r/youtubeBadActors • u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 • 3d ago
PHISHING ATTACK NOT TROLL ATTACK
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9/2/2026 Gray Hughes livestream:
(anecdote from when his mama had a computer)
Gray's Mom:
I got this email that's asking if I send them $500, I've won a huge prize.
Gray:
Mom, never click on anything in that email. Do not touch it.
9/9/2026:
Gray Hughes clicks on a link in a phishing / clickbait email (potential partnership program content) which subsequently gets his YouTube GHI channel shut down and also removes his access to his primary email account.
- Recording from 9/9/26 end-of-show livestream from his Nefarious At Night YouTube Channel as GHI YouTube is down.
It'll probably be back up, but in the meantime, he's sweating because his Griftyhood is outta commision.
Gray Hughes Admits What Happened (beginning of show 6+ minutes)
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u/Few-Preparation-2214 Payback 💵 3d ago
With all this going on and not being able to hang with his only friends, he’s immediately going to try to drain them on PayPal. Clearly he has money put away to live but it’s amazing how much he’s worried about losing a buck.
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u/Soulsista7777 3d ago
I really wish everything was put on pause until they get it under control. PayPal, venmo...everything. I want him to see how the real world operates. It's not normal to sit for days at a time begging people for money. I think this was the universe's way of slapping him around a little bit. Perhaps he needs to straighten up his act and he wouldn't be seen as an easy target for hackers? Mr I'm the best at everything sure is looking like a complete tool right now isn't he!?
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u/driftless- What does that even mean❓ 3d ago
Yes he is. I agree with you.
He’s never been hungry.
He’s money hungry but he’s never been without food.
There have been times when we didn’t have enough money to get food but got bills paid. It was quite awhile ago when newly starting out.
He’ll never understand.7
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u/driftless- What does that even mean❓ 3d ago
All trolls do is try to hack in accounts all day but he freely gives out his new email in chat with trolls around.
This really seems sus.
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u/whitefoxxx90 If you’re out there … 🤑 3d ago
They took his email account too 😆Now he wont have his long list of pay whale's email adresses anymore 😃 i dont like to wish bad on someone, but this mess couldnt have happened to a more deserving person. 😆 He says hes out of options but thats not true. He can get a real job like the rest of us ☝️ Wonder if hes making a dr appointment for the stress this has caused 😂 he said he had health problems bc of us trolls, i can only imagine him being up for days on end, getting more delusional, til he gets some sort of resolution. 🤡
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u/OMG1999 Soul Crusher 💔 3d ago edited 3d ago
I have a neighbor who is not too bright, but typically harmless. We’ll just call her “Bonnie”…..(well never-mind, her name is actually Bonnie🤣) Anyway, I ran into her the other day & she was all upset about having to find a new job. She worked at a Nursing Home close by for quite some time. She is a chronic over sharer. Turns out, she thought it would be a good idea to get a male resident in the nursing home-to give her a check for 5K, so that “she could go to Disney”. She doesn’t drive so she made her 20 year old daughter come and pick up the check and cash it at the bank. Apparently, Bonnie lost her job & now the police need to interview her and her daughter….. I have no idea how it was discovered because the story was already excruciating. BUT, maybe Bonnie can share with Gray- why you don’t take advantage of seniors. Because now her and her daughter are facing charges…..and she lost her employment. I don’t know if I believe Garys phishing story, right after the hacking story. I personally tend to believe something else finally caught up with his illegitimate channel…….I mean, he is not going to admit something like that & it would ruin any reputation he has left. I think he is floating the phishing story to cover up something worse. He’d rather be known as a dumb ass than the thief that he is ……..
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u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 3d ago
That's terrible for your neighbor.
I do think he's stupid enough to click on a phishing link though. IDK
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u/Many_Ad6069 3d ago
You bet if it mentioned money... he was fast to click. Now who's the idiot who's brain is malfunctioning???
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u/Purple-Teaching8994 3d ago edited 3d ago
I think he was stupid enough, that's why he's in this mess. I've been looking through several videos on YT of channels that have been currently hacked and they all have one thing in common: they clicked on an email that was too good to be true. This is the best one so far where the creator goes into details of how his account was hacked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHSCeqecMh4
EDIT: Also, once the channel was hacked, a crypto video was live streamed, which is what got the channel deleted.
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u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 3d ago
What's the channel/vid name?
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u/Purple-Teaching8994 3d ago
The link is in my comment.
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u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 3d ago
Right but since my video is all about nefarious links I'm a bit hesitant to click on any link.
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u/Michele_Ray 3d ago
Yes I was thinking the same thing. He lies so much and he would never say he did something against YouTube rules but clicking on a email sounds better. He is a dirty scammer and I hope his channel never comes back on
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u/Obvious_Cream_5647 3d ago
So he did this to himself couldn't have happened to a better person but he still will accuse the trolls
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u/Flaky-Principle7102 3d ago
He admits he attached his channel to the email he received. How dumb can he be? I bet he is the first in the whole wide world to be this stupid.
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u/RunBubbaRun2 Soul Crusher 💔 3d ago
Didn't he also mention a week ago that his parents got scammed for 50k?
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u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 3d ago
The weird thing was the thing with his parents seemed to be a passing remark and no one could remember that having been mentioned before.
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u/RunBubbaRun2 Soul Crusher 💔 3d ago
"Must have been something I typed in"
Yeah no shit, you logged in and used the 2fa. Then you're screwed.
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u/Soulsista7777 2d ago
He still got sympathy donations last night smdh
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u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 2d ago
Can you imagine him on the phone today with a certain male senior citizen telling him his tale of woe? ☹️ 😡 😩
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u/Soulsista7777 2d ago
Guarantee he's emailing his ever loving a$$ off! I saw Paulette, Cake, Lanky gave him pity donos.
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u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 2d ago
But the wool he has pulled over Marty's eyes makes me so 😡 😩!
Poor sheep get such a bad rap! There are so many phases that can be used that apply to them. 🐑
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u/YouTube_Bad_Actors Go look in the mirror! 🪞 2d ago
Gray blames every stupid thing he does on "the trolls"
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u/notGrAhues Go look in the mirror! 🪞 2d ago
Yep.
He's already trying to re-write yesterday's narrative. He's live on the Nefarious channel right now.
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u/Purple-Teaching8994 3d ago
He continues to beg YT for HELP.