Fake Celebrity-Endorsed Investment Scams (Scam Awareness Series)
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- This isn't a new scam, but it's very common, and if scammers are doing it this much, people must be getting scammed by it, so here's what it looks like.
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*Update (after upload)*
25th Feb - 48 hours after reporting this scam ad, Facebook responded as follows:
'We didn't remove the ad
To keep our review process as fair as possible, we use the same Advertising Standards to review reports.
We've taken a look and found that this ad doesn't go against our Advertising Standards.
As you reported it, we won't show this ad to you again. You can also influence the ads that you see by hiding ads or changing your ad preferences.
If you disagree with the decision to not take the ad down, you can request a review.'
I have of course requested the review. I'm still not holding my breath waiting for the right answer.
Wow...
well that's not great
*Update 2 (12 hours after review request)*
Facebook responded:
We reviewed the ad again
Thanks for requesting a review.
We reviewed the ad again and confirmed that it doesn’t go against any of our Advertising Standards.
We understand that this might be frustrating, so we recommend influencing the ads you see by hiding ads and changing your ad preferences.
There are no further options to escalate this report again. That's it. Facebook regards this scam as perfectly fine.
@@AtomicShrimpThat's ridiculous!
This is just plain sad
Facebook only say things are harmful or untrue if they have bad reasons to.
I've seen an "article" about Simon Cowell being dead so many times that when he actually dies I'm not going to believe it.
Ah, but that's where they get you.
How'd you know he didn't just get better?
wait...he's still alive? I figured he'd died (because of the articles). I'm not really a fan of Simon Cowell so it's not like I cared much but I thought he was actually deceased lol
Simon Cowell is secretly Davis Bon?
..on the inside?
@@JanusHoW indeed 🤔
My favourite is the deepfakes of Taylor Swift saying she wants to give all of her fans a set of pans, she just needs a little bit of money to cover the postage.
That's actually quite funny.
I can just imagine Ms Swift waking up and asking her PA ' I want to give back to some of my fans , what do you suggest?'
I've seen a nice set of pans from the recent closure of Wilko.
It's crazy that anyone would fall for that 😮😮😮😂😂😂
You made me laugh m8, Taylor Swift giving away a set of pans and she can't afford the shipping fee? Who will fall for this 😂
Taylor, the same billionaire who flies devoted fans from all over America on a whim to her place and treats them to her home made cookies... can't afford a stamp? Sounds right.
@@likebot. "can't afford a stamp?" Can't afford ~3 Billion (Or whatever her number of fans is) stamps you mean. It says ALL her fans. ~3 Billion stamps would still be pretty costly. Nowhere near as costly as ~3 Billion pan sets or whatever but still would actually dent her net worth a little.
If there was ever a system by which someone is guaranteed to make money from it instantly... nobody would be selling it to you. They would just do it themselves.
I guarantee there is one foolproof way to your money.
@@DanceTrancedBe born in a rich family?
The nature of capitalism also means that if a scheme like this did ever exist then it would become unavailable pretty quickly since the person who first used it would have captured the market. Just like how you can no longer get rich off of inventing Facebook.
@@hedgehog3180 Zuck hardly invented anything he just figured out the best way to stiff his friends and package the result better than his competitions. In capitalism the more cleverly you can lie cheat and steal the more effective the reward. It's been this way for over a century look out how Westinghouse stiffed Tesla after purchasing his patents.
@@hedgehog3180
Ouch, I had this really good idea for a site called Footfolio
Social media companies need to be held liable for advertising. They need to actually manually approve adverts. This is far too rife, especially on UA-cam with false advertising mostly for apps
That would cost money though, and in fact UA-cam is more intent on forcing people to get these ads. If it spent as much time making ads tolerable on this platform instead of trying to ban adblockers it might make a profit at some point.
Wait until you hear about this seventy pounds space heater that can heat your entire house in minutes for just pennies!
I think manual might be a bit much, but automated systems and manual review of reported ads, definitely. The problem is they pay their moderators peanuts, and/or outsource them; taking no care with their mental health. So all of humanity's worst and most depraved actions get seen & verified by some underpaid, un-cared-for "agent" in a third-world country.... A scam advert is nothing compared to what they see on a daily (or more) basis.. 😔
Wait, what, it's not true. Ohhh I get this ad every second video on you tube how disappointing😢.
