This is awesome! You should keep doing this under different names with the same scammer group and others you can find. The scammers never saw any of your real identity, so you can just keep creating new fake identities and re-applying for the job, and they can never know who they are actually interacting with.
@@garretaylorr lol, ummm...you do know us Africans can speak English right? 😂 😂 😂.. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 That guy doesn't seem like he's using Google translate, he's rude af 😂 😂
Nice work. Am a Nigerian and not all of us are Scammers. And Nigeria isn't as bad as "Emmanuel" painted it. Kids these days want fast money so rather than learning a Skill, they chose Fraud and then blame the Country as a reason for being a Scammer.
I think it's easy for people everywhere to want easy money. From some of the kids there doing the scams, to some of the people here who fall for things too good to be true. I do know for a fact Nigeria puts out a lot of great doctors so there is that.
Sounds like he was testing you. He probably asked you to send those cheques (aka checks for Americans) to some of his affiliates to be sure you were trustworthy.
@@hoosierhiver or maybe they were so hopeful that they told the scammers about it. You have to put yourself in the mindset of people who actually fall for this stuff.
This is said it happens all the time. I work at a bank and you won't believe the things these scammers tell people. What is more surprising is that even after you tell the customer do not deposit these checks you have been scammed, a lot of them look at you in disbelief and are tempted to present the checks.
believe me I know. different line of work but some people really want to be scammed... they contact you, you tell them its a scam and they respond as if you dont know what you are talking about despite being trained for it and do it anyway.
@@Sarge92 he did in the series of this video. basically the people get more money then promised and they are to use the remaining amount for various things. thats the "earnings" for the scammers. when the falty check is realised the bank deducts the funds from the bank holder but they not only spend the money for whatever they were told tod o, but they might have also spend some of the money that was supposed to be for them (which wont help the scammer but can make recovering from it even worse) also if they received the checks for selling something, they might have already shipped the items, too
@@Sarge92 well, I dont know much about different systems in the US and checks arent really a thing in Germany, I am just basing this on what he explained in the other videos of teh series and challenges I have to deal with scammers throughout my line of work
Justin Y. I never expected to see you got less than a dozen likes, but I'd better hunt those scammers before it hit everyone's economy like i hit a druglord with my gun
I enjoyed this video a lot, but I wish you would have made a dummy email account and written some more details in those packages. Something along the lines of " I am a third party being told to mail out these cheques. I just printed this cheque from my home office and do not work for this oil company. I suspect you are being scammed and I am sending you this warning. If you would like to follow up with me to talk about this here's my email". Then you could start a back and forth correspondence with the scam victims. Learn why they believed they were receiving these cheques. What was the backstory the scammers gave them? What was their reaction when they found out the truth? You could call, email, video conference them, maybe get their permission to include that portion in the video. It would have been all the more interesting!
Those are great ideas, thankfully there are many scams in all corners of the world and plenty of people getting brutally fucked all the time, so maybe the next video will incorporate some of these investigative techniques
They found him boys. As of today 2:09 A.M, Jim has been found murdered with a note reading "U don't fuk wit Nigeria anymore" R.I.P Jim Plz share credit card info so we can pay for funeral. I am his cousin, LeBron Jackson.
it's 2:08 AM here now and I guess this comment would have been more interesting if it were actually 2:09 AM but I still felt is was worth typing this comment
I've to thank you so much! I got contacted (because I am looking for a minijob) and thought It could be legit business and looked professional. But as soon as I got more into details I noticed the same instructions as shown in this video. Tried to find this video and found it. Thanks so much!
This whole series is fascinating. I'm not on classifieds very often, but I've seen some obvious scams on there. Getting a glimpse of how these scams operate is eye opening.
good for you, man! Coming from a fellow "waste scammer's time at every chance" person. I got goosebumps when you said "these little old ladies were about to lose everything, but not if I could help it". We need more people like you in this world. Keep on fighting the good fight brother
Wow! Just saw your channel and watched the entire series on Nigerian scammers..I must confess you're doing a great job saving people from scams.Keep the ball rolling.. God bless you!👏👍
likely because they are truly and justifiably emotional. they are just trying to get by. it can be hard sometimes. i dont like what they are doing, but when you are hungry you are willing to do anything )`:
@@morgantran8085 So easy to be sympathetic towards these guys, up until they scam someone you know for everything they've got. There are people much worse off than these scammers who don't result to such terrible acts.
@@theFishy_ Maybe, maybe not. Obviously at least one of the recipients reported it to the scammer, or was working for the scammer already, and was acting as an informant, but it's likely that at least some of the recipients was that and walked away from it And if not, at the very least, he is spreading awareness with this video.
