this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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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].
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:
I will redact my post to remove the cryptoscammer link. So far, no cryptoscamming was observed.