I highly recommend reading a paper from a Microsoft researcher titled "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are From Nigeria?" It goes pretty deep into explaining the science behind these kind of scams, right down to the typos, poor grammar, and obvious lies. They're trying to quickly weed out the savvy crowd and directly target only the extremely naive and gullible.
@@hywodenathis one‘s different bc the „Nigerian“ scammers have to spend their time on the scam, so they weed out the ones who might take them too much time or most probably realize it’s a scam at some point; so they only have to put their time into the most promising victims.
@@SleepySloth2705 Susan shouldn’t even be involved with TH-cam. There are so many things wrong with the platform and she just lets it happen while swimming in money.
I just report them as inappropriate because that's the only one I feel like will cause it to get flagged for review. I'm half tempted to use one of the options for reporting really bad/illegal stuff and then put that it's posting scam ads in the description when I report their channels just in hopes that someone will actually look at the report. But I worry that would just get the report thrown out for being inaccurate.
Conflict of interest on yts part. Why would they want less advertisers? And they know they have a monopoly (hyperbole) and we will use the site anyway. They dont care if their users are getting scammed.
I appreciate the empathy towards scam victims! It doesn't help them ask for help or talk about their experience to help others if we insult them and shame them when they were already vulnerable and are now in a worse position.
Yeah, and you don’t have to be stupid to fall for it. My very intelligent grandma fell for a phone scam where the caller said “Grandma?” In this really scared voice. She said “Jacob??” Thinking it was one of her grandsons. The caller confirmed himself to be Jacob, told her a story about how he’d been held up and had his wallet stolen, yadda yadda yadda. Grandma was in such a panic over the safety of her grandson she didn’t think before sending him money to help.
As a professional dumbass I needed to hear this lol. I thought it was legit and cause it had Mr beast attached to it so I ignored my gut feeling and kept going till it got ridiculous and now I'm still trying to cancel the payments for brands I got free trials for
I wonder how liable YT is for their ads. I mean they had to approve the ad. If I was Mr. Beast I'd be looking into my legal options. The company that I make bank for is approving ads that impersonate me and tank my reputability?
I dont know if TH-cam even checks the ads anymore, I've gotten ads on shorts where a woman is giving a bj (the mouth is covered and the male is off-screen but it's blatantly obvious what's going on) and the description links to a p*rn site..
YT ads are set up in Google Ads platform so Google is the culprit. I am an experienced digital marketer and lately Google are basically pushing us to spend as much budget on and campaigns as possible for our clients without thinking about the negative impact it could have. Since COvvVID this has really ramped up as Google lost loads of money. I'm totally not surprised by the Mr Beast ads. If Google really cared about blocking scam stuff they would have picked it up from the off believe me. Rather they will let it run for a bit without looking deeply into it so they get their share of client spending on and campaigns.
It’s ironic how, within the duration of this video about scam ads, I got a 2 minute scam ad talking about a “miracle cure” for type 2 diabetes. TH-cam can be so goofy sometimes.
The fact that TH-cam doesn't do anything until MrBeast says something, makes me think they are profiting and hoping to not get caught. I believe, MrBeast could sue do defamation if he can prove these ads on this platform are ruining his image.
6:35 by the way, it's against paypal's policy to pass the fees associated with selling onto the buyer. if you're an seller hoping to do commissions, factor the fees into your base prices.
Thanks for talking about this. Its important to remember that most of us grew up in a generation that has seen and heard of so many scams that we dont fall for them often. A lot of people dont have that same privilege. If you aren't falling for this scam its because its not targeted at you and someone else most likely is. Stay safe folks!
I'm quite literally the demographic for these. Early 20s, broke and naive. And yet even I was shocked when not a single person in the comments of those ads questioned anything, they were all very positive in fact. Encouraging Those weren't old people, they were people my age, early 30s, of course, some kids.
I'm just realizing this video is ELEVEN MONTHS OLD, and I just discovered it because I looked up "mr beast scam" after seeing an ad like that. TH-cam really be farming these scammers.
It sucks how theres so many scams and bots. Its especially creepy when the bots have the same username and picture as the youtuber. If you're really young, really old, or very unfamiliar with these types of scams, you'd think those bots were the real creator and you'd click. It's actually evil.
It is more laughtable than creepy, because you can look for 1 second and tell 100% very easily that those bots are fake, only people who lack braincells or very old/young people will fall for those.
What bothered me the most about this was how awfully inconvinient it was to report the advert on youtube. TH-cam really needs to make reporting ads easier
Fun fact: Vasovagal syncope is triggered by moments of strain or stress, including during bowel movements. Therefore, it is not uncommon for one with the ailment to pass out while pooping. Which is just plain funny, I'm sorry.
I can often avoid those scams but since I've started doing freelance art work, I've been nearly scammed a few times. It's a lot harder to avoid it when it's in your own DMS
It's been a month, and to my knowledge, nobody's noticed that he called his lookalike "Jordan", which is the name of the actor who played Mike Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I love subtlety.