Hmmm, my comment about manual approval being too costly got eaten. Bleh 😑
Us reporting the scam: this ad is a scam The links are scammy or Trojan or viruses etc.
Facebook checking for a scam: this advertiser paid us... Therefore it must not be a scam. Case closed
next case, call now to check your zip code, it's frr-eeeee-ie dyno-mite!
if you think the medicare is for you, you might be eligible.
also therefore "disable your ad-block because ads are how we get paid" literally means they're being funded by scams and should be considered accessories/actively promoting and participating in those scams by making them available to people in exchange for a share in the profits of that scam
If reincarnation is in fact real I suspect Mark Suckerburger will reincarnate as a tick or a flea, based on his parasitic behavior on his current life. Along with the politicians and lawyers allowing all of this to happen
Users are the merchandise after all.
Not sure if you’ve covered this one yet, but I’d love to see a video on the “going out of business” scam, where an online shop appears to have items for absurdly low prices. I haven’t seen much coverage of it online, but despite being an avid viewer of this channel and generally a fairly scam-aware person, I’m ashamed to admit that myself and a few other friends recently fell for one of these.
almost fell for one of those, it seems like every clothing add on Instagram or tiktok that isn't reselling from aliexpress is that type of scam
I very nearly fell for one of those, luckily for me I was broke. It didn't even occur to me that it was a scam until several months later when I saw more puzzles being sold by a company that had supposedly 'gone out of business'
that's an old one from before the internet, where a store would hold a Going out of business sale just to drum up business. They would post ridiculously high prices then "lower" them to apparently lower sale prices. The joke was that the store was holding it's "annual going out of business sale".
@@studgerbil9081The in person "going out of business" is still around. I've seen it happen. I've also seen the eternal sale, where a store will advertise "50% off everything" every single week. (the Detroit area chain store Art Van was big on that marketing tactic).
@@studgerbil9081there are even stores named “Going out of business” so they can put a huge sign saying that. Of course they never go out of business
I love the fact that the name Spatula Grime rings a bell, but i have no idea who Zoë Bell is. 🤣
Shrimp Cinematic Universe > MCU
“Jankalicious” was not a term I expected to hear today, or any day.
You're telling me that Mr. Beast doesn't want me to spend money on a slots app?
It's wild how normal it is to see scams as advertisements on platforms. I see scam ads on UA-cam and on Instagram all the time, they don't do anything about it. 😥
We really need laws to get the big platforms to do something about it...
Those platforms profit from these 'ads' which is why they do nothing when you report them !
UA-cam should be under the same rules as TV, Radio and Newspapers under advertising standards, I report scam advertising on UA-cam and nothing happens.
@@dogwalker666 Rules controlling advertising vary throughout the World, things that are not allowed in some countries are tolerated in others.
If a YT channel is created in Britain and shown on a US platform to various countries in the World which rules apply ?
@@ianc4901 As we did with electrical standards in Europe the best (UK) was chosen and applied throughout Europe, As UA-cam is available in Europe, European advertising standard should apply, it does for cyber bullying and hate speech.
There is a company based in Lithuania called UAB CommerceCore who have a Google AdWords account running over 8000 scam ads on UA-cam and Google. They have been running the ads for at least 3 years, have been reported by me and others dozens of times, even featured in a genuine national newspaper article about the scam and yet every time UA-cam just say, 'thanks, we will look into it', then do absolutely nothing. So I can only conclude they have no problem with scam ads running on their platform...
I get the impression that 90% of the ads that UA-cam feeds me these days are of this type. I have made a habit of sending feedback about it (The bar to report them is ridiculously high) and blocking them, Blocking is ignored, plain and simple.
UA-cam love a scam. Unless they receive a lawsuit they ARE Just too evil tô care
Yes I have blocked a scam add after reporting it the scam reappears.
