Quote from: calchuchesta on Today at 03:54:12 PM

I have been watching this phenomena happen for almost 2 years now. What they do is that they hack someone's channel with a decent amount of subscribers, ideally channels with a verified badge to make it more legit. Then they change the name, the avatar, and delete all previous videos, then they start running a loop of videos of interviews, usually assorted scammers such as Vitalik Butterin, Charles whatever (the guy from Cardano), the guy from LINK... all these shitcoins. They also use notorious Bitcoin bulls like the guy from Microstrategy. They run live streams with addresses where you send money and double your money, a giveaway, or the classic scam routine. These guys are making a ton of money given the amount of views and channels they manage to hack. They even use Elon Musk:

Has Youtube given up on trying to fix this madness? I know that Youtube is going to force 2fa on all creators starting November so that's the only hope to see these scams go down in numbers, but im afraid 2fa will not be enough.

Youtube became a sh*tshow years ago when they decided to remove all manual moderation and replace it with algorithm technology, of course this was done to save them money from having the staff to manually review things. People need to learn not to blindly trust social media and that is true every single day, it happened on Twitter as well - so-called celebrities in the past had accounts hacked and requested money sent to a certain address for these "doubler" scams. Greedy people think it must be true, when even a single shred of common sense should tell them it is a lie. In a way, I have little sympathy for those who jump on these "offers" when they should know better, but I do agree that providers like Youtube do nowhere near enough to police the content on their websites.