I just got an email from my boss, followed by a text message from my boss. But it didn't take me long to realize that this wasn't my boss. It was a scammer!
I had a call from a past coworker a while back. He was stuck somewhere, lost his wallet and needed $400 asap delivered to him by Western Union. I was happy to hear from him and we had a little chat. I congratulated him on his decision to acquire an American accent, because when I worked with him he had a British accent. And that's when he just hung up on me. Perhaps because he found his wallet again.
@@davemclean6835 There are less than a hand full of people in this world I would send money to and he wasn't one of them. I knew he was bullshitting me ten seconds into the conversation. My only regret is he hung up before I could really laugh at him.
he is either yanking our chain or he is dumb af. How he didnt see that this was a scam knowing what he knows about scams.... He def knew. OR he just falls for scams left and right and finally just started learning about them and making a youtube off it. But still dumb AF
we all have fallen for them. However, that is often how you learn not to. They are very convincing at times. Well, except the one that spent two hours in FB messenger trying to convince me I won some contest on FB and wanted me to send him money to claim it while I was trying to convince him to wire the money to Norway. Or the one that went into a mumbling fit because I told him my funeral plans involved trash bags and duct tape and being tossed someplace.
One time, just as my church got a new pastor, I got an email using the name of the new pastor. I don't remember the content of it, but I clicked and read before realizing that we barely met and he probably wouldn't be asking me for help with church business. Some other people got the same scam and the church had to send out a message apologizing / warning about the scam emails.
We’ve all almost fallen for it at least once. I almost fell for it when a friend of mine’s email was hacked and I had a convincing email. He was emailing me from his “native country.” Luckily, I realized between the last time I saw him and this email, he would have literally had to have gotten on to a plane almost instantly after I saw him and so I called his cell and home line. After changing his password, no more issues.
This happened at my last company. The "CEO" of the company emailed the head of HR and asked her for an Excel spreadsheet with the SSN of each employee. She compiled the data and sent it to the scammer without any kind of verbal confirmation from anyone. Over 200 employees were affected, including the real CEO 😐.
Thanks for your vids. They are a public service as well. I work in retail, and this poor older woman came in one day distraught and asked to buy 800 dollars of gift cards. I snapped to it and saved her a lot of money and educated her in the world of scammers. Just wanted to share a brief personal experience. Also you have good sound in your videos. I can't stand videos with poor audio. So kudos.
Because of how much anti-phishing training I've had, the second I saw "phone number," I immediately looked to the email address at the top, and was not disappointed by how fake the email address was.
wouldnt matter, right? i mean if this "becky" is on a role equal or higher than him, shouldnt she have the ability to pull up his number and call him without requesting his number?
It's gotten kind of obvious that Green is just making up content at this point. He sent the email to himself using a fake email address in order to manufacture a video. There's no way someone in his position wouldn't immediately be able to tell this was fake.
@@JWC_4_2_0 You'd be surprised. I've seen scams sent from obviously fake accounts, or accounts that were obviously hacked from companies that the email didn't even claim to be from (i.e. an email from an address for a jewelry business claiming to be from Norton Antivirus or PayPal). It's been a while since I watched this video, but even though it's obvious to someone in the know like he would be, some people don't know to check the email address. Even if it is fake, who cares? If someone uninformed comes into this video and learns to check the email address I'd still call it a net positive.
When I had phone duty at work, if my boss was in the restroom when someone called for him, I used to say, "He's in his other office." People usually understood. Occasionally someone would say, "Where's his other office?"
@@Strdyaftrnoon shut up I posted this comment a month ago, I was still playing among us cuz it was actually a decent game, I quit like 3 and a half years ago cuz hacks.
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Ben, thank you for talking about this. So many people think they are immune to scams as long as they aren't 99 with dementia. It's just not true. I love your work. You're such a genuine guy. Thanks for all you do!!!
Don't feel too bad about giving them your cell number. When I was an adjunct instructor, we were encouraged to use our personal cell phones for faculty and student calls and even to put the number on our official information page. So they probably could have got it anyway--just a little more work.
