Scam Alert - Running on YouTube Right Now

I was watching some crypto videos on youtube tonight and I started to get ads saying that Elon Musk was giving away free Bitcoin to help speed up adoption. It didn't sound completely implausible and I'm always up for a little free crypto so I made the mistake of clicking the ad.

It ended up taking me to what was made to look like a BBC article. Basically it said to send any amount of bitcoin to a certain bitcoin address and that they would send you back double. At this point I realized this was definitely a scam. They even said that if the transaction didn't work to try sending the bitcoin again. Anyway I saw several more variations of this same scam tonight including this one for Shiba.

I think what shocked me and why I decided to write a quick blog about this is I just didn't expect this type of scam to be running ads on Youtube. I figured they would screen stuff like this out. Anyway stay safe out on the interwebs.