I love how offended they get when they think you're trying to do to them what they were originally trying to do to you. How much of a scumbag can you be?
They always have some flimsy justification to fool themselves into thinking they aren't being horrible bastards. "The people I'm scamming have too much money anyway, what they would waste will keep me fed for weeks", or "the only people who fall for this are greedy and trying to swindle me. Just imagine if this was a real offer, I would be fleeced!" They also often don't have and can't find a real job, doing these scams can actually take a lot of time and work, there aren't all that many people willing to do this crap all day if they have alternatives. The worst are the ones who run scam offices, where they actually get a whole bunch of people to work for them trying to rip people off and of course take a good chunk of the profit
@m c Yes, but if this agent is specifically tasked with investigating this sort of crime, and the evidence literally falls into his lap like this, he might be able to do something about it.
As an actual wrap specialist who has traveled for jobs, I was actually surprised how close the price was to an actual wrap in my area. Including custom design and installation.
I remember several years back dealing with one of these scammers (or similar). My father proceeded to talk to the guy and when my dad cashed the check he just kept the money and spent it all thinking he was scamming the scammer lol. Needless to say my dad owed a large amount of money after that.
I don’t know if anyone really says this but really, your a hero! People lose there life saving to people like this and others you have covered. You spread education and awareness and it is really appreciated!
Typically a hero risks his life or serious injury to hep others for no reward. He is getting paid to sit on his couch and talk. You may have a different definition of hero than most people.
I emailed a guy a fake money gram receipt and he went to Walmart to try and cash it. He was pissed. The check was from Harry Houdini from a credit union in Arkansas.
I love how not only he sent it to someone in charge, but he sent a check to a company with a prank name which they will probably report it to the police as well.
You can actually tell when the scammer is writing personally and when he's copy&pasting stuff. Windows Notepad is stupid and will copy line wraps, even if it's an automatic wrap due to limited screen space. If sentences are awkwardly cut (see 1:19), that's why.
@@josevillarreal9920 There's a 75 year old man with a prepaid phone that lives across the street from me. He's fairly new to it, but comes over asking all the time about random numbers calling him and its always spam or someone trying to sell something. He eats 60 minutes a week easily talking to telemarketers that kill his phone time. I try to explain over and over what's going on, but sometimes I feel like he just likes to talk to them out of boredom. I just hope he doesn't get a con call that ends with them getting his bank info.
I have had to explain countless times to my grandma and grandpa that "Gift cards are used for GIFTS, NEVER for payment" My grandparents are so susceptible to scams :( Thank you for bringing awareness to all these types of scams by the way.
Those are the things that really make me wonder what's going on in some people's heads: It's right in the name! Just like the saying "less is more": No it's fucking not, evenmry toddler knows they're literal opposites. Do people not process the meaning of words?
I LOST IT when he asked “Is the car getting wrapped at Walmart?” 😂😭 When Kiser Permanente and the FBI gets that check, boyyyy somebody is going to JAIL.
Can't do much if the scammers are in nigeria. I think what happens is that they steal someone's identity and use that bank to mail checks, then they use the victim to "launder" the money for them and send it to their personal account or via crypto.
I got a call from a scammer today (Marriot hotels referral) and when i got a live person he asked me what my name was. I replied “Ben” and he answered “Dover?” And then hung up on me. 😂
Are there any one in USA that has that name, Ben Dover ?. hehe We have a town in Sweden 'Asshole', but in Swedish it is 'Rövhålet'. He may have been there as a turist.
@@tealnoise You do realize the US government occupied parts of the middle east for over a decade, and is now dropping bombs on Somalia. They have gone "out of their reach" in the past, and will continue to.
@@YuckFou0x0FFFF Still, they don't control India or Nigeria, so they can't do anything about the scams. That's up to their government over there, but it's so corrupted that they allow the scams to happen.
Ill wrap my truck in his logo if he paid for it, dead serious I just wouldn't pay for it but hey ill rock my ranger with his logo cause he deserves more views.
@@irma4337 it’s a chrome plugin called sponsor block, it works by users watching the videos and submitting time stamps of sponsors this then skips the sponsored section of the video for all other users
@@irma4337 As this commun I cation revolution picks up speed, I have thought of that to the point of giving up. Working around ads and, equally, making them bulletproof is the holy grail. 😳 There's an app for that? 👏👏👏👍...for now.
Bwahahahaha! I have 2 of these scam checks myself. I didn’t fall for them, of course, I actually filled out the forms and played along with the scammers to teach my wife, daughter and a friend, about the scam. I went so far as to call the bank of Hawaii on one of them, and the other was Bank of America, and spoke with both of their fraud divisions. But I love how you got them to reveal where they were from. That was gold!
I think I have too many gullible people in my family lol. My husband fell for this (thankfully I stopped him before it got too far), my mother in law fell for the government grant one from a “friend” on Facebook, my father in law once had someone take over his computer and type out curse words on it, and I knew someone a long time ago who fell for the inheritance e-mail scam 🤦🏻♀️. Also my husband’s grandparents had money taken when they got gas because there was a chip reader. I seriously wish they’d tell me what’s going on, I swear I’ve spoken to so many scammers at this point, if they ran it by me, or even said it out loud to themselves, they’d see it’s a scam.
This is such good timing. I actually just received a similar text message and found it peculiar that I was instructed to send the money to another party in order to have my car wrapped. This video just confirms my gut instinct that this is a scam! Thanks for your content it’s a life saver!
