Hello, Yugi! It is I! The real Set Kiba! I am of offering my last 3 Whit Dargons w/ Blue Eyes to u, if u can beat me in chillins card gaem! How 2 play: [insert blatant and completely obvious scam here.] Gud luk, Yugi, but ur probly 3rd rate duelist w/ 4-star deck! (God, that hurt to type. Seriously, how the hell do scammers misspell so many words, and mess up the source material so _severely?)_
@@LucanVaris your comment is beautiful, and also, there may be actual logic behind why scammers make so many mistakes. People that are willing to look past the errors are much more likely to go along with a scam, so it actually may be to quickly find their target victims.
There's gotta be a scam story out there where the scamee just asked if it's a scam and the scammer replied honestly and the scamee just said, "Eh...fuck it, I'm going through a divorce and that bitch isn't getting a dime."
The person who pretended to be the previous owner was checking out the property to see if it's worth robbing later. DO NOT let these people in without proof that they lived there before.
And if you're going to try going back to places you lived, check the neighbors first. If you were good friends with a neighbor who still lives there, they can vouch for you. One time I actually did visit the neighborhood I used to live in. I never even tried going to the actual house (the owners weren't home and I didn't know them anyway.) Spent a nice afternoon on my former neighbors' porch, playing with their dog and catching up. Good times.
@@o-mangaming5042 Yes! If you come looking around alone I will assume you're checking out the place and call the cops. If you however bring my neighbor and good acquaintance Kathy along and you two seem to know each other well enough I will invite you for a coffee. It's all about being non-threatening.
@@lampostsamurai2518 Maybe if it's their own childhood home I can see going back to it but you kinda still have no reason to go inside so in general I agree with you. Also anyone of course has the right to refuse anyone else entry to their property, you don't owe anyone access.
I haven’t realized I’ve been listening to Emkay for and hour and a half straight. Robyn’s voice now lives rent free in my brain, and there’s no evicting him.
The funniest thing is that if the scams only offered 100 or so dollars they would be so much more beliveable than them offering hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Yeah, and imagine if a hacker developed an AI hack that could steal 10 cents off like 1.000.000 random people's bank accounts every month. That thing would be silly unnoticeable as it's such a small amount, but for the guy that gets the money it would be 100k a month.
My mom once got a call from a guy who claimed he was with the fire department and asked for her credit card information, which she gave them. I told my dad that she was giving her information to strangers, and when he confronted her about it and asked how she could guarantee it was really the fire department, she said “because he said it was”.
"The sheriff is coming for you _today_ but we asked him to turn around and come back so we can contact you *_THROUGH THE POST_* to make an immediate payment" That...that one made me laugh.
In the grandpa one, the word "nagypapa" is "granddad" in Hungarian. I'm assuming he switched to their native language as a check because he got suspicious.
A youtuber I follow had someone scamming in her comments section. She pretended she was going along with it, until she laughed and told him she was the owner of the channel. He immediately started spewing disgusting descriptions of what he wanted to do to her. These scammers often seem to be so evil it boggles the mind...
Scammers are funny, but they ae also evil human beings. I don't particularly care if some are "doing this to survive" they are still scum. Atomic Shrimp recommends being careful because they are criminals and even had a scammer hoping to legit kidnap him once...
I remember when my best friends dad got a scam call while I was having a sleepover at his house and he pretend to be a Chinese restaurant worker and said “I have leg of cat for 15 dolla you buy or no!” It developed into a 10 minute conversation with the scammer trying to get his credit card number and we were on the floor laughing
My stepdad answers to scammers the same way. Like, he « plays the game » or something. Last time I’ve been at his house, a scammer called, trying to get his social security number, so he acted like if he was 90+years old, pretended to be mostly blind (« I have a hard time reading the tiny numbers on this card » (and ended up giving the phone number of the closest police dept)) and also deaf asf (« can you scream louder into the phone please? I can’t hear ya’! ») I literally had to get out in the garden because it made me laugh so much. Before that, scammers made me angry and upset. Since then, I know they can be some source of fun. 🖕 scammers, you can have fun interacting with them! Play the game, and if you can keep a scammer on the line for half an hour, that means half an hour fun for ya, half an hour of scamming lost for them, and most likely the scammer needing to take a break after such an interaction, so, bonus points!
