YouTube is Stopping Roblox Scammers?
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TH-cam is making changes to the way that links work in TH-cam shorts. And this is directly going to cause problems for the Roblox scammers I have been monitoring.
Roblox scammers izzland (aka mert or izzlint) and clownxiao spam youtube shorts, livestreams, and community posts telling people to get free robux by visiting their scam website. This website either tells you to fill out a survey. Or as you will see in the video, the websites wont even work at all. The power of an illiterate manchild trying to scam kids on Roblox.
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U can't stop us!
Here before it blows up
U can't stop us!
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No matter what they do, I still won't get past the fact that they removed the display for dislikes.
True
You can still get it with chrome extensions
@@zeynovemami5486not the same feeling
@@zeynovemami5486 My paranoid ass doesn't trust extensions like these. They shouldn't have removed the display for dislikes in the first place.
@@Kairinkaii think it's the same feeling, but it's the principle that matters. You shouldn't HAVE to use a browser extension to know whether or not a video is reliable or worth watching. But TH-cam gave into the little babies on the platform that couldn't have their feelings hurt by a thumbs down on their video
I like to imagine that one of the reasons they are removing links from shorts is actually because they could never be bothered to fix the bugs that crop up when you do go from a short to a real video on mobile
Btw, this isn’t a downgrade. People actually enjoy having to work for something like this.
Adding extra annoying steps, like redirects or captchas is one of the most effective ways to initiate a dark pattern. People are less likely to click off if “they’ve already done so much”, and so when they get another captcha, they think “wow! well it’s 30 seconds of effort, why not?”, after which the resistance to leaving the page grows.
I remember seeing a TH-cam video essay, that messed up the audio and had everything playing through one ear. People had to go to their settings and enable mono audio to even listen to the video. It was that person’s best performing and highest viewer retention video ever.
I had to do a Google Form for school and the captcha took probably around 5 minutes because it kept saying I was wrong even though I was right.
It all starts with the first step. So it's good that TH-cam is doing that. Let's see what will be the next move
Yeah,next step will be even worse for sure
Maybe bring dislike button back but I think it won't be.
@@shade824never. It will never be back. They made up their minds already. The next step might be fix ads... or delete the like button and the video player while they're at it
yeah
@@shade824 I hope so lol
About the spelling: There is a theory that this may be intentional. The only people who would fall for these scams would likely also not notice the massive red flag that is the language gore these scammers produce, thus saving them a bunch of time on people who might go through some of these steps, but not going far enough for them to turn a profit. Then again, maybe - probably - they are also just brain dead.
It would take significantly less work if TH-cam just blacklisted the incriminating creators, such that the creators can see their own videos, but other people can't.
Then they just make a new account.....
they wouldn't know that they were blacklisted, they would just think they fell off overnight or someone exposed them@@tovarishcheleonora8542
@@tovarishcheleonora8542yeah but ppl will think that they are gone
@@tovarishcheleonora8542unless they have a for example discord group, almost nobody will find the new account
@@tovarishcheleonora8542the idea is most of these scammers work by setting and forgetting them it would take a few days before they notice
Amazing how scammers can learn to evolve their scams but can never learn to spell
Here's the thing, they purposely did that since guillable people are likely to fall despite these tiny red flags and they rather prey on those people than to deal with ones that notice the signs on the get-go. It's a weirdly Darwinian method but an effective one
Amazing how scammers can learn to evolve their scams but can never learn to spell
Amazing how scammers can learn to evolve their scams but can never learn to spell
Amazing how scammers can learn to evolve their scams but can never learn to spell
Amazing how scammers can learn to evolve their spellings but can never learn to scam
Both TH-cam and Discord seem to make decisions without caring about the community's feedback, makes me wonder how they got so big.
