{"id":70883,"date":"2022-12-02T10:48:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T08:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=70883"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:46:40","slug":"report-number-of-fraudulent-youtube-videos-targeting-traders-surges-by-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/report-number-of-fraudulent-youtube-videos-targeting-traders-surges-by-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Number of Fraudulent YouTube Videos Targeting Traders Surges by 500%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fraudsters are actively promoting fake videos advertising frontrunning bots for trading \u2014 in 2022 their number surged by 500%, according to CertiK’s \u043e\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0442\u0435<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The frontrunning bot scans unconfirmed large transactions in the mempool and pays a higher gas fee to guarantee priority execution of its trade. In this way the bot can manipulate market prices.<\/p>\n

CertiK’s analysis showed that 84% of YouTube videos mentioning ‘frontrunning bots’ were fraudulent.<\/p>\n

\"Report:
Examples of fraudulent videos. Data: CertiK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Victims are lured with promises of daily earnings with no investment. However, the software on offer actually steals assets when a transaction is attempted.<\/p>\n

Enthusiastic comments under the videos are also written by bots to distract attention from genuine warnings urging users not to click the links.<\/p>\n

Earlier, CertiK experts disclosed the black market for KYC checks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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