I read the news that a Youtube channel has been hijacked alleged ask-me-anything (AMA) with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. The
stream was live for 12 hours on April 6, which is a scam, encouraging users to send BTC payments by giving away 5000 BTC which is non-existent.
On this occasion, somebody has managed to hack into an already established YouTube channel, TopTenz, which boasts 1.63 million subscribers. The channel has been rebranded as "CoinbasePRO English."
The stream was live using old, looped footage of Brian Armstrong answering viewers’ questions. It had a Bitcoin address and a QR code to send the amount and stated that the amount will be doubled. Of course, the one who deposits in this address would have resulted in Zero coins.
According to the
Blockchain block explorer, only one transaction, with a value of 0.44 BTC has been sent to the address currently being promoted through the "giveaway." The address has only been live for 2 hours, while the two previous addresses advertised received 2.548 BTC and 4.209 BTC respectively.
This makes a total of almost 7.2 BTC stolen so far — with a value of over $51,200 at press time.
Over $50,000 has been stolen and still, they are counting. There is no exact count as of now.
Note: Daily we are seeing these kinds of news and we are aware of the impact. But still few people are falling into the trap and losing their coins. It's just a reminder to those who are believing this kind of scams.
Source:
Bitcoin Scam on YouTube Masquerades as Coinbase CEO AMA