We Just Got Scammed! 

As a rule of thumb, I never buy anything from a company that uses a robotic voice over. If they can't afford to pay for a real voice over, then it's probably tat that they are selling.

I still can’t believe how hard it is to have these scams taken down. RU-vid should be able to act quickly to protect content producers as well as the public.

It's been removed now. Hope these scammers will suffer for this, at least financially.

The brief clips you showed immediately triggered my "scam alarm". This sort of BS is on YT is all too common, they are two faced, de monetizing legitimate content providers then turning around an "airing" scam ads all for a few bucks, double standard.

Man I hate this stuff. I've had clips from my own videos edited into ads selling fake or dangerous stuff also. It's been a few years since the last time thankfully. I was able to get most of them taken down quickly with a DMCA complaint for the unlicensed commercial use of my footage.

Have you considered a copyright claim? The video could be nuked within minutes if done through the RU-vid Studio. Considering they're using your content in a misleading and commercial way, it seems like a copyright claim would be a lawful way to take the video down.

Funny that when this happens with an ad, RU-vid are "working on it", but if it's a content/copyright strike with a regular video, it's instantly pulled, no questions asked (AIUI).

"This video isn't available anymore" 9:28 PM PCT

The fact that a creator as large as you has to go this far to resolve an actual fraud like this is just yet another failure of RU-vid to provide tools and features for “us and you” and continue to just feed the corporate interests. Meanwhile the usual suspects are out there abusing automated copyright tools to take down videos totally out of their legal rights blablabla

I KNEW this video was coming out. I couldnt believe you would endorse some crap product like a fake air conditioner. I'm glad you spoke up about it.

Scammers be everywhere, I’m sorry this happened. Hopefully it gets resolved soon. I’ve been binge watching your content lately as I’m home sick with a bad sinus infection that’s turned into a ear infection. I just wanna personally thank you for the relaxing feel and educational content. Much love

Man, so many people have gotten hit by scammers and hackers recently. Sorry to hear about it.

yep, that's a scammer. that's even a generic Text-to-speech voice that scammers use.

"If you want to help and report this..." Say no more!

Another reason why removing the thumbs down button was moronic

Nice to see a channel stepping up to let people know what's going on, when their content is being used wrongly. I filed a report on that video, cause misleading doesn't even start to describe what their doing.

You know you've made it when you're used in scams. Congratulations! Seriously, don't let this affect your content as it would be a sad day for all.

Consider it done sir, I love your channel and abhor scammers like these.

What's more embarrassing than having your content used by a scam? Being a multi-billion dollar tech company that generates nearly all of it's revenue from advertising that is incapable of allocating the resources and developing a process to squash these scams within hours, let alone days... or WEEKS! So much for their "do the right thing" motto eh?

I get people ripping my videos once in a while. You can file a copyright claim against it and RU-vid is fairly quick to pull the video.

REPORTED as requested! So sorry you are dealing with this! You guys are AWESOME! You have only improved your reputation with this response in my humble opinion. Can't wait to see the next video you actually make!

It's so rare to find integriy these days. Love your channel and will certainly recommend.

This product gets put out there every 6 months or so and it’s always a new “inventor”. It was once a “10 year old genius”. It’s just a swamp cooler that can only work we’re there is very low humidity.

Lol “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” -Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981 Shame about the fraud, I hope it only brings more views to your legit channel so people can see how educational and honest you are. Thank you for your integrity, sharing of knowledge, and open source pledge.

This is a swamp cooler, uses evaporative cooling. This basic design has been advertised over the past 3 years, claimed to be invented by a high school kid, a doctor in Switzerland, and by 2 men in India. Several people have done test on it. At best it is a spot cooler for you, a fan blowing cooled air. One test was in a small camper in 90 degree temp outside, it lowered the inside temp to 85degrees after 2hours..

The US distributer needs to do more to stop it. I hope RU-vid takes responsible action.

Man i love the feeling i get when someone who is technically skilled voices his support for the FOSS community. Less than a minute in and im fully torqued.

