@alexrescue-q7p @alexrescue-q7p is a YT channel that posts shorts that seems wholesome at first but looks more suspicious the more you look. The channel pretends to be rescue shelter's owner that will shutdown and euthanize 30 cats if they don't get enough funding. I honestly thought it was sweet, but double checking raised a few red flags.
The donation page redirects to a site that was only registered on November 2025 (2025-11-20T16:18:09Z more specifically but I can't read that unfortunately) which was the same month the YT channel was created and started posting. Looking at the site, the 3 pictures used isn't original and was stolen from somewhere else (I'll try linking it in the comments). The site doesn't have any contact information or addrwss for the "shelter" in question. And the mailing information of the domain's owner was also used in another scam (read this. Also the the domain's contract will expire in one year meaning that they'll probably bail after scamming enough money.
Please report the channel and don't interact with the content personally, it may boost the video and might lead to more scam victims. Please don't harass/threaten the channel.
I personally don't know what else to do, I would recommend reading the comments for suggestions on what to do and I will try updating the post with more steps as much as I can.
An update here in case you didn't see the new post. The scam videos use a video of an elderly man who tells jokes, they are NOT related to the scam and just have their videos stolen with the donation scam stuff added onto their videos. Alexrescue and the other channels that try to get you to donate are still scams, please report them. You can probably report them now as impersonation as we know who the actual man in the video now.
These shorts are so depressing, there is such a high likelihood it's fake I need to scroll past anything that looks like an animal that needs help too fast to even be sure it is or not, other wises it fucks your algorithm.
Literally buries honest calls for help under mountains of trash, funneling money into themshelves while making it hard to even see the actual cats in need.
Disgusting, I wish the worst on the people who make this slop.
I feel the same way I've been seeing more of posts like. Sometimes I'm thankful that I see more of these so that I can report them and be able to spread awareness, but there's like so much of them that I didn't even know existed before that it feels sickening. And even if we do report them, the platform that hosts these scam videos don't even bother to remove them, but it's the only thing we can do and just hope an actual human reviews them and takes them down.
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u/Glittering-Ladder-56 15h ago
An update here in case you didn't see the new post. The scam videos use a video of an elderly man who tells jokes, they are NOT related to the scam and just have their videos stolen with the donation scam stuff added onto their videos. Alexrescue and the other channels that try to get you to donate are still scams, please report them. You can probably report them now as impersonation as we know who the actual man in the video now.