Watch Out for This Email Scam Pretending to Be From YouTube Support

If you’ve a YouTube channel, there’s a new (new to me anyway) electronic mail rip-off that you simply want to pay attention to. This rip-off landed in my inbox earlier at the moment. Fortunately, the rip-off is so poorly executed that it’s quite simple to spot. 

The rip-off is that somebody finds the e-mail handle you’ve related to the “about” web page in your YouTube channel then sends you a PDF by sharing it by way of Google Drive. The PDF is titled “Copyright Warning” and claims to be from “YouTube Support.” However, the e-mail handle related to the shared file is a generic Gmail handle. That’s the primary clue that the e-mail is a phishing try. 

Another clue that this was a rip-off was that in my case, the e-mail handle discovered on my channel’s about web page is totally different from the one which I exploit to really log into and publish movies on my channel. YouTube assist, from whom I’ve acquired authentic emails, will solely contact you thru the e-mail that you simply use to log into and publish in your YouTube channel. 

Because I take pleasure in unraveling scams like these, I made a video to spotlight the issues with the rip-off and the way to keep away from falling for it. You can watch the video here on my YouTube channel or as embedded under. 

Applications for Education

I like to take rip-off electronic mail makes an attempt like this one and use them as the premise for quick classes about cybersecurity. Emails the just like the one I bought at the moment have some tell-tale indicators of a rip-off which are pretty simple to spot. See in case your college students can spot them.

Some comparable scams that I’ve unraveled within the final couple of years embody this one about picture attribution and this one additionally about picture attribution from somebody pretending to be a lawyer.