Be sure to also bill the scammers at $1 per second per view for your "work" in their scam. RU-vid should have had the video terminated within 2 hours of the time you reported it. Failure to do so puts them as culpable for damages.

My boys! Love you guys. Just reported their video, Ridiculous that they do this. I’m sure they made a killing. There is a way to find out their analytics

RU-vid inserts these scammer type ads in many channels , glad you got some action from the US supplier

Today I learnt something new: a new lower level scammers can use. Sad that you good people need to suffer from these scammers. Please keep us posted on the results.

I've been subscribed a long time. I really like the how and why. They remind me of a 4th grade science teacher I had, back in the 70's who kept us on the edge of our seats. I hope you find good help and take this show even bigger. BTW, There's nothing wrong with making some money for your work too. You deserve it.

Clicked the link, and "This video isn't available any more." Guess it worked.

Getting RU-vid's twitter account attention is another way of making things happen. Also don't be afraid to ask for help from other YTers, it is in their best interest as well to help put a stop to this and heck gives an opportunity for them to make more content, win/win.

This whole thing is despicable - glad it's been uncovered and hope it gets resolved. You channel growth has been not only phenomenal but also well deserved. I continue to wish you continued success and hopefully without any more of this skullduggery. Best, Chris.

The video has been removed "This video isn't available anymore"!!!!😁

I love you guys. Not many channels would take the time to make a video to protect the public. Thank you.

Done and done. Glad to hear youre expanding and hiring editors. I can only imagine this channel is going to explode even faster

I reported for you guys. I just posted a couple videos as well with similar issues with bots and scams affecting my channel. I really hope something is done about this on youtube. My suggestion would be to allow verified creators to have a higher amount of weight when they report something like this. They already have our personal info so youtube would definitely be able to do KYC and then elevate our abilities to help fight spam if we wanted to and any creator abusing the system would just have that feature blocked from being used. If a creator sent a flag on a video a yt employee could double check to see if there's an issue here and if so, take appropriate action. Maybe even incentivize creators by giving them an extra 5-10% on their ad revenue if they did this. It would pay creators extra since its a job to fight bots and spam. Instead they spend their time deleting the dislike :(

I recognize that voice instantly. They produce TONS of questionable ads seen on RU-vid. I've been blocking every one of them that I encounter from my channel.

I really appreciate your videos and will be happy to review the video in question! I detest scammers!

You're one of the best channel's ever and it's a total shame this happened to you. Even worse, I find it unthinkable that youtube hasn't removed this video yet. Obviously I reported it but the case is so obvious that they should have done this instead since you contacted them. Keep up the excellent work!

So sorry to hear this about the paste fraud. I saw someone complaining about “not receiving” the product in the comments of a recent upload. Stay strong, your reputation with me is strong; I love your content and the work you do to prepare your videos.

This is why we can't have nice things. Good luck to you guys, I look forward to seeing y'all put all this behind you.

Heh. I had gotten that ad multiple times, I'd just never let it run long enough to see you, it was such an obvious scam. Having watched it now... it is pretty funny just how bad it is. And it's just a shitty little swamp cooler. Alec at Technology Connections did a great video on these "personal air conditioners" almost a year ago.

Stay safe out there, Howard.

"This video isn't available any more" Well done community"!

Scams have become a daily fact of life. Anyone who grew up with swamp coolers, knows their abilities, but also their limitations, and disadvantages. This little coolers being promoted as "air conditioners" are a full blown scam. Thank you for alerting people who may be vulnerable to such dishonesty. Other youtubers have provided verification that they do not work as claimed. These are products that should be taken off the market. I would recommend to anyone to do their research before buying a product.

Congrats, you're a stock video provider now ^_^ Imagine a few years from now, when everyone can easily fake any face & voice perfectly…

Reported that crap. I guess they spent all their money on views and didn’t save any for likes 👍🏻 Luckily the vast majority of those views are from bot accounts.

I WAS GOING TO REPORT IF FOR YA, BUT RU-vid TOOK THE VIDEO DOWN. Congratulations, mission accomplished. Now I want to see a few of your videos, because this one stayed on my landing page for like ever.

