As always, the upcoming new iPhone has made some people work hard to RS gold curb their desire for gadgets. Hype is always different from Apple products. Although I use several and like these things, there is a reason why the extreme situation of its fan base is easy to be satirized. Apple is omnipotent! Maybe: But one thing it will never do is double your Bitcoin.

A few years ago, a large number of scams based on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies appeared on YouTube, which basically tricked users into visiting websites that looked real through advertisements. This strategy seems to have been cancelled, but it returned in a new form during the release of the Apple iPhone 13. As the online security company ZScaler reported, a channel that looked like an official Apple live broadcast took place at the same time as the actual launch, attracting approximately 16,000 viewers. The channel was established in a reasonably complex manner, with appropriate logos and wording, and has 1.3 million subscribers.

The channel repeatedly linked to a website during the event, which was once again designed to look like Apple’s official website (including "apple" in the URL), except-it’s surprising that people fell for it, didn’t they? ——This bizarre Apple apparently offered to give 1,000 Bitcoins (and an Ethereum option). This is approximately 42 million U.S. dollars or 31 million pounds worth of cryptocurrency.

Runescape and EVE players will enjoy the next part. The mechanism of the gift is that the user must send Bitcoin to the wallet address and promise to double and return it. The "doubling the money" scam has always existed in Runescape, and it sounds simple: you promise to double any money you give you, and then just... replace it.

guess what? In fact, any cryptocurrency sent to the fake Apple wallet has not been returned. According to ZScaler, the account received 1.48299884 Bitcoin, valued at approximately US$69,000. As the fraudster would undoubtedly say: Very good. Here are some live shots of it happening.

Seriously, this is just another reminder of the rules before the advent of the Internet. If something sounds too good to be true, it may be.

Although it's easy to sneer at the idea that people fall into these scams, we all do stupid things and are all potential victims. The whole reason this method works is that it takes advantage of Apple’s own advantages, the dazzling excitement surrounding new product launches, and the company’s sudden announcement buy RuneScape gold capabilities, and it coordinates the attack with live footage of Tim Cook talking with others. . It may be scumbag, but it is certainly not stupid.