Edit: I know that there are many others such as Roblox, I just wrote the ones which first came to my mind. Seems like this is a common practice these days, we should value the ones which care about their users.
base product is good, get consumers on base product and eliminate competition, make horrible changes but nobody can leave because you already have all the people and if they try to move to a different platform nobody will be on there
Because they are largely good services that, generally, would be hard to compete with. No TH-cam or Discord clone could handle the same levels of bandwidth. Not to mention, the average users of these platforms don't care about most of these things. Because I use Discord exclusively to talk to friends, and rarely interact with servers, most stuff doesn't really affect me. Realistically, most of Discord's changes are whatever, and are only upsetting if you have nothing better to care about. Most of YT's changes, with the exception of obnoxious ad practices, usually only impact creators, so the vast majority of the time changes to the platform don't impact most people.
They got so big because they do the unsustainable and impossible. Hosting hundreds of gigabytes of data individually for billions of users at no profit is obviously unsustainable. Discord doesn’t even have ads, they’re working purely from selling your data.
Its not just big companies, but small ones too. People cant listen anymore at all.
Roblox too
it'll definitely harm normal creators imo because nothing is stopping scammers to say "go into my bio and click the first link" tbh.
it'll definitely harm normal creators imo because nothing is stopping scammers to say "go into my bio and click the first link" tbh.
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@@Theunicorn2012 it'll definitely harm normal creators imo because nothing is stopping scammers to pop out of nowhere and say "go into my bio and click the first link" tbh.
i feel like instead of banning all links from youtube shorts, maybe they could implement something that blocks links that trustworthy anti-virus softwares would consider malicious. i feel like a big company like youtube could find a way to do that.
there are quite actually numerous ways they could go about this, but will they improve their site in such a manner?
likely not, they enjoy getting talked trash about i suppose
@@jinnipers.3931 trash talk is still talk, and any talk is good according to rich corporations
i keep seeing this ads all the time even tho i dont even play roblox to begin with, this shady ads going on make me mad >.
TH-cam should do PSAs occasionally where an ad would otherwise go, and they should be unskippable and able to play before videos. I know it would be controversial because it would be annoying, but still, its what would be best for the platform in regards to this issue
@@jadolfsepticeye1 nuh uh
I agree
@@jadolfsepticeye1 stop spamming
@@jadolfsepticeye1 idgaf
What. HOW would this help lmao. All this would do is force me to use Adblock or just not coming back to this piece of trash webpage.
I've seen that "Beast Tasks" ad for like... four or five months now. Pretty clear TH-cam ain't doing anything about it because MONEY.
Always remember, on something that is supported by ad revenue, you aren't the consumer, you are what is being sold.
@@maiyannah so everything?
@@malkat8914 On the internet? Most things, definitely.
the 5 dislikes are from mert's alt accounts
devious trump
re: the first issue. its also going to affect clip channels linking back to the videos the clips are from. not just the people sharing legitimate content and using affiliate links.
3:53 that type of ads should be banned as they are literally wasting your time as you have to click multiple times on the part of the website to get to whatever the part you're clicking on does and are the reason i rarely shut off my ad blockers. If Google wants to ban ad blockers they should ban these popup ads, their Google vignette are less annoying than those pieces of shit as with the Google vignette ads you just have to click close and are redirected to where you were supposed to go when clicking on that hyperlink while those ads you have to first close the tab that acts as the ad and click on the hyperlink again to get to the location the hyperlink goes to if it doesn't force multiple ads on you before doing what it is supposed to do
man's just casually doing the smoothest transitions into guardio sponsorships
It always caughs me off guard
@@ALoserK 💀
there's a simple reason why youtube isn't doing anything about these mr beast scam ads, or any of the dozens of types of malicious ads: Money. they'll happily strike a video down for violating the policy, then run an ad breaking the exact same rules on thousands of videos. the difference? creators want to be paid by yourube, but advertisers pay youtube to display their stuff
Fun Fact: Izzland copied that website from another scammer. About five years ago I almost got scammed on a website that looked the same.
Yeah, i remembered that letter and number generator with the last few letters blocked. I didnt fall for THAT one though. I fell for a scam on a Roblox game when i was... uhhhhhhhhh like 9 or smth.