So based on the quick map image, that address is 12321 6th Street, Santa Fe, TX. They're either part of the scam or someone who is also "employed" by the scammer. It may be that someone is working at the post office in that rural area and basically intercepts these when they come in with that address or maybe they fill out a redirect form at the post office every month or so and have it redirect to another address for a while as if they moved elsewhere and still have mail coming to the address. The person at the address may just be some innocent, random person who happened to live in the middle of nowhere and was picked as a random target. I'd be curious to know if they're having any issues with their mail not showing up. I have been pondering how this scam would finish. If they theoretically got the check and the account number isn't valid and the check is found to be fake, I'm not seeing how the scammer would get their money or how even the company placed on the check would "lose" money. I don't think a bank would process a $130K check just deposited into an ATM or even in-person via the bank. The person might be temporarily detained by police to figure out where the check came from, but I don't think that their account would bounce for $130K. I'm not seeing how the person getting the check would benefit or get paid OR how the scammer themselves would get paid unless they were redirecting to that address to have them redirect to yet another address. It may be that the scammer has a contact at both of those companies who is actually employed at each company and would use the check to embezzle from the company somehow. Or there may be someone working at the post office in the rural area looking for that specific address to come through and somehow reroute it or intercept it. There needs to be an international task force that specifically goes after scammers like this and permanently jails them, sells everything that they have and uses the money to fund itself and/or help out people who have been scammed by these people. They should get 30-40 years in prison for this.
So I've been a 'victim' of this type of scam before... I started getting UPS overnight envelopes that were "return to sender" and when I opened them, there were large checks inside. When I called UPS to complain they didn't seem to care to pursue the scammers (generally because they're overseas and next to impossible to prosecute. They did explain the scam to me though... What typically happens is an overseas scammer makes a deal with party A to buy something or complete some type of transaction where they pay "extra" for the item with the condition that part of the money be returned, or given to a courier who picks up the item, etc. The scammer then has party B (the payroll clerk) print and send a check... often using stolen ups or fedex account numbers. Sometimes Party A is asked to deposit the check and paypal or transfer money to the scammer... other times there's a Party C (hired from craigslist under false pretense in the same way the payroll clerk is hired) that will come pickup the item. The scam has several variants but the end game is to get someone in the states to deposit a fake check and transfer goods or money back to the scammer, sometimes through another party. The result will be that party A is on the hook for the money after the fake check bounces.
Let me explain it to you like this. A scammer contacts a genuine seller, asks to buy their items. Agree on price, then they send a fake check " from wherever source and usually ridiculously more than the actual value of the item in question". Upon receipt of the check, the scammer forces the seller to deposit the check in an account, knowing that the check will eventually bounce. Here comes the interesting part. The Scammer will then start to pressure the seller (now victim) to transfer the balance of the sum on the check upront (before the check even clears) to a shipper (the scammer's own network). So how the scammers make money is pressuring the victim to send his or her own money upfront based on their trust (gullibility) in the legal tender (fake check). Do you now understand it?
Just a heads up, those checks never make it to the addresses, those addresses are just fronts and they are diverted to the real address is somewhere else.
@@capcamouflagepatterni6162 makeing fake checks is illegal so the guy who printed the checks in the first place would get in trouble. The account of the employer was a fake one.
@@cristianpopa7454 I am aware the employer is a fake account. Odin AllFather is saying that the people he is shipping the fake checks to is aware of the scam and another worker in it. Even if they didn't print the checks, if they then tried to pass them off as real despite knowing they are fake, that is still illegal.
Okay, I have determined that Ben needs to start a company and start a full scale attack on scammers from multiple angles. Kinda like what perverted justice did on "To Catch A Predator". I would be 1000% on board.
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idk if FedEx has something similar, I expect they do, but UPS has something called SurePost where they ship USPS mail and deliver it to the post offices for them to deliver
These replies are true. I ordered a couple of things online, and was told it was going to be serviced to UPS. The majority was, but the last drive was made by USPS.
Alot of companies drop off there mail to USPS when they have to much or its not cost efficient to deliver it, and they just pocket the extra money that was paid for shipping.
dELTA13579111315 it’s not that, these were express labels. He straight up put them in the wrong box, maybe they got there eventually thanks to witty postmen
I think you should have worked with the FBI on this. They (FBI) have connection with Nigeria's financial crime unit, you all would have being able to round them up from Nigeria side. Good job you've done but u saved very few when you could have saved alot by working with the FBI.
@@fudge5598 easy contact the FBI, tell them about his plan and am very sure FBI will work with him to arrest all the scammers from Nigeria side. It as being done and is still ongoing and this plan of pleasant green will also help.
@@fudge5598 i dont live in your country but what i know from here that we've seen many joint operation between FBI and Nigeria law enforcement where scammers were arrested, all there asset confiscated and jailed. So to contact FBI over there is a problem he has solve.
I'm thinking at least one of those envelops were sent to someone testing your loyalty (maybe all of them), thus you're instantly busted. I do hope you continue this/these vids...great story!
