@@badlarry172 India too, well, I think it applies to all scammers since these people undoubtely would develop a large amount of ego after repetitively making their victims fall for their scams.
@@GlassesnMouthplates agreed and in my experience Indians and Pakistanis hate to be asked if there parents are proud of what they do for a living, instant scammer freek out
I think you might like tomorrow's scambaiting upload - I used a machine learning algorithm to generate engaging, but meaningless replies to the scammer...
I can't recommend Tanner Derek, he came to my house and whipped me in the eye with a knotted handkerchief, then insisted I get my barrister to purchase him a gift card for fund thrust arcade. 3/10
He had a mobile phone but keeps it switched off to avoid offsetting carbon emissions from passing air liners. If you want to arrange a phone call you'll need to do so in writing 7 months in advance plus the anticipated length of the phone call.
I like that the first scammer said he'd need money to get illegal hacking software from the dark web then said the price was high because it's highly regulated. Nice to know that the hacking world now report to a recognised regulatory body.
Theres also the fact that, in order to run the service you do, you would have needed the software already. Its not like he was claiming to be updating it, he was saying they needed to buy a new product. That would be like having to pay a carpenter an extra fee in order for them to buy the table saw, tape measurer, pencils, and nails in order to build your cabinet
6:52 Interestingly, these three actually share a common format: The [adjective] [noun] [adverb] [verb] because [noun] [adverb] [verb] [preposition] a [adjective] [noun]. [adjective], [adjective] [noun].
Imagine understanding Japanese at a proficient fluent level and in that such a manner as a foreigner then speaking/typing the language with these scammers?
@@failedsocialexperiment2382 I speak Chinese at a basic level. It didn't do any good. When you try, they just block you and vanish. Though, I got some nice laughs from telling them 大傻逼。
I have actually started to collect comments like these in a file called "bot poetry" a while ago. I'm happy to finally have learned a plausible, possible reason as to why they exist.
The comments are probably sent in pairs so that if the creator removes one then they won't remove the second as they believe its only appearing as a glitch after they had already removed it.
@@BCMears sometimes RU-vid does freak the fuck out though like I’ll post a comment then it will post 2 with the second one apparently having been posted in the future
It happens a lot less often now, but RU-vid used to sometimes look like nothing was happening after you click "Reply", so you click it again. And you end up with two identical comments from a real, non-scam person.
Wittle gamer man, impish boy sitting on a gamer baby seat that shines in pretty colors. You want some money little gamer baby boy? So you can buy a gay little keyboard?
Lol and they said its powerful software and can only be sold with strong restrictions but the previous sentence said they would buy it from the dark web xD lol i didnt knownthe dark web was so selective about who it sold to lol
I doubt RU-vid is willing to invest resources in what they probably consider to be a small issue. Stopping old ladies from getting scammed doesn't make RU-vid more money, after all.
@@antlerman7644 Only when the advertisers see it as a problem, RU-vid begins to act. Whether or not they act correctly is up to chance. You saw that right before the adpocalypse, when advertisers started to withdraw from RU-vid for completely ignoring the child predator problem on their platform. RU-vid acted swiftly, and made sure channels who used swear words would get demonetized.
that 'alaye' gives me an idea, have you ever tried to pull a 'gotcha I'm your co-scammer sent by the boss to check on you' type bait? might be a fun idea. (though I would take you word on a list of reasons why it wouldn't be, you have the experience I'm just an observer)
I do that a lot, I actually got a scammer convinced that I was his boss for a while, I told him to do stuff like create a new account to see if he’d do it and he actually did.
@@2lefThumbs He has done collabs with Africa Everyday before who is Nigerian (I think), maybe he speaks Yoruba and could carry it on? Could lead to an amazing reverse scam.