Thanks for your video, NTTS! Now on discord is going bug, Minecraft in activities looks like Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas.
I do believe that TH-cam has been understaffed to handle their website for well over a decade. They definitely don't have the teams, nor communication between teams to handle the requirements and issues of the platform.
A ton of Mr beast fake ads kept popping for me, I actually managed to take around 10 of them down but they keep making new ones
A naked man fears no pickpocket.
5:47 it seems to be a beta feature, but I am pretty sure, I saw a “affiliate” link box right where the “super thanks” is used to be in an MKBHD short about AirPods. So maybe this will then become a normal feature for every creator.
I also keep getting scam yt ads of well known video games that are meant to cost money but are advertised as "free" by the scammer. I can beleive they can also get away with stealing the video game trailers as well. It even makes them look like the real deal, until you click on the link.
that transition into the guardio sponsor was so brilliant i didnt skip
8:30 here's a narrow minded but probably affective suggestion.
Hire someone, whose job it is, to monitor and get rid of this stuff.
It requires basic literacy + a bit of computer literacy.
A dicord 4chan mod could do it
I feel like this is definitely the right move. Shorts do not need to have links enabled at all.
That generating gift card thing brought me back when I was like 10 trying to get free Minecraft accounts, my kid self eventually gave up because none of them worked lol. Also, I saw those Mr Beast scams a few weeks ago. At first I didn't really care but I tried one of them and immediately I knew it's a scam. What makes it worse though is that there's all these random TH-camrs that I've never heard of promoting these, so even if I clicked the "don't recommend posts from this channel" option on the main scam channels, the posts from these other channels can still go through. I rarely see these scams now though, so maybe TH-cam did something
i keep seeing those mrbeast scam ads every time i go onto youtube, pretty glad someone brought them up cause i can see kids falling for that trash
Another similar scam ads that I’ve seen are for Dead by Daylight’s auric cell currency (which you need actually money to buy) being free if you click on this ad that definitely won’t try to bomb your apartment
The reason TH-cam doesn't care about what being advertised is exactly because it's their business model, they are getting paid. Stopping it would mean voluntary cutting of a nice chunk of their revenue.
Links in shorts not being clickable is so mildly annoying...
The amount of shorts into me watching full videos is pretty high and now that's just gone
5:23 when i read that post at first, i thought that they would be REMOVING youtube shorts descriptions, but thankfully they arent.
I was incredibly close to being a victim of the “all people who watch this video get 1000 dollars!” Im so glad I realized it right before I gave my PayPal info
you can actually press middle click on a tab to close it, faster than pressing the x each time
I just use Ctrl-W most of the time, since that's also "close tab". But when it comes to making a video, "moving the mouse to the X and clicking" is a good visual indicator of what's happening, rather than "move the mouse to the tab and it disappears" or "tab just vanishes with no visual input".
it feels like youtube is trying to snipe scammer team but ends up sniping a random.
I thought i was the only one getting mr beast scam ads i have reported so many of them but yt doesn’t seem to care
why would they want to remove what makes them money
How do they manage to fail spelling so much, yet are fully capable of writing entire codes to create a whole website without fail?
one of those robux scam live streams are literally in my feed right now as I'm watching this video lmao
At 2:32 "guardio also scams the internet" use captions
don't even need to use captions, he literally says that lol
@@Wojciechgcits scans -🤓
There's a creator on TikTok who fell into this trap and actually insulted me for calling him out. I looked up to him and his empowering content and got virtually smacked for the dude promoting the same thing here.
TH-cam should partner up with Guardio to filter out dangerous links. They should also implement an AI or have someone check these ads, as the current moderators seem to be on a completely unreliable level with zero verification💀💀😭😭
They need to add a trusted domains feature where sites like TH-cam and Amazon will still be clickable
wont work, scammers can just make link redirect to a community post and the scam link put there
too much effort for youtube to find every single trusted domain just for those domains to still likely have redirects anyways to scam sites
Pretty sick looking Audio R8. Wonder how it sounds.
so glad that my little me always entered fake info on those surveys
another thing that youtube needs to do is to make livestreams run at max 1 day (also youtube needs to allow youtubers that have/had music radios run for more than 1 day like lofi hip-hop radios and other people through a verification form) so that the scammers who loop their livestreams for more than 1 day will stop. If a miracle happens then youtube can also terminate people who ran the videos for more than one day without permission but considering the fact that I am talking about youtube they might not even consider it once.
