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Scammers Try to Trick YouTubers Into Giving Up Password

A scammer looking to take over a YouTube account got a big fat nothing by targeting the owner of a channel that saw right through the fraud. The scam was simple and could have gotten through had it not been for some details that rang the alarm bells of the intended victim. The owner of the TeslaJoy channel received an email purporting to be from YouTube support alerting that her channel was in violation of multiple policies of the platform. TeslaJoy spread it to other Tesla owners, putting them on guard of the threat.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/scammers-try-to-trick-youtubers-into-giving-up-password/

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