I Confronted the YouTube Comment Scammers.

YouTube currently has a problem with scammer bot comments appearing on countless amounts of channels, especially those in the investing and finance niche.

And unfortunately, we've been the target of these scammers too. So, I decided to do some investigating and confront my scammers/imposters face-to-face.

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[bad_money]

Youtube can detect 2 seconds of a Led Zeppelin song playing on a car passing by in the background but can't weed out these obvious bots
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[alux]

We've been in touch with YouTube for 3 months over this. We even provided technical solutions on how this problem can be solved, yet it's not something high on @YouTube's priority list.

[Massi]

James: "Hi is this James?"

"Yes, is me." they replied in strong west african accent lol

[scoreunder]

these bots have been all over YouTube even recently. I'm glad someone's had the courage to bite the bullet and investigate

[InvestMindset]

I think YouTube should come up with a feature to "Remove All Comments by this User". It'll give us leverage by simply removing all their comments at once.

[madebyruud]

If they have to say: "It's not a scam, I guarantee you!" It is definitely a scam.

[herringfly]

"You give me thousand dollar, two day later I give you five thousand dollar" Anyone falling for that pitch deserves to be robbed. Actually, how could anyone that stupid have any money to begin with?

[drifitoo]

Those scammers have been real quiet since this dropped

[PBoyle]

I had been meaning to ask you why you always put those dots and slashes between every letter in a word. I figured you had somehow damaged your keyboard. :)

[CanadianBatman]

Calls white english man named James, carribean woman answers, irresistible urge to give her my money takes over

[TaufeeqSalehuddin]

If someone knows a way of making money. He won’t spend his time trying to tell the world how to make money. He’s definitely going to spend most of his time making money. Unless you are his way of making money.

[ThePlainBagel]

That's wild...even on the phone they keep up the charade. Great video James! Really hope it draws more attention to this issue from YouTube, and other platforms for that matter.

[morzattrader]

Those hitting the dislike must be the scammers.

[DolphLundgrensDolphinDungeon]

Thank you for being the only youtube creator who I've ever seen acknowledge and take this issue this seriously that you make a whole video investigating it firsthand yourself

[dario]

Sucks that you have to take things into your own hands instead of YT fixing their own platform.

[glow]

It scares me that scammers are so confident, even with their voice sounding nothing like James, they still confidently say that they are who they are.

[Edgar-Friendly]

YouTube is too busy censoring content creators than in going after scammers. Tells you what YouTube values.

[southboundpookoderm]

Facebook is just as bad too! I report them all the time and Facebook says “this did not go against the community guidelines.” It’s ridiculous! Yet people get violated for saying the weirdest things!

[youknowwho]

These con artists are everywhere, you can’t even find the comments of real users in the comments section, it’s filled with scammer garbage. Thank you James for addressing this issue, I hope this video raises awareness.

[Mr.Coffee]

In my culture, "guru" meant a wise man, a teacher, a leader. It's sad to see people destroy that word.