I love how creative you’re getting and how you don’t give up when you hit a speed bump with these scammers! You’re videos are so entertaining to watch!
Best 14 minutes I ever spent since the last Tuesday. My brother passed due COVID-19. I was no able to laugh since this tragedy but your video made me laugh after all BS me and my family went through. Thanks a lot, man!
@@brentfarvors192 We’re not a bank. It costs the amount of the check plus $25 in a return fee. So if you bring in one of these checks for $1,000 and it returns, it would be $1,025, which we would never be able to collect on. Terrible for the victims, and the institution. Which is why we’re trained to spot these scams a mile away.
@@KHTimeProtecter why does it take so long for a cheque to clear in the US? Where I live, it takes half a day. If I deposit a cheque before 12pm, my bank will phone me if there's a problem with the cheque before 5pm. Yes, they make a phone call for every cheque, because usually, most cheques clear with no problem. I don't get charged. Issuer gets dinged $25 if it bounce for insufficient funds. Its a smaller country, but cheque images are sent electronically, so distance does not cause delays.
@@danielch6662 If your country is small enough that it only has a few banks, then that’s probably why the checks clear so quickly. We have a large number of different banks and credit unions, but LOTS of customers and money coming and going between these institutions. And that’s not taking account of some banks coming from different states with different banking jurisdictions. We also have to keep in mind how much the check actually is, i.e. if the check is $200 then it should clear quickly if there aren’t any problems. A check over $1,000 may take longer (On the rare occasion, I handle checks well into the mid-to-high five digit range, and even six-digit). Because of this, coupled with not-so-fast programs and internet, it takes a while to process and clear the checks. There’s a phase about banks being “too big to fail”, but that also means that they’re slow as molasses.
Love it! Genius on that email.... my 11 year old son overheard me watching your video - he says across the room - 'Is that Pleasant Green?' - well done! :)
Very well done and keep up the good work. I despise scammers and anyone making money off the hard work of others. Coming from a working class family, that owns their own business, I know personally how devastating these scammers can be.
We need more guys like this to expose these scams and alert people who may fall for them. Oh my shock, the source was from Nigeria, same as they catfish scams on dr Phil
Yeah, it's a good laugh. But it's disheartening when you realize this is just the tip of a very deep, disgusting iceberg. For every crook foiled like this, there are 1000 more who are successful. (That's why this kind of thing keeps on going and going.) And even if they're "caught", since they often live outside U.S. jurisdiction, nothing can or will be done about them by law enforcement. They'll just keep going until they find a desperate, gullible sucker. So frustrating...
Imagine the fun in the Kaiser Permanente mail room when the clerk looks up "Mike Rotch" to see what department to route the mail to. When he/she can't find them, they'll ask their boss, "Do you know Mike Rotch?, I'm looking for Mike Rotch", and then it gets awkward from there.
Not really. Anyone watching this video odds are have either seen other videos from Pleasant, are aren’t dumb enough to fall for these scams anyways. It’s just entertaining, it doesn’t actually save anyone from getting scammed. Someone dumb enough to fall for these scams isn’t on RUclips watching Pleasants videos, they are watching squirrels fight over a peanut, or a screaming goat or something.
@@Micahshot I mean I know the scammers aren’t the smartest people in the world, but I think they can handle dealing with Pleasant and scamming someone else at the same time. It’s not like a phone line, they can nail multiple ppl at the same time online.
I am Nigerian in the west and thought I was immune. I almost fell for something like this at 18. Thank my bank manager who knew me and told me what was going on.
Thank you for posting this video! Wish they would show this to seniors at a senior center, on the news, etc!! Loved the fact that you added the FBI agents name to the scam so that he could check it out!
Omg wtf bro I watched this one a year ago!! And now that I’m watching this again ! I just noticed that the address on the check shows Louisville co. I love here!! 😱 keep up all the hard work Ben!!😅😂😂
@@med8615 Yeah if u want to grow a few pubic hairs on your bald head. Also if you ever stop using it,it all falls out again. Bald people should just shave their heads. Its easy and cheap. I do it and Im not even bald.....
@@jarateman6427 Totally agree with you when it comes to already bald men. But baldING men is who this product is for. The main bulk of the balding process takes like 5-15 years before you reach the point where you'd look better fully shaven. With minoxidil they can at least add 5-10 years to that timeline before it's time to fully shave. Although not for everyone, minoxidil does work. After all minoxidil was made to be a drug for high blood pressure but patients who took it were complaining of getting hairier around their body so chemist used that to their advantage.
@@med8615 This is the most educated comment about minoxidil and hair loss prevention medication. Just listen to a podcast from stuff you should know about hair loss and it was really interesting. It doesn't work for everyone but it has a lot of studies that show it does work for a lot of people.
You are smoother than Paul Harvey in working in a sponsor! Nicely Done!!! Separately, thanks for sharing. There are so many scams and with so many people struggling, these kind of "jobs" get people excited. Wow! $650 a week to drive around like NASCAR...I can't wait. You likely have saved more people than you'll ever know...and educated a few unwitting money mules as well.
Thanks for putting this out there, I almost got scammed while trying to sell my fifth wheel trailer. I wanted $18000 he sent me a cheque for $24500. I texted why so much. He replied that was to pay the trucker and he is picking up other things on the way back. If I would have followed through I would have been out $18000 for the trailer plus $6500 to the driver. I also got a second one similar but not as much money. I took the cheque to the bank. The manager checked it out and it was phoney. In fact she read back the letters at the top left and said their credit union gets about eight of those a week. The police department said just rip it up we can’t help you. Thanks a lot coppers. Thanks again Pleasant Green you saved me!
