Scam operations using YouTube comments!

[libert19]

This is pretty much same as discord/telegram where two people would talk nice about 'investment' opportunity to lure you into it.

These conversations would eventually lead to mention of some name and contact details (burner numbers and emails).

Here is an example, I'm not able to copy comment link so here are few screen captures,




Taken from of this video: https://youtu.be/FzcfZyEhOoI


It's SCAM, stay away from this.

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[Rikafip]

Petty much the same thing can be seen on the Facebook. Even though it looks obviously fake, to those that are new this looks completely legit and will probably falls forever that realistically weak shill attempt. But if scammers can count on anything, that's constant influx of new people coming to crypto, especially now in this bull market.

[Coyster]

It's SCAM, stay away from this.

Of course it's scam, it's prolly only people looking for 'expert' traders and investors to guide them in their trade and give them trading signals that will be victims of this, it's very easy for one to pose as an expert, or for a chain of scammers to recommend some fake experts to you, all just to convince and in the end rip your money from you.

People who are desperate to get rich quick will also be allured by fake conversations such as this too, I think the panacea to most of this petty scams is for people to first of all correct the misconception they have that Bitcoin is a "get rich quick thing".

[sheenshane]

Yep! Not only on Youtube that scammers waiting to have a victim, but they are also everywhere on social media that can create hundreds of dummies account just to fool innocent and naive people, such as, Telegram, Twitter, Discord, or even in Facebook.  I always have seen this in a group or a company name that related to cryptocurrency.  For example, the image that I'd shared below.

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This is a very common scenario when the Bitcoin price goes up, just ignore them to avoid a possible scam.  I even got a message from random people often who I don't know offering a trading service and making sweet promises of having a profit x times folds of what I have invested.

[batang_bitcoin]

Yes, they are obvious scams. I can see them mostly in crypto related videos and they're not just in YT but also in social medias where they post in almost every popular pages and posts whether they're related to crypto or not. I'm sure that these websites know about the existence of these spams but they do nothing about eliminating it but that's why they also have a report feature which we can do to at least lessen their existence but it's hard to tell when they'll completely stop.

[acroman08]

reading through the comments it a little scary that it actually looks like a normal conversation between people. an unsuspecting person could actually fall for it and the saddest part here is youtube won't delete the posts even if you reported it to them.

Petty much the same thing can be seen on the Facebook. Even though it looks obviously fake, to those that are new this looks completely legit and will probably falls forever that realistically weak shill attempt. But if scammers can count on anything, that's constant influx of new people coming to crypto, especially now in this bull market.

yep, pretty much the same. but I must say compared to how the ones on Facebook this one looks like a lot more of a legitimate conversation between people. if this kind of practice where it looks like a normal conversation is widely spread on youtube I wouldn't be surprised if someone falls for it.

[BIT-BENDER]

Is You Tube a trading site that should be the question -Newbies- should throw at themselves, the total stranger you sent your fund to trade for you, is as good in trading as only what they say they are or want you to believe they are and many times not what they are actually. Don't ponder on it. Statically sending funds for trading to w trader you know about on YouTube or social media will bare you open to scam.

[BevNation]

Is You Tube a trading site that should be the question -Newbies- should throw at themselves, the total stranger you sent your fund to trade for you, is as good in trading as only what they say they are or want you to believe they are and many times not what they are actually. Don't ponder on it. Statically sending funds for trading to w trader you know about on YouTube or social media will bare you open to scam.

YouTube might not be a trading site per say but, its use isn't limited to just watching videos. It can also serve in actual, the purpose for which scammers are exploiting it for but the thing is, you've got to be aware of these scam tricks and when you see it being thrown at you, you quickly logoff as in, end the conversation with such user. They can only lead you to your doom.

[Oceat]

Yep! Not only on Youtube that scammers waiting to have a victim, but they are also everywhere on social media that can create hundreds of dummies account just to fool innocent and naive people, such as, Telegram, Twitter, Discord, or even in Facebook.  I always have seen this in a group or a company name that related to cryptocurrency.  For example, the image that I'd shared below.

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This is a very common scenario when the Bitcoin price goes up, just ignore them to avoid a possible scam.  I even got a message from random people often who I don't know offering a trading service and making sweet promises of having a profit x times folds of what I have invested.

