YouTube Warns Creators an AI-Generated Video of Its CEO is Being Used For Phishing Scams (theverge.com)
(Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:30PM (msmash)
from the too-close-to-home dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/04/220243/youtube-warns-creators-an-ai-generated-video-of-its-ceo-is-being-used-for-phishing-scams
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/624159/youtube-ai-generated-neal-mohan-phishing-scam
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to [1]lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan . The fake video has been shared privately with users and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an attempt to steal their credentials, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
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> "YouTube and its employees will never attempt to contact you or share information through a private video," YouTube says. "If a video is shared privately with you claiming to be from YouTube, the video is a phishing scam." In recent weeks, there have been reports floating around Reddit about scams similar to the one described by YouTube.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/624159/youtube-ai-generated-neal-mohan-phishing-scam
> YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to [1]lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan . The fake video has been shared privately with users and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an attempt to steal their credentials, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
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> "YouTube and its employees will never attempt to contact you or share information through a private video," YouTube says. "If a video is shared privately with you claiming to be from YouTube, the video is a phishing scam." In recent weeks, there have been reports floating around Reddit about scams similar to the one described by YouTube.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/624159/youtube-ai-generated-neal-mohan-phishing-scam
Filled with AI scams (Score:2)
by SuperDre ( 982372 )
Youtube is full of AI generated deepfakes/scams. Last night of the 8 'livestreams' of Starship flight 8 (which was scrubbed in the end) 5 of them were scams with showing Musk promoting some digital scamcoin as if it was during a spaceX presentation .
Re: Filled with AI scams (Score:2)
by bjoast ( 1310293 )
This is why removing the public dislike count on videos was a terrible move. No clear signal to the viewer that a video or stream could be bad. The people running Youtube truly are stupid.
I'll bet it didn't (Score:2)
> In both of these cases, the email came from no-reply@youtube.com.
Only if you only looked at the "From:" field and none of the other things that all said "no, it didn't"