New Way to Spam YouTube? (using the comment moderator feature)

[heavyarmz]

Its almost not worth the work copying and pasting one by one all day

 

[Tommy_]

Anyone figured out how to automate the process of adding channel moderators?

 

[Frenzied]

Anyone figured out how to automate the process of adding channel moderators?

Yes, I have made a bot for it now.

 

[knaitas]

same, collecting comments right now will see what this exploit brings me

 

[Deleted member 969102]

Yes, I have made a bot for it now.

Would you be able to PM me it?

 

[Tommy_]

Yes, I have made a bot for it now.

Can you give us some general info on how to make one ? I am no programmer so I have no idea

 

[tubeboost]

Just tested it. Didn't receive emails. Maybe later.

 

[Frenzied]

https://www.google.es/amp/s/amp.red..._did_scammers_end_up_with_an_youtube_address/

Pretty sure this is where op got the pic from.

 

[heavyarmz]

PM bot please

 

[knaitas]

tested on my own channel... does not send the e-mail

 

[Tommy_]

I have tested it on my own channel as well and did not recieve any email, but I am just hoping it is delayed because RN I am manually adding all those scraped users so I really hope it pays off

 

[LuciferHere]

Didn't got my mail too. I think they patched it or something.
I hope it is just delayed....

 

[Mcgyyver]

Fixed boys. Was a good run

 

[Deleted member 1024843]

Very very very interesting

 

[knaitas]

Fixed boys. Was a good run

Source?

 

[moonshine7000]

What you expect Google watches the forum like a hawk.Always keep the darkest methods to yourself.

 

[heavyarmz]

they patched it?

 

[Nonilol]

https://www.google.es/amp/s/amp.red..._did_scammers_end_up_with_an_youtube_address/
Pretty sure this is where op got the pic from.

But... that's a completely different pic
Didn't know it's been around for more than 2 days already. I got my mail about 1pm today.

Fixed boys. Was a good run

That was over quickly

 

[victorlane]

Hi BHW!

I'm not sure if this is of any significance, but I encountered spam today which I had not seen before.

Here's how it works:

- Scrape a good amount of active Youtuber users (you need the channel URLs)
- Get a t.co shortened link for your the URL you want to promote"
- Create a new Brand account / Channel called "Win a free Iphone 8 here: https://t.co/abc" (make sure you got the link in there!)
- Add all of the scraped users as channel moderator. Either manually (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7023301?hl=en) or using automation software, iMacro might work

All users that you add as a moderator will receive an email like the one below. The beauty is, that Google makes the URL from your channel name clickable

I have not tried this myself on a large scale, maybe it doesn't work at all, I just figured I'd share it here so it maybe helps someone.
If this has been around for a while, I'm sorry, I'm not really into spamming lately.

Have a good start into 2018!

this is a great idea .i tried it my self.but don't receive any email from YouTube like this..

 

[domyhd]

Gonna try this.

If anybody knows or have an idea how to scrape usernames let me know

EDIT: Tried to add my other channel as moderator. Didn't recieve an email. Patched?