Twitch Streamers Expose Fraud Offers

Recently, Twitch, the broadcasting platform owned by Amazon, is facing a major fraud case in Turkey. In this fraud, which is carried out by unknown people, donations are regularly sent to publishers. But these donations from stolen credit cards and the most striking part of the work is that it is carried out in agreement with the publishers.

In these events, which we can describe as money laundering, publishers and fraudsters divide the donated money among themselves in certain proportions. While all these events have just begun, we have not been able to broadcast on Twitch for 3 months. jahrein, going back today and covering the background of the flea scam. had told. With this broadcast, some publishers started to share their offers under the ‘#temiztwitch’ tag, which took place on the agenda of Turkey.

You post, we’ll make regular donations every month:

One of the big publishers who shared offers from scammers was Grimnax. The famous broadcaster, followed by 288 thousand people on Twitch, tagged Jahrein after Jahrein’s broadcast on Twitter and still continues to himself. the offers keep coming and disclosed the messages sent to him yesterday.

The offer to Grimnax fit exactly the pattern that Jahrein describes today. The swindler to Grimnax in case of regular He stated that they will donate a certain amount every month, that they will receive 80% of this donation back and give 20% to Grimnax. But Grimnax wasn’t the only one to reveal it, and probably won’t be.

This time they showed themselves as an advertising company:

Another example was given by a user named Barış Kaya on Twitter. Sharing an e-mail sent to his publisher friend, Kaya said that this time ‘Twitch Advertising CompanyHe showed us the people who introduced him as ‘. The email also included a screenshot showing the revenue generated as an example.

Some publishers started closing their accounts after these events:

With the emergence of fraud incidents in Twitch Turkey, some lists of publishers involved in these incidents began to circulate. So much so that some of the publishers mentioned in the list, Twitch has decided to shut down its channels.