Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has warned that scammers are impersonating Ripple’s official account on YouTube and deceiving the XRP community. This comes amid a significant uptick in crypto-related hacks and scams, with losses exceeding $2 billion in the first half of 2025 alone. Scammers Impersonate Ripple on YouTube, Promoting Fake XRP Reward Events XRP community member Xtina George flagged the scam in a post on X (formerly Twitter). She revealed that bad actors are using YouTube accounts with a large following of around 176,000 subscribers to promote a fraudulent 100 million XRP reward event
source: https://beincrypto.com/ripple-ceo-warns-of-youtube-xrp-scam/