m fully aware of it myself but as you (and I) mentioned, for newbies it could be deceptive and enticing. All the hype by so called gurus and experts out there could easily trigger hope and greed in people. As we even see here on some parts of the forum, people love the hype. The get-rich-quick allure sounds good but doesn´t work.

Before I stepped into cryptocurrency space and learned about Satoshi's invention, I had never faced any financial scams such as ponzi schemes, doublers, fake giveaways, etc. From my point of view, it wasn't very exciting to fight against scams of the past, because they were using currency of the past, fiat currency, which was not so technological and interesting like currency we have today. I mean cryptocurrency which is based on cryptography and math. What is really attractive for me when it comes to cryptocurrency and bitcoin is that it requires knowledge and constant self-education in order to fully comprehend how scammers think, how exactly they use advantages and disadvantages of cryptocurrencies when trying to decieve honest people. This is infinite cat and mouse game, from which we can gain useful experience and learn about interesting aspects of programmable money.

It is true that scamming will never be eliminated in this world but we can prevent ourselves from being scammed or being the victim. You need to help yourself become resistant to those scams with enhancing the security of your account and your assets. Scammers in the time are really powerful with the use of technology and as time passes by, they are getting stronger and strong that's why as soon as possible, we should report them immediately. They should be prioritized by the authorities to reduce their population, because as they see that with the use of social media in scamming, it is an easy money, they will continue doing it and maybe a lot of people will be harmed by them once we are not aware about it.

Once we saw one, don't hesitate to inform other people or show those links that is needed to be avoided to prevent scams to spread.

Being aware and well-informed is really necessary as scammers are getting stronger and stronger, they are spreading in the internet immediately.

It is not that easy to become a bitcoin investor or holder because there are a lot of risks that is continuously circulating in the internet and many platforms that we are using. Youtube and Twitter is not the only social media where they can be use as a tool in scamming. Facebook can be also used and Google, too. As much as possible become vigilant and sensitive when it comes to an unknown and obvious suspicious links.

We can't do something. The crypto space is open and everyone tries to make money out of it.
The same was happening in the past with ICOs. Now that ICOs do not exist they try to scam people with other ways.
I wonder why people fall for it even that there was so many attempts to be scammed in the past.

We all know that this is a kind of old school scam that on youtube and twitter has a giveaway and the only way to become a participant on this event is you will need to send funds in this address right here on the screen or the link below. Come on. Giveaway but you need to donate?.

Even this is an old school thing still there are a lot of people getting trapped and scammed on this method and those are the people who do not really know the use of the bitcoin and they want to make easier money in just one click that's simple easy money with the bitcoin. They didn't know this is a scam.

How to prevent these scams.


1. You can not earn bitcoin by just joining into a life they are giving bitcoin.
2. Stop entertaining people that are telling themselves selves "I can help you to earn a lot of bitcoin".
3. Don't invest when you thing something fishy and suspicious.
4. The last. Don't be dumb; the internet is all around you can connect and make a research at your own knowledge is powerful if you don't have that you will be getting scammed easily be aware.



I haven't experience yet that there is a giveaway bitcoins with Facebook but some of those are just a scamming website or platform that is pretending that they can earn a lot of money without any investment the only thing you should do is to watch videos and clicking ads. At the end of the day when you reach the minimum requirements it needs to invite a lot of people and the withdrawal method doesn't work. Always be aware and educated.

Regarding twitter / youtube Bitcoin scams are very unsettling, I found lots of Bitcoin scams on both platforms. There isn't much
we can do to prevent people from being deceived by scammers, but at least we try to educate the people closest to us to be able
to recognize scams. This step should be more effective, because it is more difficult to educate strangers. This small step can save
 a lot of people, if taken together.

Awareness help a lot in terms of lessening the possible victims, greed and those who don't know nothing about this scheme,
they are very prone of being victimized.

By  providing information this people will get such ideas and prevent doing the same thing over
and over, I'm talking about newcomers and greedy investors, as we know that scammers will not stop.

This people will keeps on having new ideas to allure people and to get someone to become
their victims. Helping the spread will take them down and not to allow them to get anyone's
money.

You can do something about it according to this article: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801973%3Fhl%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwj-zrDWr5PrAhU2yYsBHXPsAL8QFjABegQICRAF&usg=AOvVaw1qQUK2kqydi06hDZplwClG

But I think you need to report them many times using or recruiting your friend to help you mass report it to remove the account or the video regarding on the scam that you were saying. Lucky you because you've figured it out that ir was just a scam. I think the latest ETH scam I know recently is the FORAGE network, something like that.

And the legendary scam that I know since I've started in crypto currency is the "THE BILLION COIN" or TBC.

Educating people is the only solution we have here, apart from that other things you have mentioned here are my going to work. Let’s assume that it is possible to create a bot that is going to dictate addresses that are owned by scammers (I can’t even imagine that happening, no bot can do that automatically), you will still not be able to capture all the addresses that are owned by the scammers, and moreover anyone can generate addresses as much as they want, using different wallets. So, they can decide to be making use of new addresses every time they are carrying out their evil mission.

