New Youtube Scam in Action

[jackg]

I've seen exchanges that push their client's orders through other exchanges offer their own token too which might be a scam in itself (or just wishful thinking by the exchange). It's probably more scam if it's done without offering a market for the token or some sort of buyback.


I don't think this is a new scam trend though - just don't click links and type domains out where you can or search for them in multiple search engines (after scrolling past ads).

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[sheenshane]

I clicked it and it seems you are redirected to the exchange site which asks to connect your wallet.
One thing that I wanted to know, is that Youtuber is popular that has many subscribers? Do you think it is worth listening to him?

the number of his subscriber does not matter what matters is his credibility. if that YouTuber posted scam links, there is no point in listening to him. he lost his credibility and listening to him would just put you at risk of getting scammed and if I were you I would report the channel for trying to scam people.

Known streamers that have many subscribers might don't do this, if they do, it will surely many of those subscribers will leave the channel and lose the YouTuber's credibility.  So might those unknown YouTubers who will create content like this just to scam naive people who didn't know that they're in the trap of a scammer.  This isn't new, I heard before people have been scammed because of a Youtube streamer who posted a phishing link which is the account was been hacked. 

So we must be careful about everything that we saw on social media and verify first before believing them.
Don't click anything, especially those related the financial advice.

[libert19]

0 likes, 3 views, what do you expect?

[lovesmayfamilis]

0 likes, 3 views, what do you expect?

I really don't understand why this is posted here. You can begin to suspect the OP of cooperation. Is it not clear to everyone why different videos are created on YouTube? Are there really naive people who still believe that people will spend their time telling the world how to get rich? If one of these naive people hopes to quickly increase their capital, then YouTubers are exactly the same people. All this is done with only one goal in mind. And the goal is personal enrichment, not altruistic motives.

[aysg76]

There are sometimes these fake shillers involved in these scams as putting links under the video and will tell you to go to this site through the link and they will get some free tokens or invite codes like shit and then whosoever is trusting them fall under the trap losing their money from their own wallets.

Or sometimes hackers swap the link with the fake one directing you to thier site or injecting malware in your system taking access of your wallets but it don't seems to be the case with this one particularly as they attack some famous one only to find more victims but there is always advice not to click on links then why in the hell we do it? To earn some free tokens worth nothing and losing your own funds also?

[cheezcarls]

Nothing new to me. I always do my due diligence by verifying it to the real admins of a certain project in their respective official social media channels like Telegram, Twitter, Discord, etc.

It’s just that newbies and beginners are more prone to this as they are focusing on the video alone rather than checking the Youtube description first.

However, if the links are cloaked with URL shorteners like bit.ly, I wouldn’t still bother clicking it as I am going to manually verify it to the admins of the project’s official social media channels.

[isaac_clarke22]

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I never even saw the video or I could have just used the wrong keyword.

Regardless even if famous Youtubers that I sometimes watch posted a crypto link, I would not buy it anyway. Youtubers/streamers are not your friends and you should not always trust just because they are popular. I believe there was even fake Elon Musk pages popping up before when he was still like a burning news here in crypto.

[Issa56]

When anybody tells you anything on social media not only on YouTube make sure you verify the post and incase if you are provided with a link make sure you verify if the link is the original one, mostly I do watch videos on YouTube but i don't follow anylink provided. Seriously the trick is cheap but most people won't believe things like this can happen, most people after watching video, they will just click on the link provided and they won't care to verify the link provided, I think is high time we have to be very careful, am sure lot's of people will have fallen for the scam and people will still fall for it, so let's try and share this scam format that's being used by scammers.