This Scam NEEDS To Be Stopped

I really didn't think I needed to make a video on this because I assumed that this was going to be a short-lived thing and neither YouTube or epic games was going to put a stop to it but it seems that this scam is more prevalent than ever now and it's beginning to get a little concerning so if you watch fortnite content on YouTube here and there you've most likely come across these live streams that are captioned name one fortnite skin I don't own and it's essentially these guys who stream for about 9 or 10 hours a day and ask their chat for skin names they search them up and what do you know they have the skin I assume it's mostly kids that are watching this content they'll keep spamming skin names in the chat the rarest skins you can think of and the person will have the Skin So if I go onto fortnite right now essentially what these guys are doing is they go into their locker section they go into the Skins you know they stay on this the entire time they don't hop into a game or anything like that and then someone will suggest a skin like let's say Renegade Raider or something right and then um obviously I don't have Renegade Raider so I can't you know make this point but you know they'll have it they'll show it off it'll make you think that wow this guy is pretty OG and then you know after they do this with a couple skins you'll see that the account's pretty stacked and then you might be inclined to stay on the stream and wait until someone eventually catches him out and to be honest this content in and of itself isn't harmful is it lazy sure but if they want to spend hours just doing this on a live stream and kind of show off their locker they're free to do so however the actual problem is what these guys in particular are doing one thing I haven't brought up yet is that these streamers are offering v-bucks name one skin they don't have and they'll give you a v-bucks card for it and you'll see in their hand Cam that they have piles and piles of v-bucks cards surrounding them and as a kid the site of that would really make you want to get a hold of one I'm just going to assume that none of these are legit and this person's just used some really high quality card to print out some fakes and I think you'll begin to understand why I think this streamers will also eventually pretend to read out a comment asking about how to donate and he'll promote the idea of if you donate a pink 50 or a red 100 I'll give you this entire pile of v-bucks I'm feeling generous in fact you'll even notice that the entire time he's pretending to read out comments after staying on the stream for a few minutes you'll begin to notice very very quickly that there is a big discrepancy between what the chat is saying and what is actually happening in the Stream and after a little bit more investigation you'll find that this stream is actually pre-recorded if you see all of the channels past broadcasts you'll find that the length of these is the exact same so if I open up both of these and go onto the same Tim stamp it'll be the exact same thing except for the sub count which seems to be the only thing in real time also throughout the streams you'll skim through and notice that huh the v-bucks pile hasn't changed at all what's up with that well every 5 or 10 minutes you'll notice that these guys will roll a winner for v-bucks B and so they look at their monitor spin a wheel of every viewer on the stream at the time and see if that person has liked the video subscribed and is typing me in the chat whatever other dumb requirement they want let's go ahead and roll ourselves another winner right now for some v-bucks or a gift card up on the table so let me pull up nightbot and yeah let's roll it they've dropped a like they've dropped a like yes okay that's a good sign are they typing me up in the chat as fast as they can let me put up the chat um oh yeah yes I can literally see them in the chat that makes me laugh so much when I see them yeah yeah okay that's a good sign they've dropped a like they're typing me in the chat have they subscribe though wait what no what are you doing oh my gosh this person didn't subscribe what are you doing guys if you want to be hooked up with a gift card you have to subscribe oh dude I'm feeling slightly demotivated I don't know what system this guy is using that tracks every single viewer and puts it on a wheel for him but he should let everyone know because I'm sure that would be very handy for a lot of legitimate streamers also by default YouTube has disabled public likes it's been like this for years at this point so while you can see the number of likes on the stream you can't see if a specific user has liked your video and that's the same thing with subscribers a lot of people have their public subscriptions toggled off so this guy is just completely talking out of his ass to get more engagement and subscribers and this entire stream being pre-recorded means he wasn't going going to roll a winner anyway even if you do donate you're not going to get acknowledgement or get v-bucks in return so while these streamers are getting more money in their pocket these kids will be getting into some serious trouble for using their parents credit card or whatever their situation is okay so these guys are scummy and are abusing the fact that they own some stacked accounts well that's the thing this isn't even their account well kind of so there's these sites that exist like easyfn there might be some others out there I don't now where essentially you can have access to every single skin without even having to spend a single penny I don't actually know the exact purpose for why these sites exist but it isn't to scam children that's for sure so here I am on efn and you'll notice you know it says it right here you know it'll say it here too but obviously the streamers aren't going to go on this section so you won't really see that I'm also on an ALT right now just in case so if I go into my locker now you'll begin to notice that I have every single skin now and obviously you can't hop into a game with this but this is essentially what these streamers are doing I didn't spend a single penny on this and neither did they this website just grants you access to every single thing that exists and they're abusing the fact that it does so if I search up skins like I did before like Renegade Raider you'll notice that now I own it same with some other really rare stuff like uh that one Indigo Kuno skin I have it now it's flat out impossible to catch these streamers out because this account has everything including unreleased stuff I know there's new Loki Cosmetics that are planned to be released soon and this account will have it even though they're not officially released yet by the way the purpose of me showing this isn't so a bunch of people can start doing the scam as well I'm just trying to bring awareness about genuinely how easy it is for these guys to do this and so you can be skeptical whenever you see a stream like this one more thing I also wanted to address is that you'll often see these guys promote their creator codes I believe to apply for a Creator code you need to have like a minimum of a th000 followers or something right so my guess is that these guys are buying YouTube channels that already have a decent following and are somewhat related to fortnite so they look legit get their creator codes approved and then use these channels to start streaming and promote their codes and what I find so weird are the codes themselves I've seen about five different channels plug their codes and they all really odd three character codes like bk6 or hk2 something completely random and I feel feels kind of like a cult like all of these scammers bound together and decided on these short AI generated codes this whole situation just feels very very weird and I'm genuinely surprised that no big creator with a huge influence in the fortnite community has called this out yet so what are the solutions to these scams well that is actually something I genuinely don't know I'm not proposing for epic to take down easy FN or anything like that because you know they have their purpose but there definitely is a solution out out there to reduce these scams I think even if we reported these streamers to YouTube every single time they appeared on our feeds these guys will just keep on reappearing with a new channel an example I can think of are the channels fruit boom and books and these two channels are run by the exact same person which you can tell by the most obnoxious and insufferable British accent you've ever heard by the way I have every right to make fun of this person because I'm British too I think for now what we can do as a Community is spam in the chats of these live streams whenever they pop up in our feeds that this is a pre-recorded stream and that no one will be getting v-bucks just to kind of let the people in the chat know what's up but ultimately I think it's down to YouTube to hone in on these types of streams and monitor the unusual activity like the looped streams or whatever else and maybe take action by filtering certain phrases like name a skin I don't own or something I don't know if you know anything effective they can do voice your ions down in the comments below because quite frankly I am tired of seeing this rubbish every time I go on my shorts feed anyway I think I'm just going to wrap up the video there this video wasn't made to shame the children who are falling for these scams because let's be real we've all been there there's been many instances in the past where when I was way younger I would fall for robo scams because I was very naive so the kids aren't to blame here it's these absolute who get off on short-term success and think scamming children is is an ethical and normal thing to do simply I think it's absolutely disgusting that deceptive content like this is even allowed on this platform and I feel like it's time for us to voice Our concern I do really really hope to see this problem reduce in the future so yeah that's all I really have to say about this I'll see you guys in the next one

Channel: Rxocky

Views: 326,639

Keywords: rxocky, video essay, fortnite, fortnite scam, vbucks, vbucks scam, fortnite vbucks scam, find a skin i don't own

Id: 9dewARMgyz0

Length: 9min 21sec (561 seconds)

Published: Wed May 08 2024