Problem with the MrBeast scam is he gives away money all the time. Its not far-fetched he'd do something like this. I saw the ad multiple times and I always ignored it cause I ignore all ads. If it was real he'd mention it in a video. I did think once, what if it is real. But I never clicked cause I have anxiety for good things to happen to me anyway
Yea, when I saw it, I didn't believe the claim would be as good as what it said, but I did google to see if he was doing some weird give away video out of curiosity.
I thought it was him. I just didn’t click cause I thought he was scamming us, not badly scam just getting more emails or something. Like with his chocolate bars.
I legit thought it might be him so I clicked on the profile to check if it was posted by any of his official accounts, but nope, that would be too beautiful 😅 It really doesn’t seem too far fetched to think he’d be willing to pay for an ad just to give away money to people who recently looked up his channel on TH-cam (which I did and I assume is one of the ways the ads choose who to target)
I never realized how fake it was because I didn’t look at it for too long, but I figured it would be like the “everyone gets a Lamborghini” where most people would get a plastic toy
Everything he does screams scam and i am not at all surprised scammers realize this and take advantage of it. Like even his smile is so tortuously forced..
About a channel being stolen A few months ago my Google account was essentially stolen, but I was still logged in on my phone so I could see the activity, I only knew my account was hacked into when, I saw that I was about to be charged by Google ads for somthing about a pizza place, and that it would be suspended because it violated tos So it seems like people are taking other accounts, and using it to scam others
I like that you mentioned that these scammers target vulnerable/not very tech savvy populations. I would even take it a step further and assert that the scam looking “obvious” to the demographic watching this video is completely intentional, as it allows the scammers to filter the traffic to their site such that the most vulnerable ($$$) users will click on it, but a general audience (---) won’t.
I got an ad tight below the video, and it was one of the same Mr. Beast ads he was talking about in the video. TH-cam truly cares about the creator and viewer. They would NEVER just let anyone advertise whatever scam they wanted because their paying a lot of money.
They’re looking out for the REAL customers of this website. They get more money helping others scam people than from actual content creation. It isn’t even just Susan doing this,the corp as a whole is tainted.
How often do you guys get concussions? Are you just banging your head on the floor all the time when you pass out, or do you feel it coming and so you sit down first to prevent injury?
@@cleigh3796 (I hope you don't mind the late reply) I don't have dysautonomia but I've had vasovagal syncope episodes throughout my life so hopefully I can sufficiently answer. It really depends on the person but for people like me who have dealt with them in the past, we know when its going to happen (getting tunnel vision, feeling lightheaded, nauseous, or dizzy) so we sit or lay down and tell somebody what is happening so they can help if we need it. Concussions do happen but I would imagine its mostly to little kids or people who are having it for the first time since they don't realize the symptoms they're having will lead to them fainting. tl;dr its usually pretty harmless, just annoying.
When Mista GG called him TH-cam's sweetheart in his last video it just made sense to me because he's like one of my comfort you tubers and he has a genuine vibe about him imo. Like I found him through mista GG but I stayed for him.
LMFAO “why hasn’t Jayden checked on me “ lmfao I’m just picturing her living her happy life completely oblivious to her husband missing for weeks lololol
Scott, just wanted to let you know that your channel is one of the best for my mental health. I am a highly sensitive person and consuming a lot of serious media or media centered around any kind of negativity can be really heavy on my mental health, even if I love the creator. But you and your videos are so wholesome. They are like comfort food for my brain. ☺️
Scott, you should definitely do another “guess that cameo.” You’re a great game show host. And this video is fantastic. You and GG both are exposing scammy internet things, love to see it.
TH-cam doesn't do anything about these scams for months. But somehow they manage to find "38 Subscriber Dave" when there's a song without copyright permission playing in the background of his graduation party. Weird how things slip through they are when they're getting a cut of the action.
I really appreciate your instructions about flagging spam comments! I always want to help creators and you made that really easy in a really simple way. Love your videos, happy holidays!
Words to live by: if a faceless seller tells you that you will win something, you won't. End of story. And if you do recieve/"win" it, you'll end up paying it back to them in one way or another. That's just the basic art of entrepreneurism.
I'm glad you made a video on this. People in our age group have been able to witness just how predatory and pandering a lot of these ads have gotten over time with the birth of the internet as we know it. Very entertaining stuff
They're purposely 'stupid' to filter out people who would figure it out quickly. They want to appeal to those who are easy marks so they don't have to waste their time.
Bro, Scott is one of my favorite TH-camrs solely because he’s just so entertaining to watch and listen to, even when he’s talking about more serious stuff like this.
This is happening with Metallica now too. They recently announced a new album and people are running livestreams impersonating them, saying they'll grant people access to the album or crypto or god knows what else.
That's interesting, I think the whole focus on verified accounts really needs to be taken more seriously, especially as more streaming & digital purchases only becomes more common.
When you email him, please let him know that my friend a Persian Prince has an Uncle who is trying to take over West Africa and he needs to watch out. He might be able to get on the same boat to get out of the Continent.
People are so scared of scams these days. They accuse me of scamming them when I demand they pay me 50 dollars to cross the Brooklyn Bridge, which I legally own.
