YouTube crypto giveaway scams

Post by stordoff » Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 5:50 AM UTC

Qub3d wrote: post #57

roenxi wrote: post #38

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Indeed. But this site is probably a pretty typical example of the scam: https://msnews.io/#rules I like their calculator. Very helpful.

Holy shit. Try opening Dev tools (F12); it redirects you immediately to some random minecraft YouTube video. They do NOT want people digging into the site, haha.

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Post by charcircuit » Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 6:03 AM UTC

tjpnz wrote: post #67

PullJosh wrote: post #58

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Genuine question: Does anyone here have a good sense of how easy/hard it is to moderate a platform like YouTube? My sense is that the answer is VERY HARD, so I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong. But perhaps I’m being too generous. Is this something that could be prevented if YouTube just tried harder?

YouTube could at least make it harder for scammers by not promoting streams through the algorithm or at least not showing them unless there's a subscription. I would also argue that they shouldn't just give everybody the ability to livestream at first given how many of the scammer accounts are new. That strikes me as a common sense solution. If both were implemented I suspect these sorts of scams would no longer be w…

Post by supernova87a » Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 6:08 AM UTC

hamiltonians wrote: post #89

supernova87a wrote: post #78

So, when do enough scams on people choosing to participate go from being their problem, to society's problem? And when do we all start to have to pay for this at some point? Because I have a feeling we will, even though I have no idea why.

For example, drugs have a systemic effect on society, but crypto losses generally do not, so the reluctance to crack down on crypto scams unlike other crimes. Someone sending $50k to fake Saylor is not like 50k in the pockets of narco gangs.

Post by ipaddr » Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 6:10 AM UTC

beebmam wrote: post #76

PullJosh wrote: post #58

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Genuine question: Does anyone here have a good sense of how easy/hard it is to moderate a platform like YouTube? My sense is that the answer is VERY HARD, so I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong. But perhaps I’m being too generous. Is this something that could be prevented if YouTube just tried harder?

Here's an easy solution: only allow people who have proven their identities to have videos promoted by YouTube's algorithms, so they can be held legally liable if they publish videos that break the law

Post by LaundroMat » Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 7:35 AM UTC

Aunche wrote: post #60

JCharante wrote: post #16

Lol a doubling scam. These scams have existed since MMOs began and you could trick people into giving you items/currency under false pretenses. Ironically a smart contract is probably the safest way for a customer to engage in a doubling scam.

It's hard enough for most people to read a contract written plain English. How do you expect to read one written in code?