Hi just a quick video warning you about a telegram scam that's going on on YouTube I Know this is not new. many other YouTubers have uh covered this, but I don't think I've mentioned it in various places like on Twitter and whatnot. maybe even on the community uh, tab or something. but I've never actually done a video addressing this particular scam.

Now at the moment, it is a telegram. a scam using uh telegram. uh, they impersonate the YouTube Creator in this case me I'll show you examples of how this actually works. um, a bit.

In the past it's been WhatsApp and stuff like that and this scam has actually evolved over time because it used to be just in the keyword it used to be. You know, just text and stuff like that. oh, you've won a prize, you know? and X you know, send me a WhatsApp or whatever and they put the WhatsApp number and you know, telegram me or something like that. but Us: YouTubers are you know? we started blocking keywords like WhatsApp and uh Telegram and so they had to.

The scan has actually evolved to as you can see. actually here there you go: Text me, write somebody's uh, commented on my uh dumpster Samsung cleaning robot thing. text me on telegram at Eev Underscore blog now I don't have a telegram account I don't have a WhatsApp account. Okay, so anything claiming to be telegram or Whatsapp um, not only me, but all the other electronics YouTubers you follow, it's I Think any reasonably sized channel is going to get targeted by this um, you know, scam, spam attack.

um and they look, they still you know the YouTubers uh logo here so you know and that looks like me, you know at Eev underscore blog. Okay, maybe I signed up for Telegram Donkeys years ago and I don't know, but I I don't use it? Um, certainly. So they've scored that, um, actual handle to look like legitimately like me. I have a surprise for you, right? I don't use these wing key emojis I'd never give away gifts or anything like that.

In the comments, I'll only do that as you know I do some giveaway videos but they're actually videos and I draw the winners live and you know, on my live show and stuff like that. So yeah, totally different. Um, no, do not fall for this if it's me or any other YouTuber that you actually uh, follow and uh, it's usually on the recent videos. Here's another one.

Yeah, that dumpster Samsung one's been uh hit I have a surprise for you? uh yep. I have surprise for you I have a surprise for you, right? And here we go: I have a surprise for you and yeah, I tried to play whack-a-mole with these things and um, but yeah, just be aware the people could actually get hit with this thing before a YouTuber has time to take it away. Yeah, that's they're the only recent ones okay, but sometimes we can get an absolute flood of these things. And yes, it's a scam.

and yes, I am aware of uh Theo Joe who's a YouTuber who has written a script to try and get rid of these I haven't actually tried it yet, but we'd have to run it like periodically. But as I said, even if you run it once a week, There's You Know You release a new video and Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam the um spam scam Bots just you know attack you um Channel straight away so you know you don't have time. So yes and another tell of course is if we go in here and we actually click on this look and we go over to their YouTube channel they've got user right? The user is actually this randomly generated thing from the bot. Okay, they've got 10 subscribers which are just the other Bots and obviously text me on telegram YouTube account right? This is not me.

but um as far as I know, none of my viewers have actually been hit with this yet. but I just got an email which prompted this video someone actually and I'll show you the text in a minute um of how this thing works but they had the good sense to email me and say um and Dave is this really you I yeah my detector's going off and this smells like a scam. If it is really you then yeah they sent Dave at AV blog.com which if you want to email me because I have done a video on and an email impersonation scam I'll link this in in. This is Evlab 70 where a person actually successfully contacted a major test equipment manufacturer and they requested company confidential information from them.

They pretended to be me DJ at EV Blog Gmail.com I do have a Gmail account but it's just simply Evlog Gmail.com but I always send my emails through Dave Evlog.com but I do have a legit uh Gmail address and um and yeah, anyway, that's not my signature and yeah, they success. anyway. I'll link that one in. they successfully uh scored uh private company information from a company pretending to be me and I busted them too.

It turns out um yeah, if you're on the Euv Vlog Forum uh yeah I'm gonna texture so let's have a look at how this scam. Works shall we? So thank you for someone who emailed me I have removed their uh details but this is what happens. Okay, so if you contact them on that telegram address, if you contact them, this is how it goes down. Hello, thank you for reaching out.

But once again, look, there's my logo right? EV blog right? They pretend to be me so this looks pretty legit. Okay, insert any other YouTuber here. this looks like it's a legitimate YouTuber on telegram, but it's not because I don't have a telegram account. Hello! Uh, thanks for reaching out.

Kindly send me the screenshot of the message you received on YouTube for confirmation. So there's the you know thing under there. There's their uh comment, please, you know, uh, contact. This is a psychological thing.

They put in this little step this little hurdle that you have to go over to make it seem legit that I'm actually vetting you to see or the YouTubers vetting you to see if you're the legitimate. So as if the YouTuber doesn't want to get it scammed, right? So yeah, just just confirm it's you. and uh, yep. and I have different usernames for different apps.

but you know, So obviously, um, this person was using a couple of different uh usernames. Um, but it was. You know they confirmed it. Sam how long have you been watching? So the white stuff is from the scammer.

