G2 Giveaway Review

Option Monkey
December 19, 2024
Giveaways

Network of Accounts May Have Spammed Our Giveaway

Option Monkey holds giveaways on YouTube to thank and award our viewers. YouTube is neither a sponsor of these giveaways nor involved in them in any way.
We’ve given away and/or gifted well over $250.00 in prizes, despite already taking a net loss on Scratch Off Tickets.
Our “G2” Giveaway was designed to thank viewers, by awarding whomever guessed nearest to our November 2024 “Estimated Revenue.”
Our review suggests this Giveaway was spammed by a network of YouTube Accounts whose bios are all virtually identical—each lists only a gmail address and nothing else.
The structure of these Accounts plus the series of events outlined below suggest we were scammed/spammed and that the apparent winner was among those scamming us.
A Winner who isn’t part of the scam will be chosen and paid, or the potential winner can provide any information he/she feels we aren’t thinking with or are incorrectly interpreting.

We’re grateful to everyone who supports our channel, and we try to show that in tangible ways, like giveaways.

Although we lose money scratching tickets we’ve gifted and given away over $250.

In this video you can see us buy $50 worth of giveaway tickets.
In this video, you can see us playing a ticket for a viewer who won $20 on a $5 ticket we gave away. His ticket loses, but we buy another which wins $100, and we split it with him 50/50.
In this video, you can see us tip a cashier and friend of the channel $20. In others, you can see the same, in most we leave it out.
In this video, viewers could have won all winnings from a full $150 book of tickets.
In the same video, we also gave away another $50 worth of $5.00 tickets.
In this Live, you can see us decide at the spur of the moment to gift winning tickets, at least $50.00.

Giveaway G2 Stalled — Not Payed Yet

Our “G2 Giveaway” was designed to gift our “Estimated Revenue” for November to whoever guessed most closely to the actual amount. (Video).

We haven’t paid this out yet.

So What Happened?

This shows a prior scam: The actual winner was “Brenden,” but a scammer changed their username to “Brendlen” with an “L”. They also chat strangely: tons of comments, not nested or complete thoughts.

Before we reviewed accounts, we told this user they won.

First CashApp given, doesn’t exist in the app.

Test payment sent via CashApp to the email address listed in their bio.

New and different CashApp username given to us for payment.

Our test payment was never accepted, email may or not exist or be accessible, but it’s linked to and listed in the channel’s bio.

We never sent “$1.03,” we only said we had because red flags were rising: We **did** send $1.02.

This comment is 4-6 hours after user says they received “$1.03”

Here we’re becoming aware of red flags, thus our question.

All giveaway videos we’ve ever done have also been our least viewed — Our actual or regular viewers don’t care for them much, or don’t expect to be paid just to watch free videos on YouTube.

We never blocked this user, we had asked for any info that suggested they weren’t a scammer.

Complete List of All Entries

This is a full list of every comment in our Giveaway.

The names in bold blue text all have (or had) one thing in common — their YouTube channels have no content, and the only thing listed in the channel information is a gmail address.

When we look at the guesses they placed, they guessed enough times at various amounts to game the giveaway and increase their likeliness of “winning.” If one of their channels didn’t win, another of theirs would have, as far as we could tell.

Today (March 2025), many of these accounts are no longer on YouTube, further suggesting they were spammers or scammers.

@tyler53447 — Eighteen dollars and nineteen cents
@winfreymercy $21
@piperpeter2323 — It’s easy $24.76
@zezella03zezzie57 — $30.29
@nolaquemescuh — It is “30.54
@angelinatyler76 — $30.55
@kingbraveheart28 — $35.38
@groovy807 — $40
@blackpanther542 — $45.80
@nathanfrageman — $49.60
@carltonarmstrong57 — 57.98
@KframeG — $58.31
@markbrown1689 — $61
@lightshineariseworld — 61.83
@hannahmolly669 — $64.85
@alvarojaimes1942 — 65.50
@felipeacosta6189 — $67
@cinderellacindy593 — $70.90
@sarahcorey579 — $74.89
@Sunrise_In_April — $80
@lasvegascasinojackpot — $85.33
@freeguy934 — $90.06
Winning # / Actual Estimated Revenue — $91.45
@mahburrahman6751 — I think under $100
@jenniferhoughton — $103.49
@robertbrockway2850 — 103.84
@nikkicagwin5999 — 124.54
@Liss48-u7w — $140.00
@favourosawese — $145
@testimony5656 — $147.50
@henrydupre028 — $148.06
@lucky71986 — $150
@1TIMEF1l — $165.00
@KesterEdison — 189
@user-uw6be1gb4u — $197
@Gfam062 — $211.58
@BBb-c3f — $233
@KellyMR — $249.99
@joshwagner8468 — $250
@allenmiller9587 — 250
@OliviaIris5947 — $255.50
@ragnatouya5050 — $264
@Lastchancewinlottery — $300.00
@hartharry280 — $302.51 so if it’s correct I win it all?
@OhioRiverFisherman — $336.00
@greatfreely — $355.67
@taminaisnotmean — I appreciate the giveaways sir. Mine would be 💲489.37
@joshlee6632 — i’ll say $500
@ebububbn — Please answer me and my guess is 573.80
@jaymassey9074 — Man u have hit some bangers this month imma say $575
@Hazel-m7u5p — $583
@juanaguilar9197 — 640
@Wesleywise159 — $650.87
@juanruiz563 — 700
@donaldjudge578 — 800
@cristianmeraz3836 — 810
@ByronGutierrez-eq4ww — 900
@marksterling4729 — $950
@abrahamtellez7119 — $989.76
@Jenny-B85 — $1050.00
@RJa-qw7ff — $1,250
@Maya_dreams — $1300
@markbrown1689 — $1635
@constantinocastro8841 — $1,750
@venezuelaavi — 3597
@BrendenTarrants — 3745.24
@phouthongphimmarath1294 — 4300
@chicobarnard7555 — 4500
@cfreemani195 — $5000
@terrenceshawbeyonce1125 — About $23,000 to $25,000

“Winning” account no longer on YouTube —

Many of the accounts above that we believed were involved are also no longer on YouTube.

Overall, a ton of time, work and hassle for no real return as far as growing our channel or showing our appreciation for actual viewers. So, lesson eventually learned, and I don’t recommend giveaways to grow a channel.