This is sadly why I feel adblockers are essential nowadays. The more scams you're subjected to, the more likely you are to let your guard down and fall for one. If sketchy ads like that are making their way into major platforms like UA-cam, then blocking them outright is safer even if they end up losing money and plastering more/longer ads in response.
I still don't know why they call it the "block" option. When I try to look it up, Google thinks I mean adblock. But I don't use it. I really miss the inappropriate, repetitive and irrelevant options. They seem way more useful. And the way to report an ad for being repetitive now is way too long and confusing to understand.
@@ThunderPanzerI wouldn't mind getting ads if they're legitimate but half the ads I get are mobile games with fake gameplay or AI voiced weight loss/brain power/get rich quick ads.
You just can't avoid seeing scammers on Facebook these days, every comments section and review tab seems to be full of rubbish about investments, crypto, faith healing and fake medicine.
Surprisingly, a lot of them aren't like that, but there's still a good amount that you'll still see them every once in a while. If you keep getting them recommended, stop interacting with them and click don't recommend.
@@ArtsyKnox25 unfortunately I still need to access the pages they're piggybacking off.
Also strangers saying they love what you post, and they tried to friend you but the button didn't work... 😂
I just scambaited someone pretending to be General Paul Lacamera on Facebook who had replied to my comment, I added him as a friend and strung him along for a while. He seemed to be really gullible.
And in the end I sent him a Pleasant Green video about how he went into business with a couple reputable Nigerians, and told him it's not too late to get a job that makes a positive difference in the world. Anyway, I thought it was kind of fun.
Another example of why I feel no guilt about using ad blockers.
I will never forget flagging literal adult content, and Facebook told me that nothing was wrong with it according to the community standards. BS!
File a criminal complaint against Facebook for being an accessory in the scam.
If they don't remove it, they are liable.
how do i do that?
@@clarambrosia9834 You got to the police station and explain to them that you reported the scam ad to Facebook and they reviewed it, then reviewed it again, and knowingly and willingly left it up.
@@clarambrosia9834Need to do a class action lawsuit OR spam the FTC (USA) with complaints about Facebook advertising fraud OR have enough undeniable evidence and get scammed by one of these websites to have a case you can sue by yourself.
Facebook has gotten so large the legal team rivals that of Disney.
This makes me think what if I sic Disney lawyers on the Facebook lawyers, I pay for an advertisement to a pirate website of bootleg Disney films. If I report it on myself and Facebook does nothing then Disney has a massive case against Facebook.
they are literally getting paid by scammers to advertise their scams.
You're doing great service with these videos. There have been at least two times when thinking about your words has protected from falling for scams: once when I was seconds away from giving my bank account to one fake giveaway I saw here, and another time when I was being pressured to "buy now or lose the offer" by someone who had come to my home. Thanks 😊
thank you for being willing to share that. We've seen time and again that shame and embarrassment prevents victims from preventing the crime or from receiving help so it helps to see people mention their experiences
Agreed
1:48 Oh and Zoe is even encouraging people to take money from their credit card if £250 is too much. That's so nice of her!
Martin Lewis spoke to a Select Committee in 2022 about his experiences of his name being used in a Facebook scam. Quite interesting. Facebook settled his law suit he brought. Martin donated the £3million to a charity.
And yet they still happen
@@martin-uz1py yep. Former Deputy PM Nick Clegg is head of global safety at Facebook, but they still happen.
Wait 20 years until ITV make a drama and we'll see what happens then.
@@martin-uz1py Of course they do, because Facebook settled. The only way to stop them is to refuse the settlement and drag them all the way through court.
@@rolfs2165I believe the courts only want you to refuse a settlement if you realistically think you will do better in court than what the settlement offered. Judges don't like having their time wasted ordering something that could have been agreed between the parties. So maybe it's a question of whether you can demand something better than the settlement they offered, like a high enough payout to make it worth FB's while to stop it happening again, or some sort of binding commitment to do more to stop these scams in future.
@@rolfs2165Nobody has the money to do that though.
They go through so much to create these fake scenarios that I can only wonder why not put this energy into something legitimate.