@@FFM0594 its actually a little closer to $100 depending on the wrap/exposure/mileage. and Brent they make you prove it by sending them footage of your odometer weekly.
The absolute blatant nerve of this guy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It is a shame that some people do fall for this. 🤔 And by the way that was the smoothest slide into a advertiser product commercial that I have seen so far on youtube. Well done 👍🏻
I was an adult before the '07 crash. Life was good till the Big Banks dished out too many bad home loans and needed to bailed. We honestly never recovered from it. Covid shutdown is the cherry on top of this poo economy.
OMG 12:51 😭😭😭 As Nigerians we were hoping that the scammer wasn't gonna come from Nigeria jeeeeez. Glad Pleasant green beat the person to their ridiculous scam👏🏽.
The moment they wrote "routine" instead of "routing" number, I knew. I work for my state's unemployment office by doing online chat and they will often misspell it that way. We've developed a few tricks to help suss out these bastards as they'll try to hide themselves with a VPN, but without even needing to be told by our supervisors, we've gotten to work listing ways they stick out. Usually they want to update the payment method to a different bank account to launder the money. As of today, all payment method changes must have a photo ID submitted. That was music to my ears! We're also mandating claimants refile a new claim every three months so as to throw them off from receiving money from an account that may have passed under the radar. We can catch it the next time they file. Screw these scammers. 😈
I’m glad I saw this video. I had seen these texts a few times before and considered it but laziness was on my side and I never bothered clicking the links.
Should of texted him back and say you were recently married and your last name changed and u cant cash it cus you used your old last name that way he'd have to send another check which would waste resources/time 😂👌
My wife was so excited about doing this when she got a email about it. It took awhile for me to convince her it was a scam, she wanted it to be true so bad.
The SAC was a nice touch. I like that idea so much. Not every state has an FBI field office. Every state has a state attorney, tho', and they are all involved in protecting citizens from scammers in each state. That might be a good alternative. Luckily, Richmond had both state attorney and FBI FO.
People like this are not just RUclipsrs. They are legit heros. As a parent, a scam like this can ruin your family, your life, and your kids well being. People like this guy are WAY MORE important to the well being of consumers than most people realize
@@NoodlePastie the thing is there is no actual way to prove it works, even identical twins could end up with different results. They are making money on insecurity of peoples...
Thats true but Keeps is not a legitimate scam because ur actually getting a product with the money you pay for. Unlike these scammers who take ur money while u receive nothing.. Because if thats the case and u think "Keeps" is a scam, then u can say the same thing for almost every over priced item on the market.. People sell 1$ T-shirts for $50 just cuz they added a logo to it.. The people who purchase it are the dumb ones.. Same thing with the scams. U should realize when something seems too good to be true
The word “ kindly “ is the biggest red flag to me, I’m not a native English speaker but I live in the US, I have never ever seen English speaker say that word
Totally, you never hear it even from a customer service representative or in casual conversation. I don't understand why scammers bother sometimes because the wording they use is always a little off so that someone can pick up on it quickly.
@@idontevenknow9758 scammers usually do intentionally leave a red flag such as unusual language like “kindly “ thus people with decent intelligence with pick that up and identify they’re scammers and the scammer move on to the next target, because there is no point wasting time on a smart person, smart people don’t fall to those scam, it’s like a filtration system that filter out smart people and leave people are less intelligent that are easier to scam
Even their commercials don't advertise it as regrowing your hair, just as preventing you from losing any more. And even if it did regrow hair, the side effects are much less than ideal.
@@featheryfemme Well I guess if the loose hair sticks to your head because of the grease, you don't technically lose that hair? So it's working? Just don't wash your hair, ever!
"If you click on one of these videos here, i will tell you all about it" Oh no.... you wont get me so easily Ben. Im onto your tricks, you wont be getting my IP anytime soon!
Us in the Pressure washing community have a very common scam where they want us to take a cashiers check of like 10k and pay off somebody then take the rest for ourselves. We would love to see you track these people down.
I had a guy on fb message me randomly. He said hello and then asked me to send him gift cards. These scammers aren’t even trying anymore 😂 Of course I spent a few days writing him and sending him photoshopped gift cards with one number cropped off 😂
LOL. That's a good one. Thanks for taking the trouble of photoshopping a.s.o. Hopefully the guy was very frustrated (and didn't come up with a better plan because of this).
LOL i have a "chinese girl" (probably an indian dude)messaging me the other day in a wrong number situation starting with "hi" too...but *she has not ask for anything yet...let´s see where this go lol
Great video! I almost fell for this one except I noticed the weird differences in addresses and followed a similar process if figuring it out. The bank teller also offered the advice that it was probably a scam when I asked.
Yeah. Sad. And when people come in for cashiers checks that you know are for scams and you insist they dont do it but they insist it's their money and they are not stupid.......
I am Autistic and I learned about this in 2019 the hard way, luckily my bank caught it before I was really screwed... Scammers are trash!!! Thanks for the video this needs to be shared!
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Having scammers send checks to real law enforcement officials is genious
Especially when they are FBI level law enforcement 😂
@@YearsOVDecay1 if only you knew how bad it really is. The amount of scams that get shut down on a daily basis is insane.
