Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by avian 2067 days ago
It's not just Twitter. Fake SpaceX "live" streams with a couple thousand viewers regularly pop-up in my YouTube recommendations. They're peddling the same kind of crypto scams.
1 comments

What they typically do is takeover an existing YouTube channel, rename/brand it so it shows up in all of the people who subscribed to the channels feeds.

It’s even more maddening that there is no way to report that a YouTube channel has been compromised, there are only report options for inappropriate content of various sorts.