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Really excited about todays Ariane 6 maiden launch! (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 …

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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 [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.