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

If you may have a YouTube channel, there’s a new (new to me anyway) e-mail rip-off that you simply want to pay attention to. This rip-off landed in my inbox earlier right now. Fortunately, the rip-off is so poorly executed that it’s reasonably simple to identify. 

The rip-off is that somebody finds the e-mail deal with you may have 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 deal with related to the shared file is a generic Gmail deal with. 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 deal with discovered on my channel’s about web page is completely different from the one which I take advantage of to really log into and publish movies on my channel. YouTube help, 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 get pleasure from unraveling scams like these, I made a video to focus on the issues with the rip-off and how you can keep away from falling for it. You can watch the video right here on my YouTube channel or as embedded under. 

Applications for Education

I wish to take rip-off e-mail makes an attempt like this one and use them as the premise for brief classes about cybersecurity. Emails the just like the one I received right now have some tell-tale indicators of a rip-off which are pretty simple to identify. 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.