So about a week ago as I was up late at night browsing through youtube videos and I came across something I found extremely interesting... and not like every other video on youtube at 2am.
I found a new channel called "Anonymous CryptoCallOuts" with only one video titled "A Message To CryptoTubers". Being that I am someone who posts videos on youtube about crypto-currencies my attention was gotten and I chose to watch.
The video began like every other anonymous video with the "anticipation setting" style opening music opening up for every anonymous video. It was short and to the point at only 1:21 seconds.
They stated that they refuse to sit by any longer while these people host channels with videos promoting referral links to sites with "questionable investment techniques or coins with little to no value or use".
The companies that they said are "on their radar" were:
-Genesis Mining
-BitConnect
-Control Finance
-PieCoin or PotCoin ? (couldn't tell what he said)
-EmberCoin
- ... as well as others...
The anonymous hacker said that they will systematically erase them from youtube and the cryptocurrency world. They will no longer allow them to take advantage of the people that "look up to and respect" them and to be expecting them.
I laugh, obviously subscribe, but think it is pretty crazy that this video got made. The channel didn't seem like a legitimate anon channel, and it only had like 5 subscribers. Normally when a video like that gets made it is followed up by something actually happening, so I figured we'd wait and see if this guy was actually an "anonymous" hacker, or just some kind of parody channel.
A few days later I see another video from the channel pop up titled "A Message To Kenn Bosak". I think to myself... "Oh shit... what could he have been into? I actually liked watching him... but in the latest few videos posted I were more drama than usual. He made an offer to Craig Grant (King BitConnect) to take down his Bitconnect bashing videos for 2 BTC, or takedown his videos and make one promoting BitConnect for 3 BTC because of a comment Craig had left on one of Ken's videos.
Craig said deal, but no deal ever happened. Craig Grant said he didn't have that kind of money, but his higher ups may want to do it so he would talk to them. His higher ups said no, so Craig still sent Ken 1 BTC in hopes that he would take down his videos bashing BitConnect. Instead Ken said thanks for the "Tip" but you didn't fulfill the deal so the videos will stay. He then said he played it as a game of chess and wanted to put his word against Craig's to prove Craig was a scammer and wouldn't stick to the deal... who knows, who cares... at least I thought. Someone or some people cared becasue this video was to Ken Bosak and about this whole situation.
They claim that he had been spiraling down a dark path and becoming more self destructive. They said that he use to have character, charisma, and was a face that could be trusted. Although for him offering to give up his integrity he needed to be "helped". They say he needs to await a message from them and something would be done that was admirable with the Bitcoin he received from Craig Grant to redeem himself.
Another few days go by and I get curious if Ken Bosak was going to respond to these "Hackers" or just let it be. I navigate to his channel only to find that he had no channel. All of his videos had been deleted... the channel completely wiped. I had a gut feeling it was from the person who made the video.
I then see another video from a different channel about two other content creators who's channels had been hacked. Both of these users completely fit the profile. Crypto Mark & CryptoGirl. Literally the same person but opposite sex. Both of their channels were filled with control finance and BitConnect videos. Every video was them reinvesting money or talking about earnings from the sites. I have no idea why anyone would even subscribe to them... complete spam and it would be like watching channels full of ads... nothing but ads about shitty ponzi sites. It was pretty bad.
So I go to each of their channels... same thing. Videos removed, subscribers deleted, all sorts of weird stuff going on with the placement of numbers from the script being altered it seemed.
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I had originally began writing about this yesterday early morning, I got busy, and when I came to conclude it I saw that another video had been posted by the channel, this time titled "Ken Bosak - A Response". I was obviously interested, so watched. This video is a little different. The man in the video is laying on a bed and seems to be making the recording on their phone. The video states that It was not Craig Grant who hacked Ken, but the guy in the video. He said Crypto Therapy channel was being watched, Trevon James, and Craig Grant. He took ownership for the other you tubers that had been hacked and also said that they would not stop until youtube was cleansed of all of its filth on the crypto side.
The rumor is that they got hacked by a phishing technique via email. Supposedly the hackers sent them emails that claimed to be from whichever platform they were promoting asking them to change their password for security purposes... if this is true it is very sad.
This almost happened to me years ago from a PayPal email. It then almost happened again to me a year or two later when my wife had lost her iPhone. Some times the phishing emails or texts can be very well done, but after a good examination you can spot discrepancies that are red flags. Like for PayPal they used my email to address me rather than my full name. From apple it wasn't sent from an apple email but a randomly made iCloud email address. The email address should always be the first thing looked at after the title of the email. I don't know how people still fall for these kinds of attacks, but be wary and aware when opening emails asking you about your private info.
