Scammers continue to deceive cryptocurrency holders, forcing them to voluntarily leave their “blood”. With the help of old YouTube videos by Ilona Mask and Jack Dorsey, they organize a supposedly free cryptocurrency distribution – asking victims to send them bitcoins and promise to double that amount. As a result, the scammers take money and the users who are caught with a hook are left with nothing.

According to BleepingComputer, the attackers edited an old speech broadcast by Ilona Mask, Jack Dorsey, and Katie Wood at The ₿ Word conference and used it to blackmail $1.3 million from the victims. ten YouTube channels.

McAfee experts are tracking similar scam schemes and published a report earlier this week. The first version of the report reported that researchers found 11 fake sites, but the information was later updated because in just 24 hours their number had increased to 26.

Such sources appear every day, and scammers do not stop producing new cryptocurrency wallets, where naive users continue to transfer their money.

Sites advertised in fake videos convince victims that others have already transferred cryptocurrency and doubled their “investment,” according to researchers. As evidence, scammers post fake spreadsheets with only random cryptocurrency wallets and post-transactions generated using JavaScript code that generates lists of transferred amounts.

According to a McAfee report, as of May 5, the total amount in wallets posted on scam sites was $280,000 in bitcoins, and reached $1.3 million the next day. The largest amount stored in a wallet exceeded $90k. In total, this wallet was transferred 13 times.