The weird thing about most of them Mrbeast promo channels is that in the channel description it says a different channel name in the link part, and its also usually a channel created in like 2010. Most likely meaning these promo things are random accounts that got hacked into these promos.
Check the details on those ads, it says 'Romania' and some Romanian companies are putting out the ads. What a shocker. Why is TH-cam allowing unlisted videos to play as ads anyways?
TH-cam really needs to crack down on all these scam bots that appear everywhere, on almost every channel, trying to impersonate various TH-camrs and telling people to click on them to claim/redeem some sort of prize. It's out of control and really annoying to see this all the time.
Yes it's an epidemic! Also people suggesting crypto currency advisors, who within 1 minute have 10 other people under that comment all saying how they are great & earned them so much money.
Another killer video! I love hearing you talk about advertising, because you seem like someone with so much integrity however you have the inside know-how to tell us exactly why some advertisers are being scummy. Your videos help me engage with the online world in a better way, and I appreciate that and I appreciate you.
Oh my god in so glad you made this video. I report these ads every single time. It’s such a shame they are still able to make these ads and the profiles are really good at making it hard to report
The problem is that we are working for yt for free by reporting them. They should be getting ads before approving them. The way to combat this us by ideally using another platform which realistically I won't even do, or by using an adblocker. Dont reward TH-cam disrespecting its users like this. Let the scammers pay for their ads to go unseen.
I actually tried to report one of these ads and got an e-mail from youtube a few minutes later tellinv me they weren't going to do anything about it lmao
If you notice the bottom left corner on the mobile games ads, they're all Cameo videos, so yeah, there's no chance in hell that Dr Cox from Scrubs and the one guy from The Office has played this game
I kept seeing the ads, I clicked into them thinking that would mean that TH-cam would target them at me over someone else who might fall for them. Glad to hear they are gone now! 😅
@@piss7610 well in the past when I click into ads I have seen that there is a larger chance that I got recommended them again… ALSO I JUST GOT ANOTHER MR BEAST AD TODAY!!! 😡
@@piss7610 to be fair there's always a finite amount of money being spent on each advertisement, and on many platforms advertisers pay for how many times each ad is shown, but I'm not exactly sure of how it works.
I was getting those game ads with cameo video type paid endorsements for a while. As I am an elder xellenial-type and, therefore, completely out of touch with current trends and celebrities, though, it did not occur to me that the fluffy gamer gentleman who was swearing the game was a real deal life changer and totally not a scam was supposed to be famous until you just mentioned it. I presumed generic local commercial actor. Learn something new every day, I guess. Now I almost hope I get that ad again so I can try to figure out who the hell that guy was, what his claim to fame is, and why the almighty algorithm assumed I'd care about his paid testimonial.
I think its ridiculous TH-cam runs scams like this and does nothing about it. Just like oh sorry how did this get here? Is there no screening for their advertisement?! I STILL see the mr beast all the time and this video is over a year old.
I love the storytelling element in your videos Scott, this is such a good example of it too! I was impressed with the continuity of keeping the orange shirt, and then to come in with the clone was hilarious!
Brother I love watching your videos, idk lately I’ve been on edge a lot because I moved to a different country and I have no friends also just broke up and I’ve been trying to find content and music that I actually like and it’s been hard to a point I started writing my own songs to listen to cuz I knew exactly the style I would like and actually considered making videos as well to watch but that was pointless and now I’m so happy that I found your channel with content that I actually enjoy watching or just listening to. Thank you very much even tho you don’t know you’ve helped me out quite a bit since yesterday that I started watching your vids I already feel so much better hope this comment finds you well keep up the good work🙌
I don't pay much attention to these ads, but I have notice MrBeast's face appear in them a few times lately. One that I remember because I just saw it today said something along the lines of "Only click this if you need money for Christmas presents"
A year on, and its still a problem, I seen it alot over the past few weeks, and each time I see it I report it, and TH-cam even remove it, but sadly, the scam is still live, they just make new accounts.
Omg. John C. McGinley is a complete genius. I see that ad as more of a scathing review. Notice is head shaking while saying "he was glad he tried it." He got paid for it and went over their heads and promoted. But then I might be viewing it through his Scrubs character's mindset
Great video. I'd still like to see Scott do a video about the Zoboomafoo episode, Snakebellies, specifically the subplot with implied nudity. It's not so much that that's weird as it is that they'd have a subplot about the character of Zoboomafoo wanting the Kratt Brothers to get naked against their will. That's the kind of innocent yet dirty nostalgic weirdness for which I come to this channel.
Sad thing is the same type of scammers are on Facebook too. I commented on one of his posts for a new video on Facebook, and not an hour later I literally had three responses from two different Jimmy Donaldson accounts and a MrBeast account asking me to DM them. Which really sucks because I'm about to get evicted and could really use the money they were promising.
