r/SpaceXLounge • u/Jake6192 • May 28 '24

Fake livestreams Same as always

So sad but there are currently 300k people watching "IFT-4" streamed on YouTube. What they don't know is that it's a fake spacex channel (fairly well disguised I will give them that), and in reality they are watching IFT-1. If you get a minute, report @corp-spacex2 for impersonation on youtube. Maybe those 300k people are bots but still, sick and tired of these fake channels

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u/majikmonkie May 29 '24

Nearly all of the viewers will be bots - doesn't look like a credible feed if there's only 23 people viewing, so they'll pad the numbers with fake accounts and bots.

The legit people that are tricked by this will figure it out eventually once Elon comes on talking about how they should buy some sort of crypto.

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u/havecoffeeatgarden May 31 '24

The scam is of much higher quality than typical ones. they actually show the launch progress for a good 10 minutes or so, instead of just going for the usual “get free b1tco1n!!11” hardselling tactics. Psychologically by the time the fake elon shows up I’d imagine some people will already have been convinced that this is real.

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u/Planck_Savagery ❄️ Chilling May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24

Not to mention the fact that these scammers don't just target SpaceX launches anymore.

I've seen these same fake livestreams pop up for New Shepard and ULA launches as well, using titles like "through the eyes of SpaceX", "through the eyes of Elon Musk", "Elon Musk about ULA company", etc.