A series of videos on YouTube and Facebook are promoting a scam for TVBoost, a flat TV antenna that picks up local HDTV broadcasts -- poorly. A YouTube "sponsored" video has nearly 4 million views since July 31, 2023 - six weeks. It doesn't pick up any satellite broadcasts, has no "state of the art chip technology," it's a total scam. But the back stories these scammers use are seen over and over. Drones, Laser flashlights that cut through metal, a phone charger that removes the bad code that Apple inserts to make the phone run slow to make you buy a new one, a worthless desktop plastic "air conditioner."
And it's always a good guy (first name only) working for the industry who feels guilty about the high prices his company charges, he quits or is fired, invents something that does not and can not work as claimed, but the industry is trying to shut him down, so hurry and buy this now while you still can!
Most people are not experts in a field that can spot these frauds instantly. So many advances have come about in the past 50 years, average people see this and think "isn't it wonderful."Whatever the scam is about, people who recognize it as a scam report it to Facebook, or YouTube, and these promotions, which are paid content, NEVER get taken down. Link to video