Change that
So why do I get 3 calls every single day.
I had a scammer send a check to my local police station with the name Immah Skammer
I swear Grabify should sponsor this man.
Yeah
Lmao
Nah i dont think they will cause grabify always get a free sponsor
How can I help you buy a cat?
Nah, he does it for free already
I love how offended they get when they think you're trying to do to them what they were originally trying to do to you. How much of a scumbag can you be?
They always have some flimsy justification to fool themselves into thinking they aren't being horrible bastards. "The people I'm scamming have too much money anyway, what they would waste will keep me fed for weeks", or "the only people who fall for this are greedy and trying to swindle me. Just imagine if this was a real offer, I would be fleeced!"
They also often don't have and can't find a real job, doing these scams can actually take a lot of time and work, there aren't all that many people willing to do this crap all day if they have alternatives.
The worst are the ones who run scam offices, where they actually get a whole bunch of people to work for them trying to rip people off and of course take a good chunk of the profit
Gaslighting is a beautiful thing. "How dare you? How could you even think that about me?"
I ALMOST fell for this scam in 2014. I was desperate and suffering from addiction. Glad I eventually saw through it.
good job avoiding it!
The part where you get him to send a fake check to the FBI is the best part of all
Absolutely legendary.
I did the same thing
But it was fake money orders
@m c Yes, but if this agent is specifically tasked with investigating this sort of crime, and the evidence literally falls into his lap like this, he might be able to do something about it.
Update: the guy at the FBI sent Walmart giftcards. Getting his car wrapped on Thursday..
“I’m busy in a meeting...”
Ah yes, those Nigerian princes usually are.
Yeah in a meeting you can believe that their discussion is on a new script or how to spend the scammed money
@Aquatic Ape yeah, his grabify location saying Nigeria don't mean shit
so many grammatical errors jesus christ
Who should I scam tonight?
@Aquatic Ape he did say Nigeria.
As an actual wrap specialist who has traveled for jobs, I was actually surprised how close the price was to an actual wrap in my area. Including custom design and installation.
You're a "wrap specialist" and a gamer? I think I've found the coolest guy on YT.
@@XD-rd9ig agreed
but then the scammer called it a "decal"
That’s a cool job to have! I can’t imagine the steady hands needed for that..
Nice ad
I remember several years back dealing with one of these scammers (or similar). My father proceeded to talk to the guy and when my dad cashed the check he just kept the money and spent it all thinking he was scamming the scammer lol. Needless to say my dad owed a large amount of money after that.
Receipts do wonders
@@di_spencer7372 not everything is returnable, like spending a night at a fancy hotel or something
I don’t know if anyone really says this but really, your a hero! People lose there life saving to people like this and others you have covered. You spread education and awareness and it is really appreciated!
you're
Typically a hero risks his life or serious injury to hep others for no reward. He is getting paid to sit on his couch and talk. You may have a different definition of hero than most people.
@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n⁰o
The biggest red flag of any scammer is the use of the word “kindly”. Every. Single. Time.
They played too much bioshock
it's the 'giftcards' for me
@@ccox7198 kindly is a word bruh
@@ChesterMcCoyJr :)
Yep. that's always the giveaway.
I emailed a guy a fake money gram receipt and he went to Walmart to try and cash it. He was pissed. The check was from Harry Houdini from a credit union in Arkansas.
As Nelson so eloquently puts it.... "HA! HA!"
Lmfao 😂😂😂
Dude you’re a f-ing legend.
Haha That's The Best one iv heard "scamming the scammer..Your definitely switched on good for you👍💯
as an arkansan, this is amazing. thank you :D
That. Was. AWESOME!!!!! I love playing with scammers, but this is on another level. You sir are the master and I bow to your superior skills.
I love how not only he sent it to someone in charge, but he sent a check to a company with a prank name which they will probably report it to the police as well.
yeah then the police will do close to nothing.
@@Mihai-mb4ew - Nothing. They will do absolutely nothing.
no they wont ..since i can guarantee you they engage in illegal practices
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Nothing they can do. The man is in Nigeria.
@@caade_1967 The person who sent the check was in the United States, though
This man is about to single-handedly eliminate scammers entirely
"The car is getting wrapped at Walmart?" LOL, the playing dumb is so funny.
Is there anything you can't get at Walmart?
@@harrysweeten9417 Caskets?
@@harrysweeten9417 Embalming and caskets?
@@harrysweeten9417 a good woman
@@-myal-8691 I would check on line.
This guy is a good guy. Keep up the good work. The world needs more people like you.
You can actually tell when the scammer is writing personally and when he's copy&pasting stuff.
Windows Notepad is stupid and will copy line wraps, even if it's an automatic wrap due to limited screen space. If sentences are awkwardly cut (see 1:19), that's why.
Now, that's pretty funny AND useful
Good eye
Lol, these noobs don't even use Notepad++
Also, what's up with all these double-blanks and blank spaces before commas?
The Email Thing And FBI Part Was Freaking Priceless.
You're So Smart
I love how the guy went from trying to hustle to just straigt up give me your bank account 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Right? AND password too please :-D
They think their smart like people would just give them all their info🤣🤣🤣
I bet there are plenty of people out there that willing and gullible to give that info out.
Then cry when they realize they got scammed..
@@austinlane5533 It's true, I spend a lot of time explaining to family members not to click on everything.
