{"id":14109,"date":"2022-09-08T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/08\/tens-of-thousands-of-viewers-watched-a-fake-apple-crypto-scam-on-youtube\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:39:03","slug":"tens-of-thousands-of-viewers-watched-a-fake-apple-crypto-scam-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/08\/tens-of-thousands-of-viewers-watched-a-fake-apple-crypto-scam-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of viewers watched a fake Apple crypto scam on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23342120\/apple-fake-youtube-live-stream-crypto-scam\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23342120\/apple-fake-youtube-live-stream-crypto-scam<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"77.589507266927\">\n<p id=\"HCA4bR\">Someone on YouTube was live streaming an old interview with Tim Cook that was seemingly being used to attract attention to a crypto scam \u2014 and when it was live, tens of thousands of viewers were tuning.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1qNWTU\">If you\u2019ve seen crypto scams on YouTube before, you would have recognized a lot of hallmarks of what was going on. The fake live stream was getting attention by filling its description with an array of Apple keywords in both the title and description. But when you actually opened it up, it was filled with odd messages linking to a shady-looking crypto site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"15q56W\"><q>\u201cApple Crypto Event 2022\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"gdLEzh\">The stream had plenty of signs of being fake. It had a strange title \u2014 \u201cApple Event Live. Ceo of Apple Tim Cook: Apple &#038; Metaverse in 2022.\u201d \u2014 and it\u2019s was showing an old interview that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4IQStrUnUKM\">CNN conducted with Cook in 2018<\/a>. The streamer added the Bitcoin and Ethereum logos to the video stream, covered the <em>CNN Money<\/em> logo with the text \u201cApple Crypto Event 2022,\u201d and added bold text reading \u201cURGENT NEWS\u201d at the bottom. And if you actually clicked into the channel\u2019s page (which claimed to be \u201cApple LIVE\u201d), the URL didn\u2019t have anything to do with Apple. That could suggest the channel had a different purpose at one point but was hijacked by bad actors and used to host the stream.<\/p>\n<p id=\"l8FWi5\">YouTube didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. Shortly after this story was published, the stream was removed for violating YouTube\u2019s terms of service. <\/p>\n<p id=\"oVI1Nl\">While the bogus live stream clearly wasn\u2019t actually from Apple, it was happening when as a major spotlight is on the company. Apple streamed its big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23341046\/apple-iphone-14-plus-pro-max-notch-event-announcements-watch-8-se-ultra-airpods-pro\">iPhone 14 announcement event<\/a> hours ago, and CEO Tim Cook is currently being interviewed at Vox Media\u2019s Code conference this evening. This misleading stream seemed to be an attempt to trick people who may be aware that Apple is having a big day but not know exactly what\u2019s going on. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"yivrdW\"><q>The stream was recommended on my YouTube homepage<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"cdBEoC\">I came upon this stream because it was recommended on my YouTube homepage \u2014 that might have been in part because I\u2019ve been watching Apple videos from the event throughout the day. When I first started watching the fake stream, there were around 16K viewers, and right before first publishing this story, that count was nearly 70K.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zoOyXb\"><em>The Verge<\/em> also found a live stream on a separate (and also sketchy) channel claiming it was \u201cApple Inc\u201d [sic]. The stream purported to be an event featuring Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk about Apple and the metaverse, but it was actually repurposing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zwx_7XAJ3p0\">an interview about Bitcoin<\/a> with Musk and Block leader Jack Dorsey. It saw stream numbers reach above 10,000 viewers, and also linked to a sketchy-looking crypto site in the chat. It has also been removed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LLSYhL\"><em><strong>Update September 7th, 10:54PM ET<\/strong><\/em><em>: YouTube has removed the live streams.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23342120\/apple-fake-youtube-live-stream-crypto-scam\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23342120\/apple-fake-youtube-live-stream-crypto-scam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Someone on YouTube was live streaming an old interview with Tim Cook that was seemingly being used to attract attention to a crypto scam \u2014 and when it was live, tens of thousands of viewers were tuning. If you\u2019ve seen crypto scams on YouTube before, you would have recognized a lot of hallmarks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-14109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-technology","tag-apple"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tens of thousands of viewers watched a fake Apple crypto scam on YouTube - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/08\/tens-of-thousands-of-viewers-watched-a-fake-apple-crypto-scam-on-youtube\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tens of thousands of viewers watched a fake Apple crypto scam on YouTube - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Someone on YouTube was live streaming an old interview with Tim Cook that was seemingly being used to attract attention to a crypto scam \u2014 and when it was live, tens of thousands of viewers were tuning. 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