@@Aisndianeidnawbedja 15 dolla for cat legs?! Whole chicken with legs cheaper than dis, 3 dolla for 4 leg of kat or I close phone right naw Go cheaper or I leave 😂
No actually oxygen breathing human being is going to do something worth you sending that comment. They must be a uranium based life form from Neptune or something. 😅😅😅
You know… I just might ask them how much they want and if it was just like $100 or less for having both the audacity and the honesty I just might give it to them… if it was a good day and I recently got paid.
The kidnapped child/relative scam kinda gave me a two sentence sort of horror story. Here goes... "We have your son. Give us $75,000 or he dies." "He's a piece of shit. I'll pay you $100,000 to hear you shoot him now."
My favorite scam someone tried to pull was when I worked at a Petco. Some lady came in with the box for one of those small all in one fish tanks, the top all taped up with duct tape. It felt suspiciously light, but there was something in it. I proceeded to get a box cuter and cut the tape while she was saying "oh it didn't work." Tell her I still have to check the item. Inside the box was a plastic storage container. She tried to say her kid must have put that in there by mistake. Uh huh...
Ah yes mine is when I working at a daycare and a person came to the daycare saying they were one of the kid's aunt's. She offered me 200 dollars for the kid and I had to tell her you can't just buy children. Told her to leave or I'd call the police. It was adorable how fast she ran away. Who tries to scam you out of a kid. That lady does!
Scamers actually include spelling errors and bad English, specifically as way of weeding out targets. If your someone that notices these errors are not likely to be a target likely to fall for the longer scam. So if you see it's a scam and can waste some of the time, it's taking up their time which could be spent scaming someone less fortunate.
I was wondering why they wouldn't bother to be more convincing but that makes sense. The kind of person dumb enough to send money to a stranger isn't smart enough to think "Wait, Apple Support probably doesn't write in broken English"
Remember, the more time you waste of a scammer's time and your own, the less old grandmas lose all their savings to these heartless monsters. The more time you waste of scammers, the better.
But be prepared to be put on a list for more scams if you do engage with them. Many of the email and phone text scams are just to verify they go to a human being, especially if they ask you to reply with STOP (word of advice, don't). Once they get verification, your number/email becomes active and they sell it in giant lists on the black market (or even sometimes through legitimate businesses).
I love how the fact that February 2003 only had 28 days and the person told the scammer that they wanted to meet on the 30th was completely either missed or glossed over.
@@Guro-Blue-kun no, just that it wasn't 29 days. You know, for the ones that might bring up an argument that there could have been more days that year. You can't be too careful these days.
Life pro tip: If you are getting a lot of spam calls, call a dial-up modem, record the sound of it attempting to handshake for a minute, make it your voicemail greeting, then let all suspicious calls ring out and go to voicemail. The both making the calls will hear the dial-up sounds and record your number in their databases as a modem. You will stop getting spam calls.
I don't think a company can accidentally pay someone else and then not pay you, legally speaking. They would definitely set themsleves up for a lawsuit.
You would have to be able to afford to sue them and fight all of their appeals. Many people don't have that option, not just money, but time and other resources.
18:38 ...Okay... I legit did do this once. I went to the old house I grew up in - the one my brother died in, unfortunately. I was leaving the state and just wanted to say goodbye to my old neighborhood. I asked if I could just look around for a moment, and at first they were like "Hell no." - and I understood and went to walk away, but the man in the garage asked me a few questions, and realized I was legit. Turns out, that if someone dies in a house in Texas, you have to note it. You have to say how many, and in what manner they died. I told them my story, and they were pretty grateful to know the truth. No one told them it was a child. They asked his name, and I showed them a picture, and they said they'd remember him and think of him for me. There were still some old initials and dates my brother and I carved in the attic where they used to be. It was really nice being able to go inside. I showed them old pictures, too - so we could compare the 90's version of the house to the 2010 version it was at the time. It was really healing, and my boyfriend (now husband) was supportive of me trying. He was also surprised when they let me in - but I think the old photos really helped and the fact I knew the story. I was touched on how nice they were.
