Scam warning when famous Youtube channel is hacked

Vietnam’s largest Youtube channel hacked

FAPTV – the Youtube channel that owns the most “huge” subscriptions in Vietnam with more than 13 million has been attacked by a group of hackers and appropriated.

After that, the hacker group quickly changed the channel name to Tesla US – the famous electric car company of billionaire Elon Musk in the US. This is one of the sophisticated tricks of the hacker group to carry out scams with “cheap and gullible” people.

The hacker group then took advantage of Vietnam’s ownership of FAPTV to create a livestream video with the image of Elon Musk to promote a virtual currency campaign. In the above livestream video, the content is said to use Deep Fake technology – take a video clip of Elon Musk and give false content to promote a virtual currency project to scam users into appropriating property. .

According to a notice from FAPTV, this Youtube channel was recovered in 24 hours with Google’s processing process. After that, the owner of FAPTV channel quickly deleted the above video to avoid misunderstanding with his huge fan base of 13.3 million subscribers.

Scam warning when famous Youtube channel is hacked

The fact that the FAPTV channel has been hacked and the promotion of virtual currency to scam users is a warning for those who are interested in this currency on social networks.

In fact, the situation of hackers taking control of channels to play cryptocurrency promotional videos has appeared on Youtube for a long time. However, some people are still caught off guard, giving bad actors the opportunity to take advantage and scam to appropriate property.

Before that, many major Youtube channels in the world were also hijacked by hackers and launched identical promotional videos, referring to a cryptocurrency called One World. The video encourages viewers to invest in the coin by sending the cryptocurrency to a wallet address, but is actually a scam.

Not only in the world, but in 2020 in Vietnam, channel MC Tran Thanh or singer Ho Quang Hieu also hacked and launched similar fraudulent advertising techniques. Therefore, people need to be very vigilant to avoid losing money unfairly and to learn information before investing in any virtual currency channel.