{"id":12971,"date":"2023-06-20T19:14:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/a-new-youtube-ad-scam-stole-250000-from-unwitting-victims\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:15:21","slug":"a-new-youtube-ad-scam-stole-250000-from-unwitting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/a-new-youtube-ad-scam-stole-250000-from-unwitting-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"A new YouTube ad scam stole $250,000 from unwitting victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No good deed goes unpunished; there\u2019s a new scam on YouTube that\u2019s swiping money from people just trying to do the right thing. According to Techradar, the scam takes the form of a YouTube ad, and it was able to make off with hundreds of thousands of dollars.<br \/>\nNew YouTube ad scam fools thousands<br \/>\nThis scam was discovered by the cybersecurity firm Avast, and it\u2019s been spotted on both YouTube and Instagram. We have no word on the people who are behind this scam, but they claim to be part of an international organization.<br \/>\nThe organization is called World Champions EU. This organization claims to be linked to the Israeli organization called Internal Championships. The folks at Avast tried to contact the organizers, but that proved fruitless. That\u2019s a major red flag.<br \/>\nThe bank associated with the organization is called Mizrachi-Tefachot, an Israeli bank. The banking details of a person named Alufei Olam were associated with this bank.<br \/>\nAs for the scam itself, it shows a video of a young child who\u2019s suffering from cancer and pleading for donations. The original video was in Russian, and it\u2019s since been translated into English, Ukrainian, French, and Spanish. This means that it made its way to countries to swipe money from unwitting do-gooders.<br \/>\nSince sick kids can tug on some serious heartstrings, this \u201cfundraiser\u201d was able to raise an eye-watering $250,000+ over its run. That\u2019s no joke, even though it was shy of its $800,000 goal.<br \/>\nLook out for scams like these<br \/>\nThere are a lot of kids out in the world who are in need. However, there are also a lot of scammers out there who will use that to their advantage. If you come across a fundraiser on the internet, you\u2019ll want to do your research. Look up the organization hosting the fundraiser before you send money.<br \/>\nIf you notice anything suspicious, then you\u2019ll want to pass it up. While it may be hard to pass on helping a child in need, you\u2019ll want to make sure. The money you\u2019re sending might not fund a kid\u2019s operation, it might fund some scammer\u2019s Tesla.<br \/>\nThe post A new YouTube ad scam stole $250,000 from unwitting victims appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/PXL_20211110_185631336-scaled-1.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1928\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No good deed goes unpunished; there\u2019s a new scam on YouTube that\u2019s swiping money from people just trying to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":12972,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12973,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions\/12973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}