This is very interesting and I am... anxious to see who is next on their list. I have seen TONS of people promoting those companies as well as many worse companies so i am very eager to see how far this goes and how long it goes on for. Be safe out their... hide your keys, hide your wife, cause they hackin' everybody out there!
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Anonymous should be fighting against cersorship, government dictatorships, modern slavery an so on! Why are they against cryptocurrencies? I don't understand.
They aren't against cryptocurrency. They are against people scamming people in crypto currency.
Anonymous isn't against crypto currencies. They're against the pimps promoting faudulent schemes.
Anonymous isn't a group. Its anyone who has a hidden identity.
Apart from the anonymous, that means someone with hidden identity, there is a hacktivist group called Anonymous, you can check #opnewblood on twitter where they tried to recruit new members.
Anonymous does not exist. Anonymous is an idea, a philosophy, a movement that comes into and out of existence as and when its group mind feels like it. The group is no one and also everyone. Telling any single self-proclaimed Anonymous member this or that for whatever reasons ... is meaningless. This guy is as much a member of Anonymous as we choose to believe he is and nothing more. He can do whatever he wants to do -- and he will. He hears only what he wants to hear. His beliefs will never change, until they do. Talking about him is wasting time. I am wasting time. You have just wasted time with me. Thank you.
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Awesome! Thank you for helping spread the news... I'm interested to see where all of this goes.
Very interesting post! Thank you! A few weeks ago my wife told me about BitConnect and as I was looking deeper into it, I could smell the scam. Then I read a disscussion between Craig and another guy, and I was sure it's a scam. Thanks again for the information!
Absolutely.
Many people have supposing opinions on bitconnect, but I believe the most important thing in crypto is to listen to your instincts and not make decisions based on greed.
In most instances our best option is to sit back and HODL.
Anonymous is Justice. Great content. Upvote for sure.
Thanks for reading and the upvote! We will see as time goes on who the real scammer is... I'm wondering if the "anonymous" hacker is going to be exposed before he has finished his mission to shut down all of these channels.
Most scam site owners are lazy and cheap. Those two kinda send the message of how many holes are in their operation.
Yes. Poor graphical design and grammatical mistakes are two of the easiest to spot red flags. It's usually so bad that it is comical.
But then again, have you seen BTCGPU's website? 😂
Interesting read. Thanks for posting.
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Justice in the wild west it seems. Old school tactics applied to new world technology.
I agree it will be interesting to see what comes of all this. The entire space is really open at the moment although entities are trying to tighten it up. Ultimately, since it is the digital world, the hackers rule. They are far ahead of everyone else and are able to make up their own rules.
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I definitely agree with you on that. Being that there aren't rules, rules can be made within he constructs of those who understand the framework the best.
That is what is interesting about the world of cybersecurity...they are always playing catch up.
The hackers start down the path they want to go and veer off it anything time the mood hits them.
I know. Constant cat and mouse game where the hackers seem to always be a few steps ahead.
It's hard for someone to oppose those who are so powerful and rich.
Very true... unless you are smarter than them and the people they surround themselves with.
Upvoted and Resteemed however, anyone calling Bitconnect a scam still when they were at an event with Intel and their trading bot was released and method of how they make their money is an idiot. Control-Finance is absolutely a scam and so is Laser.Online. The other businesses no idea but a legitimate mining company WTF?These guys are script kiddies emailing phishing links that shit is nothing don't click the links simple couldn't brute force an account if they tried.
Good points. Most of this could be avoided if people slowed down and thought. Then acted.
It's not 100% about the companies I don't think. I think it's more about the way certain people are marketing the companies, making it seem as if they are making money on a much larger scale with small investments. I can say I have a pretty large amount invested into genesis and I know if I could go back I wouldn't have done it.
That was a good read! Didn't know much of the back story. Seen a Trevon vid where he showed a email that was a phishing attempt that maybe all 3 fell for with "Kenn hacked" in title. Still don't know who Kenn is. But word to all, take it slow and be extra careful.
Ken got big bashing craig grant and bitconnect, and doing interviews with some more well known people in crypto. We will see how it all unfolds and get the real story I assume over the next few weeks
I don't know how I feel about hacking but it seems that many people get swindled. so, it helps if somebody is looking out for that. Keep us posted.
Absolutely, I will. I have made numerous blogs in the past about scam sites and as much as it sucks to have this happen to people... the people impacted outside of Ken should have been taken down in my opinion.
Thank you for that. When you are new to all of these, it can get really confusing and it is hard to know who to trust.
I agree. It makes it harder as well when people are making videos showing them making tons of money off a Ponzi scheme and making it seem like s legitimate company for people who are new to crypto.
that is indeed weird to hear ..
