On Saturday, May 6, I received an official email from YouTube saying 2 of my YouTube videos were taken down by someone named "Rajib Sir" for copyright. This resulted in 2 of my YouTube videos getting removed and one of them being falsely copyright strikes.
I saw the person's email and I emailed him. He reply saying for me to join his telegram called "hackerworldfamous". Now I'm thinking oh great this is a hacker trying falsely copyright striking my YouTube videos. I decided to join his telegram.
The first thing I see in his profile picture was a hacker person with green background. He then asked if I speak Hindi language and I said no. he tried his best to speak in English. From what I was understanding from him was that he wanted me to add his suspicious website link to all my YouTube videos and he will remove strikes and my channel will be safe. He also mentioned something about money and strikes I couldn't really understand his English.
I began trying to tell him that I don't wanna have any drama or anything and I am an innocent YouTuber. He continues talking about me adding his sketchy website to all my YouTube videos. I stopped chatting with him since this conversation was getting nowhere and he basically wanted me to either give him money or add his website to all my YouTube videos, which I wouldn't do because he is trying to extort me due to my channel getting strikes.
My theory was that he wanted to falsely strike 2 of my YouTube videos and leave me at 2 strikes and he would begin to extort me and blackmail me for money and who knows what. I don't know this person, I don't know why he targeted me specifically. I wanted to be safe so I private all 400+ YouTube videos. This would make sure he can't give me another false strike.
I spent 3 days contacting YouTube through Twitter, YouTube live chat, and the YouTube email support team. NON of them helped at all and they couldn't do anything about it after I showed them screenshots of the chat and exactly what was going on in full detail and everyone said the same thing. Any ideas on what I should do? I've tried everything I could and YouTube will not do anything and my appeal gets rejected within seconds. Please help me!
I saw the person's email and I emailed him. He reply saying for me to join his telegram called "hackerworldfamous". Now I'm thinking oh great this is a hacker trying falsely copyright striking my YouTube videos. I decided to join his telegram.
The first thing I see in his profile picture was a hacker person with green background. He then asked if I speak Hindi language and I said no. he tried his best to speak in English. From what I was understanding from him was that he wanted me to add his suspicious website link to all my YouTube videos and he will remove strikes and my channel will be safe. He also mentioned something about money and strikes I couldn't really understand his English.
I began trying to tell him that I don't wanna have any drama or anything and I am an innocent YouTuber. He continues talking about me adding his sketchy website to all my YouTube videos. I stopped chatting with him since this conversation was getting nowhere and he basically wanted me to either give him money or add his website to all my YouTube videos, which I wouldn't do because he is trying to extort me due to my channel getting strikes.
My theory was that he wanted to falsely strike 2 of my YouTube videos and leave me at 2 strikes and he would begin to extort me and blackmail me for money and who knows what. I don't know this person, I don't know why he targeted me specifically. I wanted to be safe so I private all 400+ YouTube videos. This would make sure he can't give me another false strike.
I spent 3 days contacting YouTube through Twitter, YouTube live chat, and the YouTube email support team. NON of them helped at all and they couldn't do anything about it after I showed them screenshots of the chat and exactly what was going on in full detail and everyone said the same thing. Any ideas on what I should do? I've tried everything I could and YouTube will not do anything and my appeal gets rejected within seconds. Please help me!