Hey you and welcome my name is Mr. Berry in this whole video we're gonna be looking at the
is this you scam and people been receiving a message in their emails and their private messages
even in their text messages asking is this you in this video and so we're going to be taking a
little bit of a look at the scam and see if we can avoid it so let's check it out you and i come on
so the way this scam works is that you'll receive a message either through email your
text messages maybe even through a private message on facebook or other social media and you'll come
out like this you know to ask you is this you now when you first look at it it looks like a
video and what you have to do is it looks like oh you just click it and that's the trap
that's actually uh how they get you there is when you click on it and you give it some information
so um the thing that's really bothers me as a professional there as a teacher is that
my students have been receiving these and and when they receive one it looks like it's from someone
they know so maybe it's from someone on their contact list or it's a familiar name or something
and so we're just going to put up their so-so because uh in english so-so often refers to oh
that's someone who i know now so you get this message from someone you know and is asking you
is this you in the video boom what happens well your curiosity spikes in and you click on the on
that icon and what happens is instead of playing the video it actually opens up into another screen
and this other uh window that shows up is asking you oh please log in to your account
so that you can view the video and you're thinking oh oh i must have logged out by accident well
no you didn't log out by accident what it is is it's a scam and it's a phishing scam where they
fish credential information out of you so they're looking for username and your password and that's
actually what happens on the next message it'll come up saying oh what is your username what is
your password you put in those and then there's another button there that says either submit or
you know next you click it and what happens is instead of it playing the video
basically what you've done is you just sent your username and your password to someone a hacker
somewhere who knows where and what they do is then they can actually go in and with that information
they can hack into your system if it's a google if you've given away your your gmail account or
your google account they can get into that account and then from there they can do a lot of havoc so
what i'm doing is i'm making this video so that i can warn on everyone there that if you ever
receive a message that says hey is this you in the video do not click on the message at all in fact
you can just delete that message how did i find out about this well my wife received a message
on her phone she goes oh it's from one of my friends okay so she went down there and
she looked at it and said is this you in the video oh what did daniel do now and she clicked
it and it's asked her to put in her username and password she goes oh that's strange i must
have logged out by mistake and so she's faithfully putting in or beginning to put in that information
and then she starts thinking and go wait a minute here i haven't logged out of any of my accounts
why is it asking me to log in so that kind of tipped her off she brought it to my attention
i looked at it oh that's a scam i better tell others about it not too long after that i even
received one on on my message there saying is this you in the video and i'm thinking wow if
two of my family members receive this in just a matter of a few days hey probably a lot of you are
receiving the same message so now you know what to do just delete that message you can if you want to
you can call the person who sent you that message and ask them hey did you know that um i just
received a message stating uh you know is this you in the video and it seems like it's from you
your account may have been hacked so they may want to go in there and let's say that that did happen
we did put in your username and your password and what you would do is you go get into your account
and change your password immediately you can also turn on what's called two-step verification and
two-step verification is within your settings click on settings and then go into security once
you're into security you'll notice one of those options is called two step verification click
that and then what happens is that in order before someone can actually log into that account you'll
receive a phone call asking you is this you trying to log into your account so two-step verification
means that not only do you put in your username your password but you will also receive a phone
call every time you log in verifying that it is in fact you trying to log into your account
and hopefully i've warned uh people there so that they've been now aware of this terrible scam
that's going around on the internet right now hey if you like these types of videos please give it
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