The Oldschool Runescape section on twitch has rampant issues with phishing streams. The scammer downloads a vod of a popular streamer, creates a new account, and streams with titles such as "My Final OSRS stream", and instructs viewers to visit the runescape forum link below the stream to read about it. The link is a phishing page, obviously.

They do some other scams sometimes as well, e.g. "Click the link below to activate your double xp buff", while restreaming a dev Q&A vod.

I'm sure it's a problem in some other communities as well.

The streams are extremely easy to find, they're new accounts with hundreds of viewers, no sub button, no followers, etc.

Even if they get banned they just make a new account, so we need a different solution anyway.

It's impossible to send warning messages to chat because the scammer sets chat to sub only; that shouldn't be possible for channels that don't even have a sub button.

If the scammers couldn't use sub only, they would then use emote only, so maybe a new emote that says "SCAM" would be a good idea. It could even double as a great emote to spam when your favorite streamer starts doing sponsored gambling streams ;p

A new streamer getting 100+ viewers should automatically be flagged as suspicious, and maybe have a dismissible warning overlay on the stream?

On YouTube, sometimes clicking external links takes you to a page that says "Are you sure you want to leave YouTube?", a feature similar to that for non-affiliate, or suspicious-flagged channels is probably a good idea. "Are you sure you want to go to secure.oldschooI.us.leg1t-os-forums-real.lol?"

It shouldn't be possible to create a link on text if the text is a url that doesn't match the url being linked to, e.g. https://www.twitch.tv/mystream shouldn't be allowed, but My channel is okay. People are probably less likely to double check a link if the link they're clicking already looks like a url.

TL;DR please do... something