We Just Got Scammed!

hi we've been scammed [Music] and we decided to do this short video in order to explain what's been going on and hopefully protect you from this fraud as well as for any content creators out there who find themselves in a similar situation give you a heads up as to how we're dealing with this now for those of you unfamiliar with this channel we cover science engineering technology we go through laboratory and shop tricks and techniques that can be useful then we build interesting projects and we demonstrate them early on in this channel i made it clear that if we come up with some clever idea or some clever project nothing we do will ever be patented everything is open source and free for the community to share and to use and to enjoy i have never promoted any manufacturer's product except one i developed a thermal interface material a thermal paste a thermal grease and we did a video where i compared it to some leading commercial materials and it did very well we sent a couple samples over to linus tech tips and they reviewed it favorably i then did a follow-up video where i showed you exactly how to make the stuff yourself but that's it where this problem came to light is a couple of weeks ago we started getting comments below our videos from people familiar with the channel who said that there were these sketchy ads that were popping up all over youtube directing people over to a video where i appeared to be promoting or claiming to have invented some product and so we investigated this and it's kind of an interesting situation the channel itself that's hosting this video is only a couple of weeks old it has no contact information all the comments are shut down and they only have four videos three of which have a few thousand views but the video in question actually has nearly three and a half million views as as of filming this video and it's growing at about three to four hundred thousand views per day so it's a really big deal the video was constructed by clipping and extracting segments from our videos and then overlaying the audio with an imposter who claims to be me saying that i had invented or developed this product i promoted this product and i'm howard and i've been a space cooling expert for the past 15 years my name is not howard i'm howard now the problem here is that the video itself does look pretty sketchy and people familiar with the channel realize that this is probably a scam but we've had a couple of comments from people familiar with the channel who said yeah it seems like a dubious ad and i would not normally buy the product but if you are recommending it i will that's bad because millions of people have actually seen the video and many of them may not be familiar with this channel so we don't know how many hundreds or thousands may have been induced to buy this product based on this fraudulent advertisement not good this is hurt us financially because as you might have realized we haven't been uploading any videos in the meantime in addition it hurts our reputation because for people who don't know what we do and what our philosophy is if they see me on these ads and they order this product and it either is never delivered or turns out to be a piece of junk then that hurts them when they come hurts us when they come over to the channel and they think lesser of our integrity because of our presence on those ads and obviously people may be scammed out of money if it turns out that the product is no good so we wanted to make this as as short an exposure as possible we made an attempt to contact the company and as you might imagine it's difficult to do we were able to successfully reach the us distributor for this product and after explaining the situation to them they also took this seriously they frowned on this and from them we learned that the company is in fact based in china so that might explain why it's so difficult to reach them we contacted youtube and they also frown on fraud and impersonation and they are working on this as well now normally i would not want to give this video any additional air time however in this situation i think it may be useful below this video in the description we're going to give a link to the video and you can go ahead and take a look at it and i'm not going to tell you what to do but if you think that this does look like it represents scam if you take a look at their video below it is a small button with three dots click on the button and you can then click on report hopefully if thousands or tens of thousands of people report that video it may elevate this in the queue at youtube and they will shut this down more quickly and hopefully protect more people as well as this channel from this fraudulent advertising now i appreciate the people who gave us the heads up that's really helpful and i appreciate your patience in the meantime the situation is that notifications from youtube we found that even if you are a subscriber to a channel and you go through all the bells and whistles and and click the the necessary buttons you often don't get notified about new content and so what we've decided to do is go to a regular publication a regular posting of our videos on sundays every sunday whether it's a short or it's a new video or it's a premiere hopefully this will make it a little bit easier for you to find us rather than having to sort of just check back every so often in addition to that because of this short video i just want to let you know that we're going to be posting in a couple of days one of our new projects so that rule about the sundays will begin in the future but we're going to try to get out some content as soon as we've gotten this thing posted finally we have been growing very quickly we've gotten quite large and we're looking to hire and what we're looking for primarily is people with video skills people who can help us with the video editing familiarity with adobe premiere pro would be very useful if you have any experience with adobe effects that would also be useful in addition we could use someone with experience in 2d or 3d animation familiarity with blender or an equivalent would be good as well as you're probably aware a lot of our videos are quite large and with 4k and a high bitrate some of our larger videos can approach nearly a hundred gigs and so it would be helpful if we could find somebody relatively local so that the information or the files can be transferred either by sharing um a flash drive or an sd card as opposed to depending on internet bandwidth for transmission if you are particularly close and are interested in joining the team and doing videography that would be a real plus too so we'll put a link in the description below to our email and if you contact us there we can begin a conversation so we look forward to talking to you so finally thank you very much everybody for letting us know about this and we will get this stopped and in addition thanks for the patience and waiting uh we know it's kind of frustrating for you but we will get through this and we'll get some content out very soon so i want to wish you a very good day uh you take care and we'll see you very very soon [Music]

Channel: Tech Ingredients

Views: 441,724

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Id: qF4qpjYNepY

Length: 8min 25sec (505 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 04 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/-_-C21H30O2-_-]

If only there was some function built in where we could see how many people disliked the video in the first place. That might help, just spitballing here.

[u/spongecakeinc]

Used to watch this channel for the speakers videos, crazy that it got picked up and used in fake ads. The current landscape of the internet will have to change eventually as things like this get more common and less easy to distinguish from genuine content.

[u/Octo-The-8]

Seen loads of these recently, lots of live Elon musk or Johnny Depp interviews with bitcoin giveaway QR codes on them.

[u/harborrider]

Short video means getting to the point.

[u/dethzord]

Wait until it's done with deepfakes and whatever AI thing they used for Val Kilmer in the new Top Gun movie.

[u/Riegel_Haribo]

Non-informative headline and long-winded video. Just tell us what it is.

[u/AD-Edge]

I guess the silver lining here is that a majority of those 300k views a day would likely be bots/paid views. Thats how these scammers usually work, put up the scam video, then pour some time and money in to pumping the views (helps make it look legit).

No doubt some people have likely been scammed, and no doubt it sucks for the original channel to have this happen. But I dont think its as bad as it looks. Hopefully get they can get the channel reported and deleted asap.

[u/Emotional_Composer34]

Love the science content👍🏻

[u/danmanx]

I love that guy and that channel! I'm fairly sure that this guy made the better, efficient a/c and that crazy sound weapon. I reported it immediately.