24: Best television series, and undoubtedly one of the most overlooked ones. Almost nobody I know has seen it. Just had to say that since I rarely bump into another fan, even on RU-vid! Edit: By the way, I'm aware of your uploads. They're great clips and I've been doing the same for my favourite animated series. I hate to be a copycat, but I guess I am.
sagat4 I don't know about that. Here in america, social security (government-funded retirement checks, in case you're not from here) doesn't pay out enough for these people to live above the poverty line. If they really ARE little old ladies, it might be out of desperation. I know my relatives have gotten legit offers of over one million dollars on a particular piece of land (it's a very in-demand area nowadays, even though it was cheap when they got there) so they might think $130,000 for some of their land is reasonable, and it might help cover some medical bills (neither medicare nor medicaid cover 100% of medical costs for all recipients). Not trying to argue or anything, just trying to shed some light on the situation. I know if my family didn't subsidize my grandmother's income, then she would certainly be living below the poverty line.
@@yosoyysoyyo Imagine what it was like when government was not involved at all. Individuals would be left to plan out their own lives and futures and families would have had to take care of each other even more than they do now. The horror!
Not likely the scammers would out themselves like that. I'm guessing none of the envelopes actually went to the addresses printed on them. It's not a coincidence that they were all rural homes. Most likely there is someone working at a rural post office that intercepts these envelopes.
@@BitcoinMotorist It's multi teired. The people getting the fake checks are being fed a whole different story. The dating app is sometimes a recruiting tool. The different moving parts & separation of stories & levels is all very convoluted but they are working a very clever real life chess game. The part I never see explained is why the cashier's check is so hard to instantly verify. The slow clearing process & the burden being on the person who deposited the fraudulent check is really ridiculous.
@SidtheKid I guess were just gonna ignore the fact these fuckers could be scamming uour grandparents and just be focused on the guy who just wants to tear them down before they do.
@ksubliminals There were some notable individuals in the old days in the USA who proposed that the USA should change the way it spells words in English to distinguish itself from England as well as to reflect a simpler and more phonetic spelling. Many of those proposals were implemented into the USA's educational system. Ironically, the USA is *still* using the old British system of measurement even though in the past it wanted to distinguish itself from England 😆
He said that he will pay you weekly. At the end of the video,you said a few weeks later,i lost my job and he blocked me. SOOOO,i have the obvious question here. How will ANT MAN SAVE THE WORLD????
Well done for exposing these scammers. We're in 2019 and there are still gullible people out there willing to buy into these scams. Hence, the number checks.
My disabled fiance was working for a scam artist like this. This guy had him printing and sending check after check and never even paid him. That guy still messages once in a while trying to get my fiance to print and send more checks, and promises to pay him all that hes owed after the checks are sent. This man needs to go to jail!!! I cant believe how many people fall for this scam. My friends mother is also a victim of a similar scam. With her the man acted like a U.S army service man and acted like he was romantically interested in her. She fell for him and started sending him thousands of dollars to Nigeria. I keep telling her she is funding terrorism and she doesn't believe it. It has been years and she still hasn't met this man face to face and now shes even banned from using Western Union and shes in horrible debt. What I dont understand is how so many people fall for this scam.
Meh he's more exposed than anything but considering his international status and the fact he was probably hiding behind a VPN just anyway... he wasn't "caught" unfortunately and likely is still running the scam to this day.
Great video! I hope you really did this. Am I the only one that noticed you were putting FedEx Express shipping labels on USPS Priority Envelopes then dropping them off at the Post Office? I am sure some of the footage was taken afterwards just so you could make this video. If you really put a FedEx Express Shipping Label on a USPS Priority Envelope and then dropped them off at the Post Office then these would have never made it to the destination. Anyways, keep it up! I hate all these scammers! The more that can be done to make their life harder and take time away from them scamming people the better!
same thing happened to me, thankful I was able to find the person and get my money back with mansard security, it was a long process but totally worth it at the end of the day!
Lucky you! I'm glad you got your money back, unfortunately I didn't, it's been a few years now but it's all in the past. Your story inspires me alot. Glad the person was caught!
This video is sooooo true. Sounds like a made for TV movie. But it is for real exactly the way you are revealing it. I know. I didn't get scammed but I did do my homework on this after being contacted. Everything is true. The checks, labels, envelopes. All of it. Be careful how you respond to work from home jobs. It's so sad using people like that. Please keep posting. This is very educational and reality.
Not minding the bad name these scammers give Nigeria, there are more good and hard working people in Nigeria. It's so sad that these things happen everyday
This whole video is fake. Not only that, but he put Fedex labels on a USPS envelope and put them in a USPS drop box. This guys is as dumb as nigerian scammers and he just tried to scam youtube viewers.
I been watching this guys videos for about a week an honestly I subscribed because I love the content keep it up bro cheers from Cangeria I mean canada 🇨🇦