Someone where I worked got an email from our CEO saying she was in a meeting and needed him to get gift cards just like this scam. I ran into him in the elevator on his way to go do exactly that and I couldn't stop laughing when he told me. That was two years ago and about 6 months later we had to take an anti-phishing online course so it must have happened a few more times, even with all of our warnings.
"I can't get the gift cards physically. I'm in a meeting." Don't suppose the meeting will end, at all? I can wait on the other side of the door with the gift cards, maybe play on my phone or Switch if the place allows while I wait for you to get out. Even if it's "not anytime soon", it's not forever either, and I doubt it'll last a full night. Even bosses need to go home. You could definitely give Becky the gift cards directly (and once you do, she's confused because she never asked for them). The story just isn't reasonable, and nothing was even suggesting urgency to make you photo and send the cards during the meeting.
This isn't a proxy though, it was an American mobile IP address (AT&T to be more specific), that's pretty hard to impersonate with a proxy or a VPN, which will usually be obvious due to the web-hosting IP address (That's how Netflix blocks people using VPNs)
I'm always amazed at the creativity of criminals. Imagine what could they do if they turned that talent into creating something positive. We might have a cure for Covid-19.
@@baront1057 Are you saying that's it's ok to swindle vulnerable people out of their savings because the scammers cannot find more reputable, higher paying jobs?
My mom got a similar email situation at our elementary school recently, supposedly from the principal, and I think she gave it her number, but of course when it got to the store part, her suspicion finally peaked and realized it was a scam. Many other teachers got the same email, but everything was quickly resolved.
I hope someday to put my voice acting skills to use through scam baiting. It is a serious bucket list item of mine. Thank you for fighting the good fight, sir!
We get these at my work all the time. Our IT department blocks them and sends an email immediately after saying "Don't reply, this is not ." I wanted to mess with them myself but IT is like "It's not worth it." So glad you are doing the work for us.
Oldest trick in the book. I work at a major university and I deal with this "scam" multiple times a semester, and they almost always come in the late afternoon on a Friday. Despite how often I warn against this scam, people still fall for it. The first email always says, "I need your help, urgently".........RED FLAG
The most amazing part of your channel is how you get scammed so many times! I’m probably the same age as you and I’ve only had people try and scam me a handful of times.
I actually just backtracked the IP address (107.77.230.144) shown in the video and it isn’t a VPN range. This guy is legit in CA, on an AT&T network pulling these scams off of his iPhone.
The location reveal is always the best part! :D I was expecting the usual Nigeria/Ghana little tune... When [SPOILER ALERT] Katy Perry came out, I died!
This happened to my son a couple months ago! He just started working at a non profit and got these same messages. His company really does use gift cards so he fell for it. $700 of eBay cards. 🤦🏻♀️ Thankfully my husband & I intervened before he could give the codes. Hard lesson for our boy.
@@utrak - no, because meetings are often boring wastes of time. That's why you sneak a peak at your phone. But Trash, you're probably the boring guy heading the boring meeting 😆
@@mariec.9102 I think you're a little too optimistic about my managerial activities, but thanks anyway lol. This concludes today's meeting, now go out and do whatever you want. Yes, that is an obligatory assignment
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I'm a university employee at a German university and we also regularily got these mails, though processing was only through mail, no phone involved. I tried doing the same thing, also making up a technical problem sending attachments in mails... unfortunately, the person I had on the "line" didn't click the link :(
@@ilikeudonnoodles 😄 She's not my teacher. She's also something of a public figure. Check out her youtube: Catherine Zeisner Or her Tiktok @drzeisner or Instagram czeisner. She has fun content and helps teachers.
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I’ve run in to a couple of scammers when selling my fifth wheel camper. They both liked the picture s and price. Sent me cheques for more than asking price saying I was to give the driver the extra because he was picking stuff up on the way home. Took the cheques to my bank she checked them out and found them fakes. Even the letters on top left wear similar. Police in the city and province and rcmp didn’t want to be bothered so I have two pieces of wallpaper. Glad you are there I learned from your RU-vid program. Thanks a lot!!!