Because it's not in their nature.
because it's still less effort than actually running a business
I was just thinking that - imagine if they did something nice instead 😂
There's tons of those on youtube and facebook. They simply do not care, they could enforce it. They just don't bother. I think we need to organise a massive class action lawsuit. The governments should come down on facebook and youtube HARD.
The trouble is they get the revenue from the ads, and all the fake profiles make it look like the website is far more popular than it is.
@@thisperson5294
That's their problem lol.
This boom of get-rich-quick scams is infuriating. They're preying on everyone's increasingly desperate monetary situation, and the platforms hosting the ads don't care because they will get paid whether or not the adverts are for legitimate organisations or services.
Sometimes, if someone falls for that that's why they're desperate for money, because they don't handle their finances well. I still feel bad for them of course but it would be nice if it could have been prevented on their side. I have my dad to thank for teaching me to be careful with my finances, and a lot of people don't have that.
UA-cam bending over backwards for advertisers to keep it advertiser friendly when the adverisers are this. I saw one with mr beast the other day. I don't even want to bother to report them sometimes, it does nothing. They don't care. :/ it's hard to not be jaded in our current world innit?
I used to work for a broadcaster and we would get viewers telling us about similar scams to do with ketone berries. People see it written down they see the celeb's photo and the logos and it is so convincing. They gave money and then blame the broadcaster as if it was us that allowed it to happen. I know it's not much but people who see this should report it to ASA and any of the broadcasters mentioned (in this case the BBC and ITV). Especially because using a logo without permission in an advert is not allowed. Funnily enough it is more likely Facebook or wherever will take action because the logos are being used etc than because its a scam. Those are just a couple of basic steps that do help in a small way
It's not much use mate. It's the crock of 💩 that's Ferengi late stage surveillance capitalism. It's chasing the wind. All we can do is educate people. I haven't used Farcebook since 2010.
It amazes me even that people would get something just because a celebrity endorsed it, even if that was real. Someone close to me might recommend something and I'm ususlly still going to look up reviews and see if it's a good fit for me.
I have recently seen this exact scam here in Norway. Different celebrity, different "morning talk show", different news site, but exact same story, "interview", link, all of that. Just all in Norwegian. And it's actually done quite well
About 90% of all the ads I see on Facebook now are scams like these, and it's quite clear Meta does not care one bit, since none of the reports ever amount to anything.
If there really was a 'secret system' that easily makes you money, you'd keep it to yourself.
Telling other people about it or selling it would either get it banned or make you less money as the market compensates.
The whole 'too many cooks in the kitchen' saying exemplified.
Thanks for bringing back these. I hope to see more scams exposed.
Be careful because some scams are actually fake.
@@DanceTranced "some scams are actually fake" yeah like some poisons are actually deadly or some murderers are actually killers.
All scams are "fake" in a sense. The point is you fall for their fake stories and or products. Or they promise something that is impossible or is just false, like fake cures for cancer, or something genetic that doesn't have a cure, or fake money making schemes. @@DanceTranced
I don't know if this conversation is something about the way the wording of the title reads; if so, my reasoning was this:
A celebrity actually running or promoting a scam (for example UA-camr crypto rug-pulls) would be 'Celebrity-Endorsed Scam' (the scam is a lie, but the celebrity is actually endorsing it)
A scam that is using the name and reputation of a celebrity, without their consent and/or knowledge, I felt, should be described as 'Fake Celebrity-Endorsed Scam' (the scam itself is a lie, but also so is the celebrity endorsement.)
@@DanceTrancedWait... would a fake scam be one that is actually legit?
The one I see the most is about Jeremy Clarkson.
I'm pretty sure it is just plain stealing, the investment information is fake and the money has gone straight into the pockets of a scammer while the victim is stuck looking at made up investments that aren't real
Yeah I see the Clarkson one quite often.
We get the same in Australia ("Kochie" / Richard Wilkins / Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest etc).
Thank you for going down this rabbit hole to produce a video that I can show to people who aren't as technically savvy.
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It’s so annoying isn’t it! I don’t understand how they get these scam adverts on the social and news sites!
@@annieclaire2348 Because the websites make money from the ads, and it would cost them money to pay more people to investigate and remove them.