One time a scammer called our office and tried to make out like someone had hacked our tax account and had run up a huge tax bill. Like that's even a thing. What this clown didn't know was that the office he'd rung was a shared business line, my wife is an accountant and was running her accounting practice, I'm an IT guy running a computer repair business specialising in network security. Usually one of my employees did the phone answering but by sheer coincidence I was waiting on a call and picked it up when it rang. Oh the fun I had with him on that phonecall. I still daydream about that. Good times. Fancy ringing a network security specialist and an accountant and trying to tell them their computer had been hacked and their tax bill was now huge because of the hack. Of course he had no idea who he was ringing, what a goose. LOL. One of my off-siders was a bit of a Linux guru and set up a box with Windows running in a shell, and a few delicious bait files. His fave pastime was calling back the scammers who had left automated messages and leading them on a wild goose chase. It ate into our work time sometimes but I fully supported it because the amusement value we derived from it was priceless. I've certainly enjoyed watching the work of Scammer Payback (Pierogi) and Jim Browning, and the other guys who do that saintly work. It reminds me of the laughs we had when my off-sider had a fish on the line. He would yell out "fish on! fish on!" and we would drop everything and run into the workshop to watch the hilarity ensue.
"Fish on!" lol... Reminds me of a cargo ship captain who kept a log of every fish caught on the ship, you had to call in from the fantail when you caught one. Only time I ever saw anyone use the internal telephone system on that class of ships. Most merchant and government ship's officers would not care about that information, let alone appreciate getting it while they are trying to navigate!
@@Vinemaple It made me laugh years later when Jeremy Wade would yell out "Fish on!" in his show River Monsters. My employee who used to yell it out was a keen fisherman as well so I guess it's a fishing thing.
There was a guy who thought I was a scammer but I called him on messenger and said hey I really love the car. Im just $200 short. I will have the cash on Friday when I get paid. I sent him my work address and a small deposit and he had faith. Him and I are still really good friends. Johnny if you see this you're the man.
1:06:05 he is one going back in time but there is no february 30th highest february goes is to the 29th and that is once every four years on a leap year
Fun fact: Last night I was watching this at 1am, then I accidentally fell asleep and then woke up at like 6am confused as hell wondering why my strip lights and my monitor were still on 10/10 vid. Great sleep inducer
My favorite scam I heard of was from my sister, she didn't answer the phone when they called because she only answers if they have a local area code (because she has a chicago area code, so she doesn't often get scams from our area), or if they have a set ringtone/caller ID. They left a voicemail saying they were the Concern Department and that if she didn't respond in a timely manner, they were going to press legal charges. or something like that. They literally said "Concern Department." XD
They usually don't want to waste time with smart people. What's the point of pretending to be legit when your victim just backs out as soon you become scammy. It's much better to only grab the attention of gullible/vulnerable people from the get go
My dad got one of the kidnapping ones one time. They said they had his grandchild. My dad laughed and said "Sucks to be you. I have no grandchildren." 🤣
A couple of months back, I got an email from some random Kev, telling me that he'd recently spoken to my mum (I'm sixty, so I was immediately amused) about my finances - at which point, I asked him the name of the medium he'd used, as mum's been dead sixteen years. He then said: "Sorry, I meant your dad." I replied that I need the name of that medium, as they were superb, as dad's been dead eighteen years. I then said: "Do you want to try for grandparents, or an uncle or two?" He declined to reply. 🤔 😆😆😆
The one at 18:39 is a common trick used by burglars to scope out houses so they can “take inventory” of what the residents of a house have, familiarize themselves with floor plan, and make a “game plan” for robbing the place. Scary stuff. Glad OP didn’t fall for it.
When I watch the r/scams videos it always reminds me of James Viech. The guy replies to spam emails and it's hilarious Also, hearing Robin repeat the words "Scam likely" over the instrumentals of Egirls are ruining my life is something I'm never gonna get out of my head when listening to that song
i am unscammable, not because im sensible but because im barely functional in today's society, never check my email and only respond to the 4 people i know from work with UwU related responses
(58:03) A Note from Editor Kenny: Scammers favor gift cards because they are Easy for people to find and buy, and they have FEWER PROTECTIONS FOR BUYERS compared to some other payment options. The transactions are largely IRREVERSIBLE, and they [the scammers] can remain anonymous.
