A crypto scam on YouTube has more viewers than the official Nvidia stream. Unfortunately, such fraudulent attempts are not uncommon in 2025.
Nvidia GTC is a global conference for developers in the field of artificial intelligence, held annually. Officially, the event was shared on YouTube on October 28, 2025.
However, a simultaneous crypto scam had significantly more viewers than the official stream. This is reported by the English-language magazine TomsHardware.
A fake channel has more viewers than the official Nvidia channel on YouTube
What kind of scam is it? Those searching for Nvidia GTC DC on YouTube often ended up with a YouTube video from a channel posing as Nvidia. However, this was not an actual channel.
The channel promoted by YouTube was a crypto scam stream, where a fake Jensen Huang took the stage to promote a crypto scam. Viewers were asked to send supported cryptocurrencies via a QR code.
Especially crazy: The fake stream had significantly more viewers than the official stream: While approximately 12,000 people watched the official stream, the fake stream averaged 95,000 viewers. It is not known how many people fell for the scam.
Fraud attempts with AI-generated fake videos have rapidly increased in recent years
What is behind it? The number of fraud attempts with AI-generated fake videos has rapidly increased in recent years – with partially exponential growth in 2024 and 2025. Modern deepfake technologies enable convincingly realistic imitations of voices, images, and videos, which criminals use to deliberately mislead victims.
- Fake videos or audios in which celebrities or CEOs promote investments or authorize payments have particularly increased, as reported by ELC Security in its blog.
- According to recent reports, the volume of AI-assisted fraud attempts has increased by 456 percent between May 2024 and April 2025. This is reported by the magazine Ad Hoc News.
And the line between human, machine, and AI is increasingly blurring on the Internet. AI has long been accused of amplifying spam and fraud, such as through image alterations or voice imitation to simulate a kidnapping.
An inventive user used AI to scam the company McDonald’s: A Brit explained in a podcast on YouTube how he was able to eat at McDonald’s for free for a year. To do this, he had fake negative reviews written, through which he tricked his way into vouchers. After a year, he was finally caught. You can read the whole story directly on MeinMMO: A user used ChatGPT to eat at McDonald’s for almost a year for free – His trick was a simple request