@@josevillarreal9920
There's a 75 year old man with a prepaid phone that lives across the street from me. He's fairly new to it, but comes over asking all the time about random numbers calling him and its always spam or someone trying to sell something. He eats 60 minutes a week easily talking to telemarketers that kill his phone time. I try to explain over and over what's going on, but sometimes I feel like he just likes to talk to them out of boredom.
I just hope he doesn't get a con call that ends with them getting his bank info.
I highly recommend you report this to the US Postal Inspection Service.
I have had to explain countless times to my grandma and grandpa that "Gift cards are used for GIFTS, NEVER for payment" My grandparents are so susceptible to scams :(
Thank you for bringing awareness to all these types of scams by the way.
Yes I have to look out for my grandmom as well she really doesn't get how ppl can easily get your info.
Its sad they really do target the elderly which are so vulnerable to it
Those are the things that really make me wonder what's going on in some people's heads:
It's right in the name!
Just like the saying "less is more": No it's fucking not, evenmry toddler knows they're literal opposites. Do people not process the meaning of words?
I LOST IT when he asked “Is the car getting wrapped at Walmart?” 😂😭
When Kiser Permanente and the FBI gets that check, boyyyy somebody is going to JAIL.
Can't do much if the scammers are in nigeria. I think what happens is that they steal someone's identity and use that bank to mail checks, then they use the victim to "launder" the money for them and send it to their personal account or via crypto.
I got a call from a scammer today (Marriot hotels referral) and when i got a live person he asked me what my name was. I replied “Ben” and he answered “Dover?” And then hung up on me. 😂
@Pat Mynuts I believe em pretty specific not that crazy scammer probably gets prank names all day but still funny
I get the same call like 2-3 times a day....
Are there any one in USA that has that name, Ben Dover ?. hehe
We have a town in Sweden 'Asshole', but in Swedish it is 'Rövhålet'.
He may have been there as a turist.
I got a call from a scammer who told me to go f--- myself when I said hello, I didn't even get started to mess with him yet.
@@harrysweeten9417 lol I’ve a had a few of those.... now I always start aggressive.... not gonna beat me to the punch lmao
You do more to punish these scammers than the whole US government
You do realize these scams are out of the US government's reach? Most likely because these take place in India.
@@tealnoise You do realize the US government occupied parts of the middle east for over a decade, and is now dropping bombs on Somalia. They have gone "out of their reach" in the past, and will continue to.
@@YuckFou0x0FFFF Still, they don't control India or Nigeria, so they can't do anything about the scams. That's up to their government over there, but it's so corrupted that they allow the scams to happen.
True
No way a public employees is going to work
This man had me so entertained. He is a genius great job on helping thousands from getting scammed.
the commercial turned me Off.
This is the most underrated youtube channel I've ever seen...
So you have never seen Christofer White :(
Agree !
Agreed! I’ve only just discovered him yesterday!
I saw a video of him on the news and I was like WHOO PLEASANT GRREN!
Waifu
I'll wrap my car in the Pleasant Green logo.
I'll wrap my ca- oh wait I don't have a car...
ok we sent payment to ur bank via USPS, did u receive, plz download ZELLE APP in your phone to make payment thanks.
You won’t do it
Ill do it too!
Ill wrap my truck in his logo if he paid for it, dead serious I just wouldn't pay for it but hey ill rock my ranger with his logo cause he deserves more views.
You do amazing work getting back at these scammers and taking care of these bad situations. Your doing Great man!
this guy is so smooth with sliding sponsorships into his videos
didnt notice them im using sponsor block
@@GREGELZZ how does it work?
@@irma4337 it’s a chrome plugin called sponsor block, it works by users watching the videos and submitting time stamps of sponsors this then skips the sponsored section of the video for all other users
@@GREGELZZ wow, I would never think of that. Thanks for the info
@@irma4337 As this commun I cation revolution picks up speed, I have thought of that to the point of giving up. Working around ads and, equally, making them bulletproof is the holy grail. 😳 There's an app for that? 👏👏👏👍...for now.
Bwahahahaha! I have 2 of these scam checks myself. I didn’t fall for them, of course, I actually filled out the forms and played along with the scammers to teach my wife, daughter and a friend, about the scam. I went so far as to call the bank of Hawaii on one of them, and the other was Bank of America, and spoke with both of their fraud divisions. But I love how you got them to reveal where they were from. That was gold!
So it's basically a free movie prop with custom name XD.
Nice work dude
I got 2 checks and one was returned immediately but the big one for $9750 cleared!!! Is it mine now? What should I do?
@@krissyridgelawnerd send me 1500
I think I have too many gullible people in my family lol. My husband fell for this (thankfully I stopped him before it got too far), my mother in law fell for the government grant one from a “friend” on Facebook, my father in law once had someone take over his computer and type out curse words on it, and I knew someone a long time ago who fell for the inheritance e-mail scam 🤦🏻♀️. Also my husband’s grandparents had money taken when they got gas because there was a chip reader. I seriously wish they’d tell me what’s going on, I swear I’ve spoken to so many scammers at this point, if they ran it by me, or even said it out loud to themselves, they’d see it’s a scam.
You are awesome! I cannot stand a thief and the fact that you wasted this guy’s time made me smile.
This is such good timing. I actually just received a similar text message and found it peculiar that I was instructed to send the money to another party in order to have my car wrapped. This video just confirms my gut instinct that this is a scam! Thanks for your content it’s a life saver!
I love how creative you’re getting and how you don’t give up when you hit a speed bump with these scammers! You’re videos are so entertaining to watch!
