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1 sat \ 5 replies \ @BitcoinPhishing 10 Apr 2022 \ on: YouTube is showing livestream of scammer claiming to be Saylor, sending people to this link: bitcoin

There are hundreds of these every day, at least five to ten at any one time that haven't yet been taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=saylor&sp=CAISBBABQAE%253D

Public Service Announcement: Every hour my team reports 10-15 scammer YouTube videos impersonating me or @MicroStrategy that offer free bitcoin rewards. They pop up as fast as we can have them removed. ☹️

Only trade #bitcoin on a legitimate exchange you trust.

https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1464761923908554752

And it's not just Michael Saylor that this happens to. It's also Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, Cathie Wood, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, CZ, and a dozen or so other influencers:

Youtube doesn't care. They hate bitcoin and may even relish that the "crypto" ecosystem is harmed by many Youtube users seeing these and thinking the entire "crypto" space is "scammy".

Twitter has the same problem -- bots running crypto scams. Elon Musk says that is his biggest problem with Twitter, after it having the lack of an edit button, and now that he has a seat on the board at Twitter they may start to do something about it.

And just today, he hinted that maybe Twitter has an incentive to let the bots run amuck ... as without them their metrics might show that Twitter is dying!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512802419301826575

1 sat \ 4 replies \ @BitcoinPhishing 10 Apr 2022

Here's a prior post on SN in which this topic was discussed:

HN: YouTube crypto giveaway scams are out of control #8210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952915

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @BitcoinPhishing 10 Apr 2022

And another one:

Saylor: we need an orange check program, powered by bitcoin & lightning, to combat spam, scams, & bots across all social media platforms. #10338 https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1490019056036069377

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @BitcoinPhishing 10 Apr 2022

And this post (by me) has good info:

Eradicating Giveaway Scams —No Easy And Effective Method Found https://bitcointech.medium.com/eradicating-giveaway-scams-no-easy-and-effective-method-found-3ca4d556edf

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinPhishing 10 Apr 2022

Oh look, even in early days for SN there was a post about giveaway scams:

BitcoinOrg Hacked: Giveaway Scam Promising Users to Double Their BTC #2422 https://cryptopotato.com/bitcoinorg-hacked-giveaway-scam-promising-users-to-double-their-btc/

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten OP 10 Apr 2022

Yeah, I didn't realize that this was such a common thing. I don't browse or search YouTube very often, and seldom search with such broad parameters as "Bitcoin 2022 Live", so I don't normally catch scammy results like that, I guess.

I was really surprised that the live stream remained up for hours even after I reported it. Still learning new things every day.