I 'm an IT consultant and I have many elderly clients. I tell them to watch your videos and learn. I had an older gentleman get taken for $10 K last Summer. I have a dozen stories like this. I was recommended to him by my local bank as I know the manager and she heard about me from one of her clients. I've been doing this for 25 years as of this August. It's so sad when this happens and I try to do my best to get them back up and running with the protection on their laptop they should have had all along. I also try to educate them a bit, so they aren't low hanging fruit for the next a-hole. Thanks for fighting the good fight Mike.
Educating boomers on this stuff is outrageously difficult. My uncle used to reply to nearly every spam email... even ones that just said shit like "ANGELINA JOLIE'S LEAKED PICS." My mom just gave out her social security number and credit card security numbers to someone last week, because the original call came from "Bank of America" (they spoofed their phone number to appear legit.
Given that one scammer tried to take payment via PayPal, I'd definitely say to report them to PayPal support, they could actually take action against that.
Scambaiting idea for you: maybe pretend you are a teenager and see how will the scammers act? Make it obvious that your character is like 14-15 and very naive, but still could get the money by stealing from parents or such Also a good opportunity to warn your possible parent viewers to teach their kids about scammers and what to do when they encounter one
@@TankEngine75 I personally was only allowed any type of social media when I turned 13, and a friend of mine was only allowed any type when she turned 16. So its not most parents, most people I know were only allowed at 13 cause that is the valid age.
I was wondering what the "word salad" comments were about. I mentally chalked it up to a meme or internet trend that I was not aware of. Didn't occur to me that it could be part of a scam.
I had seen them too. Figured they were bots, but I couldn't figure out what they were actually *doing.* It's nice to finally know why they're making word salad comments.
I don't have time for any of this. I'm still trying to help out my African prince friend get his money. _A Nigerian friend in need, is a friend indeed._
When I heard that, I immediately thought of this scientist from Fresno California who wanted her husband murdered and had someone beat him brutally and put him head first in a barrel and then filled it with acid. Horrible horrible crime.
6:53 I've been fascinated by those "structured word salad" comments, one comment section I saw was almost entirely taken up by them. The structure is something like "The (adjective) (noun) (adverb) (verb) because (noun) (adverb) (verb) (preposition) a (adjective) (noun). (adjective), (adjective), (noun)." But they often screw it up, for instance using "acromegaly" as an adverb because it ends in -ly.
Shrimp out here defending his viewers from scammers. Not many would do that outside of just reporting. Bravo sir. Also having them talk to cleverbot is... Clever
@ ash kash.....There are a number of people who actually go after scammers. Jim Browning (fake name) scambaiter, scammer payback, kitboga and several others.
theres some nasty 'get your ex back' scams that prowl comments of breakup advice videos on youtube. I watched a lot of them when i was going through a bad heartbreak and it infurated me that they were going after ppl who were going through that kind of pain, and a lot of ppl might be fooled by it with the irrationality that comes with heartbreak.
Yeah, I blew $40 on one of those e-books that promised to help me "win him back," and now I get offers out the wazoo for more of the same kind of crap, while I'm going through a divorce. It doesn't help. At all.
@@MrJefferson07 considering the topic of the video and the fact the creator (I'm very unfamiliar) was very explicit about the fact that they don't think that certain people are more susceptible to scams. I think you're being incredibly shallow and showing almost as little respect as the very bots that are the topic of the video.
I keep getting bot comments of services that supposedly allow people to stalk their girlfriends' instagram account or some pirated film site that at least three bot comments enthusiastically approve of... On videos that have nothing to do with them. It's getting annoying having those reply to me on, say, a video about a historic train having a running day.
Sorry about your lemon curd. Have you tried contacting a hacker to see if your lemon curd can be unburnt? I've heard great things about Sir NotAScammer III. I dropped a pizza on the floor and he was able to restore it to it's original glory, although he did burn my aunt to death in the process. A small price to pay!
Kitboga and CallMeKevin baited a scammer together pretending to be two old men starting a soup business. Thought of that when I saw Cleverbot's offer of soup following business talk.
