That’s good info to know. Thank you. It’s stuff like this that gets people including myself into trouble falling for such scams. We don’t know what we don’t know.
The unfortunate reality is these scams are designed to be believable, and without there being similar sophistication on the part of Google to fight them they’ll remain effective :-/.
It’s definitely an issue though - the ability to transact near instantly in an immutable way cuts both ways, and adds jet fuel to an already thriving phishing and hacking economy. So I think crypto still has a while to go before it’s safe enough for normal people. Or maybe the space just becomes a layer between other layers and is more for finalizes settlement between institutions. Only time will tell :)
That's how I was first exposed to them: I searched YouTube search for SpaceX live launch - can't remember exactly what I searched, and I believe they were first result or a top result anyhow. I clicked it and thought it was an official page for SpaceX.
It could even just be as simple as trying to promote/market Bitcoin to make people think it's more credible than it is by making it look like highly successful people are actively promoting it, etc.