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How Youtube allow this shit? I can imagine tons of people fall for this and actually send him Bitcoin.

Send 0.3 BTC and double it and get 0.6 BTC lmao

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And youtube appove that? are they idiots?

Again?

Youtube really don't filter their ads again. That's been like months that's been happening and they've took action for a while but then again allowing it?

Shame on them.

fake giveaway will not stop until YouTube really fixes their system weaknesses...
This trick has been around for a long time and I am not sure if there are still victims who are deceived by their tricks. Of course, I really hope no one is falls. *OP you should include a link to their YouTube account so that it is easy to help make a 'report'

From hacking twitter accounts with a similar scam to YouTube. I am not surprised, lately the amount of  scam going on in YouTube's comments sessions has been overwhelming. And seems theyare not doing juch about it.

This clearly shows they don't scrutinise the video ads sent to them. This is image damage.

No one can depend on social platforms to protect themselves from scams, regardless of how efficient their security system is. Such platforms which are profit oriented usually prioritize returns over protecting their users.
Using the internet exposes one to a certain level of risk and users should take basic precautions to avoid falling for scams, like scrutinizing offers that are too good to be true.

They aren't exactly allowing it most likely the channels you are watching right now where they are giving a "free giveaway" are hacked accounts from Youtubers that is why they have a lot of subscribers to begin with. With them hijacking the accounts it will go under the radar on Google that is why viewers/users need to make the necessary action to report them. IMO what isn't acceptable on Google's part is the one happening the their Google Playstore where even though they have screened the apps there are several scam apps that are made available for download this is the area they need to focus on as a lot of android users have lost their money because of it.

This event Continuous to happen since scammers/hackers are able to benefit from it, no matter how secure or protected our accounts are when someone really wants to hack or create false ads there are victims who believe in it that's why they keep on doing it. There's a need for each site to strengthen their security and access to atleast avoid it as well filtering of ads before approval to publish will be fine.

^ They cant able to filter the videos especially if this is a live streamer, unless if there is someone who reports the video. We should protect ourselves in the first place in social media. Because most scammers and fraud activities are on social media and probably they are trying this if there is someone who got be fooled by them. When there are offer giveaways on social media but asking to send you first any amount, you must have doubt already, no one will give money on the internet even how rich you are. Old technique scam but effective because there are greed and innocent people.

I think if they get many report about the advert they would take it down and maybe block the host, You Tube right now is scary, for -Newbies- you ought to be careful, the bot scammer are so much that the owners of the channel are less concerned, some even give the comments of the scammers a like, this to a -Newbie- can be they are real when they aren't, but You Tube can not be avoided, so -Newbies- should scrutinize all information, recommendation, give aways, advert and more that are gotten from YouTube and social media.

have they ever filtered their ads before? Youtube is owned by Google who doesn't filter its ads too so I wasn't surprised to see ads like that.

@OP this should be posted in scam accusations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0). there is a move button on the bottom left of the thread. or you can ask mods to move the thread for you by reporting it on "report moderator"

There have been  have been enough of give away scam impersonating Elon Musk through give aways already. The crypto community should have been already aware of this technique. Its far too out dated to be discussed and as funny as it seems, it keeps popping up here and there and the reports keeps coming in.
My advice,  its best people don't be about these give aways no more. Even still, avoid celebrities doing giveaway. Life on the Internet is far too risky these days. Your bound to loose something in your bid to get something for free. Nothing is really for free. Giving in means you paying a price your not going to like. So, don't give in!

This is not the first time google ads displaying such kinds of ads. To be honest it really sucks that google has no concerns on this matter to prevent it

Tried to check the video through the link on that ad above, fortunately the video of the fake giveaway has disappeared. Hope there are no victims in this attempt

I advise everyone to report this fake Elon Musk giveaway ASAP so that Youtube will take it down. That's the only thing that we can control now, Youtube has some issues and it seems that they can't really filter enough in time and that's why this criminals was able to get away with it. So report it and then see how it goes and hopefully they will act on our reports quickly.

Since YouTube is a public platform, anyone can post scam attempts on it, but if the video is reported, it will be removed immediately. Since there are so many videos posted every day, it's difficult for YouTube to check them all at once. The only thing you have to do now is spam report the video and spam comments to ensure that no one else is scammed. I pity the person who invested in a phony giveaway, but it's also their fault for being greedy with money, and it's clear that it's too good to be true situation.