@@l.a.sunrise3922 sorry, I didn’t see this...there are websites that can help you cash-out the balance of the cards, but (from what I understand) the scammers use brokers for the cards...people who will cash-out the gift cards in large batches. The scammer will send the card numbers they have collected to the broker, who buys a batch of 50 cards for $0.75 on the dollar...(just as an example, the numbers are prob not exactly right)...it’s why the scammers won’t accept $25-$50 cards, their brokers won’t take them. If the scammer will take a low dollar card, he is probably working on his own rather than for a larger operation.
31:59 "Look. Please do trust me. It is not for the terrorist brief package! I am just in the Kennedy Space Center for my child are see the Space Shuttle Rocket. Can you please send a delay so we can this important family together?" 48:08 UN regulations... has a BARN. 56:32 The toaster has a "one slice" side. If you put one piece of bread in, you have to put it in that particular slot. Ugh, it's like the 20th century never even happened. 58:04 You guys rock for not assuming everyone understands this. Nice and brief and to the point, too! 1:11:47 You tell 'em, Robin. Srsly WTF. I hope they drove him nuts by not being able to understand anything he was talking about! 1:14:58 "Khalifa, this was a test, and you failed. There is no such person as OP. Your life is forfeit for betraying us. You must put your affairs in order, because you cannot escape us." 1:19:45 I read very fast, and am good at skimming relevant information, so I really appreciate the way you block out these texts as you read them! 1:43:53 I think somebody is using ChatGPT to write scam scripts 1:51:22 Oh, that is so cool! It clearly says, "This is not legal, it is for motion pictures"! It's PROP MONEY! Although, if someone tried to pass it as real, that would stink.
The person who wanted to see ‘his childhood home’ wanted to case the joint to see if there was anything worth steeling, what kind of security/vulnerabilities there might be and get an idea of who all lives there. I had someone come to my door with this line at my previous home. I casually asked ‘so the old fireplace in the master bedroom, was it ever usable? I don’t see any flu but it looks like a real fireplace’. He said ‘oh yeah, my parents used to love sitting and watching the fire on cool evenings with us kids’. There is not and never was a fireplace in the master bedroom. The only fireplace was in the living room and it was a 60 year old electric fireplace… no flames. Suggested maybe he had the wrong address, memories are not always accurate. As soon as he left I called the police to report a suspicious person in the neighborhood and posted the interaction on the community facebook page. The police told me it’s not uncommon for that to happen in certain neighborhoods. Or they will pretend to be from the gas/electrical/etc company inspecting for some danger that has been found in the area… in that case you should call the company they claim to be from and verify before they make it through the front door.
I remember once I got hit by a Discord scam. As a preface, I'm an aspiring games developer; The setup was something along the lines of "Hey I'm a student in a game design class. Would you be willing to help me test my game?" As an aspiring games developer myself I absolutely understand needing to get people to test for your games especially early in development, and especially if you're still learning. I know the whole "never download anything from people you don't know" but they were in a mutual server I was in and I thought, "Yeah sure, I'll help lend a hand to this kid cuz I empathize." In fairness the program _did_ present as a rudimentary 'Breakout' style game, which is a decent 'beginner' game for students. I even scanned it with my various anti-virus' which came up clean. It wasn't until the following morning when my account suddenly had like $900+ of Nitro gift purchases that I realized I fucked up. Fortunately I reported it immediately to both Discord and my Bank, got financial records, sorted it out with my bank, got all my money back within a couple weeks and everything was groovy. And to really solidify that it wasn't pure coincidence, I had another user from a different server messaging me like a month later with the same setup. Immediately told them to get stuffed.
Damn stuff like that is pretty god damn scary. As someone who is actually really paranoid about getting scammed (recently had a whole month of me getting panic attacks about getting viruses on my pc) do you have like any tips or well "tricks" to help figuring out what's a scam and what's not? Really weird reply lol but just wanted to ask since you did quite good in that situation.
