A Fake YouTube Email Tried to Scam Me, so I played along...

Well, today I have a pretty interesting adventure to take you with a very surprising story that developed from the beginning of an

email

in my spam folder section that I go to from time to time just to provide myself with some wholesome entertainment and if you go there and then also in your

email

you'll probably notice that some of them are not only marked as spam, but if they contain certain keywords or certain phrases, then they actually mark it as dangerous and say it shouldn't be. Interacting with it will otherwise get you hacked, but in this case it turned out to be a

fake

email from YouTube trying to get you to click on one of their links so they can collect your information, but this one was unique and particularly eye-catching. -It caught my attention because it was obviously not like the normal one where they really put effort into making it look almost visually similar to what you would see.

They emailed it to my actual public email, which isn't even connected to my YouTube channel, which is obviously a sign that YouTube would never email anything, but I decided to play along anyway and see how long. could lose from this particular

scam

mer and I think you should watch the full video because it's amazing how entertaining this whole thing became. Let's go straight to the beginning. Hello, we would like to inform you that your account is in danger. You have received a total of 43 community standards warnings in the last 24 hours. Click the button below to regain access to your account now. or termination will occur thanks to the

youtube

team

youtube

team there's just not even a space there and by the way the link.

I use a VPN and an incarnator tab to check what the actual page link was actually going to. It was a realistic looking Gmail phishing page. you know the normal type of

scam

mer page they use to get your information, you write in your account, you think it's real, I don't think anyone would fall for that, I mean I really couldn't imagine that would actually happen, but anyway you understand point. and it was done with Google Forms, so as expected, I responded very scared because who wouldn't be scared in this situation? Oh my god, I'm sorry, can you give me another chance?

Okay, sir, this is what you need to do. to the button in the email and fill out the information and we will get back to you as soon as we can, thanks to the youtube team again, by the way, in case you were wondering, it might mess up reading these messages from time to time. considering that it is quite obvious that the person behind the screen was not born in the English motherland. Sorry, could you help me find this button? I'm not very tech savvy, I'm sorry, but I'm also sorry, please don't do it. delete my account, sir, button above the original message.

Please note not to take too much time as you have 12 hours until the account is deleted. Thanks, okay, obviously at this point, like anyone who would have been fooled in this situation, I was a little confused and still hadn't received my answer to the original question I asked. Okay, I clicked the button now. Can you guide me through the process? I'm stuck on the first answer, like what do I put? I'm afraid. I will fill it out wrong and delete it sir listen to me okay so stop messaging here and fill it out. Thanks youtube. Is there a support section because I want to recover my password since I forgot it and I need to fill it here?

At this point, I think even they were getting a little confused because my confusion was rising to levels beyond their understanding, sir, why? Hello, it's okay, just fill in the information, okay, thanks, I finally did it, but it took me to a confusing page. I don't know where to go next. Please help now if you are wondering what that link is and where it goes. I'll leave it in the comments section for you to discover for yourself, but where did it go. and I guess you'll see it right now. This particular person was not very happy about this and did not take it very kindly.

Listen to me. You are playing? Your account will be deleted soon. I have not received your information. Alright? We're taking out all caps now, so we're getting really serious, there's nothing to waste time on here, okay, but why did you take me to that page like where do I go now, sir, if you don't want to go in and is it not blocked? account to delete stop talking to these men with us if you are not serious thanks at least they are polite in the end so what do I do from time to time they just responded?

Are you in all caps? Not sure if they were trying? to finish their message and maybe they just couldn't. I looked at his email using a reverse email lookup which is a free Chrome extension and found that the location and most prominent IP usage of this email is in the area of ​​India called Sri Lanka. so in the next email I felt like it was a perfect opportunity to add that little piece in there, at that point they stopped messaging me and that was the end of this trilogy of messages and the story for the moment until the next day, ah, Yeah. youtube322 gmail.com decided to give me a second chance, they had mercy on me and seriously wanted to help me regain access to my account and didn't want to have to delete it, so the next day I received another one.

Hello sir, by email, have you already filled out the login information? YouTube Team. Oh, they finally wrote the YouTube team correctly. I mean, Hello again. I'm still struggling to get over the first answer because I wasn't prepared to study for this before I got the alert. that my account was going to be deleted, please forgive me, okay sir, all you need to do now is fill out the form that I have here, okay, and enter the information so that they would create another Google form to replace the Google form that they sent me. First, and essentially I only had two questions, what is your email username and what is your account password, apparently that will allow me to log in to my YouTube channel, so it makes a lot of sense, except it didn't because Obviously, I'm extremely confused.

I still have many questions about it. Okay, I'm lost again. I clicked on the link and ended up logging into the wrong account. Can you remind me what my account name is? They started to get a little frustrated. You are idiot? I'll tell you one more time. It's time to complete the sheet. Don't make another account. Okay, let's try to start again. How are you? I can't wait here with your messages. I will warn you that we will cancel the account in less than 24 hours. No no no. Don't do it, I'm almost ready to fill out the form, just give me a moment to remember my password up to this point, they were already sick of my crap, they didn't want to put up with me, but they still kept putting up with it.

Yo idiot men, how do you say you don't know the password? What, my god, I finally broke the whole facade. We are not a scam. Do you want to log back into your YouTube account or not? YouTube Team. Now we're back on YouTube. team again well what do you know? Oh YouTube account, I thought this was the fan-only support page haha, the bad thing is that they didn't email me after that, so it seems like that was the final official conclusion of this whole narrative, I think it ended up being extremely ridiculous and funny at the same time.

I have no idea and I honestly don't think he was aware of the fact that Google Translate exists. Do not send messages to these people. Okay, I don't know what they're capable of. You might be able to just harvest your account anyway or have some other strange foreign technology that could do weird things to you, but if you ever get the chance, never fail to give these types of scammers a very hard day like they deserve and with See you all next time so