- Hey guys!
I cannot believe what you've managed to achieve.
My YouTube, even though we started it
just a year and a half ago about,
has now surpassed my Instagram
which has been around for like six years.
We surpassed three million, huge thank you for that.
But, with this new fame, has now come a new problem.
And that's a problem of people pretending to be me.
They're literally stealing my pictures offline,
uploading them, talking to people,
scamming them out of money,
calling and threatening my hospital,
it's nuts and I wanna tell you guys all about it.
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Just to clarify right at the outset,
I have one Instagram, one Facebook,
one Twitter, and one YouTube account
and all four of these accounts are verified,
so when in doubt, look for that check mark.
No joke, when I log on to my account every week,
there's like 30 or 40 new fake accounts that I find
that I have to actively delete.
And from the DMs you sent me
of the screenshots of these accounts,
a lot of them are really creepy and scary,
but some of them are also so absurd
that they kinda make me giggle.
You wanna take a look at them together?
Okay, we got Mickvarshavski,
at least they spelled my last name right.
But Mick? Come on.
Mike_6604, what's the justification for that?
"Current location: Somalia, medical doctor,
doctors without borders, trained to save life."
Not even trained to save lives,
I can only save one life.
But you see what I'm saying?
Like, this person's claiming that they're in Somalia.
This has happened before,
and people literally tell me
that they were considering sending them money
because they acted like I was kidnapped by pirates.
I'm not joking, this happened.
Mikehial.
I feel like this is how I would spell Mikhail
if I had no idea how to spell it.
"Welcome to my personal account and have some fun ahead."
"My official private messaging account,"
with a little Google link.
Please don't click that folks,
this person's probably a creep.
Definitely a creep.
Next we have scottrichard012,
because don't I look like a Scott Richard to you?
Scott Dick?
(laughs)
doctor.mike7 because I've already been blocked 6 times.
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
This person's a poet.
My official--
At least they gave me a shout out, look at that.
"My official page is @doctor.mike."
James_tyson01.
Do I look--can I pass as a James Ty--
I think I would make a cool James Tyson.
James Tyson, how you doin'?
Aw, come on, this guy's so cheesy.
Board certified FM doctor and it says,
"Saving lives is my hobby."
My man doesn't even save lives as his job,
he's like, "It's my hobby."
"Foot and ankle surgeon," very specific.
"NBC contestant, the titan game."
What? They've created a whole other life for me.
I'm gonna be an NBC contestant?
You can't even back that up.
This person has some serious cojones.
Doctor_mikhail_mike_varshavski.
How does Instagram allow a name this long?
"Main looking at you,
I can tell exactly
what is wrong with your system" (laughs).
Mikegilbertvarsh and the full name
is Mike Gilbert Varshavski.
My middle name is not Gilbert.
If it was, I would be a pretty weird Russian guy
with the middle name Gilbert.
First of all,
there's a picture or video of a baby in a blanket.
"If you reject me, somebody better than you will accept me."
(laughs)
And there's a picture of an apple pie or chicken pot pie.
This is a weird account.
I hope nobody fell for this,
although they have 14 followers.
"I'm a gentle, loving, caring guy, divorced,
looking for a serious relationship and love my job so much."
Not divorced, I am gentle, loving and caring,
but not divorced.
I'm not divorced.
Full name is Mike Varshavski Riggs.
Who comes up with this like,
why don't they just put Mike Varshavski?
Why do they put Riggs?
Where does Riggs even--
how does that enter your mind (laughs)?
"And we get a bunch of pictures from Dr. Mike,
upload them, change his name
from Dr. Mike to Dr. Mike Varshavski Riggs
and then I'll get a bunch of nudes"?
Www.mikecure.com.
I wonder what that cure is.
Bestdoctoralive.
"I'm an Urology Surgeon, working in an Indian hospital.
If you want to buy or sell your kidney
then contact us now.
We buy kidney $200,000."
First of all, who's us?
It's just my picture here.
The sickest part of all this,
it has 37 followers.
Are people trying to sell kidneys here?
- A dolla make me holla, Honey Boo Boo.
- No, look, in all seriousness, it's a problem.
Not only are people getting scammed out of money.
I consistently get emails saying
that they sent an iTunes gift card,
or an Amazon gift card, as I requested,
or they donated to some unknown charity.
I beg you, please don't send anyone money.
Don't meet up with anybody.
Don't send any nude pictures of yourself
to anybody unless you have some sort of video evidence
that it's the person you're talking to.
The only thing that I could do is consistency every week
try and take down these profiles.
So what can you do?
A, be on a look out if you see a fake account that adds you,
instantly report them or send them to me.
Be on the look out for those blue verification marks
on any social media platform.
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
They take those verification processes very seriously.
And then if you're unsure,
ask to do a video chat with that person.
They give you a shady answer,
or they're being weird about it,
they're not the real person.
Don't let anyone scam money out of you,
don't let anyone trick you and catfish you
like I've been in the past,
be on the look out for that blue check mark.
If you wanna hear the story of how my social media blew up,
click here for my residency and social media journey.
Stay happy and healthy.
But click.
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