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by mschuster91 1028 days ago
Urgh, yes. YouTuber HeavyDSparks has had a long running scammer campaign against him with people naming themselves with unicode characters of numbers in circles and posting "Whatsapp me" replies to legit comments. That even someone like him with > 3M subscribers can't seem to get ahold of a YouTube CSR who can raise an issue with backend/anti-fraud developers to check for accounts using this pattern is mind-boggling and only speaks for the dysfunctionality of Google today.