Because, basically, they have little financial or legal incentive to do so. People will still use their things despite the scammers, so what do they care.
@@annieclaire2348 They pay for them. Easy.
I am so annoyed that on UA-cam there is no way to report the scam ads.
I reported a video ad on UA-cam a few weeks back that was using a clip of richard hammond on the this morning programme for this exact get rich quick investment scheme. Facebook is the toilet of the internet and if youtube wasn't such a useful tool I'd leave this too. Thanks for another informative video:)
We had that in Australia too. It took me longer than usual to figure it was crap. The fact they were using the profiles of well known journalists got me off guard. Embarrassed but doubly vigilant now.
Imagine if they used Jana Wendt. Hello I'm Jana and this yoghurt will reduce your beer barrel chest by 67 percent. Only one easy payment to Jana Yoghurt! Hurry!
Then Derryn HInch appears. Shame! She hasn't mentioned the three tubs for one special offer! But only to the next 45 callers! Because I'm HInch and you're not.
@@musicalneptunian you must be my vintage 😂
Have you seen all the Facebook accounts recently that post obvious AI pictures of someone with a cake they supposedly baked or something supposedly they made from wood with a caption like "no one appreciates my work", "made it with my own hand" or "made it myself"? My home page is littered with those lately. They have dozens or even hundreds of comments by people who are taken in by them despite how unrealistic the pictures are. The scammers don't even make any effort to keep generating images until they get a convincing one.
Especially fake ai gen. Animals or people.
Another word is really rubbish t-shirts, with "No one on my timeline appreciates my level of cool." 😂
I have seen a few from artists offering a free print and you just pay postage. As an artist myself I'm unsure how they make much money from it, other than offering bundles/bigger print sizes at checkout. But the website they direct you to always looks very scammy so I wonder if many of them are legit.
There's AI generated ads purporting to be from BlackRock finance CEO being run on crypto videos. It's a new era for scammers.
this is why you just use ad-blockers, and show everyone you care about how to install it for their own computers.
UA-cam shows me these types of investment scam adverts using all manner of famous people. I report them, nothing happens as they are 'sponsored'.
I remember when this was common in Denmark. Some time ago it was similar like this, with a celebrity who supposedly was talking about a get-rich-quick-scheme. It was prominent enough for the actual news to get involved and interview one of the celebrities about it
I saw something similar with a local news presenter and some scam weight loss product. If something like that were real it would be all over the news. Not to mention all the empty junk food aisles in supermarkets
This could be a number of things, possibly all of these:
-Identity Theft (name/phone number/email/bank details)
-Phishing for email/password combinations (let's be real here, most people STILL reuse the same login details on everything)
-Direct money scam (enticing people to send money or just directly charging the credit card that's been entered)
-Call center scamming (probably in combination with some other scam)
Best one I've seen is an ad claiming that Chris Tarrant broke down about a life threatening incident that had happened to him on live tv, and they had photoshopped him with a black eye and swollen cheek.
Thank you for this video. I'm definitely going to share this with my Grandma. She's one who would click on a bunch of "headlines" from other news articles because she thinks it's interesting. I always get random links from her asking me to read it. I've tried to explain to her about these scams and sites that could do harm to her device. It seems to confuse her sometimes. So, this video will help her understand a bit better.
90% of my ads are stuff like this. Cant swear on UA-cam or you get ads taken away but these are the ads they play!
I report these each and everytime I find them and, yes they do just ignore the report and let it dribble along until the next one was launched. Facebook are not chasing these scams down , and often they wont let you comment on the facebook post . keep up the good work Mike, keep fighting the good fight .
Scammers try to scam. I do not like what they do. I love all, but how do they sleep at night? I, personally, have a conscience.
Actually he isn't trying to scam. Alot of people do tho.
@@DanceTrancedthey're not talking about shrimp scamming people.
This seems more about yourself than anything else.
Jim Newman who is a victim of ID theft - you see his stolen image as "Williams David" etc on romance scam profiles - says the scammers see the victims simply as a type of crop. Not as a humans.
That's probably how the most vicious treatment of human beings evolves, actually. When people are seeing as a resource, not human at all.
