antonp

Seems like the best way to get attention from a Googler to have a look at this is to post on HN so here we go...

For over a week I've been getting these types of obviously scam giveaway ads where they claim Elon or Vitalik (Ethereum founder) is running a crypto giveaway to increase adoption asking to deposit crypto to some address.

Interestingly enough I only get these on my smart tv (is it because I can't seem to find a way to report these ads on my Sony tv?)

In any event, I've been seeing variants of exactly this [1] type of scam for over a week! (They change the domain name, use different stock video, sofar I've seen Vitalik and Elon variants). The number of eyeballs this must be getting on Android TVs across the world must be massive.

Dear Googler: writing a heuristic that would give this a high crypto scam score is trivial. Put GCP to good use: OCR the uploaded video and check for any crypto related words AND the word giveaway. Have it reviewed.

Thank you

[1] https://imgur.com/a/HNyFlBO