Facebook is utterly incompetent when it comes to stopping scams. They also actively look the other way with sponsored posts that are scams. They won't take the posts down. No way do they turn down money.
@@TransistorBased That is their prerogative as a parent though. And in these cases I believe they posted those pictures in GoFundMe pages. People tend to be more giving I think when they see pictures.
Ikr! 🤬 It does make me super grateful my parents didn't post pics of me when I was in the hospital at age 5 with a serious disease; I definitely looked pathetic -- I was tiny for my age and had a huge bandage after surgery. Parents need to be careful what pictures they post. 🙏🏽 Also it (unintentionally) proves the scammer is in a third-world country -- asking for money _for the child's hospital food_ -- where things like food aren't routinely provided as part of hospitalization, like they are in developed countries.
You comment under the assumption that these people in Nigeria have souls.... they destroy lives daily and laugh about it when they go home at night, and they curse out anyone that questions their validity.
Ben, I want to thank you. Thanks to your videos, I was able to save my little sister from The Research Position Scam a few days ago. As soon as she mentioned that they were using the word KINDLY, I literally started screaming SCAMMER, SCAMMER, SCAMMER and guess what? Her university sent out a warning about said Scammer 3 days later! Thank you SO much! You helped me and my siblings save one of our own! Keep doing what you're doing. We need folks like you now more than ever. Mad Love from The Motor City, MR07. ❤️🚗🌃
I have been recommending his channel to MANY friends on FB so they can (hopefully) educate themselves and be more cautious. Facebook isn't going to change and start protecting their users any time soon. This channel is a great teaching resource to help educate users to be less vulnerable to scammers.
My parents friend in DE fell for a “love” scam earlier this year, he’s in his 70’s, was lonely, and somehow lost his entire life’s savings. He’s in the process of selling everything he has, and is getting food from a local food bank….it’s really sad, and I can’t understand how he gave away everything away to someone he never met. Thank you Ben, I have been watching this channel for a long time, and I send people here to get educated. ❤✌️
It's astounding what profiles can and will be hacked. My dad got hacked and I assumed he had clicked a link he shouldn't have but the profile of my cousin also got hacked a year after she had passed away. The entire family received messages from her urgently encouraging us to follow certain links. As I'm sure you can imagine it was very painful to receive these messages
Same thing with steam and all these other services. person get phished, then they try to phish every account on the friends list, rinse and repeat.. You'd be shocked how many people clock the shit and will even sign in on the page and find out they got phished and do nothing. On some level its that persons fault everyone connected to them also got hacked justg because that first person doesnt value their account. Specifically with steam people lose thousands to millions of dollars worth of games. It happened to my steam account once luckily everyone I was friends with was smart not to click it, and after all that all they did was play PUBG til Valve got my account back.. Them not trying to sell it immediately was very dumb on their part as I was going to get it back regardless because I could prove who I was.
Someone had hacked my aunts account and messaged me from it I said wow it's a miracle you're alive then warned the family they might get messaged to have fun heckling them
The sad part is that FB does not care. I have flagged several obvious scams only to receive the reply that they were reviewed and were not in violation of their TOS.
Same, their first response is always an AI review, you can request it gets reviewed again and a human will do it - but the result is invariably the same.
BIG BIG BIG RED FLAG, when the seller says " You can put a deposit and I'll hold the item till you get here ", real people would never ask for a deposit
Yeah, whenever I sell items I generally don't hold them, it's just first come, first served, so whoever is able to get to me in person first gets the item. I wouldn't expect anyone to hold an item for me if they have other keen buyers. Why would they?
@@GeeEee75 I hate to say, but years ago, I bought a few things on Marketplace and at times, I actually sent the money prior to picking up the things. This was before the scammers invaded FB like the cockroaches they are. :( Sad that we can't even trust each other to do business anymore, because of them.
I reported like 20 of these exact scam to FB and they did nothing as usual. Glad at least to see you did a video about those. Maybe that will get some attention from people using FB.
Atomic Shrimp taught me that "alaye" is something to throw out in order to fish out scammers. They use it as kind of a code word to determine if the person they're communicating with is a scammer as well.
Because they think westerners deserve it. They think we're swimming in money, and it's somewhat true- even most of our poor do better here than in Nigeria or India. They think we don't deserve this wealth so they're just stealing from ungrateful rich people
Yea I was selling a Graphics Card for a computer and someone asked me to send it to them before payment and I asked the person does Amazon send you a product before recieving a payment and they got all angry at me and told me Im not Amazon lol
@@RedSliceGaming34 Your experience reminds me to not even bother responding to buyers who ask for fake arrangements. I buy from Craigslist and will only consider sellers who state "cash (money order, etc.) local buyers only--meet in a public place. I would never buy from someone far away without a physical verification and a paper trail of receipts for the item.
Thanks for being the down to earth guy that u are. My parents and grandma watch your video's. I tried to warn them of different scams by showing youtube video's. but i guess they are from a generation that dont use youtube and for sure dont watch any youtube video's. Than i showed your video's. They say its like having a pastor warning u of the latest scams. Very calm and normal and easy to understand for a 80 year old grandma. They have watched all your video's now and even tell me when u post a new one. Its like the usual tv garden chanels they watch. They text each other to watch your video together and make notes of it with pen and paper😂. Love u dude. Keep the word safe 👍
So true! I, too, pass along this channel and in some cases, specific videos, to friends who appear to be getting hit up by scammers. Nothing on here is really offensive either (unlike some other channels that I'd be afraid to share with friends who would be shocked by f-bombs). This is a very professional channel that I don't hesitate to recommend.
From an Admin on a FB group: If you are ever concerned about someone being a scammer; get them to send you a video saying your name and showing what you are buying.