Youtube's ad and privacy algorithm is very erroneous, so it's not surprising that things like these fly off their radars. Although of course, this is bad news for people who are not really savvy with crypto and bitcoin, or even perhaps the newbies that just got into bitcoin not too long ago. At this point, it is our own responsibility to take care of ourselves, we can't expect the internet to be very forgiving and generous to people who are complacent with their safety.

it has become a standard for people to always present themselves as stars and in a bid to do a thing or two and then they create an avenue for extortion. except for noobs, i do not see a situation where someone will pay attention to that even after knowing that accounts of top profiled government can get hacked.

Ain't know why there are people who fooled a scam strategy like this which is very obvious it's a scam, ain't know if Elon Musk is generous kind behind of his being the richest people on earth who will give that amount to random people.  You must think about it before they will be the next victim.

I tend to agree above if you saw the live video or a video like this, report immediately so that YouTube will be shutting down quickly the videos, they are social media too and they can't able to filter what is a video uploaded or what is the content of the live video, once they receive reports it might be that's the right time they will shutdown the video.

From Twitter to Youtube and then what next? How many times there will be a victim until people will educate on such a kind of fraud activity.

I've written this [Guide]: How To Report Fake Crypto Related Youtube videos (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228485.0).

Maybe it's time for others to look at it, specially those who don't practice reporting fake sites. It will only take you a couple of minutes to do it, but you will help a lot of crypto enthusiast, specially newbies not to fall for this scheme.

This is the old way of scammers and they are sure to appear in every bitcoin and altcoin rally. This is their site officialelon2x.com, and I also found another suspicious site official-giveaways-medium.com registered on the same day according to https://com.all-url.info/20/110/ which might be used as a backup if the site is currently shut down by the domain provider.


You also need to add or link to the tutorial on how to report a site and multiple YouTube ad formats in your thread

I think they did somehow when a lot of reports has been made and it is quite a time when I have seen the same ad until op posted it.

They should do something on it and make it automated upon ads being made such as that scam ad.

There are so many people who are caught up in this. One of them is my friend, he gets a message from the telegram and sends his ETH to the account, sometimes I still really wonder why there are still people who are so stupid who believe in things like this.

I don't know what type of people still fall for this scam. It is obviously fake, how can anyone double the amount of their bitcoin. This is not even possible if bitcoin was cheap like 2019. I'd rather waste the 0.3 btc on gambling or buy some lowcap altcoin rather than believing in them.  Reporting the ads can help but they just keep making a new one. Youtube should take down these ads or this could be a bad impact for bitcoin in long term if many people will still believe in this.

Here we go again and this kind of thing is quite normal on youtube cause they don't do anything about it. Scammers are just carefully observing things and when they see some holes on some platform like youtube, they will inject their scamming method which will gonna fool the others that are not aware of them. Youtube really need to fix their system and update their security to prevent scams such as this false giveaways.

While I can understand why people are angry that this is happening again at the same time we are the sole protectors of our coins, this is what we wanted and that means that we need to be smart enough to avoid scams like this, and anyone that is not smart enough to do so is probably not going to last long on the market as there are too many scammers trying all kind of tactics so they can get you to send your coins to them, and once you do it those coins are gone for good.

Fake giveaway. I think their is no method to double your investment within few minutes. When you send 0.3 btc and receive 0.6 btc. So, these are fake ads. And i recommend everyone that don't crypto to anyone. These peoples are just trying to steal your crypto by showing these fake ads

This shit happens literally everyday and youtube just doesn't really care about this stuff, as long as they got the money they just let it go without caring about the risk and the experience of users.

Also I have just realized that on Twitch, the scammer also impersonates as Elon Musk with same scheme as well. Smart users wouldn't fall on that trap, but I feel sorry for those who really believes those.

The requirements for advertising on YouTube are getting relaxed. The high demand for advertisements causes less standard preview especially on security even though these scammers are on behalf of well-known companies and institutions.

It has been explained in YouTube's policies implicitly that will not be responsible for the risk of advertisements being displayed means that they do not care about your loss as long as their advertising services are paid in full.

I visited the website and they have set it up using Medium. We need to report it to Medium admin, and hopefully they will close down the webpage. But I suspect a lot of people have already lost their money to this scam. Their webpage is full of fake comments such as this one:




They use sites such as Microworkers to recruit people to post such comments, in return for a small payment of $0.05 or $0.10. I have 7 years of experience here in cryptocurrency and therefore I could easily identify such scams. But new users may fall victim.

Of course, the problem is that for these scams to work, they have to make them credible and they work hard at it because it is profitable for them. We have at least one forum member who has fallen for it:

When would I get my bitcoins from Elon Musk? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329795.0)

Youtube only cares about the money which they are generating through the ads. They will not care if anyone is promoting any scam. I don't know if its a part of their policy to check the scams before approving the ads. They can't check each and every ad to see if it is made to scam or not. However, in this case it was easy spotable and they should have removed it from the ad campaign.