@@eadweard. I just mean scamming f'd up. What is wrong with being honest?
“Well I mean, all these things on the Internet these days let you make money just lying on the couch!”
- Scammer, 2024 AD
Two days ago I got an unexpected text from a supposed company saying my order of bicycle parts was held up and I needed to click this link to reconfirm my name and address. I am in fact an avid cyclist and am just in the process of learning how to maintain and repair my "clean machine" myself. It was also right after waking up in the morning that I saw the text.
I mostly felt confusion rather than a compulsion to click the link, cause I didn't think I'd ordered any parts recently. I decided to wait until I was more fully awake, check my own email to see if I had a recent order, and then the final nail was when I googled the name of the supposed supply company and found nothing relevant.
I blocked and reported the text. I feel pretty confident in saying all these were skills taught to me by your channel, so I thank you.
I think you've said this before but worth emphasising for the people who think they're savvy - thinking you're immune to scams directly increases your risk of being scammed, because in the event you encounter something plausible you're less likely to question it
Pride cometh before destruction. Yeah. I get a lot of people apparently commenting to congratulate themselves on how the features scam was so obvious they would never fall for it. That's great, but it is the sort of overconfident attitude that can lead to carelessness.
I suspect even aware folks can fall for a scam in a moment of weakness when negative circumstances line up in just the right (or wrong..) way.
True. Even the most competent people have off days and make mistakes.
@@AtomicShrimp I once got caught by one of those 'petition with a clipboard' in person scams in Paris where they have a minimum donation amount after signing. I was so sleep deprived and stressed from travelling to present at a conference that I wasn't thinking straight and felt bad for the poor lady who did look destitute (albeit with gold teeth, which should have been my first clue). I still beat myself up about it sometimes but really losing 20 euros isn't the worst thing in the world, those people deliberately target lone/obviously tired travellers and I learned for the future.
And why would a celebrity, who are already wealthy from whatever it is they are known for do this sort of thing anyway?
The track record for celebrity endorsement of investment platforms should tell you that it is always a scam. The only possible reason a celibrity could have to endorse something like this is if they got paid a ton to do it, not because they actually like the investment platform since as you said they're already rich from being a celebrity and don't need the kind of money a platform like that promises.
Thanks for doing this. I am from Serbia and my Facebook and internet are full of these scams with our celebrities.
We are already teaching our 10year old about scams and what signs to look out for
Bradley Walsh leaving The Chase, oh no! 🤣
Always been a fan of your content but this was a really nice exposé on an issue so many of our friends and loved ones are subjected to on a daily basis.
I often see ads for products that were supposedly on "Shark Tank", often diet pills or other similar products. The folks at Shark Tank have said publicly that these should not be trusted, but I still see them all the time so they must be working on someone.
A bit late to the party here, but I’m happy you’ve highlighted this scam. My mum came to me the other week wanting to sign up to a “Martin Lewis backed money making scheme”. Thankfully I stopped her from falling for the scam, but I know that many others would’ve fallen for this. I hope this video gets as much exposure as possible!
I also report these fake posts and plenty of other scam ads on Facebook and I get the exact same response stating “It doesn’t go against our community guidelines”. It’s so frustrating and makes reporting these things feel pointless
"Big Banks" is a phrase that you can reliably identify as a flag for scams. I can't ever recall seeing legitimate, verifiable news that ever referred to either international or national banks as "Big Banks", but I've seen the phrase thrown out in the arena of conspiracy theories quite often, which (I'm assuming) points to the demographic that they're targeting. Especially when "Big Banks" are being described as "afraid" or "furious" or "exposed" by this miraculous information that Tom Holland is allegedly bringing to light.
That, or Tom Holland might truly be leading a revolution against hostile alien dictators disguised as bank tellers. Who knows? Many such cases. Looking into this!
Adopting Jankalicious in my vocabulary immediately
Love Spatula Grime! Great name for scam baiting! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
No I was not listening so hard. I just heard Grime....not the "love spatula" part....oh my goodness that is off the score on the funny scale. My hubby is not going to like this new euphemism....but I feel I need to incorporate it within my anatomical thesaurus.