@@GabrielaLtc To make long story short, I tried to buy a charm bracelet, I waited almost 2 weeks and never got a response or anything. I wrote to the guy asking what’s the deal, he never gave me an answer to which I later responded I want a refund. He said he’d refund the money….. never happened. Shortly after his lil shop just vanished.
I’ve gotten several things from facebook marketplace, luckily I haven’t encountered any scammers yet, I hope I never do! I’m sorry that you were scammed!
@@GabrielaLtc To make a long story short, I tried to buy this bracelet from this guy who made a little shop. I waited 2 weeks after purchase but no response so I finally reached and asked what was happening, he just kept making excuses so I demanded a refund. Spoilers: Never got my money back AND his online shop vanished.
I’ve bought off marketplace, and buy/sell groups a bunch with no issues, but I won’t buy the item if I can’t pay in cash, or e transfer the money AFTER arriving and seeing the item
@@joshua.harazin you sound as out of whack as the scammers do. What they're doing is wrong but some people steal because they're uneducated or unable to provide for their families.
It's really important to read these ads for syntax and grammar as well. I knew this was not a US based ad when the seller used the phrase "aged care". Someone from the US or Canada would use a completely different phrase. It's not just "kindly", that you have to look out for.
Wow! Your dedication is amazing! I’ve bought things off FBMP, and come across plenty of scammers. They always want money in advance! I always say I’m paying cash and don’t have any of their cash apps. The legit sellers are willing to work with you. I had one lady even leave an antique vase on her porch behind a pallet, trusting I’d leave the payment. I did, and it was all good. Thanks for teaching us new insults in Nigerian! Very useful in dealing with scammers!😊And thanks for all the work you do in educating us on these scams.
Omg that was too funny! Well played 😂😂😂 There's currently another common scam going about on FB marketplace involving PS5's. The body of the text is something along the lines of "giving away my sons PS5. He sadly passed away and I cannot bare looking at it. Want to give it away to bring someone else joy" Then when you ask where they're from, they're miles from the local area of which it was advertised. They "know" someone who can ship it at a fee etc etc (you know the rest)
Those "passing away of a ....." been on OfferUp, Craig and Marketplace for a while now, but hopefully most are deterred by very bad grammar and hard to understand English, they also use certain keywords that people from US won't use. It involves both the selling and buying side and all I can suggest is whenever it looks to good to be true then just walk away and don't let greed give you a hope that you're getting a deal of a lifetime.
I have to clap for you 👏🏾👏🏾. As a Nigerian myself you have made me so proud with how you handled everything. The last voice note chef kiss. It’s truly unfortunate but I am glad Abbey met you.
The government needs to crack down on these scammers. This is going on for way too long. The government better start going after people for this scamming. It's so wrong. I hate scammers
Start off by blocking all african numbers from calling US numbers, and have anyone needing to get calls from there, to actively ask for it to be allowed for their number. Next go to the Nigerian government and threaten them with being cut off from the internet, if they dont stop this.
Facebook etc also needs to do more. They always say they care but if an obvious scam like this can be xeroxed all over Facebook they clearly can’t be bothered. The more users and engagement they have the more money they make from ads. They don’t really care if it’s fake as long as their customers (who are advertisers - not FB users) keep paying them.
@@JohnDoe-bd5szWhat? The United States does not control internet in Nigeria. Blocking all African numbers from calling into the US? I’m not sure what kind of country you think we live in. Also, how do you expect Nigeria to eliminate all scams in their country? It’s like asking the US government to stop all shootings and all theft committed in the country
Ben, you might notsee this, but your videos have taught me a lot about fraud and scamming prevention. I have been able to help my mom avoid a couple different scams that I learned about from you. So thanks.
DUDE, that is next level. You staged a break-in, haha. That's awesome! But damn, you are absolutely right, you'd think these people could put some effort into learning a real skill and starting a real business for real money.
I love messing with scammer with the help of my students. Sometimes we call the scammers during down time in class and they listen to the calls on speakers. I let the scammer think they are about to get a payout when, on cue, the kids yell "Gotch you!" and we hang up on them. My kids love you videos. We watch them during lunch some times.
A friend's fb page had that same message posted on it, more than once. Both of her parents are deceased & I knew this was off. I messaged her privately to warn her. I also commented about this being a scam multiple times under the post. Many ppl were trying to be helpful to her & asking about items. Thanks for your detective work!
Our local community group gets these all the time from "new" members. Thankfully the moderators seem to get on there fairly quickly and take them down. Scummy scammers. Ugh!
Love your work, keep it up! I see these sort of scams ALL the time and am constantly dealing with friends and family members who fall for them, one friend was scammed out of $500. I told him it was a scam as soon as he showed me the listing. Now I'm always getting asked, "Is this a scam?" and my reply is always YES!. I always report them, but Facebook very rarely does anything about them and instead tells me there's nothing wrong and the account or listing was not removed....
I’ll add to this video; we were looking at an item that was priced realistically, but would have been about an hour’s drive. The seller provided an address, but then wanted a deposit because of so many inquiries. When they provided the link (Venmo) it wasn’t their name, and when asked, said it was their sister. We looked further into the accounts (many Venmo purchases are public) and the seller’s Facebook account was brand new, and the Venmo account had limited transactions. The address provided seemed to be an actual address We passed on the item and reported the Marketplace listing; similar adds with the same photos and information started showing up everywhere. Our guess is there are a lot of people who send a deposit: and had the accounts been set up a little better, we might have been fooled, too. That all said, cash is king in Facebook marketplace if you are going to buy in person-and a deposit should never be necessary.
@koreyb I only bother with listing items with more than $50 value. Everything else, I donate. Not worth the effort to list low value items. The things I do list always sell within a month.