I am really looking for a game that's offered to me in a dark alleyway and when I play it it feels so good I will want to play it more and more. Then eventually it stops being fun, but not playing it just makes me feel physically sick and turns me into an emotional wreck, so I need to go looking for more anyways, loosing more and more of my life savings until eventually I can't afford it anymore so I have to borrow money from some sketchy, big, tall, burly dude who I can't pay back so he beats me up into pulp and I end up in a hospital with a broken leg, 4 broken ribs and a punctured lung. Anyone know where I might find that kind of game?
I always report the users who make the mr beast ads, but I still see little kids in the comments saying "can I still get the rewards? I'm 10" it's so sad 😭
Normalised fake content is just rampant these days too which contributes to this “don’t trust anything” guard we need to have up. For example: There’s a TikTokker with nearly 5 million followers called Eloise Fouladgar but most of her videos consist of a setup of a fake crazy situation (“my plane did an emergency landing after I found a suspicious package in the toilet”) but then her part 2’s just straight up never get made. On a more serious note, she also has faked multiple stories about stalkers and situations where she’s in danger. For most people the videos are clearly fake, but for younger impressionable fans they get heavily invested in it whilst she’s shilling products to them on the side.
I highly recommend reading a paper from a Microsoft researcher titled "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are From Nigeria?" It goes pretty deep into explaining the science behind these kind of scams, right down to the typos, poor grammar, and obvious lies. They're trying to quickly weed out the savvy crowd and directly target only the extremely naive and gullible.
I had to intervene when my mom almost adopted a free silky terrier but had to pay 650 to pay for the flight fees from Cameroon 🙃
Interesting
Ohhh that makes perfect sense
@@hywodena same for half a second i thought omg is that real
@@hywodenathis one‘s different bc the „Nigerian“ scammers have to spend their time on the scam, so they weed out the ones who might take them too much time or most probably realize it’s a scam at some point; so they only have to put their time into the most promising victims.
I get scam ads on TH-cam all the time. And the worst part is that when you try to report it, "scam" isn't even an option for reporting.
Susan won't do anything about that and telegram bots, because they make money regardless
@@SleepySloth2705 oof
@@SleepySloth2705 Susan shouldn’t even be involved with TH-cam. There are so many things wrong with the platform and she just lets it happen while swimming in money.
@@jolynn89Susan is no more the ceo
Yeah, this ad a year ago and guess what no report then either
I've been wanting the abilty to report ads as spam because "repetitive, irrelevant, or inappropriate" does not account for straight up scams
I don't know why many platforms do not have a seperate scam report button
scams are never appropriate in any context, so that's the one i use
Working as intended.
I just report them as inappropriate because that's the only one I feel like will cause it to get flagged for review. I'm half tempted to use one of the options for reporting really bad/illegal stuff and then put that it's posting scam ads in the description when I report their channels just in hopes that someone will actually look at the report. But I worry that would just get the report thrown out for being inaccurate.
Conflict of interest on yts part. Why would they want less advertisers? And they know they have a monopoly (hyperbole) and we will use the site anyway. They dont care if their users are getting scammed.
I appreciate the empathy towards scam victims! It doesn't help them ask for help or talk about their experience to help others if we insult them and shame them when they were already vulnerable and are now in a worse position.
Yeah, and you don’t have to be stupid to fall for it. My very intelligent grandma fell for a phone scam where the caller said “Grandma?” In this really scared voice. She said “Jacob??” Thinking it was one of her grandsons. The caller confirmed himself to be Jacob, told her a story about how he’d been held up and had his wallet stolen, yadda yadda yadda. Grandma was in such a panic over the safety of her grandson she didn’t think before sending him money to help.
yeah, its not their fault that soneone took advantage of them for money
@@ketaminepoptarts in what world would it be their fault?
As a professional dumbass I needed to hear this lol. I thought it was legit and cause it had Mr beast attached to it so I ignored my gut feeling and kept going till it got ridiculous and now I'm still trying to cancel the payments for brands I got free trials for
@@misspollysdolly what's the consequences of falling for this scam? my little brother fall for it, and I really hope it's nothing serious
I wonder how liable YT is for their ads. I mean they had to approve the ad. If I was Mr. Beast I'd be looking into my legal options. The company that I make bank for is approving ads that impersonate me and tank my reputability?
I see straight up points ads all the time. YT DOES NOT check that thoroughly
Youtooz too. Like.. the ads use their artwork???
I dont know if TH-cam even checks the ads anymore, I've gotten ads on shorts where a woman is giving a bj (the mouth is covered and the male is off-screen but it's blatantly obvious what's going on) and the description links to a p*rn site..
YT ads are set up in Google Ads platform so Google is the culprit.
I am an experienced digital marketer and lately Google are basically pushing us to spend as much budget on and campaigns as possible for our clients without thinking about the negative impact it could have.
Since COvvVID this has really ramped up as Google lost loads of money.
I'm totally not surprised by the Mr Beast ads. If Google really cared about blocking scam stuff they would have picked it up from the off believe me. Rather they will let it run for a bit without looking deeply into it so they get their share of client spending on and campaigns.
