Avoiding YouTube Scams

Posted on | November 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

It’s time to talk about YouTube scams. This particular type of scam has become increasingly popular as more and more people started looking for solutions on YouTube. What’s ironic is that in most cases, the scam video provides advice and a step-by-step guide to people who want to hack other people’s accounts.

The YouTube scam is in most cases so poorly executed that anyone with above average intelligence will see right through them. The spelling is horrible, the story is predictable and the suggested methods often make no sense at all.

That being said, I’m writing this post on them anyway, just so you’re covered in all aspects of scamming. YouTube scams mostly offer solutions in the following categories: Hacking other people’s WoW accounts; receiving or generating free game cards; receiving or generating codes for rare pets and mounts (spectral tiger being one the most popular ones) and receiving some sort of attractive gear/item for free. Of course, it’s all non-sense. Blizzard has stated on several occasions that they only use their official channel for promotional purposes.

To my knowledge there exists no programs that are able to artificially create items, mounts, gold or game cards. No is there any method to hack other people’s WoW accounts, unless you the information is handed over by (or phished out of) the user.

Below is a prime example of how far the scammers are willing to go, to scam you of your account.

Basically every single video in this list on YouTube is fake. They serve no other purpose than to lure you into sending your account name and password to them.

So where do the scammers come up with these methods? is a prime location. Although the site has officially gone white hat – or legal in layman’s terms – the members are still the same scammers they were before. The people “helping out” on MMOwned are the exact same people who’ve been orchestrating scams ever since World of Warcraft was released.

where a user describes the GameCard Generator scam in detail.

Here’s another thread describing how you can manipulate the views your YouTube scam video gets, to get a higher rank in the search results.

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4 Responses to “Avoiding YouTube Scams”

  1. Francis Holloway
    November 28th, 2009 @ 6:05 pm

    Found this on Google, thanks for posting. I’ve seen a lot of World of Warcraft Cataclysm beta scams around lately, so hopefully people will Google before submitting their information…

  2. ulrich
    November 30th, 2009 @ 12:06 am

    If anyone falls for that youtube scam you embedded it’s their own fault.

    No one can be that stupid. Really..

  3. admin
    November 30th, 2009 @ 12:15 am

    ulrich: The embedded video is just an example and I agree with you it’s quite obvious. YouTube scams vary greatly both in terms of ingenuity and execution.

  4. incognito
    November 30th, 2009 @ 2:55 pm

    Haha ye agree with ulrich.. the one embedded is really obvious, but I’ve seen others which were really believable so… great post none the less.

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