That live chat is commonly used for clash of clans gem generators back in the day
i actually once witnessed a roblox scammer get banned live, it was so funny
For the ad situation, they apparently have done some things to prevent some things from happing, they blocked “MrBeast” in ad titles & descriptions
that was the smoothest sponsor transition i have even seen
1:25 "and im gonna make sure to pause that so i dont lose any brain cells" the famous and wise words from a human who has lost lots of brain cells
he has experience
true
@@kuinobot32
Scammers are truly wasted potential... I can assure you, even if getting 20 bucks from me meant a scammer going to the moon, he will find a way to do it.
TH-cam could make exceptions where your channel needs to be verified and thoroughly checked
man i wish people cared this much about the porn / CP shorts that have been popping up for the last 2 weeks, none of them or the connected channels have even been touched yet. Guess its going to take adpocalypse 4.0 before that starts
Bros gets the freest sponsor transitions.
I wonder, why would these scammers put these "do these things so we can verify that you're not a bot, so that we can give you free [insert premium currency here]"?
Because the things they ask you to do involve giving your personal information. They start with "Verify you're not a bot" so the victim will think, "Well, obviously I'm not a bot, and it makes sense they don't want bots grabbing all the gift cards and ruining it for real people like me. This is a reasonable thing to ask." So they ask you to sign up for rewards by filling out a survey (and include your email and name, info they can sell), sign up for free trials (with payment information so they can bill you once the trial ends), purchase products (that they get a commission off of), etc.
The "tasks" start small, surveys and such, so that you become invested. They always keep you at "just one more step", dangling the carrot of "Free gift card" in front of you that they'll never actually give. There will always be some error, some problem. "That last survey didn't register for some reason. Must be a temporary problem. Try again with another offer?" They'll have a multi-level structure that they hide from you at the start. "Complete X offers!" becomes "Okay, you completed X offers, now you've gone from Level 1 to Level 2! Here's bigger offers to level up faster!" becomes "Okay, you're at Level 3, so those early offers don't count anymore, you have to do these more involved things because any bot can click through a survey." becomes "In order to complete this level, book a non-refundable 5-day cruise on this website at a discount and leave a positive review!" or something else absurd.
Eventually, the victim will drop out, but they don't care because they'll have gotten at least something out of you if you complete even a single step, even if it's just pennies' worth of sellable info. (Package up a couple thousand email addresses plus names, sell the mailing list for $50.) Never do they actually pay anything out, so there's next to no cost for them.
thats the first time i hear something new well done ntts
If they actually put effort into removing the scammy/inappropriate ads, they'll lose a good chunk of their profits.
These survey scams have been a thing since forever. Even I fell for them long long ago
clownxiao wasnt tricked, she has been promoting them for a while and is linked with these scammers.
Imo she prop signed a contract and now she's forced to do that or just profits from it
Who else came here from kreekcraft’s most recent vid
Me lolololol
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@@SjokopandaM-T bru then why would u commnet on here
I am so glad youtube one day woke up and just decided “That’s it no more roblox scammers!” at least what the thumbnail says to me.
Probably best way to deal with fake giveaways is to report every affiliated channel and the actual post, eventually TH-cam might realise that “hey maybe we could probably do something about this” I’m pretty sure there is an “additional information” thing so put in possible suggestions incase anyone at TH-cam reads them
depends on how it will be managed, if by a bot, high risk of false bans
@@The_Dr_Fate infinite chain strike
@@sihamhamda47 exactly
People have been reporting the Mr. Beast scams en masse for like a year now. You'd think their bots would pick up the word "Mr. Beast" that isn't connected to his channel, or at least that same YouTooz figure art that's on every single one of them, but Christ. I'm convinced they just don't care.
