If you have a YouTube channel, and have had your fill of sifting through the vile torrent of abusive comments left on your video masterpieces, you can invite other people to moderate them.

It’s a simple process that requires you just to enter the URL of another YouTube channel – and a message will automagically be sent to its owner.

So far, so harmless.

But it turns out that it’s a feature that can be exploited by spammers and scammers. Spammers want to get their unwanted messages into your email inbox, but as anti-spam filters have improved their chances of getting your eyeballs on their messages have reduced over the years.

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