The Facebook scam I tend to get the most where I am, is where they set up fake accounts of real people, and send out Friend requests to all the real person's friends, hoping to draw them into some get-rich-quick scheme. For this reason, nowadays when I get a Friend request from someone I'm already Friends with, I check up with the real person to see if the request was genuine. If - as is most often the case - it wasn't genuine, I proceed to tell the perpetrator exactly what I think of them, no holds barred. The annoying part is, Facebook had the cheek to reprimand me for telling thieving bar stewards the truth about themselves. I don't get it: I'M being reprimanded for doing exactly what Facebook SHOULD be doing!?!?
Yes,I've gotten a few of those. I knew the person was fake when they were telling me about some government program thing where they got 200 grand they don't have to pay back.
This happened to me, but with a car for sale. I was about to go look at it, and when I asked for address, thdy wanted deposit before seeing it, because they felt “unsafe” and someone tried to rob “steal the car!😂” the day before. So they wanted to make sure I’m serious. I told them I can’t leave a deposit because I don’t even know if I want the car until I see it. Even told them I will meet them at Public place or police station. They kept insisting on deposit, saying they would refund instantly if I didn’t like, plus interest/inconvenience fee, lmao!!🤣
Those ppl do so much damage to others. You put so much work into this one. The video you did was priceless. I’m glad Abby went for it. Those ppl are wretched. I’m glad I found your RUclips channel. I wish I found it sooner. I was just about a victim a couple of years ago. How can you trust anyone now.
I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace recently, and Facebook could not possibly have cared less. They are definitely a huge part of the problem, since they don't make any effort to shut scammers down (or even let you report it when you have definitely been scammed).
I had a FB friend that has lost his account twice to scammers now. The latest one was this about his sister (which he doesn't have) going into a nursing home. I hate scammers.
Your creativity never stops, lol! I love it when you put together an act that confuses the heck out of scammers, like that other time you took that job as a real estate advertising manager and pretended to send money to “yourself”
SAFE Online Shopping 101 Never put a deposit down on anything. PS be skeptical of all phone calls coming in from numbers/people you dont know. I get 10 calls a day ranging from Medicare to Student Loan Forgiveness. I've even made up an Alias to mess with them. Thanks Ben for all the work you do informing the public on what to watch out for.
There are new ones now!! Now it says cousin, relatives, uncle, brother etc with the same "he got moved to age care" on it.. So I took my time and reported every single post that said that 🙂😏 Thanks so much for letting us know! Much appreciated 🙏
Omg this exact scam happened to my mom a few weeks ago. It was EXACTLY identical to this one. She tried to get a blender from a guy (same scam) and when she asked to pick it up he said “ohh I can’t I’m going to Walmart right now” and tried to get her to pay advance. I warned her it was probably a scammer and luckily she didn’t fall for it
A variation I’ve seen in my area is of moms claiming to have lost their sons and are trying to get rid of their PS5s because having the console around brings back too many memories. I see like 5 of these posts a day in several neighborhood groups…luckily it seems my neighbors caught on immediately.
Thank you for your videos, Mike. Last week, I saved my uncle from a scam involving Apple gift cards. My uncle runs a car towing service and the scammer initially asked him to purchase something from a store before sharing their location for the car pick-up. When my uncle shared the contact number with me, it turned out to be from Nigeria.
It's all so messed up; I'm legitimately trying to sell crap from my deceased parents' house and all I get are scammers who want to overpay with a check then insist their "picker" will come get it but first I have to send them the 'extra' money from the check. You can't win either way :
My mom bought a sewing machine from Facebook during the height of Covid 19. She used PayPal thinking she would be safe on a $200+ transaction. The seller sent her a sock instead, and because the package was shown as “delivered,” even though it was a single sock, PayPal refused to reimburse her. So, the seller , that was from china, got away with $200+ USD.
@@danburch9989 I, personally , have never had a problem with eBay. eBay is generally easy to get your refund if the item wasn’t as advertised or the seller didn’t bother shipping out the item.
I want to add a bit of context to how they get ahold of people's accounts. My wife was just a victim of having her account hacked by one of these scammers, and this is how they compromised her account. A friend of ours had their account hacked by these scammers, and my wife not realizing this, was sent a message over Facebook messenger saying that they had their account hacked and could only send messages through Messenger. They then said they needed to get my wife's phone # so they could send her a code. Since she hadn't known about code scams, she gave them her phone number and the code. That was all they needed to reset her password, and bypass 2 factor authentication. They then changed the phone number, email address and password associated with her account. Facebook customer support has been zero help in recovering her account either. These scammers then put up the same EXACT "ad" that you showed in this video. So not only are people victims of theft and being deceived into being money mules, some people like my wife are losing precious memories like photos, where some of them were only on her Facebook. I'm going to post this video on my Facebook account so others can be made aware of this Scam.
Can't tell from area codes where cell phone calls originate in the US.. My golfing buddy's cell phone has an Ohio area code but lives in AZ. Landline calls however, are tied to actual area locations. But when I receive a phone call, I don't know if it's cell or landline. But I do know it's a scammer by the long delay between my "Hello", a delay, then a short "beep" then another delay until the other party answers with a very heavy accent. That's an indication that their autodialer is making the call.
Thank you, Pleasant, for this video. It's outstanding & I'll be sharing it. But there should be a way social media platforms could "look" for posts like the one in the video & block them all. Shame on them for allowing scammers to flourish on social media.
im getting flooded by scammers in the likes of Fiverr and other platforms. I just wanna do some freelance jobs dammit lol but now nearly every inbox message is just a disappointment 😭
Thank you for figuring this out and sharing this. I have family members that i have warned about these scams but now i can share this video so they can understand it better than i can explain.
Thanks the job you are doing! I saw those kind of ads on Facebook and they sounded too good to be truth. Thankfully we aren't ready to furnish the house we are building, so I never contacted! Your information is golden, THANKS 😃
These people selling stuff... it's from hacked profiles. I've seen a bunch of friends get their profiles hacked and the profiles turn into these "For Sale" type posts. It's sad because my friends have lost their accounts because of these scumbags.