So, this is not going to work at all. And moreover, the approach that is being used by these scammers are sometimes dumb asf and easy to dictate. What does a space tech. Company has to do with cryptocurrency, not to talk of doing giveaway? And another thing is that no legit company will tell you to send them $1,000 for them to double it for you, seriously this is not a casino!

People really needs to wise up. So the best thing you can be doing is to be teaching people, and yes you can’t save everyone from getting scammed, it’s just something that is kind of inevitable, people will continue to fall for scam no matter what.If you’re wise enough not to fall for it, then lucky you.

it makes people very annoyed because of the scams perpetrated by Youtube. Youtube is a large company and commits fraud, it is like an impossible thing, in my opinion it is the same as defaming the good name of YouTube. I agree if Wozniak demands compensation from YouTube because his name is used as the actor promoting the bitcoin giveaway.

Actually what we can only do is to share our knowledge on bitcoin in our community to lessen the rate of people getting scam by this large website. Some of my friends who have the knowledge and trust of the community in earning crypto-currency always post knowledgeable content in his facebook page. And some who just want to earn even they know the risk is using their bitcoin to attract more victims in ponzi scheme. I'm just curious what if there's a law that prohibiting advertising this ponzi scheme? I think this can help to lessen the advertiser/scammer.

Definitely, you got it man. Every thing has its own advantage and disadvantages the only thing that matters is on how it is used and approached. These platforms are being used for scamming, as if any platform can't be used for scamming. All of the platform might be scam, especially these days where people are more engage in online activities, scammers are pretty alive making their trap for gullible people. So if you see a suspicious one, might as well give it a study and if you find it shady or worse a scam just report it so it will be flagged, that's how you use the report button.

Platforms such as facebook, twitter and youtube has billions and millions of followers and viewers that's why it is often use for scams. However, these things can be avoided with proper caution. At the end of the day it is you, yourself that has the responsibility of your doings. If you get scammed, it's all your fault.

This forum is the best to get all the information and alert you when there is a scope of scam or something which does not look right. Just ask a question whenever in doubt here and the experts would suggest what should be the course of action. Few things I was unaware and still learning from this forum members only.

I think the solution to this problem is that people stop being greedy and think that just as it is difficult to get money in the real world, it is also difficult to get money on the internet.

it is not possible for someone to say:

"send X bitcoin to address Z which I will send you 10X later"

and people believe in those kinds of things and they don’t even have time to think about where the money comes from to pay 10X

Yes all of us here know that, how about the other people who is not member here or doesn't know bitcointalk or any other useful forum. Why not all of us here in forum let's post in our social media profiles to let them know how ponzi scheme works and how to know if the website legit or not? What do you think? This could help to lessen? Right?

It's quite impossible to just say that people should stop being greedy because they will not. The action for this to be solved relies upon us, by simply reporting any content, videos, ads or any person who is suspicious and proven scammer have a huge impact to make them stop especially in youtube, a simple channel strike could ban their account. What if they try to scam in decentralized social media platforms and messaging apps? Still, it will be up to us not to entertain them.

Since I have been here for years already, the best that I can share is for us to have a strong knowledge about the basics of bitcoin and blockchain, ethereum smartcontracts and mining. They cannot fool you around if you know how these things really work, especially by veryfing transactions of random wallet addresses they wish you to sent some amounts into.

many miss leading videos and scammers on youtube and until now thier video still exist on the platform  . whats worst that i see is that when popular youtuber  promotes an investment offer that they themselves not familiar of  .

 when i come back on the video , i will only see that those who invest are complaining that they have been tricked  .  twitter is less strict and wont even ban mature content, im afraid they will misslook scam attempts on thier platform  .

I have seen this kind of scam since the year started, and is crazy to see how Youtube gives zero fucks about the.

On this point, they should have some kind of filter to avoid people getting scammed with it, but not, they take down the video after tons of people report it. You, know that free employers army, lol.

Filtering even the live streaming is far better to prevent scammers to facilitate this kind of activities,
YouTube should take full responsibilities.
They also making big money coming from those creators who keeps using the platforms, it's their obligation
to ensure the safety of both creators and viewers.
The scam promotions can only be avoided once YouTube take actions not after reports comes, but before
everything even started.

As a community, we need to teach the people not the scammers because they are everywhere, so people need to grow up and realize that making money is not such easy like spending and getting in double in few minutes.Legit wat of making take years and also the return will be very low compared to these bitcoin doubler scams.If you see any of those scam posts then don't forget to report it as a scam.

Everyday when I am watching on youtube or checking my twitter account I am seeing ads about crypto or bitcoin promoting their campaigns then once, I tried to join but when I register after an hour I have notice that it seems like someone is using my social media accounts and I didn't notice that the app on the ad I clicked was a phishing app. Luckily all of my social media accounts are secured and not easily to hack.

Because of scams before, even Facebook was blocked and banned many ICO during 2018. This is the reason why most of the people nowadays are fear in investing in coins. They thought that bitcoin was scam due to the scammers who used cryptocurrency to fool other people. But probably, time will come youtube and other large social media sites will recognize cryptocurrency and it`s utility that may give in future use. Cryptocurrency scam event will eradicate soon as the real projects (DEFI) will arise.

