Could this Live Bitcoin giveaway be true?

[Cookdata]

How is this possible? I have never seen anything like this with a normal brain. This is a scam trap. You cannot fall into it, and those who do will lose their money. We should ignore it as soon as possible and report the video posted on YouTube. I have already reported it.

This is the first time I have seen about Bitcoin on his YouTube channel. Moreover, the other posts are not about Bitcoin. They did this to scam. No one should fall into this scam; everyone should be careful. If you fall into this scam, you will lose your money without anyone knowing it, so be careful.

Anyone that has been into crypto for long knows that this is not new, it's obvious a scam and it wasn't the first time we have seen such type of scams. These scammers just follow the trend and do their rubbish stream on YouTube because the CEO doesn't give a damn about how people lose money, it has even reduced. Back to then, it started with when Elon Musk started supporting Bitcoin, they used that for long, they switch to impersonating Twitter influcers and hacking there handles to do "send X amount of Bitcoin to get Y amount of Bitcoin"

Nowadays, X is not fun again. You will see someone with problem of wallet and looking for solution, if you check the comment section or trying to help the person, you will see that the comments has been spammed with scammers claiming to be agents and supports of the wallets in particular, sadly X isn't doing anything to ban this bots accounts.

[Wiwo]

It doesn't matter wetheror not this offers is coming from a well known company or not, the major red flag is the high profits margin in this offer, any one that promises you %200 profits within a short period of time, is probably going scam you because on ponzi Promises such profits.

I think you should discard this offer unless you want to end up becoming a victims pf the scam.

[South Park]

It doesn't matter wetheror not this offers is coming from a well known company or not, the major red flag is the high profits margin in this offer, any one that promises you %200 profits within a short period of time, is probably going scam you because on ponzi Promises such profits.

I think you should discard this offer unless you want to end up becoming a victims pf the scam.

Not that long ago I read an article that claims the newest generation is not really aware of the dangers the internet can entail for them, something that is incredibly surprising to me, as they are glued to their phone all day and they interact more with it than any other generation, so even if it is repetitive we need to keep warning people about dangers like this, because even if it is incredibly obvious to us that this is a scam, many other people cannot see it and they will be scammed if they come across such videos or threads.

[Rruchi man]

@Rruchi man
The person that uploaded the video has removed it. Although, I also reported the video and I think many people among us also reported the video. YouTube sent me message and in the message, they said they will take appropriate action. After the message was sent to me, I went back to check the video but it has been removed by the uploader. I do not know what kind of happened there but good that the video has been removed.

I am concerned because this will not be a one-time thing by these scammers; they may have taken the video down and will maybe make some adjustments before looking for another day to cast their nets again.

Not that long ago I read an article that claims the newest generation is not really aware of the dangers the internet can entail for them, something that is incredibly surprising to me, as they are glued to their phone all day and they interact more with it than any other generation, so even if it is repetitive we need to keep warning people about dangers like this, because even if it is incredibly obvious to us that this is a scam, many other people cannot see it and they will be scammed if they come across such videos or threads.

The scams are repetitive; the methods and strategy are just constantly rebranded to fool people who are not smart enough. There are also others who believe that scammers cannot go to these lengths or use sophisticated methods to create a faking video.

Just as you have said, @South Park, we need to keep warning people around us.

[Princess Leah]

Hmm, How stupid approach to scam people, if they are using this that indicates it's working somewhere and it's disappointing that after the availability of information to this extent people are still getting scammed.

And that is the sad part, it's already 2024, and still people are falling for it. We have seen this kind of attempts or attacks many times already and have been warned newbies as well. But I guess there will be no scammers if there are no victims.

So it means that there are still people who falls for this trap and so it's going to continue, unfortunately. But we should continue to give them warning in this community like this thread and for sure there are newbies, maybe registered or not registered that might read it and see our comments. Self awareness is still the key for us to not be the next statistics and lose money to this criminals.

I don't blame most people who are victims to scam, some are due to ignorance,  though I know their are people who's greed led them to be victimised, scammers are very smart and intelligent people and as things changes that's the same way they update their schemes and mode of operation, therefore everyone out there needs to be generally informed especially about things on the media and in the crypto space.

 These scammers are aware that Saylor is a big whale and lots of ignorant and greedy people that are so eager to own free bitcoin without the normal process which is buying and holding would fall victim, so they come with such scheme and feed on some peoples desperation to own free bitcoin, funny enough it works cause due to desperation, ignorance and greed since lots of people out their fail to carry out research about the info or go to Saylors official social media handles to confirm whether the information is real or not.

