Scammers are back with another trick. Be alert!!!

[NotATether]

It might already be reported because I can't view the given Youtube link now.

This was a very obvious scam when we talking about doubling your fund upon sending or any giveaways that need us to send first before we will get profit are most commonly scam. These tricks was the same on the Twitter hack and I don't think people didn't learn from those biggest hacks happened on social media.

The real account of the FOXNews Youtube account has 5.7M subscribers.

For companies that own large verified channels, they usually have employees monitoring Youtube for what they call unauthorized channels using their brand name and logo, and these are reported to Youtube quickly, and like other platforms with a reporting system, I'd expect report processing is done much faster if the ticket filer is a company or enterprise. That explains why it was taken down so quickly.

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[Vatimins]

     Well, the people who would still get scammed by this are really dumb or stupid. Lease do excuse me for saying such things but it is just what I think about people who get scammed by such ways that can easily be recognized by most of the people in this industry. I mean, you must really be so gullible to be fooled by these type of hacking schemes. Things that are too good to be true must really be too good to be true. Do your own damn research before you jump into this industry or learn the hard way. This is clearly a rookie mistake. I just hope that newbies in this industry would at least do enough research about how things work here before even get ng to invest to avoid lots of people getting scammed.

[wxa7115]

Scammers are back with their old method but with another new trick. Currently, they are streaming video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQX4hElcSU&feature=emb_rel_pause, with the video title 100000 ETH giveaway. Be alert guys.   They made the channel name Foxnews which is fake of course and they are streaming an @ethglobal video.

Those scammers always surprise me if they put that amount of effort and energy they do to try to scam people into another activity they will obtain a lot more money in a honest way than what they do with these scams.

I really hope no one lost their money with this scam but YouTube is full of them and yet despite all the efforts they claim to put in trying to stop this this keeps happening, this is one of the many reasons why I do not use YouTube for anything other than to watch some funny videos and the like as trying to obtain any kind of serious and relevant information out of it has become impossible.

[Miaallen]

Those scammers would never rest on inventing or remoulding their methods and strategies to rip people of their hard earned funds. And people are also supposed to have known that giveaways are not but a pure scam.

[LbtalkL]

There is many scammers that uses youtube to broadcast their scam motives, I have seen some ads about binance asking for Donation,etc. which is obviously scam. Some well-known individuals like Steve Wozniak an Apple Inc. co-founder sues YouTube over spreading this scam. Youtube is just waiting for reports, they are not preventing it, they are helping this scammers,  they should tighten their security for these ads.

Article source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-23/steve-wozniak-sues-youtube-over-twitter-like-bitcoin-scam

[Shasha80]

Thank you for sharing information about scammers, this is very helpful for all of us to be more careful and aware of
new trick from scammers. Especially for newbie information like this is very important, because newbies are most easily
deceived by methods like in the opening post. Information like this is very well disseminated.

[CandelaCoin]

There definitely needs to be more community outreach regarding scams, but at the same time people, especially newbies, must respect crypto and take the necessary steps and effort to educate themselves.

[gabbie2010]

This subtle way of scamming is very catchy and appealing to the gullible ones newbies who wants to get rich overnight in fact this was made to perfection while using FOX news to perpetuate the dastardly and fraudulent will look like its real thanks to OP for bringing it to the notice of the forum member and youtube bringing the video down infact the amount of give away ETH looks suspicious to me however it might attract others people. its a pity that scammers are now utilizing cryptos to scam innocent victims which is quite unfortunate and unaccepted.

[MainIbem]

Thanks for the information.

One thing is clear; as long as there is life, there must be scammers. And just as you notified, we all need to be careful.

[Yamifoud]

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For companies that own large verified channels, they usually have employees monitoring Youtube for what they call unauthorized channels using their brand name and logo, and these are reported to Youtube quickly, and like other platforms with a reporting system, I'd expect report processing is done much faster if the ticket filer is a company or enterprise. That explains why it was taken down so quickly.

I think it also...And I appreciate how the FOX news team takes immediate action before it drags their name into a worst-case scenario. We can hold these scammers to scam people and even though using this old trick seems still it catches some greedy people and find it unnoticed. Will it glad to see how the community responded to this kind of scam.

If we are all vigilant to these scamming issues we can help to minimize their activity and soon it made them to stop. Well, just to hope as well that people will also have some learning and to stay away from these fake giveaways that will come sooner.

