As Apple hosted its big iPhone 14 launch conference on Wednesday, scammers managed to hijack the event and instead broadcast an attempted cryptocurrency scam.

And it seems to have worked, since, as Phonandroid reported, 70,000 people fell into the trap.

To do this, the scammers had created a fake Stream, titled “Apple Event Live.

Ceo of Apple Tim Cook: Apple & Metaverse in 2022”, taking up an old interview with Tim Cook for CNN and dating from 2018. They had embedded the Bitcoin and Ethereum logos there, and covered the CNN Money logo with an “Apple Crypto Events 2022”.

Distrust with live events

By clicking on the YouTube channel that broadcast this fake Stream, people were then redirected to a cryptocurrency site.

It was a journalist from The Verge who discovered the fraud, falling into the trap.

And the most disturbing thing is that this Stream was appearing at the top of YouTube suggestions.

This would explain why nearly 70,000 people were trapped.

The journalist explained that he came across another channel that claimed to broadcast an event with Tim Cook and Elon Musk.

However, it was in fact an interview with Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, dating from 2015. The two videos have since been deleted by YouTube.

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