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Russian YouTube Gang Stealing $1 Billion/Year With Fraudulent Crypto Livestreams
A year ago I wrote about how crypto giveaway livestream scammers on YouTube stand to earn up to $1 billion a year from fraudulent videos. It looks like…

January 2022

Youtube Crypto Giveaway Scams Stand to Earn Up to $1 Billion/Year
I don't think there is any hope of the scam going away owing to it's huge profitability, but making these posts helps raise awareness and get the videos…
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$200k stolen in 12 hours, YouTube crypto giveaway scams are out of control
Today I counted no fewer than 14 individuals doing this (based on unique Ethereum and Bitcoin addresses, address reuse, unique videos, registrar info…
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December 2021

Crypto Giveaway Scammers Probably Earn More than Ransomware
This is so out of control now fake accounts: non-verified This particular individual (s) is the dot-net scammer, discussed earlier (because it always…
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November 2021

Prolific Elon Musk Bitcoin Scammer Continues on Twitter, Thousands Stolen Everyday
Last week I did a write-up about the “.net twitter scammer” (named after its affinity for using .net domain names). The scammer continues undeterred. To…
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Better than the Mafia: Twitter crypto scamming botnet earns hundreds thousands of dollars in a few weeks
I am trying to raise awareness of a major twitter scamming botnet that has been going on for the past month. No one in the media or anywhere else is…
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October 2021

Massive Shibu Inu YouTube LiveStream Scam Network, $320k stolen
The YouTube live-stream crypto scammers are at it again, not that they have ever stopped, this time creating fake live-stream videos around the latest…
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September 2021

Better than Ransomware: YouTube Crypto Livestream Scams
If you cannot have a picnick without ants, you also cannot have crypto without scams. And although scams come and go, one particular scam which has…
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