@@KovietUnionDefectorthe name used in the video is Spatula Grime. the comment you replied to was saying "I love Spatula Grime". but your interpretation is great.
@@rainbowrotcod - absolutely correct! I should have said “I love ‘Spatula Grime’” to make my comment a little clearer! 🤣😂🤣😂
Thank you for talking about this kind of stuff. I know too people who are functionally ‘internet illiterate’ - which is not to say they’re the only ones at risk (scams are like literal viruses - it only takes one brief break in your defences to suffer) but they wouldn’t have a *chance* for something that looks so professional. I know some of them are now too afraid to really do anything online because they know they don’t know how to tell if something is safe or not. And when you just don’t know - everything seems dangerous.
It's not that these platforms can't do anything about it, it's that they for whatever reason chose not to. The last few years alone proved pretty clearly that these platforms are perfectly capable of censoring and removing content that they don't like or disagree with, so going after these scams should be a piece of cake. Yet, they won't do it. I'm going to assume that there is either an incentive to keep them on the platform or the incentive to take them off isn't big enough for them to consider it worth the effort.
Excellent, many folks are not Scam Savvy. I always appreciate your delivery style that educates without shaming. Keep up the good work.
I've seen that Zoe Ball "ad" so many times. I don't even know who that lady is? Am I supposed to know who any of these people are? I really suck at popular culture.
Facebook is utter tripe. Actually WORSE than tripe, because at least tripe is tasty when cooked properly. Unfortunately there's far too many stores and community groups that have their only internet presence as a facebook page. I ended up having to join facebook just to be able to find out about a local youth group for my kid, as well as a few stores that had no website (just an FB page).
Zoe Louise Ball (born 23 November 1970)[1] is a British broadcaster and presenter. She was the first female host of the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast shows for the BBC, and presented the 1990s children's show Live & Kicking, alongside Jamie Theakston from 1996-1999.
Ball was a contestant in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing. Following this, in 2011 she replaced Claudia Winkleman as host of the BBC Two spin-off show Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two until her departure in 2021. Ball also hosted the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour in 2011 and 2015.
In 2018, Ball was announced as the new host of BBC Radio 2's flagship breakfast show and took over from Chris Evans in January 2019
now you know who she is, and knowing is half the battle!
As clever as my mother is, there was a time when she would constantly fall for scam ads disguised as news articles. It took her a long time to realize that not everything that looks like a news article is a news article. Luckily she never lost any money in those scams, but it's still worrying.
Thank you so much for continuing to raise awareness about these. Great video
1:41 i have a sneaking suspicion this article was written with AI.
i always find that funny, because the AI tends to point out red flags in the scammer’s logic (for example, the line “250 pounds is a large sum”)
Yeah, I think I agree. The wording is really awkward and has that weird blend of enthusiasm about dull things and boredom about exciting things that is often the mark of AI generated text
Thank you, Atomic Shrimp, for another enlightening video! Let's hope this one can prevent folks from getting scammed, as many have already. I'm 20 and I've never used FB, but if I ever do I'll keep an eye out and make sure folks don't get scammed.
Thank you, my friend! :)
20 and never used Facebook is wild to me! Probably the best way to be tbh 😂
@@geordieghoulette7142 lol thanks!
You the one thing I've noticed on these fake news reports is the bad photoshop. There was an I'm Wright one once and you could see through his spectacles that the background was a completely different colour
Thank you for sharing! Love being informed about the kinds of scams.
I have never fallen for these but i still appreciate you making this video! Thank you!!!
Please share these types of videos with your loved ones! My grandmother recently got scammed for $2.5k USD from a fake PayPal link!
What about when George Clooney calls to inform me my car's warranty is expiring?
Thanks for this video Mr Shrimp. Reporting things on FB is pretty pants in my experience too.
I always do a search for the article title listed in the ad because I don't like clicking ad links. When nobody is talking about the subject I assume it was a fake story and leave it there. Never going to a fishy site.
The funny thing about this scam is that I expect the kind of person to fall for it likely isn't computer literate enough to get through the unintuitive, confusing process
I get these ALLL the time, every time i report them for impersonating but i still see them 😂
Thank you AS for looking into this one. I haven't seen it yet myself.
