Watch out for crypto scams on youtube
 

I was just 10 min ago confronted with an ad on youtube which explained of an ethereum giveaway by Vitalik Buterin. Did some searches and found this:

https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-give...ish-on-youtube

Each of those "crypto giveaway scams" have their own youtube video page/channel (separate from the video you were intentionally watching).

To fight them, we must find those specific advert vid pages and report to Youtube.

I seen a thread on r/cardano where they seem to be fighting it well - https://www.reddit.com/r/cardano/com..._cardano_just/

Shocking how Youtube accepts/approves these scam adverts :disgust

People still fall for this? Crazy.

People still think that dating and penis enlargement are real :1orglaugh

Greed is always the best bait . . .

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Yes, I remember seeing some big youtube channels getting hacked and replaced with Brad Garlinghouse videos talking about XRP. Same thing, Get them to send crypto with promises of a big return.

Vitalik Buterin's twitter profile used to say "non-giver of ether"

somebody just took this to another level
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https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqt...3p83kkfjhx0wlh

Youtube has nothing on the crypto scams being perped on TWITTER

Youtube is worse imo

The twitter hack/scam was a 1 time thing

Youtube is allowing & approving the scams, and ignoring fraud/scam reporting (i have been reporting all of them and folllow up days/weeks later, a tiny amount are removed)

YT is disgusting right now

Agreed, seeing the same scams come up daily now.

I see.
Just started seeing paid ads for crypto giveaways, with footage of Elon Musk and the tweet saying he was giving away money.