Fake Tesla YouTube live with crypto doubling scam all over YouTube

4 points by VikingCoder 2y ago ↗ HN

161,664 people are watching right now on this one fake channel, and the stream is showing a deepfake Musk announcing a doubling of any Bitcoin or Ethereum you send him, with a QR Code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygUltE1bctM

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VikingCoder 2y ago ↗

https://imgur.com/a/M3mE9CJ

To be as clear as possible, this is an obvious scam.

VikingCoder 2y ago ↗

Oh wow, it's not even the real Tesla channel... How does it have so many subscribers?!?

This is one of the fake ones:

https://www.youtube.com/@tesla.elonstream/videos

davidbarker 2y ago ↗

I think this is the real one:

https://www.youtube.com/@tesla

VikingCoder 2y ago ↗

There's a storm of these right now:

https://imgur.com/a/YHSuh54

yaz00n 2y ago ↗

the fact that it hasnt been taken down in 2 hours makes me think insiders are deliberately doing this, either from tesla or youtube, what a total shame

fragmede 2y ago ↗

you're not seeing the ones that have been taken down though.

mashlol 2y ago ↗

I just saw this on my YouTube - still hasn't been stopped. I'm sure a _lot_ of people have sent money to this crypto as it's certainly quite convincing to the non-tech audience.

Why isn't this bigger news?