Bitcoin Giveaway Scam on YouTube

[FairUser]

I have reported all these channels. Hopefully Yotube will consider it and remove them from their platform. Also I think that there are many other fake channels exist and we need to find them to report. Otherwise there will be a lot of new people fooled by them

[CuriousGeorge]

Crypto giveaways on YouTube is more than just three, after reporting they won't stop, see scammers can easily buy channels with enough followers and do the schemes over again, we should keep warning those who don't know about it

You are right not only three, but a great many. They did not buy a youtube account but hacked an account that already has many customers. That way it will be easy to make ordinary people believe. Besides reporting it, we must commemorate the new players.

That's true but if youtube was actively monitoring the accounts that being used to promote or spread the scam giveaway and it will much better. I guess even we have been reporting it but youtube is not yet banning it and it seems like the accounts are still active spreading the scam giveaway.

[umbara ardian]

This is a new form of scam, and it makes many people fooled because there are so many people using YouTube every day. I have reported these channels and hope it will be deleted as soon as possible

[skeleto88]

I think there are some cases of that kind of scamming that had been posted here in the forum already. Scammers doing youtube live showing some sort of evidence like displaying of fake bitcoin transactions or anything to attract possible viewers and take the bait. If someone is smart enough and knows how basically scaming in bitcoin or in crypto normally do then he/she would not fall to that of scheme.

[TheClownSong]

This is a SCAM ALERT!!

There are presently three Bitcoin Giveaway Scam that are Live and active now on YouTube. I have already reported and would request the community members also to do the same.

Original YouTube channels have been hacked. Here are the link

1. Elon Musk Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UkhmcXTLx84
2. Facebook Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/I4vWDjXpBwY
3. Jack Dorsey Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UOHELKPT0Bk

Please report them.

I don't think it's easy to believe in large amounts of bitcoin or ethereum giveaway. Such giveaway in my opinion is a scam indicator because Bitcoin or ethereum are coins that are in demand by investors so it is almost impossible to get a giveaway from those coins

[yazher]

Thanks for posting it here, maybe we cannot do something about their channel because they can just look for another youtube account to deceive some people with their fake giveaways but we can tell newbies what kind of fake bitcoin giveaway looks like. We can give them some ideas on how they will act if they see such kind of channel. posting scams like this will surely bring newbies some benefits if they read carefully what the OP's saying.

[jossiel]

Yep, this has been happening. I thought that this was already done a few months ago but here they are, they came back.

It is sad that there are people that are hoping for those giveaways to be real and joins them. Everyone should avoid these stream crypto giveaways as much as you can if you are not aware of how to determine if one is a scam.

[Jancuki]

This is a SCAM ALERT!!

There are presently three Bitcoin Giveaway Scam that are Live and active now on YouTube. I have already reported and would request the community members also to do the same.

Original YouTube channels have been hacked. Here are the link

1. Elon Musk Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UkhmcXTLx84
2. Facebook Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/I4vWDjXpBwY
3. Jack Dorsey Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UOHELKPT0Bk

Please report them.

Lately a lot of YouTube accounts above 100k subcriber, which have been hacked and used as a give away event. in my country as far as I know there are already 3 accounts that have been hacked, even there are accounts that have reached one million subscribers. It would be nice to be more careful, I suspect this hacker sent an email to the account owner on behalf of YouTube.

[bitcoin31]

Better for us to help each other to report that bitcoin giveaways scam because if more people are watch that video and promote the scam project and other invest to the project they lose money so better for us to stop that now.

Giveways is good if that is legit but if it's not you are the one who are cause why people are still scam by the scammer so please be careful what to promote project or investment.

[nreal]

These videos are easy to identify as scams, but Report these videos are not effective, scammers can easily create new videos. Educating new people in this form of fraud will be effective

[judeafante]

I helped report it, but it doesn't seem to mean anything because they can just buy a YouTube account that has a certain number of subscribers and try to do another scam people again.

I have done my share of reporting this scam giveaway if it's live people should continue reporting this scam, if many are reporting it will be disabled if they continue buying accounts, we'll continue reporting until they stop doing so if they cannot scam anymore they will stop doing this.

[btc78]

This is a SCAM ALERT!!

There are presently three Bitcoin Giveaway Scam that are Live and active now on YouTube. I have already reported and would request the community members also to do the same.

Original YouTube channels have been hacked. Here are the link

1. Elon Musk Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UkhmcXTLx84
2. Facebook Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/I4vWDjXpBwY
3. Jack Dorsey Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UOHELKPT0Bk

Please report them.

Reported already Mate and thanks for the warning because this seems legitimate that is why there are chances that this can victimized people here.

May i Suggest that you create a formal Scam Accusation in this section as for the record and for the look out also of the experts here?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0

[killerfrost]

There is nothing free in this market. If there is any suggestion regarding a giveaway, I think people should stay away from it. Scammer will definitely ask you to deposit some money to receive the token. And after you send the money, they will certainly block you

[danherbias07]

Reported.
Thanks for the heads up.

But the names of it.
They really sound like scam names.  Elon Musk? I bet he wont do that. Facebook? Nah. Jack Dorsey? No way.
The name says it all.
A nice way of spreading awareness in your part. Doubt the names.

[jcpone]

This is a SCAM ALERT!!

There are presently three Bitcoin Giveaway Scam that are Live and active now on YouTube. I have already reported and would request the community members also to do the same.

Original YouTube channels have been hacked. Here are the link

1. Elon Musk Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UkhmcXTLx84
2. Facebook Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/I4vWDjXpBwY
3. Jack Dorsey Bitcoin Giveaway - https://youtu.be/UOHELKPT0Bk

Please report them.

Almost all of the link channel in youtube was already deleted by youtube rules for violating the community policy in the platform.
Anyway, I don't trust any giveaway that has been showed in any of the social media's because most of them are scammers actually, that's the real thing happens anyway.

[aioc]

These videos are new, that means they are not going to stop as long as there are people who do not want to research, we never run out of greed people who will create videos like this, and newbies who easily fall to this kind of scheme, we should mass report it so Youtube will disable this kind of videos.

[leea-1334]

I feel it is a lost cause my friend. I always report on any scam I see, whether Telegram (which I give up now) or here on this forum or anywhere else but people cannot be protected by us, they have to protect themselves,,, and unfortunately this is not the case. People simply believe in giveaways even though it cannot possibly be true.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

This is why a few times ago Youtube made a decision to ban crypto advertisement.

I've seen this giveaway everyday and I just skiped it because I've known that this a scam attemp.

Also, I've seen in this forum as well who have reported it in scam accusation board. You may need to move this thread to scam accusation too because that is the right section.

[kaneki007]

It seems like there is no end to scammers doing fake livestream giveaway, there are actually many channels like that which are banned but they reappear. I read several of articles about this, most of the youtube channel also results from hacking a YouTube account that has many subscribers by offering cooperation to advertise or review products from scammers.

[terizla]

I never believe every giveaway on Youtube is real. Because i never see the winner from giveaway on Youtube. Not only Bitcoin giveaway, most of giveaway on Youtube is fake.
Don't join if you don't want to waste your time and get scam.