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Someone posing as Linus Tech Tips on YouTube?

samyb1066
By samyb1066
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Hello everyone, today I awoke to find I had received an email from what seemed to be YouTube letting me know that Linus TechTips had sent me a message letting me know that I had won a competition. (See pictures) It said to follow a link to complete an offer and claim my prize, I thought it was odd and clicked the link anyway, it took my to a page where I had to select an offer then fill out a form. I thought that Linus Media Group wouldn't do something like this (especially as one of the forms required a mobile number to send several premium rate text messages), so I looked closer at the email. This was when I realised that it wasn't the real Linus Tech Tips channel which had messaged me, the channel name had a different spacing and when I clicked on the channel name In the email it took me to The YouTube channel and it had zero subscribers, this Is when I decided to start writing this so that it can be brought to the attention of Linus Media Group.

Here are some photos of what I have discovered:

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http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/219278-fake-linustechtips-youtube-meassage-take-warning/

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Unless everyone unsubbed linus...... (im just kidding flag the account)

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Ive also been hit...its a scam and linus has spoken out about it on twitter, here and on facebook

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Its just a stupid survey for him to get money. I bet no one actually did it :P Also trying to scam an audience completely made up of IT savvy people? Come on, really? He should know better than that.

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what's asda?

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whats asda?

Its a UK store owned by Walmart.

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