In the early hours of 24 June 2021, singer/songwriter Billie Eilish appeared to be live-streaming on TikTok as @billielivehere. Or was she? Eilish was ‘live’?!
TikTok commenters, some of whom were Eilish fans, begged the musician in the comments to be chosen to go live with her. However, it seemed that he was, in fact, randomly selecting various fans and talking to them during the broadcast.
At the end of Eilish’s old live broadcast, she says goodbye to her fans. On 24 June, after the previous broadcast played once and Eilish said goodbye, the video restarted immediately. At that moment, TikTok viewers who stayed around realized that of the big scam. It was an archived YouTube broadcast, made on approximately 27 January.
This event happened again and fooled more than 25k viewers during yesterday’s live broadcast of another fake account, a rebroadcast of an Instagram Live that the artist recorded months ago.
When TikTok users are unaware of unverified accounts, scammers take advantage of them by posing as celebrities. But why do scammers do this?
In TikTok, users can buy gifts to the accounts, which can have values between $0.99 and $99.99. In addition, these accounts will receive contributions as diamonds, which later will become real money. Fraudsters will claim these gifts, profiting from foreign content.
Poor Billie, she has been part of worldwide scams against her will and overshadowed by a recast video in which she appears singing a song with racist content. Didn’t you see that note? Didn’t you see that note? We leave it here!
