YouTube terminated over 7 million channels in the third quarter of 2025, attributing the sharp increase to financial scams originating from Southeast Asia. YouTube removed 7,456,811 channels between ...

Crypto scammer hijacked the official YouTube accounts for the popular video game franchise Dota 2 on Wednesday to promote a Solana-based meme coin and orchestrate a rug pull. According to several user ...

Have you seen YouTube ads recently for a “slippage bot” that uses ChatGPT and promises to help you earn passive income with crypto? It’s a scam. And it’s ripping off a lot of people, all while using ...

It’s an all-too-familiar experience: You get a call from a “customer service agent” with frightening news — thousands of dollars in questionable charges have been linked to your account. The “agent” ...

Over the past few years, YouTube has been hit with a series of cryptocurrency scams. In 2020, the company faced at least 18 lawsuits over it.

YouTube has a big problem with scammers hijacking channels and streaming fake videos of Elon Musk in order to promote crypto scams. Credit: Marc Piasecki/Getty Images Is there any end in sight to fake ...

Pierogi from Scammer Payback on YouTube joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about scams and scambaiting. Why do scammers ask victims to buy gift cards? What are some of the biggest ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. YouTube is flooded with fake livestream accounts airing looped ...

Ripple warns that bad actors are stealing YouTube accounts and using them to impersonate the firm to shill their scams, including fake “XRP giveaways.” Fraudsters and scammers are taking advantage of ...

On May 30, 2024, the Flamengo Online YouTube channel posted a video (archived) titled, "Dana Perino Bloom CBD Gummies Really Work? ((BIG ALERT)) Dana Perino CBD - Dana Perino CBD Gummies." The same ...

Cybersecurity firm SentinelLABS has warned that malicious actors are using old, seemingly legitimate YouTube accounts to promote a crypto trading bot that hides a smart contract designed to drain ...

Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know how they make money. But that’s not the case for the Yahoo Boys, a loose collective of young men in West ...