Reported. So sad to see this happen to you! I wish I knew Premier, Effects, and/or Blender. I'd love to work with or around your crew and the shop, but there are definitely folks out there who are better suited to fill this position. 20 years ago I moved across the country just for an interview and I still work for that company. I wonder if any of my LightRoom skills might be of any benefit. Nah, just kiddin'! I'm sure you will find yourself swimming in so many potential well-qualified applicants that you'll go Crazy. (Patsy Cline)

Video is gone! 👌👍 You got a new follower here. 🙌🙏

We still love you Howard... 😃

I clicked on the link but got the following message: Video unavailable - This video has been removed by the uploader. I'm glad to see the scammer got the message.

You just released "The Internet" on these scammers. They don't stand a chance. We don't take kindly to scammers coming after one of our own. Regulators, mount up!

I tried to report it and it says thats its not available anymore. Im just here to drive p the numbers for this video. I hate scammers and will support you guys.

I've seen several of these scams, using clips of Musk or Depp. This is a new trend.

The video is gone!!!

I saw an ad from probably the same scam company on Facebook. They were trying to sell a crappy little swamp cooler. The clams were insane. One was it cooled a 95 degree classroom down to 65 degrees in 2 minutes. Now to anyone with even a moderate understanding of thermodynamics that clam it laughable.

I love your channel thank you for all you do sharing your amazing creativity

it is funny how hard it is to take obvious scams down, while totally legit review or reaction videos get blocked immediately.

It's a shame the poor and immoral take open source information and attempt to profit off from it in such nefarious ways. Tech ingredients will always have the support of the community.

This video isn't available anymore. Congrats on reporting the video, you saved many more people from being scammed

Wow, didn't realize you were local! Great work and I love that you have an open source approach.

Y’all are the best! 💜

Firstly, I don’t understand how anyone would ever consider buying something advertised by using a text-to-speech voice over. Especially if the advertiser uses such a cheap and bad sounding one. Secondly, I am surprised that RU-vid is dragging their feet on something like this. Their knee-jerk reaction to DMCA complaints I have seen on other channels( even when it is obvious fair-use), it is surprising that they have not taken it down after your complaint. Add to the fact that you are obviously you, as in the person that they have used without permission, one wonders why they didn’t take immediate action… mmmm, well, I don’t really wonder… I have suspicions that it has to do with money. I have seen behaviour like this before, where a company seems to run into ‘complications’ when it has to remove something that blatantly violates TOS, and then ppl who know where and how to dig find evidence of large sums of money from the violators being paid to said company.

Happy to see that garbage has been removed...

Any RU-vid ad with a long back story is a scam

Scam video is down. can't report it

I just tried to go to the link you provided and got the message 'Video no longer available'. Hopefully, there's one less injustice in the world now. Congrats!

looks like the video you talking about has been pulled down

Congratulations, you've gotten the video taken down.

As of today, that video is no longer available. GREAT JOB!!!!

It's funny that you say "impostor" when it's a text-to-speech system, it's not even a human. I wouldn't take the "distributor" at their word. Odds are they specifically are behind the scam. Chinese company can't just run advertisement on RU-vid, someone else is organising this from a different country. And odds are the guys in China just don't care (or need to care) how the product is sold, and they'll slap you any brand you want on it once you commit to buying a certain quantity which isn't very high at all, after all this is how store brands work. These sorts of products are generally dropshipped, so there isn't even any traditional distribution activity involved, all they do is place advertisement and run a website, while the product is mailed directly from a hired warehouse over in China, there are numerous companies that specialise in this, this is also how you receive your products when you buy from Chinese sellers directly, for the most part both the manufacturer and the warehouse are involved in a honest business. But the "distributor's" fulfilment partners being over there out of your jurisdiction is just such a convenient excuse. "Computer Clan" and several other channels maintain a collection of these scam ads and products. Swamp coolers like these are common, but also monoculars, "power saving" scam plugs (a capacitor and an LED), chargers (potentially dangerous), "affordable luxury" wrist watches. Any sort of product that is about $15 or less in actual value, where the price is jacked up 10fold and ridiculous claims are made about the performance and capabilities or quality of the product. It's always the same sort of story "big business is scamming you, so two guys took it into their own hands to revolutionise"... etc. Some of these products are "fine" in one way or another, just not worth the money, the swamp coolers are situationally useful in some regions, cheap wrist watches are tolerable if you pay $7-$12 for them rather than $100 that they call out, and a $6 plastic-lens monocular is good for a bit of fun if you don't have any expectations for sharpness and contrast.

