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I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile

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Re: I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile

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I find this partially interesting but mostly lucky.

I don't see this hack raking a lot of dollaroos. "stealing" someone's account would be far more dangerous. That said I'm surprised that Patreon will just let people recycle accounts like this without even a second step.

This is no different than DNS parking after a domain fell off the wagon, only with direct revenues.

Re: I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile

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please submit this to HITB white papers - https://twitter.com/HITBMedia/status/1359324451976843267

ps: you should consider automating the process.

a bot that: 1. scraps all pateron links 2. check if they are dead to claim them 3. of a famous channel 4. profit $$$

Re: I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile

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I'm not a lawyer but I got lawyer-nervous reading this post.

That’s because it’s fraud.

Nah. It's not fraud if they don't get any benefit from it. Since they refunded the single, solitary person who pledged $3/month, then shut it all down, it's all good from the fraud angle.
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