Fake animal rescue videos are a money-making scam, say campaigners

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1. I report these videos and YouTube does nothing about it. I've tried to let other commenters know that they're being scammed and the channel blocks my comments.

2. I thought this problem has been mostly solved, but i keep seeing these “sHorT aNd SwEeT” YT shorts that have what seems mostly like a fake “aNiMaL fRiEnDsHiP” story. Yet the actual videos have a photoshopped injury on an animal (YT does not recommend these to me, and the comments in these shorts r mostly talking abt how great it is. How can these legally b up when YT also deletes or hides my blameless comments?!)

3. I have a name for the fake animal rescues, it should be called "RescueGate", similar to "ElsaGate"

4. Nice try…the 101 try to warn the viewers on the platforms about these script-rescue videos….but NO real help at all to stop the platforms from allowing banned abuse channels from coming back with even MORE abuse channels! Even baby monkey torture videos are allowed and reporting them to facebook/meta is like carrying buckets water to the ocean to rise the ocean level. WHERE is the real help for the tortured animals…. It is only talking about what not to do or what to do….how long are the newspapers and news channels going on with talking about this….

5. Yet youtube does nothing

6. I've been saying this fort awhile now, no telling how many dogs are being injured for money.

7. This is going on for years now and so far nothing has been done to stop it. Yeah, every now and then a channel gets banned. But they just buy a new one and start all over. Its very frustrating!

8. Why is there no translation?!?!?? Not all people understand English. You can set the translation for all 🤷🏻‍♀️😄

9. I have commented many times on videos that are obviously fake. The ones where someone "just happens to come by" and rescue a puppy, when the puppy is fat and healthy looking, not scroungy looking like you might think. Don't believe everything you see on these channels.

10. Paw Squadron is still up and running, scamming people. Youtube does nothing.
    100% clear indicator for a scam channel is the first post they make (and every chance they get) they beg for money.
    A Bulgarian channel scamming. I know, what a shocker.

11. Follow the money, and you will see who's responsible

12. I love you for covering this! But I don't know if I agree with "don't even click on it", how are you supposed to know it's fake if you don't watch it and don't look into the channel's history? There are also legitimate animal rescue channels, it's equally important not to hurt them.

13. Finally news channels are covering this issue.

14. This is nothing new. Scams have been around long before "social media" long before. From heart wrenching scenes of starving children on the original tube to plees in the mailbox to save the cats!!!!! Any person with half s brain can smell them from the proverbial mile away!!! There is much more that i would care to say but the slightest slip and i will be pounced upon and abused by the "community"!!!!!!!!! Just sayin'

15. Yes I thought this was happening

16. Disgusting.

17. I wish they posted the names of some of these accounts so we can report them.

    Also, they should have mentioned that not all the fake ones are rescuing cute animals from snakes, etc. There are some accounts that are staged and fake without using dangerous animals. There is one account I saw videos where he only seems to rescue cute puppies, but none of the puppies are ever scared or timid of him, even though he seems to rescue them at the right moment.

18. Excellent topic. Drama manufacturing sites should be shut down by the platform hosts. YouTube and TikTok profit by mongering this deviance. To be honest, YouTube should be nationalized.

19. Thank you so very much .YouTube really should block as it encourages cruelty .In all my life this new practice is the lowest of the low..Use of dogs , clearly starved is common .As a photographer one becomes alert to animals yet in all my years in Europe I witnessed a goose full of oil called rescue and waited until they collected./a pigeon which was hit by a bus .took to avian vet and sorted .Have seen claw deformities in birds but monitor these for the vet .Note ) some even use two , maybe more platforms and have different handles .Many "conveniently carry a Burger which they feed to some deliberately emaciated animal " If one loves animals one gives from own pocket

20. I'm always looking for new ways to make money off of suckers. There is one born every minute.

21. Horrible

22. You have to be some kind of idiot to ever have believed these videos.

23. Thank you for addressing this issue. I think the people doing this are the lowest form of scum. I hope people heed your advice and don't click or share these videos. If we remove the financial incentives, then they won't torture these poor animals for "clicks" and likes. If you truly care about animals please resist making them rich and motivating them to torture more helpless animals.

24. Yes I've always thought so…i hate to think what those poor animal's go through to look so emanciated and sick..if i ever catch one of those dirt bags that post this cruel 💩..well ill post the video on HEAVY R!!.☠️☠️❤️🇺🇲

25. Indeed lots of staged BS, just like the demmocrats in the USA.

26. thanks ladies 👍🏼

    nothing seems REAL these days, everything and everyone are fake 😂

27. What do you mean recently,
    These have been on YouTube for about 7 years .
    What's social media ,
    It's mainly on YouTube

28. In greece there are a lot

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