The claim

On sites like “YouTuber Cash” you can earn an exorbitant amount of money by watching videos.

Our conclusion

Sites like “YouTuber Cash” earn their money through advertising companies and YouTubers who they have contacted in advance and who have been promised clicks in exchange for money. However, the money collected is never passed on proportionately to the users; instead, the payouts are repeatedly delayed until the page disappears from the Internet and reappears later with a new URL.

A rule of thumb that everyone should actually keep in mind: If a method of earning money is described as being very easy, that you hardly have to do anything, but in the process you earn an immense amount of money, then it is a dubious activity that either is criminal or in which you yourself become a victim. This is also the case with the advertised method of essentially being able to earn a living by simply watching YouTube videos.

The sensational offer

The site called “YouTuber Cash” keeps popping up with a new URL every few months before disappearing again leaving many customers who were hoping for a payout out in the cold. Visually it hardly changes:

The main page of "YouTuber Cash"
The main page of “YouTuber Cash”

You should receive $0.60 per minute watched, the equivalent of 51 cents per minute. In addition, you should also be able to earn money by recommending other users.

The site's FAQ describes that these are " prepaid advertising videos from various advertisers from around the world ", and the advertisers are said to be " the largest manufacturers of household appliances, leading retailers and top video bloggers ", and only qualitative ones can be seen high quality videos.

The video offering is rather very mixed: many videos from India, Turkey or Spain, some Let's Plays, some product presentations or excerpts from talk shows. But we don't care now, because after all we want to make money, right? So let's just give it a try!

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We want to make money!

So, in a merciless self-experiment, we registered and let the videos run in the background. After a few hours we had the 200 euros we needed to pay out and wanted to cash out.

A worthwhile additional income for us?
A worthwhile additional income for us?

Various methods are available for withdrawing money: credit card, Bitcoin, via smartphone, PayPal, bank transfer or WesternUnion. But then comes the disappointment: We first have to recruit 30 users!

Too bad, no money yet
Too bad, no money yet

By the way, don't be surprised by the strange German: the page is originally in English and is automatically translated into German.

Do you want recommendations? Then pay for it!

Now there are two options: we can aggressively promote the link on social media and forums and hope that other users register using our link (hello, pyramid scheme!) or we can buy recommendations:

The price for recommendations always decreases with the date of the next day
The price for recommendations always doubles with the date of the next day

A little time pressure is created: the recommendations are always dated the next day and should cost twice as much, which is why you should definitely buy today.

But just buy it via PayPal? That's not possible either, because first you have to create a Bitcoin wallet or pay from an existing wallet. Very practical for the operators of the site, because payments cannot be traced by the authorities and the operators remain in the dark.

A closer look at the page

At this point we stopped trying on our own because we didn't want to transfer money to anyone unknown. Instead, let's take a closer look at the page, because there are some inconsistencies there.

We have already mentioned a first point: the site has a new URL every few months and the old site disappears from the internet. So if you diligently watched videos there under an old URL and left your payment details, look no further: there won't be any money!

The current page was only created on September 29th (see HERE ). However, this doesn't particularly bother the operators, who claim in the footer of the site that they have been running the site since 2007 and have forgotten to update the footer:

The outdated footer
The outdated footer

Of course, the owners of the site have also made themselves anonymous: There is no imprint, no contact address, not even an email, just an input form for questions. So who runs the site is completely unknown.

And that raises another question: If I'm an advertiser who wants to have my YouTube videos promoted through this site, who do I contact? Where do the advertisers even come from? We'll get to that in a moment, because there's a certain trick behind it!

But maybe you can make money after all?

Then let’s just take a look at experience reports. Various YouTubers reported on the site in the middle of the year when it still had a different URL and asked for reviews because they also considered the site to be dubious. Here is a small selection:

  • “They gave me two options to withdraw the amount… Either give them 50 euros or wait 30/60 days”
  • “After inviting 30 people, I had to wait 120 days and then the site disappeared”
  • “Sorry, but I tried to withdraw my money but it doesn’t work”

The descriptions match the observed behavior of the site: it appears, users log in and watch videos, want to withdraw their money, the site disappears again. HERE, for example, you can see an early version of “YouTuber Cash” from January 2021 with a different name and URL, but the same scam.

So no, you can't earn anything there! It just costs you time and, in the worst case, your bank details, because you have to give them to the operators before you are told that you won't get any money.

The “Buy Viewer” scam associated with PTC (Pay-to-Click)

Much of what you see on sites like “YouTuber Cash” are actually “prepaid videos” in the sense that the creators of the videos were offered the opportunity to buy viewers in exchange for money. More viewers = more money for the YouTuber through advertising revenue. It should go without saying that the method is not legal.

But where do the viewers come from? This is exactly where sites like “YouTuber Cash” and other variations come into play. On so-called PTC sites (pay-to-click), users are paid by clicking on advertising banners, links, videos and more. Such sites are always on the edge of legality, are often illegal, and the pay is usually extremely low.

To put it bluntly: Anyone who uses PTC sites is supporting fraudsters!

Advertisers pay ad networks for engagement such as clicks, views and retweets/reposts from people who are genuinely interested in their products and/or services. PTC companies defraud advertising networks by fraudulently paying people to click on these ads and generate revenue for themselves. PTC companies operate as “click farms” that are guilty of “click fraud.” They feign interest, which may not be illegal, but can at least be considered unethical.

The companies are led to believe that many people are interested in their products, even though most of them are clicks paid for by PTC companies. But since the advertising networks paid for by the companies at some point find out that they have come into contact with a PTC company, they stop making payments, which then no longer allow the users to pay and therefore simply disappear from the Internet - although in the case of " YouTuber Cash” sites never pay out anyway.

The only people who really pay are the users of PTC sites, namely with their time, and in cases like “YouTuber Cash” also with their money, which is requested with a fee but never paid out.

Conclusion

Sites like “YouTuber Cash” earn their money through advertising companies and YouTubers who they have contacted in advance and who have been promised clicks in exchange for money. However, the money collected is never passed on proportionately to the users; instead, the payouts are repeatedly delayed until the page disappears from the Internet and reappears later with a new URL.

Unfortunately, this scam is quite successful, because many YouTubers and advertising networks will refrain from advertising: quite apart from the fact that the operators of the pages remain as undetected as possible, no YouTuber or advertising network will certainly want to admit that they have bought clicks and views.

Also interesting: A photo and a video have been circulating for several years and are currently circulating again, warning of a wire on the car door that this is a scam by kidnappers.
But there is not a single, proven case for this method. – The wire on the car door – A viral urban legend

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