[DaNNy001]

Scammers will never rest.
This is their mode of operation.

Michael Saylor will never do any giveaway. The man wants to accumulate more bitcoin and not give any away to charity. If he wanted to do such charity he'd send it to his favorite charity organization. I think I saw something like that somewhere.

As for this, it is a scam. But you know what those who are greedy will be the victim. They will later create a topic of how they were scammed.

Humans themselves with greed will never also learn because they always feel to urge to get something free or looks free. I have a motto which is if its too good to be  true then its probably not because if you know Micheal Saylor very well then you would know that man is probably the last person to sell or temper with his bitcoin holdings. And funny enough many would fall victim of the scam although not certain of the means but for sure this is definitely scammers work.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

Who is watching this Fake Michael Saylor live crypto giveaway event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc

The offers are too good to be true; I feel it is AI-generated.

Promising double in five minutes of whatever amount in bitcoin or Ethereum that you send to an address that is on a website that you can access by scanning a QR code.

Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.

This is one of the tricks of fraudsters to deceive people. Everyone should be careful so that no one falls victim to such fraud. I entered the YouTube video link but the YouTube video has been removed there. Those who have never fallen victim to such fraud before are likely to fall for it, so beginners must be very careful because they may send money there in the greed of getting money. It should always be remembered that no one will ever give anything for free, whenever someone wants to give something for free, then it must be understood that there must be some problem here.

Thank you very much for bringing this important issue to the fore. Maybe this post will alert the entire Bitcoin community.

[PX-Z]

It has only one obvious answer, no. Why would anyone on their descent mind to giveaway such amounts (doubled bitcoin), where do they get that money to do the giveaway? Of course, its too good to be true, so better to report that video on youtube to avoid newbie getting victimized.

[adultcrypto]

This is an old scam pattern that have just been rebranded to capture the latest big name in the industry. I still remember those days they were hacking the Twitter (X) accounts of popular figures and asking people to send cryptocurrency to receive double. Many people fell for those scams those days until people became aware of those tricks and it phased away. Now they have came back with another format, probably using AI to make it look real. Such a shame that some people will still fall for this, probably due to greed. "Anything that sounds so good to be true, probably isn't"

[Strongkored]

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Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.

I have seen this kind of thing even when Bitcoin was not as famous as it is now, but at that time the website did pay and stopped when no more users made deposits.
A few years ago, even Elon Musk's name was used to scam with the same system but not Bitcoin if I'm not mistaken Ethereum or Dogecoin.
I agree this is aimed for newbies in crypto because they are inexperienced and only think about how to increase their assets, and using the name of a famous person and also someone involved in crypto makes it look legit and newbies will get caught in it

[Darker45]

It couldn't be true, of course.

Anyway, I checked the address posted by the scammer, the Bitcoin address at least. There were a total of 6 deposits. All made on the 17th. That's the day the video was live, right? The largest deposit was 0.1BTC and the smallest was 0.00012424BTC. So, the deposits range from a few dollars to thousands. I didn't check the deposits made on the Ethereum address.

I can only hope that nobody fell to that scam, but something in me tells me there might have some.

[seoincorporation]

The problem here is how youtube allow this kind of scams, when they take it down it's too late, a lot of users already get scammed with it because the attackers promote these videos and youtube shares it with the users.

If you go to youtube and search for bitcoin giveaway and filter by live, you will find the scams live, simple as that.

[LogitechMouse]

Who is watching this Fake Michael Saylor live crypto giveaway event?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHD3YYDZpyc

The offers are too good to be true; I feel it is AI-generated.

Promising double in five minutes of whatever amount in bitcoin or Ethereum that you send to an address that is on a website that you can access by scanning a QR code.
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Scammers have used the same methods before to steal bitcoin many times, targeting new crypto users, tempting them with these offers, and putting them under pressure that the offer is time-sensitive.

And... they're active again. More active than 2 years ago. They know that the bull run is happening already and because of this, many newbies are wanting to make money in the crypto space hence, investing into crypto. They're the ones that are the most vulnerable when it comes to this kind of scamming attempts.

For me, it's a cheap way of scamming people, but it works and it's because there will always be newbies out there that will fall into this kind of trick. Now the video has been taken down already, but if we've been into crypto for quite some, we will notice that this is not true. Now with the emergence of AI, these scammers will utilize it to make way more attractive videos just to scam these newbies.

