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Scammers have hijacked three YouTube channels to display bitcoin scams impersonating Elon Musk's SpaceX channel. So far, these scams have raked in close to $150,000 in bitcoins in two days.
For years, scammers have been impersonating Elon Musk and SpaceX to perform cryptocurrency giveaways and other scams promising you significant returns if you send them a little bitcoin.
Since yesterday, three YouTube channels that were previously known as 'Juice TV,' 'Right Human,' and 'MaximSakulevich' have been hijacked and renamed to 'SpaceX Live' or 'SpaceX.'
One of these channels has 230,000 subscribers, and another has 131,000 subscribers. The legitimate SpaceX YouTube channel has 4.33 million subscribers.
All of these hijacked channels are now live streaming recordings of Elon Musk being interviewed or a SpaceX conference, and promote scams asking people to send in a small amount of Bitcoins to get double the amount back.
Fake SpaceX YouTube channel
At the time of this writing, 80,000 people are watching the live stream, and the scam has generated close to $150,000 in bitcoins since June 8th, 2020.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...channels-scam-viewers-out-of-150k-in-bitcoin/
For years, scammers have been impersonating Elon Musk and SpaceX to perform cryptocurrency giveaways and other scams promising you significant returns if you send them a little bitcoin.
Since yesterday, three YouTube channels that were previously known as 'Juice TV,' 'Right Human,' and 'MaximSakulevich' have been hijacked and renamed to 'SpaceX Live' or 'SpaceX.'
One of these channels has 230,000 subscribers, and another has 131,000 subscribers. The legitimate SpaceX YouTube channel has 4.33 million subscribers.
All of these hijacked channels are now live streaming recordings of Elon Musk being interviewed or a SpaceX conference, and promote scams asking people to send in a small amount of Bitcoins to get double the amount back.
Fake SpaceX YouTube channel
At the time of this writing, 80,000 people are watching the live stream, and the scam has generated close to $150,000 in bitcoins since June 8th, 2020.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...channels-scam-viewers-out-of-150k-in-bitcoin/
