Twitch scammers are impersonating s1mple after CSGO pro\u2019s ban Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev is currently banned on Twitch, but that hasn\u2019t stopped impersonators trying to take advantage of his fanbase with scam streams. S1mple is one of Counter-Strike\u2019s most accomplished pro players, highly regarded for his incredible mechanics in-game. While he\u2019s a good player, he\u2019s also a great personality, fooling around at tournament and at home on stream. However, he\u2019s been taken offline for the time being after being banned on Twitch in November. S1mple labelled the ban \u201ca joke\u201d and asked for Twitch to remove his partnership, with the intention of stopping streaming on the platform. While he\u2019s off the platform for now, scammers are taking advantage of the Ukrainian\u2019s misfortune by hosting streams in the player\u2019s name and trying to exploit his fans. Streams have popped up in the CS:GO category on Twitch showing s1mple\u2019s videos with a more nefarious intent. They run with names similar to the CSGO pro player\u2019s handle to try and give it a more authentic look. However, the scam is incredibly obvious with bright banners bordering the stream telling viewers about an upcoming $10,000 skin giveaway. If players follow the links in these streams, they will be directed to log into their Steam accounts on a look-alike site, and expose their account details. With access to the player\u2019s accounts, scammers can trade away skins to their own accounts and make profit with the stolen cosmetics. While streams are being taken down when Twitch are alerted, the scammers start again on a new account and boost themselves right back to the top of the category with view bots. Read more: Why was s1mple banned on Twitch again? – S1mple is aware of the issue, tweeting out on December 3 asking Twitch to take action against the accounts. \u201cI see my live fake profiles on Twitch scamming people everyday,\u201d he said. \u201cIsn\u2019t it your responsibility to protect your own people?\u201d I see my live fake profiles on twitch scamming people everyday, wtf? Isn\u2019t it your responsibility to protect your own people? \u2014 Sasha (@s1mpleO) December 4, 2019 Twitch scammers often impersonate popular personalities to try and take advantage of their fanbase and make a quick buck. Michael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek has had to deal with his fair share of impersonators on Twitch since moving to Mixer, but shared that there\u2019s not much he can do. The best thing Twitch users can do when they see a scammer impersonating a popular account is to report the stream so that it\u2019s brought to the platform\u2019s attention and can be taken down quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch scammers are impersonating s1mple after CSGO pro\u2019s ban Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev is currently banned on Twitch, but that hasn\u2019t stopped impersonators trying to take advantage of his fanbase with scam streams. S1mple is one of Counter-Strike\u2019s most accomplished pro players, highly regarded for his incredible mechanics in-game. While he\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}