YT doesn’t approve ads just like they don’t approve videos
It’s ironic how, within the duration of this video about scam ads, I got a 2 minute scam ad talking about a “miracle cure” for type 2 diabetes. TH-cam can be so goofy sometimes.
I’m glad someone is talking about this. I see this all the time, and I never believe it.
The fact that TH-cam doesn't do anything until MrBeast says something, makes me think they are profiting and hoping to not get caught.
I believe, MrBeast could sue do defamation if he can prove these ads on this platform are ruining his image.
The fact you never believe it is why there are still 6 quantities available!! Click here now!
if you're over the age of 10 and under the age of 60 you shouldn't even think it's real for a second
Good job on not getting scammed thumbs up of approval 👍
Guess you missed out on $1,000 then 😏
6:35 by the way, it's against paypal's policy to pass the fees associated with selling onto the buyer. if you're an seller hoping to do commissions, factor the fees into your base prices.
Thanks for talking about this. Its important to remember that most of us grew up in a generation that has seen and heard of so many scams that we dont fall for them often. A lot of people dont have that same privilege. If you aren't falling for this scam its because its not targeted at you and someone else most likely is. Stay safe folks!
Yeah, I'm sure this gets a lot of kids
@@nunpho yep
Makin me feel old man :(
I'm quite literally the demographic for these. Early 20s, broke and naive.
And yet even I was shocked when not a single person in the comments of those ads questioned anything, they were all very positive in fact.
Encouraging
Those weren't old people, they were people my age, early 30s, of course, some kids.
Everyone should be required to play runescape in their youth
I'm just realizing this video is ELEVEN MONTHS OLD, and I just discovered it because I looked up "mr beast scam" after seeing an ad like that.
TH-cam really be farming these scammers.
Me too
It sucks how theres so many scams and bots. Its especially creepy when the bots have the same username and picture as the youtuber. If you're really young, really old, or very unfamiliar with these types of scams, you'd think those bots were the real creator and you'd click. It's actually evil.
"Creepy" really isn't the right word to describe it. I'd say scary, but nonetheless, your right.
It’s creepy for sure. And fraud
It is more laughtable than creepy, because you can look for 1 second and tell 100% very easily that those bots are fake, only people who lack braincells or very old/young people will fall for those.
There's always been those exact type of scams though. I remember watching stuff on TH-cam 10 years ago and seeing the same types of scam comments
youtube are only interested in censoring the truth!
What bothered me the most about this was how awfully inconvinient it was to report the advert on youtube. TH-cam really needs to make reporting ads easier
Thank you for shedding light on the Vasovagal syncope community we really
that extra layer took me a second
Fun fact: Vasovagal syncope is triggered by moments of strain or stress, including during bowel movements. Therefore, it is not uncommon for one with the ailment to pass out while pooping. Which is just plain funny, I'm sorry.
Oh.
@@GamingintheAM0801 yeah that was fun for my mom to find (me on the floor by the toilet)
@@GamingintheAM0801 Well sure it's hilarious, until it happens to you. Then it's just terrifying.
I can often avoid those scams but since I've started doing freelance art work, I've been nearly scammed a few times. It's a lot harder to avoid it when it's in your own DMS
When you said “I haven’t played a mobile game since I lost my streak in balls.” I’ve never related more.
Omg he liked my comment!!!
Congrats struggler
Cringe
"I haven’t played a mobile game since I lost my balls in streak."
@@Klabbity_Kloots he still liked the post…
It's been a month, and to my knowledge, nobody's noticed that he called his lookalike "Jordan", which is the name of the actor who played Mike Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I love subtlety.
Tbh I combed the comments to see if someone explained the joke lol
And if you look up what he (Jordan Fry) looks like now you will, in fact, find Scott Cramer.
Problem with the MrBeast scam is he gives away money all the time. Its not far-fetched he'd do something like this. I saw the ad multiple times and I always ignored it cause I ignore all ads. If it was real he'd mention it in a video. I did think once, what if it is real. But I never clicked cause I have anxiety for good things to happen to me anyway
Yea, when I saw it, I didn't believe the claim would be as good as what it said, but I did google to see if he was doing some weird give away video out of curiosity.
I thought it was him. I just didn’t click cause I thought he was scamming us, not badly scam just getting more emails or something. Like with his chocolate bars.
I legit thought it might be him so I clicked on the profile to check if it was posted by any of his official accounts, but nope, that would be too beautiful 😅 It really doesn’t seem too far fetched to think he’d be willing to pay for an ad just to give away money to people who recently looked up his channel on TH-cam (which I did and I assume is one of the ways the ads choose who to target)
I never realized how fake it was because I didn’t look at it for too long, but I figured it would be like the “everyone gets a Lamborghini” where most people would get a plastic toy
Everything he does screams scam and i am not at all surprised scammers realize this and take advantage of it.
Like even his smile is so tortuously forced..