I've seen similar comments like this in other social media and it looks like appealing because the two are like talking professionally but in reality this is a trap or a way to lure an unknowledgeable newbies to enter within their conversation as if they really care but ends up passing you to someone who's actually a scammer.

Beware with this kind of comments, once you read a too good to be true stuff from them that's the sign that it's not real. There's no way someone could make $7k profit out from $1k investment in just a short amount of time, although the OP did not mentioned of how much time did it take to gain such profit, it could be years. Even a good traders doesn't always win such big profit for a short time.

[lalabotax]

It is not surprising because it is one of the classic scam ways in social media. They are trying to show people that it is really legit advice, sometimes they use many fake social media accounts to give positive comments there supporting the scam offers. Well, for beginners, may be possible to trap with this scam way but for experienced people, they won't.

[Rengga Jati]

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It is very easy to make this kind of comments and replies, this is just what scammers do, creating as many fake accounts or probably bits to follow the channel and then make certain very legit comments about it,
Be careful with this kind of scam.
Newcomers in the crypto world may be easy enough to deceive, moreover, they look at the comments like real ones.
However, if we can analyze more, we can track and know the accounts are fake and maybe only actives in some certain channels.

And, we must also feel curious and strange if there is a very easy way to get profits, get rich, and also many good comments in every time posting or streaming. It is better to avoid this kind of investment.

[Kittygalore]

Some of these comments are just bots, they are aimed to capture more victims. The only way that this people can't get any victims is to ignore the links that the bots are going to comment on the comment section of Youtube, it is a fairly easy way to prevent yourself from falling to a sure scam. Most bots that have this are always pointing out to the same person but they always use a stolen identity so be careful with that too. If you think that the comment is too generic to be coming from a real person then best is to ignore the links they provide or the comment.

[bittraffic]

As terrible as it may sound, unsuspecting newbies who legitimately wanted to earn money will fall for this. When a name is dropped like Micheal Felix whoever he is and then somebody vouched for him, it will sound good already for the new investor especially from twitter or facebook who doesn't know how to own BTC. They will become creative if they can't find a victim.

[TheUltraElite]

These are bot accounts created with the sole purpose of drawing newbies to waste their money. You will see a randomly made username which looks like a proper noun and a profile pic but it will be a completely new account there.

Not just YT, but also many forums, social media comments are plagued with them. The moderators of this forum also have a daily routine of cleaning up shit like this on this forum too.

Flag those comments as Inappropriate, nothing else can be done from your side.

[plr]

I read that they are using a bot to create this kind of comments, people who love to read comments should always check if the information they are giving is correct and it's not falling into a category of Ponzi Scheme or MLM, you know one when they offer out of this world profit.

[zanezane]

Is You Tube a trading site that should be the question -Newbies- should throw at themselves, the total stranger you sent your fund to trade for you, is as good in trading as only what they say they are or want you to believe they are and many times not what they are actually. Don't ponder on it. Statically sending funds for trading to w trader you know about on YouTube or social media will bare you open to scam.

Opportunity springs on places you don't expect though, even if this is a likely scam, we can't discount the fact that it falls under that phrase. The problem here is not the scams anymore because they are prevalent and easily detectable which means you can prevent yourself from falling into one. The more serious is how there are a lot of morons that grows up to become a gullible and crybaby adult, we have to reevaluate our education curriculum in regards to financial traps and scams because there is a clearly a lacking in that sector of education received by students and in the end we cultivate a generation of gullible and scammers.

[Obito]

Opportunity springs on places you don't expect though, even if this is a likely scam, we can't discount the fact that it falls under that phrase. The problem here is not the scams anymore because they are prevalent and easily detectable which means you can prevent yourself from falling into one. The more serious is how there are a lot of morons that grows up to become a gullible and crybaby adult, we have to reevaluate our education curriculum in regards to financial traps and scams because there is a clearly a lacking in that sector of education received by students and in the end we cultivate a generation of gullible and scammers.

I like your approach on things although this is not an original idea, trying to destroy the demand to offset the influx of supply is a good tactic. With less people falling for a scam will make the scam a little less valuable overtime for the scammers. I wouldn't say that they are crybaby but they are more of a desperate ones but I agree with being gullible.