The fine gentleman with the foresight to remove the head prior to burning/freezing and shattering the body seems like the best candidate. The others went too fast and lost their heads
I was messing with one of the bots until a real person took over. You could tell because capitalization, spelling and grammar suddenly went right out the window. They tried getting me to Google some investor who supposedly helped them make thousands of dollars and kept insisting they were American while I was continuously guessing what country they might be from and telling them that they'd never convince anyone with their terrible English. What else to do on night shift? Any minute of their time I waste is time they can't scam someone more vulnerable.
Oh, so those word salad things are also coming from bots? I have seen them occasionally but assumed they were done by someone either drunk or high letting their phone's autocorrect or autocomplete do the job for them. "Belligerent erratic ladybug" is a new favourite term now though. XD
@@jd_the_cat it reminds me of the code names used in the Original Trilogy Star Wars movies they used the most popular example being Luke Skywalker's Red Leader, so might as well play some homage to it
Love the idea of getting scammers to talking to an AI bot. Imagine hooking them up to Alexa and Bezos waking up to find all of his funds had been transferred to a Nigerian prince.
Well, at least the part were John Mcafee commited crypto related fraud and evaded taxes was accurate. However, he also happens to be dead, so I'd not advice anyone to do any business with him.
Atomic Shrimp: I don't want to portray scam victims as dumb. Also Atomic Shrimp: shows these scammers sending literal matrix screens to prove their skills.
Imagine calling other people dumb, when you don't even know that the screenshots aren't from "the matrix". There are real systems that have green text interfaces like that.
@@janitorizamped the green falling inverted katakana on black background is from the matrix. It's not used anywhere, neither is it usable. You can make Windows CMD or Linux terminal green, but it'll look very different from the images used. If you *actually* know any systems that look like that, please do tell names, I'm very interested.
The problem is, these bots mix in normal sounding comments with their bot comments to obfuscate their chicanery. The only way RU-vid could truly stop these bots would be to make their filters so strict that there would be considerable collateral damage. And even then, there's always the possibility that the bots could simply adapt anyway. The best way to combat this is through awareness. Algorithms may only be so effective against those who are determined to get around them, but ultimately, if you know that this sort of thing goes on, and you know that you should never trust random recommendations for making large sums of money through things such as cryptocurrency, you can defend yourself better than RU-vid can defend you.
Yeah, unfortunately trying to find a way to automatically detect these things without also finding a lot of false positives is probably impossible. It's the same reason we have to deal with people intentionally throwing matches in league of legends lol, it is hard to separate people who are doing bad shit on purpose from those who are actually just having a moment. I agree that raising awareness for these scams is probably the only real way of combatting them in a general way, as without manually deleting/reporting them (which is a losing battle from the start, as they can be automatically created but require intensive human investment to remove) it is unlikely that they are going anywhere.
A mixture of bots and human would be nice. Bot scours and marks down potential offender, while human decides if it's scummy or not. The easier one is the impostor comments, made by fake channel purporting as the uploader. If the PFP and name kinda match but has different channel id, it's a potential flag .
Would making people complete a captcha of some description before they can post each comment be a relatively effective method? If nothing else, it would slow down the rate at which comment bots could post things for a little while... until they work out how to pass it.
@@dmkmn4612 there's an option to disallow sending link on RU-vid Numbers on the other hand... They're working around filters so that it cannot be detected. Such as: +5..5..5-..6..7..9..3..5..4..1..2
@@AmbiAnts589 I can't remember where I heard it but someone said that Jim Browning is what scammers check for under their bed. I like that idea, that Jim has become like the boogeyman to scammers.
Of course! We wouldn't want people gaining access to this type of software illegally! There are strict rules in place for illegal activities for good reasons!
I remember seeing a couple of these comment threads in the wild and thinking of your previous video. I don't know if previous content creators were just better at dealing with them or I just don't read enough comments, but I hadn't seen them before.
