All articles tagged with #crypto scams
Apple Calendar spam, mainly involving cryptocurrency scams, is increasing again, bypassing email filters and causing inconvenience for users. Despite previous efforts and Apple’s measures, spammers continue to send malicious calendar invitations, with some users receiving multiple in recent days. Apple has provided some solutions, but they are not comprehensive, and the problem persists.
Two MoonPay executives reportedly lost $250,000 worth of Ethereum in a scam involving a fake donation to Trump's inauguration, highlighting that even crypto industry insiders can fall victim to scams. The DOJ investigation suggests the scammer used a fake email impersonating a Trump Inaugural Committee member, and the funds were potentially laundered through multiple crypto addresses.
A Bloomberg reporter investigating the crypto bubble received a flirtatious text message from a woman named Vicky Ho, who turned out to be involved in a crypto scam called "pig butchering." As the reporter delved deeper, they discovered that Vicky and others like her were likely victims of human trafficking, forced into a criminal racket orchestrated by Chinese gangsters in Southeast Asia. Thousands of people are held captive in office towers, sending spam messages under threat of torture or death. The victims of these scams have lost billions of dollars, with Tether being a commonly used coin. The reporter concludes that cryptocurrency plays a significant role in enabling this slave complex to exist.
Linus Tech Tips, a popular tech YouTube channel owned by Linus Media Group, was hacked by crypto scammers who ran several livestreams centered around Elon Musk and Bitcoin, while making private videos public and deleting a vast amount of popular videos on the channel. The scammers urged viewers to send cryptocurrency, ultimately resulting in the channel's deletion. Other Linus Media Group channels were also affected.
The popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos for crypto scams instead of tech hardware reviews. This is the latest in a series of high-profile YouTube accounts being hacked, with scammers regularly gaining access to prominent accounts to rename them and livestream crypto scam videos. It’s not immediately clear how the channels have been breached, but owner Linus Sebastian tweeted that he was aware of the situation and the company is working on it with Google. YouTube could do more to prevent the damaging effects of these scams, such as implementing a lockdown mode for high-profile accounts and a guardian system for channel actions.
Linus Tech Tips, a popular YouTube channel with over 15 million followers, was hacked by crypto scammers who used it to run Bitcoin ads. The account has now been terminated, and it's unclear whether YouTube staff or the hacker themselves deleted it. Other hardware accounts under the Linus media conglomerate were also hit. YouTube crypto scams are not new, and some scammers resort to impersonation instead. Linus Sebastian, the creator of the channel, seems to be taking the hacking in good humor.
YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips, with over 15 million subscribers, was hacked and taken over by crypto scammers who renamed the channel "Tesla" and started showing livestreams regarding Elon Musk and Bitcoin. The hack also affected two other channels in the Linus Media Group. This is not the first time such a breach has occurred, with phishing attacks being a common cause. YouTube needs to provide more tools to protect creators, such as a "guardian system" that requires approval from a second account to make major changes to a channel.