Every few days, I get a comment or two on YouTube with this structure:
“{GENERIC COMPLIMENT}! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. ({12 random nouns}). What’s the best way to send them to Binance?”
I don’t understand the motivation here. Am I supposed to comment in reply? Is this brand marketing? Some sort of YouTube SEO? I’m used to spam that makes me greedy, all I have to do is provide some value and I get a reward. There’s no direct proffer here I recognize. What is this?
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Since it’s crypto, my mind immediately goes to scams. I wonder if they’re trying to strike up a conversation and social-engineer their way into getting access to other people’s crypto wallets. I’m also pretty sure it’s possible to drop malicious tokens/”smart contracts” into people’s wallets just by knowing their wallet address.
(I don’t use crypto — I’ve just read a lot of Molly White, and watched Folding Ideas’ videos)
The “({12 random nouns})” is the key here.
Popular Youtube channels set filters to avoid comments from doxxing them like their real names, where they live etc. These bots then use lists of words to discover which words are being filtered out and… I haven’t quite figured out what they do with the info but that’s what those comments usually are about.