 Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. I just want to quickly chat with you about something unfortunate, which has been going on on the channel for the last few days, in fact, and it involves some scammers who are pretending to be me and trying to rip you guys off. Going to address it in the moment, please stick around just to make sure that you're not going to fall prey to this, but I need to thank some people very, very quickly before I do. First of all, there's quite a few people have emailed me to alert me to what's going on here. There's a number of people who have messaged me and also some people who have put some posts about it in my Facebook group. If you want to read about that, check the link down below for the Facebook group. And it's great. It's a great group to join in any case. I also just want to do a special mention for a pretty well known member of the community who goes by the name of Mimo Japan or just Mimo. And he's been really, really helpful on this today in particular, trying to cut down on the instance of this scam. Now this is related to the seven days of giveaway that I've been doing the last few days. This is where I've been celebrating my 100,000 subscribers and there's been just some fantastic giveaways. It's been going for seven days, so there's a number of videos which actually relate to it. I want to tell you up front about how I would contact you if you were a winner of one of those giveaways. First of all, all of the entry dates for all of those giveaways actually end or you're at the time frame where you can enter ends on March the 7th. We haven't even got there yet, so we certainly haven't been picking any winners at all. Secondly, if you were to be a winner of one of those giveaways, I will not just tell you by responding to you or responding to one of your comments on YouTube at all. So keep that in mind. That's not how we're managing this. What will happen is after the 7th of March, the winners will be picked very shortly after the 7th of March and I will announce them within seven days. I'll do it a bit sooner than that, but I'm actually going to do a live show that's the plan at the moment where I will announce the winners. I won't be picking the winners, I'll just be announcing them, but I will also be contacting the winners by email directly. I'll then get you in contact with the various companies involved and they will deliver the prize to you. Now it's very important that you remember this part. With these giveaways or with any giveaway that I ever do on the channel, past or in the future, I will never, ever ask you to send me money for shipping costs or anything like that. Okay. That is not my idea of a giveaway whatsoever. So there shouldn't be any cost to you whatsoever with the giveaway. It's very important to keep that in mind. So what these scammers are doing is they're messaging or replying to many of you in the public comments on the videos and they're telling you you've won. And then what they want you to do is contact them by a phone number. But they generally, I think, want you to do it via the app WhatsApp. Okay. Now, if you're wondering what the actual scam is, and this will help you if you have been involved with this, well, they'll then ask you to do is send a screenshot of the comment that they made to you on YouTube. Now I'm not really sure if this has got anything to do with the scam or whether that's a kind of a red herring just to make themselves look official or something like that. But they'll then inform you that you are indeed a winner and they'll inform you that they're going to ship the prize to you, but you need to pay for the shipping. Okay. That's where the scam is. They're going to try and get you to send them funds, money to send you the prize for the giveaway. And basically, they're going to get your money and you're never going to receive anything if you fall for this scam. Hopefully, I don't think any of you will have fallen for it yet, but I wanted to make this video just in case. Okay. So the main thing to remember here is I'm not going to ever ask you for shipping costs or anything like that to giveaways. A prize is a prize that shouldn't cost you anything. The slightly hilarious, it's not hilarious, nothing about this is hilarious, but the slightly odd thing about this is there's only really one physical prize in this giveaway. Audient have been great and they've put up a number of audio interfaces as prizes, but it always gets complex when I do a worldwide giveaway to deal with shipping. Some countries are difficult to ship to, it takes time, etc., etc. So all of the other prizes are actually software prizes. I mean, they're great and pretty expensive software prizes, but they don't actually need any shipping. So they're just scammers. They're using my icon, you know, the yellow and black one, or depending on the age, yellow and brown, but yellow and black one with the kind of bottle symbol in there. And if you don't look carefully, you may not notice that is not me. OK, generally, they've got, you know, a big long telephone number at the top of, you know, or their username is a telephone number. Now, finally, if you would like to do anything to help with this situation, I guess the main thing that you can do is on YouTube, use the report tools. Now, I think we've managed to delete most of these comments so far, but even if we've deleted them, you may still receive an email from YouTube notifying you that you've got some kind of reply to your comment. And it will show that reply as being, you know, you've won a prize or something. I'm not really sure whether YouTube bans people quicker if they get a flood of reports. I'm not really sure. I've obviously reported these channels and I know that Mimo Japan has reported them and some other people have told me they've reported them. But if you see them, it may be helpful. Please make sure it is the scammer that you're reporting. OK, my any replies I make to you will be my my icon and my username next to them creative source. OK, anything any other username is not me. I don't have any other channels where I use that icon, nothing like that. OK, so if you would like to report the scammers, that may be useful. Be careful with reporting as well. Don't over report. Don't do it too many times. I'm I'm I'm not an expert on these things, but I'm led to believe that, you know, it's not good for you. So just report it once, maybe if you think it needs reporting. Other than that, thank you so much to everyone who's entered the giveaway. It's very, very exciting. I can't wait to actually find out who the winners are myself. That's going to be awesome. And also, if you haven't actually applied, you know, or entered into the giveaway, check out my playlist on my main channel page. There's a playlist there, which has got all of the giveaway videos on there. And you can watch those. They're pretty short videos. They're not a long watch and you can find out how to enter and get the secret codes if you go there. Thanks so much for your time and I will see you in the next video.