I have four friends whose profiles were hacked When i went on them via a friend request. I found they were cloned they had stolen the name and pics I found the profile was newish the amount of friends was way off and no close family or friends on it.. The last one was a women who died two years ago her family keep it going for sentimental reasons hope this is helpful
@@JohnDoe-bd5sz 2FA doesn't stop people from putting their username, password and 2FA code into a scammer's fake facebook login screen. This really boils down to facebook allowing account takeovers from people on the other side of the planet. Facebook could stop someone in nigeria logging into an account that has never left north america, but they don't. Or prompt for additional information when someone is trying to log in from outside their country, etc
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You're a hero Ben! I'm a religious watcher 💯♿🩼
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Great work!!!
It is shameful how little effort Facebook puts into preventing this.
Facebook is utterly incompetent when it comes to stopping scams. They also actively look the other way with sponsored posts that are scams. They won't take the posts down. No way do they turn down money.
I agree
But I say a bad word and my account gets locked
Prevent it? They condone it.
Why would they? They value clicks and eyeballs above anything else. You are the product, not the customer.
The fact that people steal pictures of someone's child in a hospital setting is just downright vile! Love the work you do Ben!!
People probably shouldn't be posting pictures of their kids in the hospital anyway
@@TransistorBased That is their prerogative as a parent though. And in these cases I believe they posted those pictures in GoFundMe pages. People tend to be more giving I think when they see pictures.
Yeah. These people are despicable. Zero empathy as long as they get their money.
Ikr! 🤬
It does make me super grateful my parents didn't post pics of me when I was in the hospital at age 5 with a serious disease; I definitely looked pathetic -- I was tiny for my age and had a huge bandage after surgery. Parents need to be careful what pictures they post. 🙏🏽
Also it (unintentionally) proves the scammer is in a third-world country -- asking for money _for the child's hospital food_ -- where things like food aren't routinely provided as part of hospitalization, like they are in developed countries.
You comment under the assumption that these people in Nigeria have souls.... they destroy lives daily and laugh about it when they go home at night, and they curse out anyone that questions their validity.
Ben, I want to thank you. Thanks to your videos, I was able to save my little sister from The Research Position Scam a few days ago. As soon as she mentioned that they were using the word KINDLY, I literally started screaming SCAMMER, SCAMMER, SCAMMER and guess what? Her university sent out a warning about said Scammer 3 days later! Thank you SO much! You helped me and my siblings save one of our own! Keep doing what you're doing. We need folks like you now more than ever. Mad Love from The Motor City, MR07. ❤️🚗🌃
wait Kindly is a scam word now? This is sad.
@@SionMusicaWho uses that word nowadays except for scammers? Exactly.
@@SionMusicaI work in IT. If an email asks you to "kindly" do anything it is a scam 99.9% of the time.
Wow, glad you were there to step in!!
@@SionMusicausing “kindly” out of meaning is a scam word yes. Kindly send me your login details for free subscribers. Can’t really do that kindly…
The trolling of the scammer here is on another level. Brilliant. But on a serious note thank you for raising awareness of these scams.
I have been recommending his channel to MANY friends on FB so they can (hopefully) educate themselves and be more cautious. Facebook isn't going to change and start protecting their users any time soon. This channel is a great teaching resource to help educate users to be less vulnerable to scammers.
12:28 Reusing that voice recording was genius! 🤣
Now he's going to be even more confused
I hope so!
Probably one of his buddies sitting next to him in a call center. 😂😂😂
@@KantusKid In Nigeria, the term used to refer to a call center is HK (Hustle Kingdom) 🤣
Surprised we even have that @@dahumbleprof
That was lit 🤣🤣🤣🤣
11:38 had me in stitches. Really enjoyed Ben/Mike "stealing" the KitchenAid. One of my favorite scambait videos for sure.
very funny ! 😁
I loved that part, too.
@@Theunicorn2012 Why did you copy & paste my original comment?
Dude i love how Ben busted in and took a mixer.
I have bread to make.
@@PleasantGreen😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This was best I've seen on this channel. :D
@PleasantGreen 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫣🤭💪💪💪🫵👍
Ben busted in a mixer? Sickening.
My parents friend in DE fell for a “love” scam earlier this year, he’s in his 70’s, was lonely, and somehow lost his entire life’s savings. He’s in the process of selling everything he has, and is getting food from a local food bank….it’s really sad, and I can’t understand how he gave away everything away to someone he never met.
Thank you Ben, I have been watching this channel for a long time, and I send people here to get educated. ❤✌️
There’s entire RUclips channels about catfishers
“You dey mad” 🤣 That was perfect. 😂
@arsiarskila means "are you crazy"
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indians also use dey...it is the same as hey
@@sharpedgeize It's more like, you are crazy
Love how they just lose their shit every time
It's astounding what profiles can and will be hacked. My dad got hacked and I assumed he had clicked a link he shouldn't have but the profile of my cousin also got hacked a year after she had passed away. The entire family received messages from her urgently encouraging us to follow certain links. As I'm sure you can imagine it was very painful to receive these messages
Same thing with steam and all these other services. person get phished, then they try to phish every account on the friends list, rinse and repeat.. You'd be shocked how many people clock the shit and will even sign in on the page and find out they got phished and do nothing. On some level its that persons fault everyone connected to them also got hacked justg because that first person doesnt value their account. Specifically with steam people lose thousands to millions of dollars worth of games. It happened to my steam account once luckily everyone I was friends with was smart not to click it, and after all that all they did was play PUBG til Valve got my account back.. Them not trying to sell it immediately was very dumb on their part as I was going to get it back regardless because I could prove who I was.
Someone had hacked my aunts account and messaged me from it I said wow it's a miracle you're alive then warned the family they might get messaged to have fun heckling them
The sad part is that FB does not care. I have flagged several obvious scams only to receive the reply that they were reviewed and were not in violation of their TOS.
