(OLD topic 10.10.2020 ) Bitcoin SCAM on youtube right NOW!

[Shasha80]

I am very happy that the video scams are finally removed by YouTube, because if YouTube let the video continue, then there will be
many people at a disadvantage. I believe the senior members of this forum are unlikely to be attracted by such scams, those who
are very easy to be attracted are definitely newbies who don't have experience in the crypto world. With the YouTube video removed,
it proves the many reports that YouTube has received about that video. We do have to help report if we come across such fraudulent videos.

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[arwin100]

Such scam should not happen to anyone above the member level..

Unfortunately at some point, even an experienced member still falls on that.

How? They are taking risks as those Youtube videos seem legit. Their reason, they afford to lose the amount so it's fine if ever they will be scammed. And what's worst, they invite people too to participate.

These scam videos won't be stopped as long as there are people taking the bait.

Maybe there are experience guys fall but for sure only few since the reporting of hacking of YouTube accounts will came out first by the owner before those scamming happened and many Filipino YouTubers hacked for the past months.

This is the reason why we need to be careful on investment,giveaways or any something like that offered especially on YouTube and we need to stay away for now, but it's sickest decision for people telling that it's ok to risk since they are just tolerating the scammers to create another attempt to get a money from innocent people.

[GreatArkansas]

This kind of scam are all over the Youtube, on different content creators from different countries. Especially in our country which one of the victim was a eSports youtube creator with more than millions of subscribers.
And another thing I saw kind of scam in YouTube is their ad on some videos, there is phishing website included or fake giveaways. Just like this: [BEWARE] Fake/Scam Youtube Ad Ethereum Giveaways

[lienfaye]

Scammers wont stop as long as there are people who can be easily convince and fool.

They are existing in different social media sites. Its not new seeing scam videos like this, thats why we need to be more careful and always do a research before believing their words.

I already reported the video so I hope it will take down.

[Peanutswar]

I already created a lot of threads with this kind of bitcoin giveaway scam, most of them are already taken action with the youtube but every day I browse on there is another channel making live with a bitcoin scam, there is another advertisement with this bitcoin scam.  I think the youtube must need to prohibit this kind of channel-related on these scams. It's better to report them immediately so the youtube security will notice immediately.

Scammers wont stop as long as there are people who can be easily convince and fool.

This is the problem too right now because there are beginners intro cryptocurrency are getting baited and scammed with this youtube channel after that they are now ruining the use of the bitcoin and other digital currency because they think its already a scam and they are now giving a bad image with the use of the bitcoin.

I think one of the examples I saw is like this People Say btc is Not ponzi but its look like ponzi

[shoreno]

I already created a lot of threads with this kind of bitcoin giveaway scam, most of them are already taken action with the youtube but every day I browse on there is another channel making live with a bitcoin scam, there is another advertisement with this bitcoin scam.  I think the youtube must need to prohibit this kind of channel-related on these scams. It's better to report them immediately so the youtube security will notice immediately.

Scammers wont stop as long as there are people who can be easily convince and fool.

This is the problem too right now because there are beginners intro cryptocurrency are getting baited and scammed with this youtube channel after that they are now ruining the use of the bitcoin and other digital currency because they think its already a scam and they are now giving a bad image with the use of the bitcoin.

I think one of the examples I saw is like this People Say btc is Not ponzi but its look like ponzi

i have friends that are not into btc but they know that im into it . my friends use social media everyday especially youtube , when they came across a video like that , btc scam or fake giveway . what will they say to me ? they think that what im doing is useless and this makes me hard to convince them to join me on this btc business . i havent or i rarely seen an advertsement that are scams related to btc but channels and videos yes . even if we cant stop them all but if we all work together of reporting them ,  that still helps .

[travwill]

I would like to believe that no one else believes in such tales. However, given some positive news, such as the ATM bitcoin at the Tesla plant, and the growth of bitcoin beyond the 11,000 mark, it can provoke a wave of interest in bitcoin from the side of newcomers, and after all, they are the ones who fall into such traps and then blame everyone on the cryptocurrency not yourself.

[CasherUp]

The video was already removed from youtube

[gabbie2010]

I would like to believe that no one else believes in such tales. However, given some positive news, such as the ATM bitcoin at the Tesla plant, and the growth of bitcoin beyond the 11,000 mark, it can provoke a wave of interest in bitcoin from the side of newcomers, and after all, they are the ones who fall into such traps and then blame everyone on the cryptocurrency not yourself.

The price of Bitcoin had been bullish now already above $11K, of course because of the this upsurge a lot of new investors probably newbies will be interested into investing in it just like the events of 2017 ATH however scammers will also seize this opportunity by devising any method to defrauding people no wonder they utilizes Youtube to carried out their nefarious activities due to the popularity of that media of course if that video was not taken down immediately some greedy newbies will fall for it.

[AniviaBtc]

I've seen some popular Vloggers here in our country that is being hacked. I saw one with around 5 Million subscribers being hacked but got recovered within the day it is hacked and now there is this one famous vlogger who got 1 Million subscribers got hacked and changed to "Ripple Foundation" and it got hacked 2 days ago and still not recovered till now.

Yeah, I've heard of this issue before, this scams, the "Ripple Foundation" are hacking a lot of famous youtuber accounts and it is still can be recovered. This is also common in our country, the famous vlogger already recovered his account which is good for him, but other vloggers should be aware of this kind of hacking. They are targeting popular accounts to promote their scam, Youtube is not so secured if these things possibly occurs to someone so everyone is not safe and everyone should be aware about this scams.

[gurjasmeetsingh]

Although there will be happenings all types in this world. But think why the popular channel is doing this work, whenever almost people are touching & see this channel. I can say don't think bad about you tube channel become a platform of scammers.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

If people are foolish enough to believe everything they see on Social Media sites and refuse to do ANY facts checking, then they are idiots. Anyone can post nearly anything on SM sites. Why on earth do so many folks blindly believe what they find there?

[posi]

I am reported too, before posting here.
Now I am found their address it looks like that they are received 1,4btc already...

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1JFDSSzeiGPMrYQNTVfcnfPiN5be9ctrfN

It good you did further research about the scam activities and also reported the scammer wallet address but there are ways scam are reported on this forum.
1) You need to move this thread to scam and accusation section (Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Trading Discussion > Scam Accusations)
2) Edit the OP and provide adequate information with the Youtube video link remove
3) You make the report using

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[GJGGames]

I unfortunately lost my bitcoin to this scam.

Everyone posting that you have to be an idiot to believe it...well in hindsight you are right.

Still- I thought it was all legit and if you go to the website gemini.social it is still up for business. I wish there was a way to get my bitcoin back as I was brand new at getting it and was very excited about holding it.

Will just have to start from scratch.

[verita1]

You Tube has already become an insecure channel, as you have realized, events that promote giveaway Bitcoin and crypto are frequent scam and even use the image of personalities related to crypto truncating the original videos to deceive users.

It is time for You Tube to improve security and prevent these types of fraudulent events from being broadcast on the channel. It's honestly unfortunate that a popular channel has such an insecure environment.

In July Coindesk wrote about it

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/crypto-giveaway-scams-continue-to-flourish-on-youtube%3famp=1