Okay, how long have you been watching my video? So once again, they're trying to draw you in as if you know. look. I'm chatting live with Dave and he's always. You know he's going to give me something if I can prove that I'm you know I've been watching I've been a long, loyal, long time viewer.

okay for a while now I Want to say I started watching your channel 2014 or so? Okay and then they go. Wow! thanks for being such an amazing subscriber as if I am going If you've ever seen my comments or my Twitter I'm never going to use an emoji like that little load up you know, a kiss Emoji it's just not gonna happen. Okay How would you feel if I asked you to choose between iPhone 14 MacBook Pro and Ryzen 9 PC Wait, are you for real? If I had to choose I'd go for the MacBook Pro Yeah, might even I'm not a Mac Man not an apple. um a fruity Gadget fan.

but I might take the MacBook Pro too. Um, congratulations. Ah, and once again, the Emojis which I never use you've won a MacBook Pro really? Um, what's the catch air? What do I need to do? Uh, but once again, they the scammers know not to engage you on that. Um, although I You know if that's a good scammer would have said I don't know, no catch.

simply the manufacturers give it to me to give away or something like that. So just be aware there might be an extra step. Scam step in there. What's your name and address for shipping? Wow, Stuff like this doesn't happen and they give their address and compelled to visit your patreon.

Uh, thanks I Appreciate it. You're going to cover the shipping cost and this is where the scam starts. Okay, the scare me is is that you send the money thinking that you've won a prize. This is how a lot of scams work.

Not only these YouTube scans, but this is how you know a lot of the Nigerian Um, you know scams work and stuff like that. They on the promise If you're going to get the money from the Nigerian prints, you know you're going to get the millions of dollars. um, you've you know or whatever. only if you pay these fees to do the documentation and stuff like that.

And it starts out at a couple of hundred. So because you know people's um, they've done studies on this that people's uh, sort of like throw away thresholders like 300. So when you're pricing a product like if it's under 300 bucks, you're sort of like you don't need approval from your partner or you know or whatever and it's just oh, it's only a couple hundred bucks I'll just you know. So once again, uh, I'd be more than happy to cover it.

Let me know. Um, and the preferred payment method? um and UPS uh Express So they give you four shipping options here and they go, uh, here are the choose one which suits you best. They said oh yeah, I have FedEx International Okay, let's do zelly. I guess that's the person you're chatting to the fake uh name.

This is actually a real person behind here now. I Don't think this is actually a bot, although it could be. Let me know. um if it's all 100 if you know and so actually 100 bot thing.

And at this point yeah, they started to smell the scam and or maybe they'll just uh, you know leading them on to see what actually happens. But that's how the scam works and uh, apparently it was a Hotmail uh email address. um was the payment method So of course I don't have a Hotmail address right? So yeah, once again, that's another flag that uh, this is a scam. So there it is.

So you pay your 200 bucks, a widow to 300 bucks or whatever and um, they've got you. They might even send you like a fake tracking number or something like that to make it, you know, look legit. They might have like a fake, you know DHL back end page or something like that. That sort of says oh yeah, it's been, you know, sent out just to you know.

but once they got your money I guess it doesn't matter. um I'm not sure what the payment method was here, but you know, usually like usually it's it's probably not going to be PayPal um or something like that because you could probably get you know a charge back on that or something like that. um if that's a scam but anyway, it doesn't Usually though, um uh what? Western Union or something. is that a still a thing? um yeah, a lot of scams.

uh use that sort of thing. So a payment method that you can't get you know you can't like put in like a I've been scammed can I get my money back kind of thing. It's not going to happen. So yeah, there you go.

Watch out for these. Uh, telegram could be WhatsApp and yeah, so they evolved from having the keywords Telegram and WhatsApp in the text which we YouTubers can filter for. So sorry if you type telegram or YouTube into the comment in telegram or Whatsapp into the into a YouTube comment, it's just going to get blocked. Um sorry, that's just a mass blocking thing that we have to do.

And yeah, of course over here you can actually go into the about if you want to actually report them and you can actually report the user. and you can import the user as a uh, what? You could report them as a in-person scam, spam and scam. So if you do this, please do and that could help get rid of them quickly. Uh, it faster than an individual YouTuber can actually react to these.

But yeah, these are all just Bots automated Bots Just um, you know, setting up. but obviously they got a decent telegram account. EV blog under Eev, underscore blog? um on telegram so that's not too bad. Um, yeah.

but yeah, if you can report that too, please do. But there it is there's the uh scam. don't fall for it. Um yes.

I do give away prizes, but it's not randomly in the comments like this. And of course if you're if you've got enabled replies to comments and stuff people you know, you can get an email to you or notification or whatever. then you get an instant notification that somebody's replied in in this case impersonation me has, uh, the scammer has actually replied to you um so yeah, it's Johnny on the spot. So when we release a new video usually like within minutes, the scam Bots Are there posting these types of uh things? It only has happened seems to happen on certain videos, so maybe so certain keywords in the title or description actually trigger the Bots or something like that.

So it's not every video, but it happens and YouTube won't do anything about it. Huge. YouTubers They're all complaining. Yeah, everyone's uh, complained about this in YouTube still do nothing.

So yeah, please harass them on team YouTube Twitter isn't it? And yeah, just get rid of this stuff. It's just like anyway. I might try and run the script to do older comments, but that's only going to get rid of. like search all my videos for older comments and stuff.

um I'm sure everyone thinks, uh, knows, it's a scam now and hopefully this video, not just me, but any other YouTuber you watch. Nope, these are all scams. So there you go. Um, thoughts and comments down below.

Catch you next time.