@@kabblerxd My best advice is probably the most obvious and repeated, Don't download or click links on ANYTHING from ANYONE you don't trust. Also be wary even of possible scam e-mails that might say certain accounts are compromised or even possibly fake 'confirm login attempt' emails. Nothing wrong with just opening the email and reading it to see if it looks legit or not, but don't click on anything in the email, not even an 'Unsubscribe' button unless you're absolutely sure it's coming from an official source (Like unsubscribing from an actual service that you're actually subscribed to and you've confirmed is from a legitimate email representing that service). Cuz if nothing else you can just block or mark those spam senders as spam. Most importantly, trust your gut. If you think there's a chance something might be off, there probably is. Of course it doesn't hurt to double check. Often times when I get suspicious messages or emails I'll just search the approximate sort of 'framing' for the thing in question. Like If I get an email claiming to be from Microsoft or something, even if it looks 100% legit, I'll still search the sending email to see if it's a common scam sender. Or I'll just double check what the official support email senders are supposed to be, or look like. Same goes for messages if they're asking you to do anything, or even sending them things that seem innocuous. Like as an exmaple I get a lot of people who try to scam me for my Roblox account/inventory. Their angle is usually "Hey we were wondering if we could use your avatar model for a thumbnail for a project/video we're working on?" Then they walk you through a tutorial for basically how to 'rip the model' from the website data (since theoretically that data 'should' technically exist) In reality they're tricking you into sending them metadata from the page that allows them to bypass 2FA and basically hijack your login token which gives them access to your account. I damn near did it too cuz they even make you save it as an .obj or .fbx or something. But at the last minute I was like, "No this seems too suspicious" and I even tried opening that data myself in blender but of course there was no model to be found. Lo and behold when I googled that setup, turns out it's actually a relatively common scam. Or another example where I got an email saying my Blizzard account info/password was changed, but instead of going through the links provided in the email (which looked legit) I just went straight to the actual Blizzard site and went through their official support channels on their page only to find out I never actually had a Blizzard account with that email to begin with. Bottom line like I said, if it seems off, it probably is, even if it seems innocuous otherwise. Oh and get an adblock (I personally recommend UBlock Origin through the extensions store on Google) Not that ads are really a big source of viruses and shit anymore, but it does help avoid accidentally clicking on bad links when sites have garbage ads with popups or redirects.
@@Beefyrulz Thanks alot. I used to only use firefox and always got scared of viruses but then I started using Brave. Honestly ROBLOX is the easiest to scam people in. Not even just kids. Roblox always sends these obviously auto-generated responses and they're barely transparent on if their real or not so someone can just copy and paste on and it seems Legit. I nearly got scammed from something like it. I recently freaked out and changed my password because I thought something strange was going on in Roblox (Turned out to be a visual glitch) and changed my passwords. Through the panic I immediately forgot what I changed them to so I contacted roblox support. I got 2 E-Mails which were almost the exact same but the second one sent a link so I opened up a Private window (Which hides your IP and stuff) and pasted in the link. Its a SCARILY accurate re-creation of the offical roblox Password change. Luckily I managed to spot it out since there were a few spelling mistakes. Things like that scare me tho and after I went to the place I scanned an anti-virus a couple times and nothing came through.
@@kabblerxd necro reply here, but a private browser window will _not_ hide your ip. essentially the only thing it will do is act as if you'd just installed the browser (so no cookies, history, etc), and cookies, history, etc will not be carried over to your normal windows. that's pretty much it, there are no extra safety or privacy features unless you have extensions installed specifically for that.
20:52 ITS A SCAM. The scammer messages you with an order that is extremely expensive, Then they pretend they've sent the money & try to either get your Paypal login info when you're confused about not receiving the money. It goes something like that. Its awful, I used to get them all the time on my art account. Its cruel to message a creator with such a high offer only to realize its fake..
Scammers say “Trojan virus” like “ray-tracing GPU” or “convertible car”, but it’s really more like “black cat” or “6mm bolt.” Trojan just means the malicious code was appended onto a useful executable (usually pirated software), rather than being all by itself. It doesn’t mean the malware is extra powerful, or has some extreme capabilities, it just means the attacker did a little extra work to try to make their lies look plausible for a longer time.
40:20 If i recall correctly, there was a flood of these paper edition notreal, and photo edition 30 series graphics cards to combat automatic bot scalpers that would buy the cards at MSRP, and re-list them within seconds at 2-4x MSRP, it worked for like 2 weeks then they bot runners saw they were receiving a bunch of envelopes with pictures, having to cancel hundreds of listings because they didnt have cards in hand, and getting their ebay accounts shut down because of all the canceled listings.