About a channel being stolen
A few months ago my Google account was essentially stolen, but I was still logged in on my phone so I could see the activity, I only knew my account was hacked into when, I saw that I was about to be charged by Google ads for somthing about a pizza place, and that it would be suspended because it violated tos
So it seems like people are taking other accounts, and using it to scam others
Ordered a 5 piece chicken strip meal but got 6 pieces and Scott posts. It's a good day
happy for u
Keep your head up King
That’s a good day indeed 😌
No struggling today 💪you go king
I got free fries with my burgers
I like that you mentioned that these scammers target vulnerable/not very tech savvy populations. I would even take it a step further and assert that the scam looking “obvious” to the demographic watching this video is completely intentional, as it allows the scammers to filter the traffic to their site such that the most vulnerable ($$$) users will click on it, but a general audience (---) won’t.
I like how Scott either talks about stuff that’s like 20 years old or stuff that’s so recent that his videos are the first time I’m hearing about
I got an ad tight below the video, and it was one of the same Mr. Beast ads he was talking about in the video.
TH-cam truly cares about the creator and viewer. They would NEVER just let anyone advertise whatever scam they wanted because their paying a lot of money.
It’s sad that TH-cam is proactive for corporations when they have a copyright complaint, or b.s. strikes, but is relaxed towards these scams!
They’re looking out for the REAL customers of this website. They get more money helping others scam people than from actual content creation. It isn’t even just Susan doing this,the corp as a whole is tainted.
As a person with Dysautonomia, I really appreciate the awareness provided in this video 👌 Nothing better than mixing education with humor.
Same
I am having a really bad flare right now and am binging all these videos. I didn’t know that many people knew about it.
How often do you guys get concussions? Are you just banging your head on the floor all the time when you pass out, or do you feel it coming and so you sit down first to prevent injury?
@@cleigh3796 (I hope you don't mind the late reply) I don't have dysautonomia but I've had vasovagal syncope episodes throughout my life so hopefully I can sufficiently answer. It really depends on the person but for people like me who have dealt with them in the past, we know when its going to happen (getting tunnel vision, feeling lightheaded, nauseous, or dizzy) so we sit or lay down and tell somebody what is happening so they can help if we need it.
Concussions do happen but I would imagine its mostly to little kids or people who are having it for the first time since they don't realize the symptoms they're having will lead to them fainting.
tl;dr its usually pretty harmless, just annoying.
@@pierrottt5726 how long are you usually out for?
When Mista GG called him TH-cam's sweetheart in his last video it just made sense to me because he's like one of my comfort you tubers and he has a genuine vibe about him imo. Like I found him through mista GG but I stayed for him.
Well well well...
SunnyV2 Not like us cover boutta go hard🗣️🔥🔥🔥
LMFAO “why hasn’t Jayden checked on me “ lmfao I’m just picturing her living her happy life completely oblivious to her husband missing for weeks lololol
Scott, just wanted to let you know that your channel is one of the best for my mental health. I am a highly sensitive person and consuming a lot of serious media or media centered around any kind of negativity can be really heavy on my mental health, even if I love the creator. But you and your videos are so wholesome. They are like comfort food for my brain. ☺️
Scott, you should definitely do another “guess that cameo.” You’re a great game show host. And this video is fantastic. You and GG both are exposing scammy internet things, love to see it.
TH-cam doesn't do anything about these scams for months. But somehow they manage to find "38 Subscriber Dave" when there's a song without copyright permission playing in the background of his graduation party. Weird how things slip through they are when they're getting a cut of the action.
I really appreciate your instructions about flagging spam comments! I always want to help creators and you made that really easy in a really simple way. Love your videos, happy holidays!
Words to live by: if a faceless seller tells you that you will win something, you won't. End of story.
And if you do recieve/"win" it, you'll end up paying it back to them in one way or another. That's just the basic art of entrepreneurism.
Except Mr Beast does this all the time where "it's too good to be true"
I'm glad you made a video on this. People in our age group have been able to witness just how predatory and pandering a lot of these ads have gotten over time with the birth of the internet as we know it. Very entertaining stuff
I love how well this aged, since I still get the MrBeast Ads and it is now 2024 xD
Scams are weird. How can they be both so stupid and so "clever"?(aka able to fool old people and kids)
Because old people and kids don’t know that it’s a scam.
They're purposely 'stupid' to filter out people who would figure it out quickly. They want to appeal to those who are easy marks so they don't have to waste their time.
They throw a bunch of scams out into the wild and hope that people fall for a few of them.
It's stupid people praying on stupid people
Because old people are essentially children 😂
Crazy I saw this scam again just today. I’ve seen it on and off for like a year now.
Bro, Scott is one of my favorite TH-camrs solely because he’s just so entertaining to watch and listen to, even when he’s talking about more serious stuff like this.
Glad you talked about this. I’ve been seeing this mr beast ad wayyy too much. Especially during lockdown it went bonkers
This is happening with Metallica now too. They recently announced a new album and people are running livestreams impersonating them, saying they'll grant people access to the album or crypto or god knows what else.
That's interesting, I think the whole focus on verified accounts really needs to be taken more seriously, especially as more streaming & digital purchases only becomes more common.
