Bad YouTube Knife Giveaway Scam

[Murindo]

I sometimes enter giveaways on YouTube for reputable companies or people I know.

Imagine my surprise when I got an email with a screenshot of my post and a note to message the above number to claim my prize knife.

The number was a What's App phone. I don't have What's App so I called the number and left a message. In less than a minute I had a text that confirmed I'd won a $ 350 knife. Next came please provide your full name, address, and a credit card to pay for shipping.

That's when I went back to the original YouTube vid and saw that there was nothing noted on my post. They had screenshot my post and then edited the post to make me a winner.

This is a warning to others who enter giveaways. Scammers have their ways to go for you even when the original giveaway is legit.

I'm not YouTube savvy enough to know how they got my email address..

 

[StuntDouble]

This is a common occurrence on Instagram as well. Often they'll send you a message from an account with a misspelled name that's extremely close to the original account's name, asking for the same sort of info. It's happened to me a couple times now, and is one of the reasons I don't enter any sort of giveaways on social media anymore.

 

[Corey.L]

happened to me with a blade hq giveaway, worked together with the original to get the scam acc shut down tho