Best 14 minutes I ever spent since the last Tuesday. My brother passed due COVID-19. I was no able to laugh since this tragedy but your video made me laugh after all BS me and my family went through. Thanks a lot, man!
I work at a financial institution. I cannot tell you how many times my customers come in with checks from these scammers an not even realize it.
You mean the victims
How much does the bank charge for a returned check fee...?
@@brentfarvors192 We’re not a bank. It costs the amount of the check plus $25 in a return fee. So if you bring in one of these checks for $1,000 and it returns, it would be $1,025, which we would never be able to collect on. Terrible for the victims, and the institution. Which is why we’re trained to spot these scams a mile away.
@@KHTimeProtecter why does it take so long for a cheque to clear in the US? Where I live, it takes half a day. If I deposit a cheque before 12pm, my bank will phone me if there's a problem with the cheque before 5pm. Yes, they make a phone call for every cheque, because usually, most cheques clear with no problem. I don't get charged. Issuer gets dinged $25 if it bounce for insufficient funds. Its a smaller country, but cheque images are sent electronically, so distance does not cause delays.
@@danielch6662 If your country is small enough that it only has a few banks, then that’s probably why the checks clear so quickly. We have a large number of different banks and credit unions, but LOTS of customers and money coming and going between these institutions. And that’s not taking account of some banks coming from different states with different banking jurisdictions. We also have to keep in mind how much the check actually is, i.e. if the check is $200 then it should clear quickly if there aren’t any problems. A check over $1,000 may take longer (On the rare occasion, I handle checks well into the mid-to-high five digit range, and even six-digit). Because of this, coupled with not-so-fast programs and internet, it takes a while to process and clear the checks.
There’s a phase about banks being “too big to fail”, but that also means that they’re slow as molasses.
“With the name and adress of the FBI special agent in charge” I started fucking rolling😭😭😭
When Pleasant Green uploads, any day turns into a Pleasant day!
Facts! 😁😁
Same
Well, they’re always about some tool in Nigeria. The first 10 were interesting but now...
Love it! Genius on that email.... my 11 year old son overheard me watching your video - he says across the room - 'Is that Pleasant Green?' - well done! :)
Same here 🔥
BRO THAT IS LITERALLY THE BEST THING I HAVE SEEN TODAY!
Very well done and keep up the good work. I despise scammers and anyone making money off the hard work of others. Coming from a working class family, that owns their own business, I know personally how devastating these scammers can be.
I just love this guy! He is always catching these crooks and exposing them.
We need more guys like this to expose these scams and alert people who may fall for them.
Oh my shock, the source was from Nigeria, same as they catfish scams on dr Phil
@@paulfuray8557 There's lots of them, like scam baiter, scammer payback.
Yeah, it's a good laugh. But it's disheartening when you realize this is just the tip of a very deep, disgusting iceberg. For every crook foiled like this, there are 1000 more who are successful. (That's why this kind of thing keeps on going and going.) And even if they're "caught", since they often live outside U.S. jurisdiction, nothing can or will be done about them by law enforcement. They'll just keep going until they find a desperate, gullible sucker. So frustrating...
Imagine the fun in the Kaiser Permanente mail room when the clerk looks up "Mike Rotch" to see what department to route the mail to. When he/she can't find them, they'll ask their boss, "Do you know Mike Rotch?, I'm looking for Mike Rotch", and then it gets awkward from there.
No i have never seen mike rotch I willl go call corporate im sure they have all seen mike rotch
@@danielhoward8354 corporate has also seen hule jass
They were looking for Mike Hunt too.
And Betty Swallocks.
Plot twist.
Mike Rotch works in Urology.
The worst thing is you never got your car wrapped and Frito-Lay will never get any good advertisement... 😭 so sad.
😆😆👍👍 that is sad.
All those unsold Cheetos. going stale in the bags! Tito, hand me a tissue!
We found the John in the video
I think your ‘hair’ advertisement is a bigger scam to be fair. The irony.
Another day, another person is saved from being scammed thanks to pleasant green.
cringe
Not really. Anyone watching this video odds are have either seen other videos from Pleasant, are aren’t dumb enough to fall for these scams anyways. It’s just entertaining, it doesn’t actually save anyone from getting scammed. Someone dumb enough to fall for these scams isn’t on RUclips watching Pleasants videos, they are watching squirrels fight over a peanut, or a screaming goat or something.
@@KelticTim your funny you do relize hes wasting the scammers time and money meanig he is saving people from being scammed.
@@Micahshot I mean I know the scammers aren’t the smartest people in the world, but I think they can handle dealing with Pleasant and scamming someone else at the same time. It’s not like a phone line, they can nail multiple ppl at the same time online.
He didn't save anyone. Everything this guy does is staged and acted out from actors he pays. It's entertainment only
If this guy doesn't work for the Government by now, they're missing a great opportunity! Well-done!
The government isn't actually in the business of protecting people.
Government and work is an oxymoron.
"Why am I sending the money to Kermit?" made me spit out my coffee.
Idk why RUclips started suggesting these videos but I freaking love them! Easy entertainment while I’m recovering from an illness.
You’re doing gods work, my friend.
I am Nigerian in the west and thought I was immune. I almost fell for something like this at 18. Thank my bank manager who knew me and told me what was going on.
Strange place this USA!
They have banks in Nigeria?
@@Southwickspecials Well of course dipshit but this was not in Naija.
