Crypto Scammers Flood YouTube With Fake Livestreams Featuring Several Well Known Crypto Personalities...You know how it goes, if you're in crypto circles on Twitter there's no way you haven't seen it dozens of times before -
"Send in $100 worth of <whatever coin> and recieve 10X that amount back!" coming from accounts that look like those of CoinBase, Vitalik, CZ, even Elon Musk famously had to speak up because so many scammers pretended to be him doing an ETH giveaway.
Sadly, when we covered the story of Elon Musk we discovered the scammers wallet address had a shocking $179,284 worth of ETH sitting in it.
Just out of curiosity, within the last 3 months I checked the wallet addresses given out by scammers on Twitter a couple times - both were empty, it seems Twitter was drying up for scammers. They needed something new, and it seems they found it.
Old scam finds new victims at YouTube...
YouTube gives live streams priority on search results, so there's a good chance you'll see these scams running right now by searching for bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc. This also sends newbies searching for videos to learn more about crypto right into scammers hands.
Here they’re able to add one extra twist that makes things a bit more believable - when you click on the live stream you'll see a real (old, recorded) interview with a well known crypto personality, and text on the screen makes victims think they just missed the announcement of a giveaway...
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