[kawetsriyanto]

~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQX4hElcSU&feature=emb_rel_pause, ~

I opened this video and fortunately, it has been removed. So releived.


But we cannot guarantee that they will stop it. I am sure that they will act again to get victims to scam and get more money. money is legit and scammers will never stop for it. That is why we must be careful and also spread to all people as many as possible about the scammers, whatever the suspicious things about the giveaway, never greedy, and also never easily trust giveaway.

[Sadlife]

If its to good to be true then it's not true, people should learn how to identify scams like this then they wouldn't fall for these obviously cheap schemes that gives insane rewards. Unfortunately even if this is an obvious fake video some people manages to get scam anyways because they're not thinking or throughly examining the video through review and sources.

[danggoron]

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But we cannot guarantee that they will stop it. I am sure that they will act again to get victims to scam and get more money. money is legit and scammers will never stop for it. That is why we must be careful and also spread to all people as many as possible about the scammers, whatever the suspicious things about the giveaway, never greedy, and also never easily trust giveaway.

There will definitely be similar scams, moreover, this is a popular platform. Fortunately, the platform is very responsive. As users, if we see something suspicious like that, we must also play an active role to immediately report it and give warnings according to our respective abilities.

Unfortunately, many people are very interested in offering large rewards. But if we analyze deeper, the rules also seem doubtful. Is that easy to get profit? too good to be true.

[AakZaki]

The video link you provided is takedown and is no longer available.
This method has happened a lot and is often done. Even the famous YouTube channel with more than 1 million subscribers successfully hacked them and carried out a live streaming video of GIVEAWAY which trapped several people to send BTC and ETH to the address given on live streaming. Do a report for scamming videos like this. Because scammers are starting to aggressively use this method to deceive people to get a lot of profit.

[Fundamentals Of]

I hope youtube should act upon this kind of streaming much more quickly than normal. These videos should be brought down immediately as there might be people who are too gullible to be convinced with whatever lies they say. The gall of these scammers to live stream using the names of ETH and Foxnews and using youtube as platform.

People should be reminded to consider the word giveaway as a very strong red flag.

Of course we need to Report this for youtube actions because if not this will continue to show in their site.without knowing the risk of the said video.

Yes because youtube will most probably not initiate taking down specific videos unless prompted by a large number of reports received or they simply wish particular ones to be deleted. It is either the demand to strike a particular video is strong enough or the requesting party is a huge and rich company itself. If not and the reports are a few and only coming from ordinary users, they might just overlook it and consider it not urgent. Youtube doesn't care much.

[bryant.coleman]

This particular method seems to be very popular with the scammers here in the cryptocurrency sector. The most surprising thing is that despite the repetitiveness, a lot of people are getting scammed. By the time we report the videos/posts and get them offline, users might have already lost a lot of their hard earned money. Why this method is used to target cryptocurrency users so often? Is it because the level of greed is higher?

[ChiBitCTy]

Thanks for spotting this. You might want to add it to the scams channel.  I am glad you brought it here though as I fear that there are a lot more people visiting this board than the scams board.  Hopefully YouTube can start doing a better job of cracking down on this bs.

[bitbunnny]

New and more sophisticated scams appear all the time. People need to developme general awareness that they can become scam victims if they are not careful enough.
Don't trust different giveaways and that someone will give you something for nothing. Everything that sounds too good to be true, it isn't and there is no such thing as free lunch. Besides money you can also lose your personal and financial data and that can be even more dangerous.

[Dilerium90]

There will be more scams happening now because bitcoin price has started to climb higher. This means that people will gradually begin to lose caution. Instead, greed will appear. Scammers take advantage of this and can easily catch you. Thanks for the info. Be careful, especially this autumn.

[maximumcoin]

Scammers are back with their old method but with another new trick. Currently, they are streaming video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoQX4hElcSU&feature=emb_rel_pause, with the video title 100000 ETH giveaway. Be alert guys.   They made the channel name Foxnews which is fake of course and they are streaming an @ethglobal video.

I also knew about this scam on Thuan Capital Channel and I don't really understand the way that Youtube have worked. Remove and hit the sticks with Channels which analyze and share informations about cryptocurrency market but accept for scam promotional videos like that, affordability is above all else??