I was just watching the countdown to todays Ariane 6 flight on YouTube on the official cryptoscammer European Space Agency channel. The preview animation video that they are looping looks stunning, but something seem off …

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    on the official European Space Agency channel

    LOL, is that one of those channels which looks official at first glance but is actually a front for a cryptocurrency scam?

    Edit: Yup looks like it. Malicious actors seem to have usurped someone’s woodworking and carpentry channel and are using it as a puppet account to impersonate ESA. The official ESA YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeanSpaceAgency

    I’ve also put links in the launch thread over on !esa@feddit.nl.

    • shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Wow, it really seems to be one of those crypto scams, you are right! I specifically checked for this, but apparently, I was fooled!

      I was suspicious of the -2024 suffix. Things that tricked me:

      • 139k subscribers: I guess this channel just renamed itself?
      • Lot’s of official esa videos on the channel: Apparently, it’s just playlists.

      I will redact my post to remove the cryptoscammer link. So far, no cryptoscamming was observed.