Imagine having a basic website analyzer to check links on one of the largest websites in the world... This is a problem that could be solved in 2 weeks tops at youtube...
I once found a bunch of kids on a scam stream and i was trying to say that its fake and that they won't get stuff, but my messages where drowned by the thousand more people that where commenting
before I clicked, I thought he was talking about the free robux bots that spam comment sections, but when I saw clownxiao, I started celebrating
A while ago I made a "free robux" video, that was actually just a rickroll.
I got terminated, but I tried appealing a few weeks ago so I'm not just ban evading, but that resulting in me losing access to advanced features.
And I thought this was understandable, but I kept getting ads for actual free robux scams, and the fact that they can just get away with this fucking sucks.
Can you also cover those dahood scams that appear on tiktok
you should make a complaining video, talking about things like how discord made it so only community servers can have never expiring invites
My guess is they already have found a loophole to that before it even came out
What if you brute-forced the last digits? They don't even work since they normally have invalid characters.
bro they really thought they could get away with those scams 💀
thing is people can just copy and paste the link into the browser search so tbh this update does pretty much nothing
These ads are worse then the website i used to pirate Animes they atleast give you a break after 2 clicks for like the duration of the episode
Also there's the free robux, vbucks, nsfw etc. bots everywhere, especially on family-friendly channels
TH-cam does have some measure to stop Mr Beast scams, you can't put the words MrBeast and mabye some variations in ads. That why they are all "Beast Tasks" or "Beast Rewards"
Fact: before sanctions, we in russia had ads where popular content creators/president would give out money
You should make a tutorial on how you got your chrome to look like it does
imagine creating a scam website and not even bots are falling for it💀
Fact: if this method gonna work, then roblox gonna be mad and stop working for loosing too much money.
we need more videos about scams !!
Damn youtube pls remove theese scammers pls😊
Rest assured that the small boys will find new ways to get granpa his robux / scam him.
i haven't seen a youtube ad in months... i use adblock on pc and on phone (i use the browser on my phone for youtube with adblock and uninstalled the youtube app)
on phone just use revanced it come with ad block but also sponsor block which block sponsor like the one in this video
TH-cam, seeing a deep fake account were the deep faked person doesn't have anything against it: "Stop this now or we will send cops to you"
TH-cam seeing any scam: "Oh no, I don't know what to do"
This sponsor transition clean asf
If i didnt have Vanced i would be able to see hope it was a good transition for those using original youtube
Clussy got them kids actin' unwise (with their parent's money)
lmao
TH-cam should just make theyre own URL shortener in YT Studio and have people review the websites the creator wants to promote (this has a lot of problems w how i described it but im sure youtube would make it much better if they were to do it)
FINALLY THESE KIDS THAT DON'T KNOW ANYTHING (my kids) wont steal my money now.
TH-cam on mobile disabled the function to click links on shorts
Im partly to blame for TH-cam targeting scammers as ive been reporting roughly 100 of them a day for like 5 months lol
7:46 bro got that double sponsor💀
Edit: when i say double sponsor i mean the fact that one of the buttons say download and run opera gx
Idc what updates they bring all i want is to bring back the number of dislikes
NNTS is the perfect Mix of chaos, and good.
You still see the porn bots in every comments section of every gaming youtuber with generic copy pasted comment that just says content creator good with a name that is basically sexy singles in your area. And I remember seeing these comments all the way back in 2009 so it's so funny to see TH-cam act like they have even done the most basic thing to deal with scammers.
honestly if u fall for those, its natural selection
You can still copy and paste so it's not fully stopping it
Anyone still remembers Casino in Russian YT ads?
why is everyone trying to scam NTTS knowing he wouldn't fall for it, and he'll make a video about it, I 💗 NTTS
I actually almost got scammed by one of those "Mr Beast" Accounts