I report them too and get the same lame response
Like RUclips, Facebook spends all their time censoring normal speech between consenting adults.
Facebook is dang crooked! Would never go back on their site!
Exactly another reason why Instagram is a bit better. They at least ban accounts for enough misleading things like those scams.
Same, their first response is always an AI review, you can request it gets reviewed again and a human will do it - but the result is invariably the same.
BIG BIG BIG RED FLAG, when the seller says " You can put a deposit and I'll hold the item till you get here ", real people would never ask for a deposit
Yeah, whenever I sell items I generally don't hold them, it's just first come, first served, so whoever is able to get to me in person first gets the item. I wouldn't expect anyone to hold an item for me if they have other keen buyers. Why would they?
@@GeeEee75 I hate to say, but years ago, I bought a few things on Marketplace and at times, I actually sent the money prior to picking up the things. This was before the scammers invaded FB like the cockroaches they are. :( Sad that we can't even trust each other to do business anymore, because of them.
Wow, you went the extra mile with the KitchenAid clip, very nice. 😆
I reported like 20 of these exact scam to FB and they did nothing as usual. Glad at least to see you did a video about those. Maybe that will get some attention from people using FB.
Atomic Shrimp taught me that "alaye" is something to throw out in order to fish out scammers. They use it as kind of a code word to determine if the person they're communicating with is a scammer as well.
I’ve been cussed out by so many scammers when responding with Alaye.
This comment should be pinned, invaluable
I do that all the time especially on Tiktok and Instagram which are rife with scammers, they're sooo easy to spot
@SolidSonicTH
I'd love to try this! What is the pronunciation, phonetically?
@@SadieMccollough-mf3jluh-lie-aye
Anytime you come across a scammer. Make sure you lead them on for as long as possible to waist there time so they make zero money and stay poor.
💯 i love telling these low life’s off!
Sending a video of you "stealing" the Kitchen-Aid was brilliant. Bravo.
FABULOUSNESS!!!
They will never stop. These guys that send voice notes full of hate love what they're doing. I've received these and they are proud of scamming.
Because they think westerners deserve it. They think we're swimming in money, and it's somewhat true- even most of our poor do better here than in Nigeria or India. They think we don't deserve this wealth so they're just stealing from ungrateful rich people
On the other hand- it is impossible to post anything for sell without tons of scammers in the inbox asking for send item without paying
Yea I was selling a Graphics Card for a computer and someone asked me to send it to them before payment and I asked the person does Amazon send you a product before recieving a payment and they got all angry at me and told me Im not Amazon lol
Happened to me when I tried to sell my macbook, so annoying
@@RedSliceGaming34lmao yeah they asked me if they can give me a check then I ship it to them and I’m like nah bro, cash only 😂
@@RedSliceGaming34 Your experience reminds me to not even bother responding to buyers who ask for fake arrangements. I buy from Craigslist and will only consider sellers who state "cash (money order, etc.) local buyers only--meet in a public place. I would never buy from someone far away without a physical verification and a paper trail of receipts for the item.
That’s crazy lol, I did not know about that.
Thanks for being the down to earth guy that u are. My parents and grandma watch your video's. I tried to warn them of different scams by showing youtube video's. but i guess they are from a generation that dont use youtube and for sure dont watch any youtube video's. Than i showed your video's. They say its like having a pastor warning u of the latest scams. Very calm and normal and easy to understand for a 80 year old grandma. They have watched all your video's now and even tell me when u post a new one. Its like the usual tv garden chanels they watch. They text each other to watch your video together and make notes of it with pen and paper😂. Love u dude. Keep the word safe 👍
Yes, he did saved a lot of people as well. His video is easily understandable especially toward old folks.
@@lukegrant9526 for sure😁. He is a real hero just for making video's "old people " want to watch. Have a nice day
So true! I, too, pass along this channel and in some cases, specific videos, to friends who appear to be getting hit up by scammers. Nothing on here is really offensive either (unlike some other channels that I'd be afraid to share with friends who would be shocked by f-bombs). This is a very professional channel that I don't hesitate to recommend.
The production value and acting is better than any recent Netflix series 👏👏🤣🤣 I loved it
And there wasn’t loud repetitive “music” that goes on and on and you can hardly hear what the people are saying.
From an Admin on a FB group: If you are ever concerned about someone being a scammer; get them to send you a video saying your name and showing what you are buying.
This is why I’m too skeptical to buy ANYTHING from Facebook, especially since I’ve sadly been scammed myself
@@GabrielaLtc To make long story short, I tried to buy a charm bracelet, I waited almost 2 weeks and never got a response or anything. I wrote to the guy asking what’s the deal, he never gave me an answer to which I later responded I want a refund. He said he’d refund the money….. never happened. Shortly after his lil shop just vanished.
I’ve gotten several things from facebook marketplace, luckily I haven’t encountered any scammers yet, I hope I never do!
I’m sorry that you were scammed!
@@GabrielaLtc To make a long story short, I tried to buy this bracelet from this guy who made a little shop. I waited 2 weeks after purchase but no response so I finally reached and asked what was happening, he just kept making excuses so I demanded a refund. Spoilers: Never got my money back AND his online shop vanished.
I’ve bought off marketplace, and buy/sell groups a bunch with no issues, but I won’t buy the item if I can’t pay in cash, or e transfer the money AFTER arriving and seeing the item
I'm sorry to hear this. Usually the scam involves money paid prior to verifying the item in person. Did you pay up front? Again, sorry to hear this.
Scammers deserve nothing. One grain of sand is far more valuable than even every scammer combined on earth.
Well, they deserve some things, but they probably shouldn't be typed out here.
@@joshua.harazin you sound as out of whack as the scammers do. What they're doing is wrong but some people steal because they're uneducated or unable to provide for their families.