I've seen plenty of them before. I got tired of reporting them. Videos with bitcoin in the title attract lots, but I've seen them on completely unrelated videos too.
They are everywhere. Not all of them mention bitcoin but they're there check the replies to random comments on the next video you watch and I bet you you'll find a dozen
I was wondering about the sudden appearance of youtube comment bots that post random incoherent sentences. This explains everything! Thanks for satisfying my curiosity.
A minute and 13 sec in the video you already gave it away : if there is a way of magically make money, nobody would tell you about it while living like kings. Liked and subscribed !
I have been absolutely loving your references and subtle jokes, but you have killed me with Reservoir Dogs. That’s my absolute favourite film. Thank you for doing what you do, both scammer-related, and cooking and baking-related, and all other else. Cheers!
gotta love those fake hacking screens, especially the one on the left at 8:49 they started a comment with /* but never ended it, so theoretically that whole code is just a comment because there's no */
I really appreciate these videos so much. My MIL is vulnerable to this stuff and being able to walk her step by step through the scam helps me convince her that it's a scam and she shouldn't fall for it. Thank you so much for making them.
The part about the aunt being set on fire and the human head in a box was hilarious. You really threw a curveball at them. xD Thank you for all you do to help people not to fall for stuff like this!
@Jonathan Gruber The soul called Mr. Barrister John Warosa helped me graciously to recover USD $255,30 in small change from the cushions of my couch on Saturday. He is a gentle kind man who would never freeze a person in liquid nitrogen.
I beg you dont tell me anything about the soul called Mr. John Barosa. Don't tell me anything about the sould called Mr. John Warosa. This message is crap.
"For the first time in life, it felt like I should do something to stop the flow of time" Yo I felt that one on a emotional level, total mood right here.
The occasional small golden nuggets buried in your already enthalling videos makes the whole thing even more better. In this case it was the Reservoir Dogs reference. Thank you once again from faraway Finland!
There was something similar to this I came across a few years ago. Fake message boards where multiple bots would add key words from my search and would always have a site they would suggest where you'd need to register.
Thank you Mr. Shrimp. Your scambaiting videos helped me identify a wire-transfer scam as soon as the man said grocery store. If your ever want to go fishing, try posting that you lost something on craigslist.
I always enjoy your content. From eating surprisingly good food on the cheap to scamming, and avoiding, would-be scammers, you've got it going on. However, one question remains: why "Atomic Shrimp?" Inquiring minds want to know! I'm curious as well.
Recommendation comment chains in youtube comments are the modern equivalent to phone numbers scribbled on public bathroom walls you're supposed to call for a "fun time". Also, I love that cleverbot idea. Didn't think that website was still running tbh.
Thank you for explaining this phenomenon. I've run into these kinds of obviously fake comments, often in clusters on RU-vid and wondered what kind of scam was going on. There is another type recommending streaming services lately. They probably want you to download some "special software" that turns out to be some kind of malware. They're out there more than ever.
amazing video mike. going through a lot of tough things right now and your voice just makes me calm. i really appreciate your content more than anyone can understand. Best of love from Arkansas, USA
I love how the scammer doesn't even react to the possible victim being told not to send money to scammers. No "I'm not a scammer", no "that is a very smart advice" nothing.
These scammers prey on the vulnerable and desperate rather than the stupid or gullible, people they can bully and pressure. Great work researching them. Thank you for investing your time.
It’s kind of nice that the commenter gave two stars even after having their aunt burnt with a propane torch and their uncle frozen in liquid nitrogen and smashed like glass
Thank you for teaching me about bots. Now I understand what the deluge of "we'll get your money back!" answers to a comment I made on a Scammer Payback's video that had absolutely no remark of being scammed. It was odd and a bit bewildering...but now it makes perfect sense! Keep up the good work!
If profile photo dissapears - usually it means that they blocked you. You can try putting their contact number on a different phone (don't write to them) and just open their whatsapp profile - if you'll see a picture, that means they blocked your previous phone number