That's the biggest and latest scam in the Cryptocurrency space right now. It is everywhere, telegram, twitter, Facebook, youtube etc. All these social media platforms should flag this kind of post. This will save some innocent people from they crooked guys.

Who is really to blame here! youtube or those greedy people who fall stupidly for an obvious cheap scam? There is no such thing as free money, nobody hands out thousands to you just like that and certainly not Elon Musk,
How people can be so greedy and gullible to fall for shit like this still beats my imagination, people really need to wake up,  when it sounds too good to be true then watch out because it is not real.

Youtube can't control everything people those in their site, reason why there is a disclaimer,  almost like using this forum and you fall into scam in the process would you be blaming bitcointalk for your own actions! I don't think so.

Don't blame youtube here! This advertising is coming from someone's adwords account. It is impossible for Google to filter out such ads unless the users report it to them! Also, just like facebook, Google should implement a manual verification layer before any of their advertisements go live. That would save common people from a lot of hassles. The process is simple - every advertisements should be checked and manually passed by a human. If you are familiar with Facebook advertising platform, you must have noticed that any ads don't go to approval stage directly. It has to pass a manual verification.

Otherwise, there is no way to stop such scammers permanently. They will keep on coming back in different name, look and feel.

This is not the first time youtube ads like that. They are almost impossible to control all daily scam ads posted to YouTube. Hopefully newbie involved in the crypto will not be scammed by these ads.

This is old news, they buy or hack channels with many subscribers because these channels are established and reputable and this is where they offer double your Bitcoin, there are so many reports like this in the scam sections, it's when the people do not ask question if the offer is legit or not that they become victims of these scammers, so many greedy people not checking if the offer is legit.

0.3 BTC doubles to = 0.6 BTC joke.

Satoshi = who created Bitcoin, didn't do that.

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Thinking: even a crazy person doesn't want to give money to other people, let alone a sane and normal person, is clearly a fraud.

How is the story of the super-sophisticated era with super technology facilitation_ still tempted by the 'Ghost' internet seduction, impressive, why are people so ambitious and messy without thinking: 0.3 BTC was just thrown away, strange, but that's what happened.

In another thread I read, maybe, the victim has already swallowed dozens in this dual method on behalf of Elon, it's amazing, it's obvious, greed can self-destruct.

The problem with these ads is that they can easily be reported to Youtube and it gets taken down but people tend to skip this ads even though they know that it is a scam ads. It is really hard to say that newbies will fall for this scam since they are a newbie, maybe if more people are going to spread the information about different types of scams and money traps then there might be some hope that someday we might see newbies not falling for one because they are at the least informed.

It's happened again. This old trick once again is works and scams people. If they can research the offers, they will know that the offers are fake, preventing them from sending the money. If the offer needs you to send the money first before you can get the rewards, that will be suspicious and you do not have to think much about that.

If they can think by their minds, it is impossible to get double money after sending some amount. If they offer to send the reward, and you only need to give your wallet, it can be true and you can follow that offers. Other than that, you need to skip and do not send any money to them.

Youtube can only filter an ad or video if only there is a red flag from the users So now you understand? There are thousands of fake videos uploading on youtube every day it's very difficult for youtube to disabled them all at once because Youtube cannot tell which is fake and which is legit... Everything depends on us all, this is a desperate time in the crypto space.

I read that topic but still not sure if he is saying the truth or just trolling! I guess is  he wrote it to make fun of those who fell for this scam.
The I read that topic but still not sure if he is saying the truth or just trolling! I guess is  he wrote it to make fun of those who fell for this scam.
The Youtube video has been removed. Did anyon copy the scammer's address so we know how many victims fell for it and if really 0.3btc has been sent to that address? video has been removed. Did anyon copy the scammer's address so we know how many victims fell for it and if really 0.3btc has been sent to that address?

Social media platforms these days are like reactive instead of being proactive when it comes to scams. If I can recall correctly there were also fake Binance youtube channel that creates fake giveaways along with a livestream, and it has a lot of subscribers so you can't really tell if it was fake or not. It was discussed here in the forum as well.

Just report it OP, that is the best thing we can do for now while Youtube's algorithm isn't being in a correct manner just yet.

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Even in Facebook pages that are crypto-related, there are fake pages commenting to the legitimate pages' posts claiming that they are doing giveaways as well when you send X amount of BTC. It was made to look legitimate because there were a lot of replies from fake/dummy users that they got their BTCs doubled/tripled. I just reported it twice, because even Facebook claims that the scam comment does not go AGAINST their Community Standards, so I asked for review again then they deleted the comment that was a scam after my request for review for the report.