@9:52 John C. McGinley reads the ad.
love the head shake when he talks about how "glad he is to have tried it" 👈👉👈↔
lol
15:03 "Point out the scammy scumbags plz." You're a real one Scott, that's why we love ya. That and in-depth toilet paper suggestions.
love that sound effect from the beginning of Yes - Roundabout
How could anyone fall for this? I'm gonna have to email my my friend about this. He's a Nigerian Prince
When you email him, please let him know that my friend a Persian Prince has an Uncle who is trying to take over West Africa and he needs to watch out. He might be able to get on the same boat to get out of the Continent.
@@DkgowI need more lore please keep replying
People are so scared of scams these days. They accuse me of scamming them when I demand they pay me 50 dollars to cross the Brooklyn Bridge, which I legally own.
@@genericname2747 Gotta pay the troll toll
The "free 1000usd" is a immediate red flag
Gotta say, that intro is everything, great montage 😆 and for some reason the running gag of the scam plus the music makes me laugh 😂
The weird thing about most of them Mrbeast promo channels is that in the channel description it says a different channel name in the link part, and its also usually a channel created in like 2010. Most likely meaning these promo things are random accounts that got hacked into these promos.
Look what we have here....
finally someone talks about this,this ads been haunting me for like a month
Check the details on those ads, it says 'Romania' and some Romanian companies are putting out the ads.
What a shocker.
Why is TH-cam allowing unlisted videos to play as ads anyways?
As a person of Romanian heritage, are they known scammers?
I felt really sick today and you posted you just made me really happy. Thank you.
Same bro
SAME
I hope yall feel better!
same
Same dude
I had one that was genuinely a commercial spot. It was unskippable! Unskippable adds are expensive.
The best part of the video is when Scott says he wants to do another episode of guess that cameo...
Yeah the ads are up again... Dont think that TH-cam even cares if nobody as big as mr beast draws attention to it
Thank you for not sharing the name of the app! You’re so right that they don’t deserve the press
TH-cam really needs to crack down on all these scam bots that appear everywhere, on almost every channel, trying to impersonate various TH-camrs and telling people to click on them to claim/redeem some sort of prize. It's out of control and really annoying to see this all the time.
Agreed!
Yes it's an epidemic! Also people suggesting crypto currency advisors, who within 1 minute have 10 other people under that comment all saying how they are great & earned them so much money.
This video actually says a lot of the Scott Cramer lore.
Another killer video! I love hearing you talk about advertising, because you seem like someone with so much integrity however you have the inside know-how to tell us exactly why some advertisers are being scummy. Your videos help me engage with the online world in a better way, and I appreciate that and I appreciate you.
Oh my god in so glad you made this video. I report these ads every single time. It’s such a shame they are still able to make these ads and the profiles are really good at making it hard to report
The problem is that we are working for yt for free by reporting them. They should be getting ads before approving them. The way to combat this us by ideally using another platform which realistically I won't even do, or by using an adblocker. Dont reward TH-cam disrespecting its users like this. Let the scammers pay for their ads to go unseen.
Something about seeing Dr. Cox in a scammy mobile game ad really took the wind out of my sails.
Same.
Saying Sports after Essentially the second time made me laugh out loud. Not sure why, but thank you for that.
I have better things to do than check on you, sorry 🤷🏻♀️
💀
I’m literally dead
I love that you call us "strugglers". Makes me feel less alone 😆
Same
Agreed
11:40 that is exactly how my grandma describes meeting my grandpa, lol. They were happily married 42 years before he passed.
I don't know why but the frequency of the bleep is really satisfying.
I thought this would have been gone by now, but I literally went into incognito and it was the first ad that popped up.
it's an endless game of whack-a-mole, and no matter how many times you report the accounts and they get terminated, they'll always come back.
I have been begging for someone to talk about this thank you!!!
I actually tried to report one of these ads and got an e-mail from youtube a few minutes later tellinv me they weren't going to do anything about it lmao
oh... my... god... royal match ads are slowly eating away at my sanity I feel like a shell of a person I didn't know others experienced the pain
If you notice the bottom left corner on the mobile games ads, they're all Cameo videos, so yeah, there's no chance in hell that Dr Cox from Scrubs and the one guy from The Office has played this game
dude every video youve dropped lately has been so good ur killing it!! and ur set looks great
Annnd this is STILL a problem 1 year later, I get those kinds of ads from time to time still.
I kept seeing the ads, I clicked into them thinking that would mean that TH-cam would target them at me over someone else who might fall for them. Glad to hear they are gone now! 😅
That's not how that works lmao. There's no finite amount of ads. You just clicked scam ads for no reason.
@@piss7610 well in the past when I click into ads I have seen that there is a larger chance that I got recommended them again… ALSO I JUST GOT ANOTHER MR BEAST AD TODAY!!! 😡
@@piss7610 to be fair there's always a finite amount of money being spent on each advertisement, and on many platforms advertisers pay for how many times each ad is shown, but I'm not exactly sure of how it works.