It's really important to read these ads for syntax and grammar as well. I knew this was not a US based ad when the seller used the phrase "aged care". Someone from the US or Canada would use a completely different phrase. It's not just "kindly", that you have to look out for.
This was my first red flag as well. However, I didn't listen to my gut😅
Wow! Your dedication is amazing! I’ve bought things off FBMP, and come across plenty of scammers. They always want money in advance! I always say I’m paying cash and don’t have any of their cash apps. The legit sellers are willing to work with you. I had one lady even leave an antique vase on her porch behind a pallet, trusting I’d leave the payment. I did, and it was all good.
Thanks for teaching us new insults in Nigerian! Very useful in dealing with scammers!😊And thanks for all the work you do in educating us on these scams.
This is trolling scammers on a next level.
I'm Nigerian and I have to say good job. Youre doing the Lord's work. I have to admit that the voice note you sent at the was perfect 😂
Omg that was too funny! Well played 😂😂😂
There's currently another common scam going about on FB marketplace involving PS5's. The body of the text is something along the lines of "giving away my sons PS5. He sadly passed away and I cannot bare looking at it. Want to give it away to bring someone else joy" Then when you ask where they're from, they're miles from the local area of which it was advertised. They "know" someone who can ship it at a fee etc etc (you know the rest)
Maybe that's the next one!
@@PleasantGreen Do you not realise what you are selling is a scam or just dont care?
Those "passing away of a ....." been on OfferUp, Craig and Marketplace for a while now, but hopefully most are deterred by very bad grammar and hard to understand English, they also use certain keywords that people from US won't use. It involves both the selling and buying side and all I can suggest is whenever it looks to good to be true then just walk away and don't let greed give you a hope that you're getting a deal of a lifetime.
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 How I don't get
Please explain 🙏
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Confused too
I have to clap for you 👏🏾👏🏾. As a Nigerian myself you have made me so proud with how you handled everything. The last voice note chef kiss. It’s truly unfortunate but I am glad Abbey met you.
The government needs to crack down on these scammers. This is going on for way too long. The government better start going after people for this scamming. It's so wrong. I hate scammers
@@newportcivic01 the EFCC in Nigeria should be the ones going after people but I fear there may be corruption there.
Start off by blocking all african numbers from calling US numbers, and have anyone needing to get calls from there, to actively ask for it to be allowed for their number.
Next go to the Nigerian government and threaten them with being cut off from the internet, if they dont stop this.
Facebook etc also needs to do more. They always say they care but if an obvious scam like this can be xeroxed all over Facebook they clearly can’t be bothered. The more users and engagement they have the more money they make from ads. They don’t really care if it’s fake as long as their customers (who are advertisers - not FB users) keep paying them.
@@JohnDoe-bd5szWhat? The United States does not control internet in Nigeria. Blocking all African numbers from calling into the US? I’m not sure what kind of country you think we live in. Also, how do you expect Nigeria to eliminate all scams in their country? It’s like asking the US government to stop all shootings and all theft committed in the country
Fb profile creation is way too easy and lenient these days.
This was awesome!! I laughed so hard when “Mike Rafone” went to “Abbey’s” house to get the Kitchen Aid. 😂
Pretending you stole the woman's kitchen aid was so good
Sending them a clip of Nigerian scammers cussing you out was the cherry on top 🤣🤣
Ben, you might notsee this, but your videos have taught me a lot about fraud and scamming prevention. I have been able to help my mom avoid a couple different scams that I learned about from you. So thanks.
DUDE, that is next level. You staged a break-in, haha. That's awesome!
But damn, you are absolutely right, you'd think these people could put some effort into learning a real skill and starting a real business for real money.
I love messing with scammer with the help of my students. Sometimes we call the scammers during down time in class and they listen to the calls on speakers. I let the scammer think they are about to get a payout when, on cue, the kids yell "Gotch you!" and we hang up on them. My kids love you videos. We watch them during lunch some times.
Scammers think they're so much better than you once you uncover their scam is hilarious
A friend's fb page had that same message posted on it, more than once. Both of her parents are deceased & I knew this was off. I messaged her
privately to warn her. I also commented about this being a scam multiple times under the post. Many ppl were trying to be helpful to her & asking about items. Thanks for your detective work!
Good that you did that - but chances are the scammers stole her FB account and she never saw your message.
@Sashazur yup! Always try to reach out in a different way. Preferably straight to their number.
Our local community group gets these all the time from "new" members. Thankfully the moderators seem to get on there fairly quickly and take them down. Scummy scammers. Ugh!
Love your work, keep it up!
I see these sort of scams ALL the time and am constantly dealing with friends and family members who fall for them, one friend was scammed out of $500. I told him it was a scam as soon as he showed me the listing. Now I'm always getting asked, "Is this a scam?" and my reply is always YES!. I always report them, but Facebook very rarely does anything about them and instead tells me there's nothing wrong and the account or listing was not removed....
Those Nigerian insults are gold 🤣🤣🤣
Werey nor go bomb
No they black. Font color😊
What do they mean ?😭😭😭
@@percyp126 you dey mad=are you crazy,Omo ale=illegitimate child. (derogatory, offensive) bastard. Had to Google them
I’ll add to this video; we were looking at an item that was priced realistically, but would have been about an hour’s drive.
The seller provided an address, but then wanted a deposit because of so many inquiries.
When they provided the link (Venmo) it wasn’t their name, and when asked, said it was their sister.
We looked further into the accounts (many Venmo purchases are public) and the seller’s Facebook account was brand new, and the Venmo account had limited transactions. The address provided seemed to be an actual address
We passed on the item and reported the Marketplace listing; similar adds with the same photos and information started showing up everywhere.
Our guess is there are a lot of people who send a deposit: and had the accounts been set up a little better, we might have been fooled, too.
That all said, cash is king in Facebook marketplace if you are going to buy in person-and a deposit should never be necessary.
