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According to this article, Massive wave of account hijacks hits YouTube creators (https://www.zdnet.com/article/massive-wave-of-account-hijacks-hits-youtube-creators/). So as early as September, Youtube can be the main target of hackers, specially crypto scammers and then is evident by the number of reports of fake give-away we have seen in recent months.

You can check it yourself, just simply type Binance giveway and filter it This Month and you can literally see lots of scams. So if ever you encounter one, you can follow the steps below to report them to Youtube so that it can be taken down and not to victimised unsuspecting people.

1. Look for the fake video, in this case

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzp7AEiudBk

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2. Then click on ..., a drop down will appear click "Report"

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3. Click on "Spam or Misleading" then click on the drop down "Choose One", then select "Scams / fraud". Tick "This applies to links within the video description". Click Next.

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4. I put Fake Binance giveway on the "Provide additional details" box. Click Report.

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5. Then you will get a message "Thanks for reporting". Then click Close.

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All we have to do is what for Google to review our report and do hope that they will take it down quickly.

Nice article about how to report a fake Youtube video but you have not explained how to identify a fake Video? I have read some article and listed a few points on how to identify a fake youtube video -

• Search the title of the video in Google or in Scraawl – If you see multiples of the same video, you may have a fake video.

• Check the transcript – write out a few phrases from the video and search Google for attribution. On some youtube videos, there’s the option to “Open Transcript.”

• Check topic – is what is the video saying factual? Run the topic against trusted news sources.

• Look for quality irregularity in the video – In a Wired article titled, the Physics of Fake Videos (https://www.wired.com/2014/10/physics-fake-videos/) the author explores fake camera shakes and impossible physics to investigate a video’s fraudulence.

• Do some digital sleuthing – a reverse Google or TinEye image search or can be surprisingly effective. StopFake.org called it a “flawed, but still useful (https://www.stopfake.org/en/advanced-guide-on-verifying-video-content-2/)” tactic to search the internet for other instances of thumbnails or screenshots.

Also, you can check the comments on Youtube, if it is misspelled or bots in the comments, there are chances of manipulation also.


Source: https://www.scraawl.com/product/2018/05/29/youtube-viewbots/

Good news as the fake sample video is taken down already.


So it's really effective to report those fake crypto related youtube videos. Others may say that if one video is taken offline there are 10 that is still in exists. That's why as crypto enthusiast, it is one of our responsibility to report them ASAP to stop them from victimising more individuals, specially newbies.

Reporting will help limit these scams, but it is better to raise awareness about checking links from their original sources, not to believe everyone who claims that there are free gifts or a free distribution of currencies and other things.

Unfortunately, the visual content is more believable and more acceptable, so whenever you find an account authenticated with the blue mark "even if it is hacked" it publishes gifts like this, some believe it.

Just bumping this thread, I saw this post in the Bitcoin Discussion board:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329774.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329795.0

This will help members to report those fake videos to at least clean up the crypto space for beginners and not so beginners alike.

YES... did some of video. just showing shit..