Bitcoin Youtube Scam?

[jerry0]

So when im watching some bitcoin videos on youtube... doesn't matter what it is... could be about bitcoin or cnbc talking about bitcoin, i see in the comments section, people making comments like


btc is the future


i made a ton of money investing in btc with so and so person


then you see someone post someones whatsapp or phone number and say contact this person if you want to make money


telegram


how btc is better than stocks





First off, all these comments are from people or are they bots?  I notice even on twitter when it comes to politics, you see these accounts post comments where it sounds like a bot... then you see other users who post the same exact thing.



I assume the scam here is you then contact that persons whatsapp or phone or telegram, then they ask you for money... then you get scammed?

[Iyeman]

it's scam and that message was coming from the scammers. there are so many bots on twitter and that's an old trick that being used by the scammers.
Your last point seems true if the scammers will get in touch with you directly through your contact.

The scammers will be spamming the same messages anywhere.

[doctor877]

They are everywhere.m its not only Youtube. The reason why you see so many comment that look alike is for innocent people to fall quickly for it. Those comments are coming from the same person. Never fall for any of it.

[Wexnident]

Long story short yes, they're scams. Low effort ones even. They're just trying to incite the greed from people, mostly newbies, that came upon those BTC videos and are being blinded by greed. They may come from both bots or people, no sense in identifying where it came from, just ignore and report. You can even put out a warning to others, just don't say straight out that it's a scam, just tell them it's a possible scam. Most people have quite the pride, after all, so telling it to them straight up may just incur a riot or something.

I assume the scam here is you then contact that persons whatsapp or phone or telegram, then they ask you for money... then you get scammed?

Basically yes. It's like them giving out the possibility of tips to earn money, but they ask you for money first before giving out the strategy. It's pretty simple, yet some people still fall for it.

[dansus021]

yes those are scammer and usually bot but youtube itself is preventing bot from commenting i have small channel bot usually straight to spam or need moderator first and beware to all of you guys there's no instant way to get more money quickly

[fishbonez11]

Ive also seen this kind of video YouTube. They use the video of the CEO of tesla talking but not really about their scheme. They attached different link saying you can double your money when transfering to a certain BTC address. The comment section also is flooded with bots wanting you to really invest. Lets beware of this scam, since Bitcoin price is doing a bull run, scammers are going along with this hype.

[Jaycee99]

From all who replied they said yes and same as me BUT FOR ME....

When it comes to things like this you can actually feel it or have a guess when you see it the third option is you click on that profiles it see if she or he is a bot from the profile itself like looking at there subscribe accounts than you will 100% distinguished that it is fake and a bot.

If you saw that it is subscribed to many accounts still there is a chance that it is a scam or they are users who get paid to comment on the video, still for safety purposes if you feel or look at it that is a scam do not respond. Still at the end, the rest is up to you to make the decision.

the most user who posts click here or ask me if you want to earn money are in chances of 50% legit and scam but from my point of view when it is related to cryptocurrency 80% chances is a big scam for as you may know many do make a fake project related to bitcoin or altcoin.

[raidarksword]

That's obviously a scam no doubt about it and not just on youtube but also on facebook, they are commenting on popular pages that they "earn bitcoin and thanks to" scheme scripted talks. They spamming all social medias and worst they are also copying project facebook pages to fool supporters and new comers.

[so98nn]

And that's called as paid stunts! These are not bot really, I don't think they have implemented any such code so as to have bots over youtube comment section (?)

Either they are paid out people or more or less they themselves trying to get referrals from such platforms. They will try to attract noobs through this act and honestly noobs to follow such people periodically and get scammed. They don't just do this over the youtube but also over other social platforms like telegram, twitter and discord channels.

Literally such kind of people beg for it over such platform and screw everyone.

[pooya87]

This is not all bitcoin related, if you visit any money related content you will see pretty much similar scams happen there too. As long as there are gullible people who are too greedy to use their brain, there will also be a lot of scammers taking advantage.
This is one of the reasons why Youtube keeps purging a lot of cryptocurrency related content from their platform as they are the breeding ground of scams from the video itself to the creator and the comments.

