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Youtube swamped with crypto scams again

22 points by paulpauper ↗ HN
This has been a problem for years. How have they not yet fixed this even though everyone has been talking about how bad the problem is

The usual fake Ark Livestream again. They always choose Ark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mANMN9tfXfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ooDRyFz1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvNWC03hLC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqminBKMiQ

liveark.io

tesla-future.com

teslarich.com

bitcoin collection from liveark.io (over 1.2 and counting...damn)

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1Ccsc9rTXw9duXCBDqQRLHTfH2BXmd6aSv?page=1

collection from tesla-future.com (.8 btc)

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1FPHFYbHS5CCTbtyEGfHk9MMynNeqv4Jdb

Doesn't YouTube have thousands of employees. Not a single one can shut these obvious scam down. One of them is up for 12 hours. What a joke.

As the price of BTC keeps falling the obvious benefit will mean less money for YouTube scammers.

19 comments

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slater
even funnier, that liveark site seems to have a dev tools detection script. when i try opening web dev tools, it reloads to some minecraft song youtube video...?
MerelyMortal
Maybe it's detecting a change in the window size?
LinuxBender
URLScan [1] shows the site hosted on DDoS-Guard which is a Russian company. Only ESET [2] detects as "suspicious" so the scam site is doing a good job hiding. Their javascript resources are hosted in OVH. It also appears they have many different domains on the same IP with ark in the name. [3] It seems only their DNS is hosted on CloudFlare.

[1] - https://urlscan.io/result/610d159a-1c1b-46fb-b999-d957f801ef...

[2] - https://www.virustotal.com/old-browsers/url/9b54144ea2a3413e...

[3] - https://urlscan.io/result/610d159a-1c1b-46fb-b999-d957f801ef...

paulpauper
I used the general report form. That seemed to work.
ge96
I keep reporting the fake SpaceX ones. Old live talk with Elon and Jack.
slaw
I don't work for free for Google.
ge96
Gotta tailor my algorithm
MichaelCollins
Every time I report one of these cryptobro scammer livestreams on a hijacked channel, nothing happens until many hours/days after the livestream already ended. For a company as large as Google, not having a sub-hour response time for this shit is completely inexcusable.
nells
How much do you get paid to work as a moderator for Google?
MichaelCollins
They don't do it for free, if that's what you're getting at.
ageitgey
I don't know what Google is up to, but after a year I'm still getting daily spam emails that day I won a Yeti cooler.
tech234a
I don’t see the crypto streams that often but I have noticed that the ads, especially the home feed ads, are often low quality. Among those ads, I regularly see fake MrBeast ads (including a picture of the guy’s face) offering $500, $750 or $1k. I’ve reported these multiple times but they keep showing up. I feel like they could eliminate this entire class of scam if they did a face match scan whenever an advertiser uploaded a picture for their ad.
sacrosanct
> Doesn't YouTube have thousands of employees. Not a single one can shut these obvious scam down. One of them is up for 12 hours. What a joke.

YouTube allows for some amount of spam to get through un-noticed. If they were excessively curating their platform and trimming away spam, they would be accused of censorship. It's a balancing act.

noobie07
I almost fell for it at Liveark.io. I click send on my phone ledger app, then connect my ledger to phone when it prompted for an update. The update stopped me from proceeding, I then found this website.

You are a life saver dude!

ThomasKyoto
The fact some people need to check if it’s a scam or not says a lot about crypto.

Send us 10€ and I’ll give you 20€. Even my grandma would not fall in it.