I remember in 4th grade a friends phone went off in class and it was a scam caller, our teacher asked of she could answer and she got the whole class to scream at the scammer. That was fun.
I was selling a Queen bedframe for $25, included the exact measurements and said right in the description that this will NOT fit two twin matresses (as that makes a long king). I added the last part to the description after having two separate inquiries asking if two twins would fit. The guy who bought it "mansplained" upon pickup that two twins make a queen. He then messaged later that I lied and that I sold him a double bedframe not a queen. He wanted a refund. He didn't get one.
Please DO NOT notify scammers of things that tip people off that they’re scamming. In some cases, it might’ve actually been left by a white hat hacker, trying to shut down their network.
I'd be perfectly willing to send a scanner a picture of the front of my credit card, because my bank is dumb and has started putting all of the information only on the back
I actually kinda feel bad for the guy from 5:17 because if you read the line of texts he says that he mistaked the OP as someone else and asked to give the money back saying it's for his baby
don't. they want you to pay it back to another account which is money laundering and most definetly will get you in trouble. Just to be sure, I'm not good at detecting sarcasm today :D
At target if you try to buy I think its $100 or more in gift cards they're required to ask if someone put you up to it and make sure the guest isn't getting scammed.
I always waited at the Grand Exchange to be the first person to get their money doubled, because they almost always do the first doubling for real to seem legitimate. I would then proceed to scream that it was a scam and piss them off, because they gave me the doubled money and now they aren't getting anything back. Much like Nails Newton (The 'Let Them Eat Pie' quest giver) does, you just need to scam the scammer back.
All the scammers: I GOT YOUR CREDIT CARD! HEAHEAHEAHEAHEAHEAHEAHEAHEA! ME: NOWS YOUR CHANCE TO BE A BIG SHOT. All the scammers: what? ME: BE A BIG BE A BIG. BIGGER SHOT. All the scammers: excuse me? ME: Are you Spamton G Spamton? All the scammers: Who? ME: PLAY CHAPTER 2 OF DELTARUNE NOW! All the scammers: ???
i feel like at 5:20 it wasn't an actual scam. I've done this where I tried cashapping one of my family members and accidentally typed in the username wrong. i feel like op should def send back the money because $900 is a bunch of money
The weird part about that one is that they sent $3, then $900. Not saying it's impossible, but I'd assume whoever paid OP would notice the $3 didn't get to the intended person before jumping to send $900 to the same person.
@@brothersandsistersofvalhalla There's no requirement, but at the same time and assuming it wasn't a scam, holding onto the $900 that a person sent you is a dick move. If the bank gives you $900 by accident, fuck 'em. But don't screw over a stranger like that.
The Amazon product is still up. I found her review and gave it a "helpful" vote. While I was there I clicked "helpful" on every 1-star review I could find. Sick that 81% of reviewers took the $50 the company offered to buyers for giving them a 5-star review. It's a medical device. People could get seriously hurt by trusting their BP monitor.
I like the scams i get on my phone claiming that my package is being held at the post office for $20 or something, little do they know I'm to broke to order things. Also a scam email saying they got all my info from pornhub when I am an xvideos man. Its like they don't know me at all :(
41:44 I swear, numbers weren't showing as "Scam Likely" until I saved a contact in my phone under "Scam Likely" I typed it out and suddenly that's the name that everyone gets.
I had like 7 messages of people pretending to be my child… like: mom! My car broke down can you help me? Or: hi mom, this is my old phone… my good phone broke, can you send me some money to buy a new one? Well… I became 16 last week, no I don’t have children…
My dad sometimes gets those scam e-mails and he believes them like 80% of the time. Last time he got one which said he had won some lucky wheel thingy from a popular tech company in my country. My dad hadn't even participated in any lucky prize wheel and HE STILL BELIEVED IT. And when I told him it was a scam he said that I am an idiot for not accepting a gift like that.
The ovarian cancer thing could apply to trans or intersex people named Nathan, but doubt that was the intention of the scam. To my knowledge most trans and intersex people need medical care related to organs that don't match with their gender, and often require a mix of "male" and "female" oriented healthcare.
29:48 i had a simiar experience where Keanu Reeves contacted me on an app called Starmaker. he stopped messaging me after i didn't tell him my age and where i lived. fake accounts are crazy