Cash on pickup otherwise no sale, easy as that. If they don't agree, find someone else.
@koreyb
I only bother with listing items with more than $50 value. Everything else, I donate. Not worth the effort to list low value items. The things I do list always sell within a month.
100%. Face-to-Face
It's lovely how these wonderful Nigerians share their culture with us everyday
The Facebook scam I tend to get the most where I am, is where they set up fake accounts of real people, and send out Friend requests to all the real person's friends, hoping to draw them into some get-rich-quick scheme. For this reason, nowadays when I get a Friend request from someone I'm already Friends with, I check up with the real person to see if the request was genuine. If - as is most often the case - it wasn't genuine, I proceed to tell the perpetrator exactly what I think of them, no holds barred.
The annoying part is, Facebook had the cheek to reprimand me for telling thieving bar stewards the truth about themselves. I don't get it: I'M being reprimanded for doing exactly what Facebook SHOULD be doing!?!?
FB just seems to add so many more layers of complication to people's lives these days. O_o
Yes,I've gotten a few of those. I knew the person was fake when they were telling me about some government program thing where they got 200 grand they don't have to pay back.
This happened to me, but with a car for sale. I was about to go look at it, and when I asked for address, thdy wanted deposit before seeing it, because they felt “unsafe” and someone tried to rob “steal the car!😂” the day before. So they wanted to make sure I’m serious. I told them I can’t leave a deposit because I don’t even know if I want the car until I see it. Even told them I will meet them at Public place or police station. They kept insisting on deposit, saying they would refund instantly if I didn’t like, plus interest/inconvenience fee, lmao!!🤣
It’s so funny that after I watched this video I got a RUclips ad for “Send money to bank accounts in Nigeria in a few clicks” 😂
You are my dad now
😂😂😂😂😂 you produced a damn telenovela here, I was really invested 😅👌
This was for sure one of the funniest scammer videos I have seen. Keep up the good work.
Those ppl do so much damage to others. You put so much work into this one. The video you did was priceless. I’m glad Abby went for it. Those ppl are wretched.
I’m glad I found your RUclips channel. I wish I found it sooner. I was just about a victim a couple of years ago. How can you trust anyone now.
My smallish community knows this is a scam and spread it all around to let people know.
“He wants my kitchen aid” for some reason, was absolutely hilarious.
Abby wasn't happy about that crazed guy break into her house🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for sharing this, I have to tell people who buys things off Facebook. Scammers are evil
It's really gotten bad on Facebook when it comes to these scams. They are doing job offer scams also all over Ireland where I am.
I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace recently, and Facebook could not possibly have cared less. They are definitely a huge part of the problem, since they don't make any effort to shut scammers down (or even let you report it when you have definitely been scammed).
You became Steven Spielberg to troll the scammers 😂😂😂. You’re a f*cking LEGEND!!!!! Hilarious!
That's messed up, I'm literally cleaning out my dad's old house as I watch this. Must be a good excuse for a scam because it's so common.
This video needs millions of views. You had me on the edge of my seat and then just burst out laughing when you stole the kitchen aid 😂😂😂😂
I had a FB friend that has lost his account twice to scammers now. The latest one was this about his sister (which he doesn't have) going into a nursing home. I hate scammers.
Sounds like your friend needs a much more secure password...
@@poochiew.9302 yh but I'm curious
How do they get access to the FB account in the first place
The staging of the kitchen aid being stolen was the most creative thing in the scam.
This is pure gold trolling! Thanks so much for helping catch these scammers and keeping us entertained in the process!
Your creativity never stops, lol! I love it when you put together an act that confuses the heck out of scammers, like that other time you took that job as a real estate advertising manager and pretended to send money to “yourself”
The old man has a PS5? Yeah, right. That should have been instant red flag
i wonder what must've gone through his head seeing a video of a man break into someone's house and steal a kitchen aid
Oh my goodness this was the best scambait ever!
SAFE Online Shopping 101
Never put a deposit down on anything.
PS be skeptical of all phone calls coming in from numbers/people you dont know.
I get 10 calls a day ranging from Medicare to Student Loan Forgiveness. I've even made up an Alias to mess with them.
Thanks Ben for all the work you do informing the public on what to watch out for.
That ending was phenomenal
I'm always warning people about this scam, then fell for it myself. Ugh!
I'll admit, Greed got the best of me and it will never happen again!
That was too funny. I love how you educate us on scams and entertain us with how you mess with the scammers.
There are new ones now!! Now it says cousin, relatives, uncle, brother etc with the same "he got moved to age care" on it.. So I took my time and reported every single post that said that 🙂😏 Thanks so much for letting us know! Much appreciated 🙏
Omg this exact scam happened to my mom a few weeks ago. It was EXACTLY identical to this one. She tried to get a blender from a guy (same scam) and when she asked to pick it up he said “ohh I can’t I’m going to Walmart right now” and tried to get her to pay advance. I warned her it was probably a scammer and luckily she didn’t fall for it
A variation I’ve seen in my area is of moms claiming to have lost their sons and are trying to get rid of their PS5s because having the console around brings back too many memories. I see like 5 of these posts a day in several neighborhood groups…luckily it seems my neighbors caught on immediately.
Facebook is just one big tumpster.. A scammer magnet !
@@TC_here never used it in my life and never will so I’m safe
Yeah and scammers knows it is primarily older people on there, so easier to find a scam victim
Thank you for your videos, Mike. Last week, I saved my uncle from a scam involving Apple gift cards. My uncle runs a car towing service and the scammer initially asked him to purchase something from a store before sharing their location for the car pick-up. When my uncle shared the contact number with me, it turned out to be from Nigeria.
I hate scams
i think they're hilarious and they earned it all
The best part of Pleasant Green's channel is he covers scams most scambaiters don't.
Why? They're fun to screw with.
