dquarasr
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Yes, hard to fathom (really, Doug?), but there is a scammer on YouTube pool videos.
I recently commented on a YouTube instructional pool video posted, and I received a reply from the supposed pro who posted the video.
It asked me to contact the pro via a messaging app called Telegram. The user ID was a bit suspect, but suspending disbelief while keeping a jaundiced eye open, I reached out. First clue: the reply was gone when I looked for it the next day.
The Telegram user ID was very similar to the pro YouTube poster's name, but not exact, sporting an account profile photo of said pro. Hoping against hope, and playing on my googly-eyes that I was offered a conversation with an actual pro to dive deeper into the topic of the instructional video, this miscreant asked whether I had subscribed to his (?) video channel, then, rather than start a conversation about the video's technical topic, told me I had won a cue case as part of a giveaway by that pro. The case brand was even associated with the cue brand the pro mentions as "brought to you by" at the start of his videos, so it was actually pretty clever. But my skepticism was on full alert.
My skepticism was justified when the scammer told me that to claim the cue case, I needed to send $80 to cover shipping. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Later, I reached out to the pro via Facebook Messenger, and of course, my suspicions were confirmed. It's a scam.
Ya know, if these scammers would spend as much time and effort into legit enterprises, they'd probably do OK.
So, file under "if it's too good to be true, it probably is". Grrrr.
I recently commented on a YouTube instructional pool video posted, and I received a reply from the supposed pro who posted the video.
It asked me to contact the pro via a messaging app called Telegram. The user ID was a bit suspect, but suspending disbelief while keeping a jaundiced eye open, I reached out. First clue: the reply was gone when I looked for it the next day.
The Telegram user ID was very similar to the pro YouTube poster's name, but not exact, sporting an account profile photo of said pro. Hoping against hope, and playing on my googly-eyes that I was offered a conversation with an actual pro to dive deeper into the topic of the instructional video, this miscreant asked whether I had subscribed to his (?) video channel, then, rather than start a conversation about the video's technical topic, told me I had won a cue case as part of a giveaway by that pro. The case brand was even associated with the cue brand the pro mentions as "brought to you by" at the start of his videos, so it was actually pretty clever. But my skepticism was on full alert.
My skepticism was justified when the scammer told me that to claim the cue case, I needed to send $80 to cover shipping. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Later, I reached out to the pro via Facebook Messenger, and of course, my suspicions were confirmed. It's a scam.
Ya know, if these scammers would spend as much time and effort into legit enterprises, they'd probably do OK.
So, file under "if it's too good to be true, it probably is". Grrrr.
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