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 …
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.
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.
SO, what will that Ariane do ?