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Cryptocurrency company sues YouTube for letting scammers impersonate its CEO
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Cryptocurrency company Ripple is suing YouTube for its “inexplicable failure” at stopping scammers from impersonating its CEO. In a complaint filed today, Ripple accused the video platform of selling ads and verifying accounts that promote fake cryptocurrency giveaways, then ignoring complaints about them.
Ripple runs an exchange network for the digital currency XRP, which is aimed at people who want to send money internationally. Over the past several months, scammers have created official-sounding accounts for Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Some of the accounts were apparently stolen from successful YouTubers who had their accounts hacked, giving the scammers hundreds of thousands of subscribers. From there, they could post...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21229762/ripple-xrp-lawsuit-youtube-trademark-brad-garlinghouse-impersonation-crypto-giveaway-scam
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