An old interview with Tim Cook was streamed live on YouTube, and tens of thousands of viewers watched the stream while it was live. The interview appeared to be airing to draw attention to a crypto scam.
If you’ve come across a crypto scam on YouTube before, you can spot many signs of what’s going on. The fake livestream was attracting attention using a series of Apple keywords in both the title and description. But when you open the video, you can see that it is full of strange messages linking to a dark-looking crypto site.
There were many signs that the live stream was fake. It had a strange title – “Apple Event Live. CEO of Apple Tim Cook: “Apple & Metaverse 2022” and showing an old interview CNN had with Cook in 2018. The broadcaster had added the Bitcoin and Ethereum logos to the video stream, the CNN Money logo was overlaid with the text “Apple Crypto Event 2022″, underneath it ” URGENT NEWS” (URGENT NEWS). And when you actually clicked on the channel’s page (allegedly “Apple LIVE”), the URL had nothing to do with Apple. This meant that the channel had a different purpose at one point, but malicious people It is presumed that it was captured and used to host the stream.
YouTube has yet to comment on the matter, and after a while, the post was removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service.
While the fake livestream clearly didn’t come from Apple, it took place at a time when the company was getting a lot of attention online. Apple had aired its big iPhone 14 announcement event hours ago, and CEO Tim Cook was interviewing at Vox Media’s Code conference that evening. This misleading post appeared to be an attempt to fool people who might be aware that Apple is having a big day, but don’t know exactly what’s going on.
The fake broadcast garnered more than 70,000 viewers during its time on the air…
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