I’ve seen several of this type of ad!! Glad you are exposing this! Hey, good news it’s gone!

Went in to look and report. The message comes back saying "this content has been removed by the uploader". This is an excellent result and shows that people power can still work. Good luck with your business plans.

You're right. Never seen your videos before. Thank you for letting us know about this.

Reminder...Appliances should be recycled as metal or hazmat.

Looks like it's been removed already.

''This video isn't available anymore''. AdTube removed it. I am a retired engineer and enjoyed your HHO video last night. I'll look for more. Great job you did.

Unfortunately, we can no longer believe our own eyes or ears.

Well done for your resolve to push back against this widespread form of advertising. In the UK, we were being “swamped” over the last winter by “genius” inventions to heat our houses for the equivalent power costs of a lightbulb. As an aerospace engineer with some 40 years of experience in specialist roles revolving around the world of thermodynamics, I have been highly impressed by the claims that form the basis of various products being pushed via RU-vid advertising. To be fair … heating your house has become harder since converting over to LED lighting !! As always … beware Snakeoil sellers in a street market. On the positive side, all of these products will eventually succeed in helping the universe achieve a uniform temperature once the last stars finally expire … if the product reliability has the stamina to keep going for long enough 😂 … and if a number of assumptions associated with the universe are finally proven to remain valid!!

Level headed respectful and without speaking ill of a clear violation by other people . You sir have the patience and wisdom of a monk many years older.

Thanks for the information. Following the link in the description, it appears the video was taken down from the uploader.

That ad has been shut down now. I just tried to go to it and it is gone.

Copyright Strike the video, this is usually looked down upon, but when your clips are used in a fraudulent manner you have a right to take it down.

I just checked and the video has been removed

Real world and getting Worse ! Thank you for your Truth !!! Honestly i always thought ,this is too good to be true ! Even walmart sold a unit like this and then you do not see it in stock ! Big Tell

When I subscribed to your channel several years ago I didn't know to hit the bell icon, when I noticed that commercial I realized that I hadn't been notified of any of your videos so I have since corrected my mistake and am glad to see that you are taking action. I am going to take your advice and do the same right now. ... nevermind it's already gone!

You are one of my few RU-vid Guru’s! I don’t know why I only saw this now, but it is DISGUSTING!! Thankfully when going to report, the link now says channel unavailable. I prey that their view count did not earn them $ from RU-vid!! Thank you for all you have taught me and Keep up the amazing work!! :)

scams are getting out of control. why are there soo many with no morals?

They pulled it down 👍 sorry it happened to you guys. I really enjoy your videos.

It takes a lot of guts to talk about this kind of thing. When someone scams you or steals from you it’s really quite violating. They take more from you than just stuff or money. They take your dignity if you let them. And it’s hard to not let them. Trusting people is good thing. Which is why it’s such a crime when people dupe. It admirable to warn others in such a public way.

Man Google sucks. The amount of robot scam ads on RU-vid has increased exponentially in recent years, pretty obvious they just don't care and want that ad money no matter how sketchy the source is.

Yay! Their video is gone! I've loved your channel since the beginning. Absolutely class act work. Keep it up and thank you!

I just checked and the video is unavailable.....probably many similar comments, but this is one more. Good luck to you and thanks for keeping it really real!

Looks like the video has been taken down... I hate how youtube has so many mis leading and scam type advertisements.

File a copyright claim with RU-vid for using your content. And ask them to remove it. Have you used the Copyright button in Amazon Studio to look for videos they have copied your content?

Sorry to hear about the scammers. This is one of the best channels on RU-vid and I’ve wondered about the lack of content recently. I hope these Chinese scammers get shut down.