@@Southwickspecials Racist much?
@@Southwickspecials You think Nigeria is just a jungle or desert or something stupid?
My mom is going to be so excited! We have been waiting for your next video! 🥳
I'm a new subscriber and I gotta say your ad transitions and dad jokes are chefs kiss 😘 🤌
Thank you for posting this video! Wish they would show this to seniors at a senior center, on the news, etc!! Loved the fact that you added the FBI agents name to the scam so that he could check it out!
Great to see so many guys scamming the scammers and preventing others from getting scammed. Keep up the good work!
But do you think that anyone that would fall for this scam would be watching this video?
This guy is fun, trying to catch scammers while advertising a scam product which won't prevent any hair loss. 😂
8:05 The scam starts, and ends 1min later.
Hehe yea, that is little fucked.
My thoughts exactly.
This sounds like I'm kind of narcissistic but genuinely thought I was the only one who thought that!!!
@@rykehuss3435 If nothing works, Take a spray can that match your hair color. And spray on the skin where the hair should be. ;)
It can prevent hair loss, it just comes with less than ideal side effects. Still a scam in my eyes.
Omg wtf bro I watched this one a year ago!! And now that I’m watching this again ! I just noticed that the address on the check shows Louisville co. I love here!! 😱 keep up all the hard work Ben!!😅😂😂
LOL Catching scammers, then scamming with "hair loss prevention medication." Oh, the irony!
Minoxidil actually works though. Plenty of guys use it and a lot of empirical research to back it up.
@@med8615 Yeah if u want to grow a few pubic hairs on your bald head. Also if you ever stop using it,it all falls out again. Bald people should just shave their heads. Its easy and cheap. I do it and Im not even bald.....
@@jarateman6427 Totally agree with you when it comes to already bald men. But baldING men is who this product is for. The main bulk of the balding process takes like 5-15 years before you reach the point where you'd look better fully shaven. With minoxidil they can at least add 5-10 years to that timeline before it's time to fully shave. Although not for everyone, minoxidil does work. After all minoxidil was made to be a drug for high blood pressure but patients who took it were complaining of getting hairier around their body so chemist used that to their advantage.
@@med8615 what is the price per hair?
@@med8615 This is the most educated comment about minoxidil and hair loss prevention medication. Just listen to a podcast from stuff you should know about hair loss and it was really interesting. It doesn't work for everyone but it has a lot of studies that show it does work for a lot of people.
That car wrap in thumbnail is actually really cool, imagine the ad revenue every hour you drive that car
You are smoother than Paul Harvey in working in a sponsor! Nicely Done!!!
Separately, thanks for sharing. There are so many scams and with so many people struggling, these kind of "jobs" get people excited. Wow! $650 a week to drive around like NASCAR...I can't wait. You likely have saved more people than you'll ever know...and educated a few unwitting money mules as well.
Thanks for putting this out there, I almost got scammed while trying to sell my fifth wheel trailer.
I wanted $18000 he sent me a cheque for $24500. I texted why so much. He replied that was to pay the trucker and he is picking up other things on the way back. If I would have followed through I would have been out $18000 for the trailer plus $6500 to the driver. I also got a second one similar but not as much money. I took the cheque to the bank.
The manager checked it out and it was phoney. In fact she read back the letters at the top left and said their credit union gets about eight of those a week. The police department said just rip it up we can’t help you. Thanks a lot coppers.
Thanks again Pleasant Green you saved me!
Sending it to an FBI agent was the funniest thing ive ever seen lmao
Thanks for this! The biggest red flag is $650 per week when a person might hide it in their garage or leave it stationary on the street.
The going rate is closer to $20 per month.
@@FFM0594 its actually a little closer to $100 depending on the wrap/exposure/mileage. and Brent they make you prove it by sending them footage of your odometer weekly.
@@jonrockson2685 Even if you are right, $20 is alot closer to $100 than $100 is to $650.
That is genius to put the FBI special agent in the city where these FedEx shipments are originating.
Plot twist - The FBI special Agent is in cahoots with the Nigerian !
@@googlgfacef218 😆 🤣
@@googlgfacef218 I wouldn't be shocked with how things are.
Top News!
FBI agent gets scammed for 1000's of dollars! Story at 6!
Lol the FBI don't give a shit about scammers.
The absolute blatant nerve of this guy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is a shame that some people do fall for this. 🤔
And by the way that was the smoothest slide into a advertiser product commercial that I have seen so far on youtube. Well done 👍🏻
“Well the economy’s in the toilet”
You said that so casually like that’s how normalized our crappy system is we’re not phased anymore
I was an adult before the '07 crash. Life was good till the Big Banks dished out too many bad home loans and needed to bailed. We honestly never recovered from it. Covid shutdown is the cherry on top of this poo economy.
@@sameaston9587 idk, 2019 was pretty good for me
@@sameaston9587 Thank the government for bailing out the banks and botching the COVID response. When will we stop them butting into our lives?
OMG 12:51 😭😭😭 As Nigerians we were hoping that the scammer wasn't gonna come from Nigeria jeeeeez. Glad Pleasant green beat the person to their ridiculous scam👏🏽.