Thanks for sharing, and keep us posted is you hear further repercussions or these videos!
Most definitely. This is very intriguing to me so I will be following it closely.
they declared war on freedom of expressiong long time ago, also, anonymous aren't even an organized group, the "official" accounts are all inactive and random people claiming to represent the group make threats all the time, not to be taken seriously of course.
Although I agree with 90% of what you said, I disagree with the part about not taking it seriously. They always deliver on their message from what I have seen.
Interesting news, so I'll wait and see how all of this will unveil.
Likewise... I'm very intrigued to see how this all plays out over the coming weeks and months.
Good to see #Cryptopimps getting taken down!
Nothing makes me happier!
Suprised to see Genesis Mining on the list.
They're not a HYIP. It's a real company.
Does anyone have info to say otherwise?
Ya I was wondering the same. I think it may have to do more with the people promoting it. The affiliate program through genesis gives massive amounts of hashpower to you if you have gotten a lot of referrals. CryptoNick said he maybe put 3K into the site. He has almost 100 TH/s of bitcoin mining power. 3K would buy you maybe 30-35 TH/s.
So it creates this illusion that not to much money can make you a killing.
There's nothing wrong with affiliate marketting if it's a legit product. It's distribution of cash. No different to sharing Steem.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with affiliate marketing lol
You seem to have misunderstood my point.
The thing about anonymous: everybody can just get a mask and be part of it. If you violate what anonymous stands for, then you will be lynched by them. And from what I can see CryptCallouts is not very in line with anon-values.
That does not mean that CryptCallouts, might not be a capable hacker and I can see that there are some things going on in crypto that the anons might not like.
We also have anons on Steem, maybe people like @ausbitbank can tell you more about how official the statement by CryptoCallouts actually are.
I personally expect CryptoCalls is just trying to get more attention/be taken more serious for pretending he is anon, but who knows.
I have to agree, as well. This whole thing seemed slightly sociopathic and almost troll-ish. IMHO
I don't disagree with you at all.
That's why I stated that normally when a video like this guy had made gets put out they stand by what they say so I am anxious to see where this actually goes.
It is great news the annonymous is going to 'cleanse' the cryptoworld of the scammers, as a crypto newbie it is hard to determine genuine tokens/ICO/companies from fake scams set up to take all our coins with no legal recompense possible in many cases.
thanks for this post.
You got an upvote & resteem from me.
Steem on beyond the moon, hold on to your ticket tightly. Good luck to us all.
Thank you and much appreciated for the Resteem. I'm just looking forward to seeing the guy who made the video get exposed or more scammers get shut down lol.
I think the best thing is just to buy, and hodl, not woory too much about trying to trade all the time. Sure returns wont be anything like if trading often but definitely more secure especially if off exchanges and in wallets you hold the keys to.
There are too many scams out there trying to take all your BTC, and unfortunately too many greedy people to fall for them too.
I am currently not upvoting sorry, I must regenerate my voting power back up to a reasonable level
It's not a problem, thanks for taking the time to read my blog and hopefully you will check out some of my content in the future.
I definitely agree with you. Way to many scams that have popped up, add that to a lot of people who are uneducated on crypto, greedy, or both and you get a lot of money lost.
This is not Anonymous IMO. Rather an attack on platforms competing with YT.
Although I agree that this very well could not be someone associated with the anonymous collective I'm not sure how this has to do with competing platforms. None of the "companies" listed compete with YouTube in anyway.
Lulz.
Scammers, shills, & flim flam beware. Thanks for the post,
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I really appreciate the resteem.
Everyone just has to be careful with their info and think twice before clicking links to "update your security" lol.
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For sure... 😂😂😂 That URL though 😂😂😂
Right? hahahaha
I guarantee that people would search that if it had an affiliate link 😂
Hahahahahaha I bet they would :p
Glad to see im not the only wird watching youtube at those hours..about the rest... people is just crazy!
Yea I normally go down some sort of rabbit hole when getting into YouTube videos at that time of night lol... but ya, things are. Starting to get interesting.
Yes... it's a trip! hahaha
We will see how it unfolds
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I totally agree with you on that!
This may be a hairbrained thought, but could it be the new anon channel with the vids is actually YouTube?
YouTube has gone on its own "clean up" spree of late, is it possible they've gotten enough back lash they decided to try something more covert in their quest to rid YouTube of what they don't want?
That is a very interesting take on it... you can never count out any option so there's always a possibility that that could be the case. I personally don't think so, but that's only due to the third video that was released. It looked to be filmed in... not the nicest setting or in the best quality.