I do admire people who care and is very enthusiastic about Bitcoin's future and cryptocurrencies as a whole. We do know that in this line of business (if we call this one a business that is), it is somewhat expected that issues will occur like scams and fraud and many will use many different platforms on the internet to seduce would be victims of scams. Social media is also used since there are many easy targets in spreading false information on that medium. We need to be aware, we have to research and learn some things that can help us avoid these traps and help us identify suspicious websites. Bitcointalk forum is also helpful in giving us information we need so that we can start and at least avoid being scammed.

Never ever enter your login details of any accounts on random websites to get rewards or for any other reasons because they can read what you are entering and can access your accounts with that information.Better add 2FA to get some kind of better security to such phishing attacks.

Scams are everywhere but I think Twitter and YouTube channels is where you'll see most of the crypto scams originating from. Each time I logged in on Twitter, I keep seeing ad's of crypto scams. It very annoying and tiring for such to happen on Twitter consistently without stop.
Crypto newbies are the one's that will easily fall in to their unscrupulous scams. I do pity the newbies anyway

These have been a way for scammers to take the trust of these well-known celebrities and their likeness to try and fool people into sending them funds and some legitimate youtubers have been effected when I reported about it starting to happen more than 3-4 months ago.
These big names in the crypto youtube space: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5242169 & https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5241100
But there is a new way they are scamming even the technical savvy crypto users by using DeFi. Which seem to be the new buzz word for those who are looking to get rich quick in crypto.
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But it just doesn't work out that way if many think it is possible if not super lucky and got in early enough at the beginning.

There is not much we can do about the many twitter or youtube scams, the best choice is educate ourselves and also educate
other people to get to know the scams. That way you can avoid scammers, even though in practice it is very difficult. Because
greed makes us easily deceived.

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We can't fully stop the scam. But we can raise awareness among the people by exposing the scams which will keep them safe from such situations next time. Depending on the market conditions, scammers come up with new scam ideas that newcomers don't easily understand, and that's why they fall prey to those scams.

If people cannot control their greed then there is no point in raising awareness. Most scams are done using human greed.

I've been raising awareness for crypto scams for years now especially to my friends online, but I keep receiving questions like " Yo, wassup is this real company? they are offering passive income using ETH" and I'm like woah wait a minute, passive income with ethereum? stay away from that one. Most these days are about DeFi, I don't wanna say that DeFi is a scam coz there are some working projects right now, but I can conclude that there are already scam projects on their way right now. A hype like this is an open gate for scammers.

Greed is a shovel of their own grave. Once you did not notice a detail of one of your investment, that could turn into a sad memory of yours. Better to know what's in of that project before jumping into, crypto scene is half scam.

Have seen these scams several times and wasn't moved to pay listing ears to their crabs. The biggest problems we'll have as cryptocurrency enthusiasts is greediness towards free internet money. Nothing is free and those who say this on YouTube and Twitter handles aren't saying the truth but to scam, they won't give you anything but will take your money away. If this community can have control over greediness among itself then there won't be a problem to this.

The only possible way to avoid such scams is to of course make ourselves aware and be knowledgeable to better distinguish a scam from a legitimate one. Do not fall on give aways and certain bonuses coming from strange ads and people of course. Always verify and check the credibility to see if it is a legitimate one or just a scam scheme. You can always seek attention here in the forum to raise awareness and answer inquiries about a certain matter which you find strange or suspicious so that people can help you out in here to share thoughts and opinions so you can better know if you are engaging on a legit one. Do not attempt pursuing a thing you certainly do not know because you will get caught off guard to fall on a scam scheme. Those scammers are getting wise so we must get wiser as well not to fall for those schemes.

Before these post of scams we must denounce them and teach the public to avoid being scammed. Our community lives in constant attacks from these individuals. As we know their modes of operation, we can identify and report them without any doubt. These scammers is a part of the bad side of cryptocurrencies that every person who starts up in the crypto space should know.

I feel like anyone that is at least a little knowledgeable about crypto would not fall for this.

Yes we should spread awareness in new peoples in crypto. Recently in india Many youtubers Account also hacked and scammers start live stream and demanding BTC for donation in behalf of That person. Also Twitter account of famous personalities have to suffer from this scams.

It is a serious topic which we should worry about. Actually scammers are already figure out the weak point of human being. The weak point is GREEDINESS . They will give a lots of scheme to grab/ steal Your assets. YOU are talking about SpaceX, inface the exchange latoken also promote SpaceX . I mean to say on the ground reality no one there to crosscheck. There is no doubt profit is huge in cryptocurrrency , but scammers also huge in numbers.

See the problem is that the scammers are everywhere
And we can't even detect them,going to all this social media for cryptoccurrency transaction i think is not ideal because majority there discussing cryptoccurrency is scammers,most especially in Twitter, I really disregard those platform's in terms of btc transaction.

Google just dont want to do anyting with these scams. Maybe google want to make btc reputation even worse?

Yeah a good way around scams, and not just crypto scams, is education. If it sounds too good to be true or asks you to send money, then your scam sensor should immediately start tingling.