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YouTube Channel Impersonates Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse For Fake XRP Airdrop

Janelle Fox

Summary: Despite previous actions against cryptocurrency, YouTube has been unable to discover a major scam account involving cryptocurrency. On Monday, the cryptocurrency community discovered a YouTube account impersonating Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of major blockchain company Ripple, in order to promote a fake airdrop scam. The Fake account has around 277,000 subscribers and contains only one video, which promotes ...

Despite previous actions against cryptocurrency, YouTube has been unable to discover a major scam account involving cryptocurrency.

On Monday, the cryptocurrency community discovered a YouTube account impersonating Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of major blockchain company Ripple, in order to promote a fake airdrop scam.

The Fake account has around 277,000 subscribers and contains only one video, which promotes a fake giveaway in the third-biggest cryptocurrency, XRP.

By Janelle Fox

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