YouTube Has Banned Linus Tech Tips
gamerant.comPopular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been banned from the platform after their account was taken over by hackers promoting an infamous Bitcoin scam featuring fake Elon Musk. This latest example of YouTube's growing problem with crypto scammers arrives just as the waves from the Logan Paul-Coffeezilla Cryptozoo controversy are settling.
Crypto scams have been an issue among tech and gaming content creators for years now. Hackers taking over accounts to peddle fraudulent investments are just part of the problem, given how even some of the largest channels do so willingly. YouTube streamer IShowSpeed recently apologized over one such crypto controversy, positing he had no intention of scamming his fans. The other side of the issue are the account-hijacking hackers themselves, many of whom historically favored using a known series of fake Elon Musk streams promoting fraudulent Bitcoin investments.
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That particular scam has now embroiled popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips, which got hacked in service of more fake Elon Musk Bitcoin streams on March 23. The account, owned by famous Canadian content creator Linus Sebastian, was promptly terminated by YouTube for the platform's Community Guidelines violations. Two of Sebastian's other channels, TechQuickie and TechLink, were also taken over by the presumably same group of crypto scammers within minutes of the main account, and with the same outcome.
This Bitcoin scam flavor already made headlines in April 2022, when an unknown group took over the YouTube channel of professional eSports player Byron «Reckful» Bernstein in order to promote the same fraudulent videos starring a fake Elon Musk. Making matters even more distasteful was the
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