Can't really trust a lot of social media platforms these days.

I almost bite on this kind of giveaways before and I’ll never forget that experience.
Youtube team might be too busy to check all the ads with regards to cryptocurrency, I wonder how this things happened knowing that they have a strict compliance on their advertisements.

This should be reported, and hopefully address the issues as soon as possible  because many greedy newbies can become a victim. Social platforms becomes a place for scammers/hackers to get easy money, we have to be more careful on everything we see online.

Yeah, that's what really is happening.

They don't check and don't add certain precaution before approving those ads. I think they're checking it but they're too lazy to check the legitimacy and content of those ads.

A lousy check does the job on their part.

Almost all social media platforms are now fraudulent, they can provide loopholes where they can display advertisements even if they are from Youtube or Google, which have strict security, but they can carry out their compliance in the way they do so it is clear they are trying in all forms of advertising.

Many have reported this ad from various parties and the win has been deleted and will still reappear with a different name, these scammers are always targeting greedy newbies who don't know and just want to be instant, well there I have a lot of full awareness where they can differentiate from a fake giveaway.

This scam is lately very popular also in almost all cryptocurrency telegram groups I ma a member of : from time to time some random user pop in and post what is completely similar to a Elon Mask tweet at a first glance; a closer look spot it's fake link but still the number of these attempts so high let me believe many people still fall for this.
I can understand being a newbie doesn't help in spotting scam but how come is possible that someone may believe the richest man in the world needs your money first to send you back some  ???

YouTube don't approve any scam videos to be uploaded but the video is removed if there are scam accusations by many users or they find it not appropriate in any context otherwise it is open platform for all.The scammers took undue advantage of such privileges and post fake ads such like this and main the fault is of people who are greedy and easily get in there trap.The hackers just put bait to attract the people and foolish ones get caught.We have seen many instances before also where hackers have tried new ways of scamming people and most interesting part is someone is always the victim before it is discovered.Yes the social media platforms need to revise their security policy like checking the contents of whatever the user is posting although it will require a lot of efforts but AI can help in framing such policies.

Anyway, with any doubler it will not be valid and it will even be nonsense because you are influenced by it, this has become a common thing we have seen before many YouTube accounts were hacked and then appeared with fake giveaways to send 1BTC to 2BTC, that's the thing. impossible if it were real.
I think everyone should be able to keep an eye on this, even if beginners don't know they will understand how this giveaway actually works, I won't even bother to see this ad on YouTube because it's clear they are putting in a little bit of capital for the advertisement to be displayed.

Looking at OP's posting behavior of that topic I assume he is just fooling around, it's hard to believe what he said was the truth.

I doubt there is anyone here get in time to track the scammer's address since the site is no longer accessible and the QR code there is not shown any of the BTC address instead of the site itself.

People need to be smarter than this, no one is going to double the amount of bitcoin that you have simply by sending your coins to another address, do they really think that Elon Musk became rich by giving money away to complete strangers over the Internet? Obviously the answer to that is no, and if that is the answer then why they are sending their money to someone that says it's him? This kind of scam has been very common in the market and even the smallest research would have shown this, so I really hope that no one falls into this but I know it will happen anyway.

Perhaps this is another reason why we see many crypto related channels getting banned these days ?  Because they think that the crypto related channels mostly spreading news about the bounty and airdrops which are fake.
I don't agree that youtube can't filter out the obvious scam ads like this one, with so much filters in place, they should be able to keep the scam ads out of their advertisements.

Too bad to see people falling for these scams in this age where there is so much awareness about the scams and phishing attempts.
I would blame both youtube who allow these type of ads to be published on their platforms and also those dump people who don't research before investing on any giveaway or site.

YouTube without a doubt shares some of the responsibility but we must understand that no one is ever going to care about our coins like we do, to think that a third party is going to be interested in protecting us perfectly is simply too naive, YouTube cares about themselves and we need to take care of our coins and the people that fall into this kind of scam is obvious that they do not care about their coins and think that bitcoin is some kind of magical money and that people are still giving it away in 2021.

Do not send a single satoshi to platforms/people who even ask to double your bitcoins, all such ads are scam. Always care for your assets

The idea of rich people giving away huge sums of money to random strangers is pretty wild to me. These people didn’t obtain huge amounts of wealth by giving it away (unless you’re MrBeast) and society will likely have to wait until these wealthy people die for their funds to be distributed en masse. Very weird to me that anyone would fall for a scam like this. A fool and their money...