Lilikoi Juice
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I had someone with a channel of about 1K send me a message the other day. The message went something down the lines of, "Great channel, I think I should help you out! Hey, maybe I'll send this video link to my active subscribers, that sounds good! Don't you think I should do it?"
I responded to this person that the idea sounds very generous and I'm appreciative, but I do not ask for things of that nature so I cannot say if it is something they should or should not do. In turn, they responded that it is ok; and a couple days later I received a personal message that they had sent my link to their "active subscribers", placed me in their link box on their page, and that I should get a few subscribers.
I checked my email and I saw that I did receive about ten emails with comments and, yes, subscriber notifications. I was grateful at first, BUT THEN, I noticed some really strange coincidences.
1. The emails with the comments and subscriber notifications were all received within 10-15 minutes.
2. The "language style" of the comments were all similar--broken english, misspelled words, and improper punctuation.
3. The names of the new "subscribers" were all very strange. Usually, I get subscribers with unique names (Pigkiller1824xx, IizAnoob, etc.) but these subscribers had first and last names, and some were spinoffs of gaming companies and game characters.
4. Upon checking all the subscribers that I received notifications from, the ones that I found were "suspicious" either had their activities hidden or had only one activity--and that was subscribing to me.
4. How the heck do you "send a link" to your active subscribers?
5. Why was this person so specific about "active subscribers"?
I want to give this person the benefit out the doubt but it is just so weird. I have never encountered anything like this. If this is some sort of scam or trick, what would be the point or benefit out of doing something like this?
Lastly, I remember reading on the forum about someone else experiencing this "I'll help you out" sort of thing so I know it is not unheard of. At the time it just sounded bizarre but having had this happen to me, I am worried that this person may possibly be trying to do something bad to my channel.
Any comment on this?
I responded to this person that the idea sounds very generous and I'm appreciative, but I do not ask for things of that nature so I cannot say if it is something they should or should not do. In turn, they responded that it is ok; and a couple days later I received a personal message that they had sent my link to their "active subscribers", placed me in their link box on their page, and that I should get a few subscribers.
I checked my email and I saw that I did receive about ten emails with comments and, yes, subscriber notifications. I was grateful at first, BUT THEN, I noticed some really strange coincidences.
1. The emails with the comments and subscriber notifications were all received within 10-15 minutes.
2. The "language style" of the comments were all similar--broken english, misspelled words, and improper punctuation.
3. The names of the new "subscribers" were all very strange. Usually, I get subscribers with unique names (Pigkiller1824xx, IizAnoob, etc.) but these subscribers had first and last names, and some were spinoffs of gaming companies and game characters.
4. Upon checking all the subscribers that I received notifications from, the ones that I found were "suspicious" either had their activities hidden or had only one activity--and that was subscribing to me.
4. How the heck do you "send a link" to your active subscribers?
5. Why was this person so specific about "active subscribers"?
I want to give this person the benefit out the doubt but it is just so weird. I have never encountered anything like this. If this is some sort of scam or trick, what would be the point or benefit out of doing something like this?
Lastly, I remember reading on the forum about someone else experiencing this "I'll help you out" sort of thing so I know it is not unheard of. At the time it just sounded bizarre but having had this happen to me, I am worried that this person may possibly be trying to do something bad to my channel.
Any comment on this?