[maydna]

I never bother to read all of those comments because I don't think that they are honest people who give good reviews to that channel. I prefer to watch the next videos to find what I want without thinking back to that video. You will see many other videos like that, and if you are not careful, you can get scam by them. The Youtube channel can pay some people to give the best comment they can and rate the channel, so many people will follow their instructions. When they give offers that look not make sense, you should leave it as soon as possible before you get in their trap. That is not just happening on the Youtube channel, but it also happens on other social media which they can get many new targets.

[davis196]

Spamming Youtube comments with a bot is the laziest scam of all scams.
I guess that this scam still works,since the scammers keep doing it.Perhaps Youtube will develop an algorithm that will track and delete all those bot comments saying "This guy is legit,he helped me make a lot of money.Check his Telegram,Instagram,Whatsapp,bla bla" I'm sure that Youtube has the capability to fight spam and scams on their platform,but for some reason,they simply don't care.
I wonder what kind of people would be so naive to trust this BS?

[Lorence.xD]

it's scam and that message was coming from the scammers. there are so many bots on twitter and that's an old trick that being used by the scammers.
Your last point seems true if the scammers will get in touch with you directly through your contact.

The scammers will be spamming the same messages anywhere.

The messages are coming from a real person in Youtube comment sections, the bot there is much trickier because they mimic the responses of real people. The best that you can do about these bots and scammers is ignoring them as this will ensure that you will not get baited into their scheme and them ending up catching no gullible people to scam.

[DeadCoin]

 Personally, not all visible video on Youtube about Bitcoin is a scam, I mean, we need to take care to select, my opinion, right here it seems real has a scammer which is manipulated to those people that have a strong influence inside the web, but the fact, it is controlled by the property of moderator to delete all unknown programs towards to secure anytime to prevent damage their own license. Because for me I also know a lot thru videos and it is also suitable to search to all website about Bitcoin which is my habit to learn something.

[XZERO1]

Could it be any more obvious?

They're certainly not trying that hard by spamming every comment section on YouTube to help you make money, comments like that at the very best are shilling their referral links or at the worst are a link to a phishing website which will steal sensitive information or it's just a link to some scam website which will eventually run away with your money if not at first.

Just ignore any kind of comment that includes advertisements to a different YouTube channel or some random website.

[Awalt541]

Its totally scam. Never send your money to their wallet, even if you want to test for small value, please dont! cause your mone will be lost.
usually it's happened by their set up and campaign on ads of youtube via google ads. It's more creepy, those hacker possible to control(hacking ) account verified or has lots of subscribe.

[Genemind]

This kind of posts comments with threads, messages, feedbacks, or referrals should be ignored when you are watching youtube or even reading through social media posts. Most scammers are roaming around this platform, victimizing newbies who have no idea about cryptocurrency and how scam schemes work in crypto.

[imstillthebest]

This is not all bitcoin related, if you visit any money related content you will see pretty much similar scams happen there too.  

legit . ive been checking money making vids , pages , groups before and what the op saw in the coments on video that he watch are also all there but they dont use the name bitcoin because there are still no bitcoin that time , they use the name of the payment method that is been in the topic .

on our time now, its the crypto and btc are now popular and they started using this names .

 what only pisses me is that they destroy the name of bitcoin and the popular wallet that im also using because they also include it as proof

[aarif123]

As far as I know some comments are done by bot some are paid comments I have also seen so many comments where person are promoting cryptocurrency exchange but they are all scam

[LogitechMouse]

Not uncommon as I see this already on different social media platforms already. It isn't only been seen on Youtube but also in Facebook and Twitter.

If you are a newbie then you will easily fell into this kind of traps. If you are here for quite some time then you know already that this is a common way of scamming investors. There is nothing we can do about it and after all, investors will not learn if they will not experience it the hard way . I've seen most of this type of comments on Youtube since I'm spending most of my time there and I just simply ignore them.