Another one that I haven't seen a baiter cover is the $6400 free gift from the US government, that I've seen everywhere, including YT.
Great choice of topic! I've seen a lot of these lately.
Quite snowy outside for us 0:28
Awarness is one the best tools againt scams :) Keep up the awsome work
The only people who “get rich quick” from these types of scams are the people who set them up
Thanks for trying the create awareness about this!
There's been a similar set of ads on UA-cam concerning a former Irish newscaster. Tried reporting them as a scam and YT rejected the report, of course.
Here's some actual advice: don't share your personal details with strangers on the internet. Be careful.
Great video, Atomic Shrimp!
My real name is Estebaña Flores, I live on 123 Fake St, i am 666 yrs old; my ssn is 1
Wish your chanel was much bigger to reach more people with this.
this (and other reasons) are why I just generally ignore anything i'm not specifically looking for.
if i see an ad for a product i'm interested in, i'll usually search the product.
the only things i'll click otherwise if i'm not specifically looking for it are other posts/pieces of content on the website i'm on at the time - random video on youtube, random post on twitter, random game on steam, product on a shopping site.
We really need to hold these big tech companies accountable for hosting literal scam ads on their sites, they are just as responsible as the scammer’s themselves. But all they care about is profits.
I saw this video when it was uploaded and thought, "oh right another scam." But just today my own mother told me she'd seen James May talking to Ben Shepherd on BBC news about a way of making money. Immediate alarm bells in my head. Thankfully, she didn't click on the link and lose any money or details and I was able to show her this video.
She said it appeared on her Bing homepage. The fact that they can afford that advertising space makes me so angry, because it obviously means this scam is working on a lot of people.
First page you show - I've actually seen exact copy of it (in Polish) just using some local celebrity xD Funny enough there were translation errors suggesting it was first female person but they used male celebrity lol. Makes sense.
It is actually pretty disgusting how little these platforms do to remove fake ads like this. But, guess they simply don't care, because they're making money off the ads themselves, regardless of the contents of the ads.
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"Zoe Ball": Don't accuse me of being lazy!
Also "Zoe Ball": No work! You can get rich without getting off the couch!
Thank you ^^ I actually made my collegues aware of scam emails thanks to your channel ~ stay safe out there everyone^^
Everyone I know, friends, family, work colleagues, I've gone out of my way to inform them of scams...and also pointing them to scam baiting channels.
I am sick and gobsmacked that both Facebook and instagram does nothing about these scam ads it makes my boil ive reported afew and nothing the only way to deal with these ads is to use a adblocker and block all ads
Thank you Mike for giving this type of information. As my mother always told me, "There is no free lunch"
Most of the ads i get are like this. It doesn't help that 80%of my feed is ads, i probably don't have enough friends! I only have fb for a couple of groups who havent gotten off yet which is probably why.
I've seen these ads on news websites as well
These annoy me so much. I get a lot of these ads from Brazil, Israel and China. And they are always about people with wardrobe malfunctions or ads that say it has nsfw content on their page. I never click them on purpose so i didn't know they lead to fake investment ads and I'm annoyed with these. Ive also been getting more inappropriate AI ads recently too.
Managed to head one of these off at the pass for a colleague's parents, he asked me if I'd heard of this new investment thing that JK Rowling was talking about with Graham Norton and did I think it was worth doing, as his parents had seen it and were interested. I gave him some advice about why it was a scam and what to look out for, although this video is a lot more comprehensive, hopefully his parents avoided getting involved.
Here's a fun tip. If you contact the hosting provider for the website and tell them the website poses an imminent risk of harm to someone - especially people who can have hate crimes or elder abuse committed against them - they will often remove websites without even looking into if the content is offending, which in this case it would be anyway.
A while back, UA-cam kept running these AI ads where it had big name celebs making claims about some government money claim... Thing. I only ever saw them in the shorts section. I tweeted at UA-cam about, but IDK if they did something about it or if the scammers just removed them before they were caught.
Thank you very much.
These are some of the scams that gets on my nerves the most