Scammers are using the same methods because they see that it works. They're just evolving and using better ways to scam people. Just think of this quote. "If it's too good to be true, it's not true."

[jcojci]

Anyone that wants to invest or get involved in crypto should do one thing immediately after learning about crypto. That is searching about how to avoid crypto scammers and hackers. People that will send the money are those that have not learned how to avoid scammers and hackers before. I remember when I know about cryptocurrencies, I saw this as one of the scammers way of stealing money from people using Elon Musk deep fake video for it also on YouTube.

So they must leave that offers and never take a look back because that can make their minds tell to them to try. Research will be the answer to find if that is real or fake so people should not lazy to research because that will be their own good to stay away from the scam. I already get in a scam in the past and the scammer using the similar way like that and yes, I lost my money so I consider that is my worth lesson and will not doing the same.

[Ultegra134]

It couldn't be true, of course.

Anyway, I checked the address posted by the scammer, the Bitcoin address at least. There were a total of 6 deposits. All made on the 17th. That's the day the video was live, right? The largest deposit was 0.1BTC and the smallest was 0.00012424BTC. So, the deposits range from a few dollars to thousands. I didn't check the deposits made on the Ethereum address.

I can only hope that nobody fell to that scam, but something in me tells me there might have some.

Wow, that's a decent sum of money for such a petty scam. Unfortunately, it's extremely likely that these 6 deposits were actual victims and not transactions of the scammer himself. On the positive side, the video has been taken down, however, the damage has already been done, AI has become way too advanced in such a short timeframe that it's already producing realistic content, imagine its capabilities in the next few years. This isn't a new scam, nor is it cryptocurrency related, a few weeks ago I remember reading a similar story on the forum about an elderly woman falling victim of an AI generated video of New Zealand's prime minister.

I could understand why an elderly person could fall a victim to such a scam, however, those who are involved in cryptocurrencies are usually a little more cautious and knowledgeable about internet scams.

[FortuneFollower]

The problem here is how youtube allow this kind of scams, when they take it down it's too late, a lot of users already get scammed with it because the attackers promote these videos and youtube shares it with the users.

If you go to youtube and search for bitcoin giveaway and filter by live, you will find the scams live, simple as that.

Not in a single universe a person would give their BTC away currently.
So I agree - simply skip such events.

[Pmalek]

I don't even need to think about it before answering that it's a scam attempt. If MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor wanted to do a giveaway for some reason, information about that would be available in advance on their official channels and websites. It wouldn't just appear out of the blue on YouTube or any other social media. Crypto doubler scams have been around for may years. The only thing that's changing is the person they are impersonating.

[Kelward]

I don't even need to think about it before answering that it's a scam attempt. If MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor wanted to do a giveaway for some reason, information about that would be available in advance on their official channels and websites. It wouldn't just appear out of the blue on YouTube or any other social media. Crypto doubler scams have been around for may years. The only thing that's changing is the person they are impersonating.

Anybody that is coming into the crypto space without any experience might most likely fall for this cheap scam, they can get greedy and want to make fast money, only to lose their hard earned money to the scammers. We that have experience in the crypto space will easily know from a glance that it's from scammers, it's an old trick that ignorant people always falls for. Michael Saylor, and Microstrategy, will not do such a giveaway instantly and unannounced, they will surely promote the giveaway from their original source. Scammers are not relenting in their schemes to steal from people, that is why being informed about different tactics of scams is very important.

[fikrett]

I don't even need to think about it before answering that it's a scam attempt. If MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor wanted to do a giveaway for some reason, information about that would be available in advance on their official channels and websites. It wouldn't just appear out of the blue on YouTube or any other social media. Crypto doubler scams have been around for may years. The only thing that's changing is the person they are impersonating.

Yep. Probably due to Saylor being at the helm of some bullish BTC-related news, he was chosen as the person to impersonate.
Makes sense.

[Lucius]

Could this Live Bitcoin giveaway be true?

I don't know why you even ask such a question when the answer is completely clear to anyone with even a little brain in their head. In addition, such videos with so-called "celebrities" have existed for years, this is one of the benefits of artificial intelligence. Fortunately, this kind of cheap scam is very easy to spot, but over time, as AI progresses, it will be difficult to distinguish whether it is a real person or artificial intelligence.

I don't know why all these platforms don't deal more with suppressing such scam attempts - if scammers use AI, why not use it against them in such a way that videos like this are detected and removed as quickly as possible, and accounts are banned.