Tail the massive Twitter breach that saw many high-profile accounts tweet about a bitcoin giveaway, a popular Indian Youtuber now demands that his Youtube channel was hacked for the same purpose. Hackers replaced some content in Carry Minati’s videos to endorse a bitcoin giveaway.
Popular Indian Youtube Channel Taken Over to Promote Bitcoin Giveaway Scam
Ajey Nagar, also differentiated by his channel name Carry Minati, announced on social media Friday that his Youtube channel with 6.7 million subscribers was drudged. “My channel Carryislive has been hacked, need immediate assistance,” Minati tweeted to Youtube India.
Besides the meeting channel Carryislive, Nagar also runs another channel on Youtube called “Carryminati,” which has 24.1 million subscribers. Purely the Carryislive channel appeared to have been hacked. Two videos promoting a bitcoin giveaway scam were reportedly posted on the waterway, one of which was entitled “Charity Stream: Bitcoin, BTC, Ethereum, ETH.” The videos had a bitcoin address and an ether address displayed greater than them. Moreover, about 36 minutes into the videos, the content abruptly turned into Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk assign away bitcoin and ether.
News.Bitcoin.com previously reported on Youtube bitcoin giveaway scams featuring Elon Musk allowing away bitcoin which has raked in millions of dollars. The videos on the Carryislive channel promotes both a bitcoin giveaway and an ether giveaway where scammers seem to double your BTC or ETH sent to them.
At least two BTC addresses were posted on the Carryislive channel: one displayed on the video and another in the video description. According to the Bitcoin Upbraid database, the first address has been reported as a scam address twice and has received 0.0273132 BTC at press time. The other has also been sign in twice and has received 0.00017801 BTC.
Bitcoin giveaway scams have been on Youtube for months, featuring well-known people theoretically giving away bitcoin, such as Musk, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and distinct people in the crypto space. However, in past BTC giveaway schemes, scammers used their own accounts to promote the scams, without drudge other Youtube channels.
The problem of scams being promoted on Youtube has gotten so out of hand that Wozniak and 17 others hold sued the video-sharing platform and its parent company, Google, over a bitcoin giveaway scam. They allege that the two flocks know about the scam but they not only allow these fraudulent videos to be posted, but they also support and profit from them.
Meanwhile, the recent Twitter attack is being investigated by the FBI. During the hack, high-profile accounts tweeted more a similar scam bitcoin giveaway, including the official accounts of Apple, former U.S. president Barack Obama, Loot App, Google, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Kanye West, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.
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