Hi, just a heads up and warning to fellow YouTube content creators this one's important and I
Hadn't seen this before. We've got a
Very clever and very nasty phishing scam and this is not fishing catching fish. This is the fishing of the ph kind
Let's take a look at it. I got this email. Just a little while ago, and
Once again if you're a YouTube content
producer you're probably used to getting these a copyright claim on
my latest video the OWON video here
And it happens all the time YouTube have this magic algorithm that matches content ID
from various publishers
And you can get falsely flagged you know if you your speech or some other sounds in your video match the little algorithmic
Thing that there is a little wavelet thing or however they match the things in you
Videos can get falsely flag that's not usually not a huge deal. You just go through the claim process, and everything's hunky-dory
Yes, there are companies out there that
Do you know target channels, and you know do real nasty claims and stuff like that even anyway?
That's not one of them. We're talking about just regular one, so I get these videos. You know one in every
30 or 50 videos I might get a false claim or something so it happens, so I actually
Got this email and just went oh yeah here
we go again another false trigger somehow, so I actually screen captured this I tweeted it
And then like like a minute later or 30 seconds later I went
And this doesn't look and sound right something's going on here, so let's take a look at it. Shall, we
First of all I've never heard the word muted used before like muted
What does that mean like I like I don't know it just seems weird wording
And then if we go in to look at the email who it's from look at this who the hell like what?
Address is that prod.iad2.secureserver.net
That doesn't look the sound like it comes from YouTube at all and who they sent it to look EEVblog plus business at Gmail
Now I do have that address on my YouTube channel about page, and it's for specific business inquiries and stuff like that
so I get sorted in Gmail and all that sort of jazz, but I don't use that email address that any of my
accounts, so why have they sent it there and
smells fishy and then the sender to this
EEVblog@uh-secureserver.net
Something's going wrong here something's highly suspicious and a copyright
owner using content ID has claimed some material in your video. This is just a heads up do Not worry, Not with the capital "N"
Grandma's not to grade in this you are with the capital a as the second word no
It sounds a bit dodgy. I don't know who WMG is anyway
Some people including ??? Twitter claim that they do claims like this all the time
So they're probably wack that name in and look at this write it
so it looks like a legitimate email that I've got before and if they
Went to a bit more effort to register a domain name or something that looks very similar to YouTube
Then you know they could get away with it
They probably already get a lot of people with this scam
But let's have a look at the link down here ordinarily just don't click on these links
But they're not going to be able to fish me just buy this link of doing this as a community service
But don't click on these links okay, so if we have a look the link actually goes to secure
It's a secure one, but it goes to service-gomail.seenineusers.io blah blah blah
It's obviously not YouTube, and it's what they're trying to make it look like the Google login page. You once again
It's populated with EEVblog+business. That's not my login
So they're trying to get your login name your emails your login email and your password of course and once you've done that
Bingo they can you know the red flag goes off in you know?
Some country where they're running this scam from in the offices there
And we got one and they can then log in to your account
Take it over do whatever
I'm not sure how they actually make their money from this maybe they take your advertising revenue for a little while you do that
too you know a thousand the council. they're ten thousand accounts, and you know you can
Funnel some money around for a while before you move on to the next game
I don't know anyway and also if so if you're going to get an email like this make sure that you
Log in through your regular secure way into your Google account because there's no need to click on
links on these sort of things so
What so if you go actually if I go into YouTube so waiting to YouTube?
Find you know, I'm already logged in so I went in there and had a look and nah my monetization still's enabled. There's no content
ID claim in there at all?
Obviously because it's a phishing that scam. They're just trying to get my login details and take over my account the bastards
So if you know, there's a lot of telltale signs in here
But I can see why people would just go oh, you click on that
You know if you're tired you're doing with another bloody claim
You know and you just you know you get in here, and you login. They got my email address wrong wrong
right they can easily
You know I can see how if people would be easily fooled by that so just be very
very careful and only log in through your regular secure way and double check and
Then solve the problem through your regular YouTube interface, so there you go don't get caught by this phishing scam
that's a nasty little one hadn't heard about that one content ID
Phishing Scam Nasty watch out for it. Hope that helped catch you next time