The annoying fake giveway scam ads are back, this time with an AI donk

The BLAST.tv Austin Major was unfortunately marred by scam ads featuring Falcons' Nikola "NiKo" Kovač, and now another star rifler is on the receiving end of the malicious fake ads targeting fans.

HLTV earlier today noted to fans on X of a fake video of Team Spirit's Danil "donk" Kryshkovets on a fake version of the outlet's YouTube channel. The video uses AI to recreate donk's voice and encourages viewers to follow a scam link to a fake giveaway. HLTV has already reported the video and encourages everyone not to engage with it.

The fake donk video doesn't appear as an actual advertisement on YouTube thankfully, as the fake NiKo one did during the Major. The fake NiKo ad appeared during ad breaks of the YouTube official stream and various co-streams of BLAST.tv Austin, and even led to the actual Falcons YouTube channel getting terminated on accident.

The real donk was decimating FlyQuest around the same time HLTV was alerting fans of the scam ad, putting up a 48/18 series KD and a 2.05 player rating against the Australian core at BLAST Open London.

As noted by HLTV, the video is not affiliated with HLTV, it is not really donk, and the giveaway is not real, so do not engage with it.