@@SolidSonicTH but it's not fun when someone falls for them
@@prizma45Scammers earned it? Earned it like someone knocking an elderly person over and stealing their wallet.
It's all so messed up; I'm legitimately trying to sell crap from my deceased parents' house and all I get are scammers who want to overpay with a check then insist their "picker" will come get it but first I have to send them the 'extra' money from the check.
You can't win either way :
The skit video with your sister at the end was hilarious 😂
Best videos of catching scammers on RUclips. This guy always goes above and beyond
My mom bought a sewing machine from Facebook during the height of Covid 19. She used PayPal thinking she would be safe on a $200+ transaction. The seller sent her a sock instead, and because the package was shown as “delivered,” even though it was a single sock, PayPal refused to reimburse her. So, the seller , that was from china, got away with $200+ USD.
Something similar happened to me so I disputed it with my bank instead and they were able to help me.
eBay is just as risky from private sellers
@@danburch9989 I, personally , have never had a problem with eBay. eBay is generally easy to get your refund if the item wasn’t as advertised or the seller didn’t bother shipping out the item.
Lol
I want to add a bit of context to how they get ahold of people's accounts. My wife was just a victim of having her account hacked by one of these scammers, and this is how they compromised her account. A friend of ours had their account hacked by these scammers, and my wife not realizing this, was sent a message over Facebook messenger saying that they had their account hacked and could only send messages through Messenger. They then said they needed to get my wife's phone # so they could send her a code. Since she hadn't known about code scams, she gave them her phone number and the code. That was all they needed to reset her password, and bypass 2 factor authentication. They then changed the phone number, email address and password associated with her account. Facebook customer support has been zero help in recovering her account either. These scammers then put up the same EXACT "ad" that you showed in this video. So not only are people victims of theft and being deceived into being money mules, some people like my wife are losing precious memories like photos, where some of them were only on her Facebook.
I'm going to post this video on my Facebook account so others can be made aware of this Scam.
It is astounding how gullible some people can be.
The scammers are very good at what they do. It isn't worth doing, but they're very good at it. :(
I’m Nigerian and I’m happy with your works! Thanks PG
Asalamaleikum from Kosoves.Kosova love Nigeria
Can't tell from area codes where cell phone calls originate in the US.. My golfing buddy's cell phone has an Ohio area code but lives in AZ. Landline calls however, are tied to actual area locations. But when I receive a phone call, I don't know if it's cell or landline. But I do know it's a scammer by the long delay between my "Hello", a delay, then a short "beep" then another delay until the other party answers with a very heavy accent. That's an indication that their autodialer is making the call.
Thank you, Pleasant, for this video. It's outstanding & I'll be sharing it. But there should be a way social media platforms could "look" for posts like the one in the video & block them all. Shame on them for allowing scammers to flourish on social media.
Whenever I see someone on fb or marketplace asking if I have PayPal or zelle or any of them, I say I only sell to locals & cash payments face to face.
I still use Venmo but only face to face. Can that still be scammed?
9:19 that sound gets me every time 😂
I LOVE YOUR SCAM BAITING VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!
Ben did a good job convincing a scammer that “Abby” got robbed because of him
Not the kitchen aid kidnapping 😂😂😂
Thanks!
speaking of scammers every time i post something on the fb marketplace i immediately get msg by bots trying to scam me 🤣🤣
im getting flooded by scammers in the likes of Fiverr and other platforms. I just wanna do some freelance jobs dammit lol
but now nearly every inbox message is just a disappointment 😭
The scammers try to scam the buyers and the sellers on FB marketplace.
Thank you for figuring this out and sharing this. I have family members that i have warned about these scams but now i can share this video so they can understand it better than i can explain.
Simple answer is I never buy anything from Facebook. So I’m safe
sux to be u
Or don't break the one rule: cash on collection
@@user-op8fg3ny3j nope my way is much better, to be honest I don’t ever use Facebook so I’m even safer
Or invest online, or trust tech refunds, or the IRS calls, or dating sites, or FBI calls, or travel sites......
Even better, I deleted my Facebook 3 years ago!
Got one here too. Only it was for a car. Scammer wanted me to Zelle also to “hold” my place since “so many people wanted it”.
Potlickers!
Glad that caught my attention I never buy anything from Facebook so I'm good.
Thanks the job you are doing! I saw those kind of ads on Facebook and they sounded too good to be truth. Thankfully we aren't ready to furnish the house we are building, so I never contacted! Your information is golden, THANKS 😃
AS a nigerian, that you dey mad cracked me up
are you a scammer?
@nr289 are you rac$!t?!
@@nr289u seem to be obsessed with Nigerians from your previous comments. So tell me a your a white supremacist?!
You dey craze@@krystal5887
@@nr289 You can be Nigerian and not be a scammer.
Lmao. that little video at the end was icing on the cake. Just barging in and taking it, haha. Scammer must of been thrown for a loop.
These people selling stuff... it's from hacked profiles. I've seen a bunch of friends get their profiles hacked and the profiles turn into these "For Sale" type posts. It's sad because my friends have lost their accounts because of these scumbags.
Yeah its not like you can do anything about it....I mean, 2FA is not a thing, right..
I have four friends whose profiles were hacked When i went on them via a friend request. I found they were cloned they had stolen the name and pics
I found the profile was newish the amount of friends was way off and no close family or friends on it.. The last one was a women who died two years ago
her family keep it going for sentimental reasons hope this is helpful
@@JohnDoe-bd5sz 2FA doesn't stop people from putting their username, password and 2FA code into a scammer's fake facebook login screen. This really boils down to facebook allowing account takeovers from people on the other side of the planet. Facebook could stop someone in nigeria logging into an account that has never left north america, but they don't. Or prompt for additional information when someone is trying to log in from outside their country, etc
Best idea is to not use Facebook.
@@JohnDoe-bd5szBest idea is to not use Facebook. There are better ways to stay in touch with friends and family.