Was about time to someone take actions against corporations who allow scams that are using people's details to promote fake giveaways, and target high profile using images or videos to have their intents successfully reached, Apple Co-founder preferred to sue the YouTube company for allowing those scammers to spread fake Bitcoins giveaway using his likeness.
Steve Wozniak, took legally actions against the giant media company before he noted that people where tricked to send them Bitcoin using his name and details on the video streaming platform, accordingly to the law suit they would receive double from him.
This scammers have been using video and images from Wozniak to convince people that the giveaways are legit and that, the Apple co-founder will actually send twice the Bitcoins the scammers demand. Of course this videos are spread all over the YouTube platform where it possible to see videos of "5000 BTC giveaways" or "10,000 BTC giveaways" and many people fall on them!
The law suit also note that people have lost more than $24 million just in the first six months of 2020, and the defendants of Wozniak have on their possession photos and videos showing that scammers have been using details for their client to steal from YouTube users. Several members of the video platform have been losing Crypto holdings due to this practice.
Criminals have found a way to impersonate users using famous personalities as cover to their scheme, most of this are in form of giveaways, the ones who promise to double the funds sent to a determined wallet. Recently we had the Twitter case, who led people to send BTC to a wallet controlled by Hackers after they attacked several accounts on the giant media of short messages in real-time.
In a past recent, also the CEO of Tesla got his identity attached to a giveaway who defrauded more than $36 million from cyber users, proving that scammers are always getting more innovative on their techniques.
This is going Bad for YouTube as the Law suit blame them to not being strictly secure to block those scammers and continuing persistently to allow that happen, now they have to defend themselves. At least someone took courage to sue this giant companies allowing users to got defrauded.
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Take care and don't get deceived by scammers, be alert!
So this is probably one of the reasons why YouTube is banning crypto content creators.