Someone on YouTube was live streaming an old interview with Tim Cook that was being used to attract attention to a crypto scam. When it was live, tens of thousands of viewers were tuned in.

Fake live stream filled its description with Apple keywords in both the title and description. When you actually opened it up, it was filled with odd messages linking to a shady-looking crypto site.

The streamer added the Bitcoin and Ethereum logos to the video stream. If you clicked into the channel’s page, the URL did n’t have anything to do with Apple.

Youtube did n’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Shortly after this story was published, the stream was removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service.

Apple streamed its big iPhone 14 announcement event hours ago. Ceo Tim Cook is currently being interviewed at Vox Media’s Code conference this evening.

The fake stream was recommended on my YouTube homepage. There were around 16k viewers, and that count was nearly 70K.

The Verge also found a live stream on a separate (and also sketchy) channel claiming it was’Apple Inc’. The stream purported to be an event featuring cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk about Apple and the metaverse. It saw stream numbers reach above 10,000 viewers, and also linked to a sketchy-looking crypto site in the chat.