4 months later and these ads are still everywhere
I was getting those game ads with cameo video type paid endorsements for a while. As I am an elder xellenial-type and, therefore, completely out of touch with current trends and celebrities, though, it did not occur to me that the fluffy gamer gentleman who was swearing the game was a real deal life changer and totally not a scam was supposed to be famous until you just mentioned it. I presumed generic local commercial actor. Learn something new every day, I guess. Now I almost hope I get that ad again so I can try to figure out who the hell that guy was, what his claim to fame is, and why the almighty algorithm assumed I'd care about his paid testimonial.
I think its ridiculous TH-cam runs scams like this and does nothing about it. Just like oh sorry how did this get here? Is there no screening for their advertisement?! I STILL see the mr beast all the time and this video is over a year old.
I guess you could call him "Scam Cramer "
Scott Scramer
@Safwaan 😟
I could but why would I?
Scam Scramer
Thank you for teaching me what vasovagal syncope is.
I tell you TH-cam does nothing for there ads, I've goten a very similar ad HUNDREDS of times and I still get it.
Reported it and everything and it's the same channel with the same ad
I love the storytelling element in your videos Scott, this is such a good example of it too! I was impressed with the continuity of keeping the orange shirt, and then to come in with the clone was hilarious!
I miss the good old honest days of Nigerian princes and AOL phishing.
Brother I love watching your videos, idk lately I’ve been on edge a lot because I moved to a different country and I have no friends also just broke up and I’ve been trying to find content and music that I actually like and it’s been hard to a point I started writing my own songs to listen to cuz I knew exactly the style I would like and actually considered making videos as well to watch but that was pointless and now I’m so happy that I found your channel with content that I actually enjoy watching or just listening to. Thank you very much even tho you don’t know you’ve helped me out quite a bit since yesterday that I started watching your vids I already feel so much better hope this comment finds you well keep up the good work🙌
Literally got this ad while watching this video, a year after it's been posted. . .
legend says the mr beast giveaway scam ads are still being shovelled on youtube to this day
they are, and youtube doesn't do diddly about them
I don't pay much attention to these ads, but I have notice MrBeast's face appear in them a few times lately. One that I remember because I just saw it today said something along the lines of "Only click this if you need money for Christmas presents"
A year on, and its still a problem, I seen it alot over the past few weeks, and each time I see it I report it, and TH-cam even remove it, but sadly, the scam is still live, they just make new accounts.
Scott with another Banger Video 😤
They haven’t taken all of them down, I just saw one today. They should really get more on top of this
Omg. John C. McGinley is a complete genius. I see that ad as more of a scathing review. Notice is head shaking while saying "he was glad he tried it." He got paid for it and went over their heads and promoted. But then I might be viewing it through his Scrubs character's mindset
2 months later, it's still live. And it's really tempting because giving some randoms online a 1000 dollars sounds like something Jimmie would do
"Lowkey this makes me wanna do another episode of 'guess that cameo' " OHMYGOD PLEASE I'VE BEEN STARVING FOR THAT FOR SO LONG
The “Essentially…. (Sports)” joke was top notch 5:51
11:28 i love how they didn't edit out the Cameo watermark...dead giveaway lmao
Great video. I'd still like to see Scott do a video about the Zoboomafoo episode, Snakebellies, specifically the subplot with implied nudity. It's not so much that that's weird as it is that they'd have a subplot about the character of Zoboomafoo wanting the Kratt Brothers to get naked against their will. That's the kind of innocent yet dirty nostalgic weirdness for which I come to this channel.
Sad thing is the same type of scammers are on Facebook too. I commented on one of his posts for a new video on Facebook, and not an hour later I literally had three responses from two different Jimmy Donaldson accounts and a MrBeast account asking me to DM them. Which really sucks because I'm about to get evicted and could really use the money they were promising.
I am really looking for a game that's offered to me in a dark alleyway and when I play it it feels so good I will want to play it more and more. Then eventually it stops being fun, but not playing it just makes me feel physically sick and turns me into an emotional wreck, so I need to go looking for more anyways, loosing more and more of my life savings until eventually I can't afford it anymore so I have to borrow money from some sketchy, big, tall, burly dude who I can't pay back so he beats me up into pulp and I end up in a hospital with a broken leg, 4 broken ribs and a punctured lung.
Anyone know where I might find that kind of game?
I find it funny how in one of the mobile game ads with “celebrities” and you can pause it and get the most goofy pictures
I always report the users who make the mr beast ads, but I still see little kids in the comments saying "can I still get the rewards? I'm 10" it's so sad 😭
Normalised fake content is just rampant these days too which contributes to this “don’t trust anything” guard we need to have up. For example: There’s a TikTokker with nearly 5 million followers called Eloise Fouladgar but most of her videos consist of a setup of a fake crazy situation (“my plane did an emergency landing after I found a suspicious package in the toilet”) but then her part 2’s just straight up never get made.
On a more serious note, she also has faked multiple stories about stalkers and situations where she’s in danger. For most people the videos are clearly fake, but for younger impressionable fans they get heavily invested in it whilst she’s shilling products to them on the side.
Still can't believe you don't have a million subscribers yet, man
Over a year later and these scam ads are still an ongoing issue lol
Scotty is the most adorable of the youtube comedy channels