😂😂😂😂 As soon as i heard Cashapp . I knew it was a Nigerian😂😂😂.. God help us
@@gocthafirst5320 he will o
The moment they wrote "routine" instead of "routing" number, I knew. I work for my state's unemployment office by doing online chat and they will often misspell it that way. We've developed a few tricks to help suss out these bastards as they'll try to hide themselves with a VPN, but without even needing to be told by our supervisors, we've gotten to work listing ways they stick out. Usually they want to update the payment method to a different bank account to launder the money. As of today, all payment method changes must have a photo ID submitted. That was music to my ears! We're also mandating claimants refile a new claim every three months so as to throw them off from receiving money from an account that may have passed under the radar. We can catch it the next time they file. Screw these scammers. 😈
Most scammers are from Nigeria or India.
😭😭😭 we don’t deserve this!!
Hell yeah, been waiting a while for an upload !!
I’m glad I saw this video. I had seen these texts a few times before and considered it but laziness was on my side and I never bothered clicking the links.
Should of texted him back and say you were recently married and your last name changed and u cant cash it cus you used your old last name that way he'd have to send another check which would waste resources/time 😂👌
...and his vehicle warranty is about to expire
My wife was so excited about doing this when she got a email about it. It took awhile for me to convince her it was a scam, she wanted it to be true so bad.
To be honest you can probably find an actual business that would do this! Just gotta look lol
Tell your wife that she will be contacted very soon about her expired warranty on her car…
This video had me rolling man this dude needs a tv show
I love it and laugh so hard when he gets disappointed to find out the scammers come from Lagos, Nigeria.
I love that Nigerian music always played when you catch them there. I always wait for it. It's ao funny.
😂🤣😂🤣
😭😭😭😭 So sad. We still have good people in Nigeria. I'm a civil servant. I work hard for my money. It is shameful how most Nigeria make us feel.
Scammers know the desire for 'get rich quick' is strong, they play on their victims having the same desire for this as them.
The SAC was a nice touch. I like that idea so much.
Not every state has an FBI field office. Every state has a state attorney, tho', and they are all involved in protecting citizens from scammers in each state.
That might be a good alternative.
Luckily, Richmond had both state attorney and FBI FO.
The FBI part at the end was a nice touch. Thumbs up, glad I wandered across this today.
If I learned anything, it's the fact you don't click on any links in any description 😁
People like this are not just RUclipsrs. They are legit heros. As a parent, a scam like this can ruin your family, your life, and your kids well being.
People like this guy are WAY MORE important to the well being of consumers than most people realize
The irony of a scam bait video being sponsored by KEEPS is not lost on me
YES ! A scammer warning us about scams. And we're supposed to fall for his scam ?
@@meauxjeaux431 keeps actually works my homie uses it
@@NoodlePastie the thing is there is no actual way to prove it works, even identical twins could end up with different results.
They are making money on insecurity of peoples...
kEePs YoUr HaIr
Thats true but Keeps is not a legitimate scam because ur actually getting a product with the money you pay for. Unlike these scammers who take ur money while u receive nothing.. Because if thats the case and u think "Keeps" is a scam, then u can say the same thing for almost every over priced item on the market.. People sell 1$ T-shirts for $50 just cuz they added a logo to it.. The people who purchase it are the dumb ones.. Same thing with the scams. U should realize when something seems too good to be true
You had TOO much fun!!
Think I'll try a reverse scam next time I get a "You have WON THOU$ANDS in our sweepstakes" or some equally hysterical bait.
The word “ kindly “ is the biggest red flag to me, I’m not a native English speaker but I live in the US, I have never ever seen English speaker say that word
Hindustani alert
Totally, you never hear it even from a customer service representative or in casual conversation. I don't understand why scammers bother sometimes because the wording they use is always a little off so that someone can pick up on it quickly.
@@fatimabouzzazi6338 they use that word that way in India?
@@idontevenknow9758 scammers usually do intentionally leave a red flag such as unusual language like “kindly “ thus people with decent intelligence with pick that up and identify they’re scammers and the scammer move on to the next target, because there is no point wasting time on a smart person, smart people don’t fall to those scam, it’s like a filtration system that filter out smart people and leave people are less intelligent that are easier to scam
I love how the grammar in the sms messages get progressively worse as the story continues😂
It is because the conversation goes progressively off their prepared script.
They run out of macros and try to use their broken english/google translate. It's pathetic. Sadly, people still fall for this shit.
I went to a hair loss specialist and asked them for something to keep my hair in. They gave me a shoebox.
A jam jar would be better. Then you can look at it on a shelf when you are completely bald.
Brilliant
Exactly! Hair loss is genetic & thus cannot be cured with chemicals or good wishes.
@@TASMAN-1 Hairloss is caused by DHT (di hydrogen testosterone) which can be lowered with the use of Finasteride (source: I’m doing it currently)
You are brilliant!! This country needs more real men like you!!!
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We need real women too
Real scam is his mid vid ad for 'keeps' hair greace that magically grows hair!
Even their commercials don't advertise it as regrowing your hair, just as preventing you from losing any more. And even if it did regrow hair, the side effects are much less than ideal.
He's scamming while shaming scammers lol
Yep and as we all know RUclips would allow that, wow.
:)) exactly! never click on his links! :D
@@featheryfemme Well I guess if the loose hair sticks to your head because of the grease, you don't technically lose that hair? So it's working? Just don't wash your hair, ever!
"If you click on one of these videos here, i will tell you all about it"
Oh no.... you wont get me so easily Ben. Im onto your tricks, you wont be getting my IP anytime soon!
Gotta love the "trust this process" message.
Exposing a scammer, then having a hair loss prevention ad within the video. Priceless.
Us in the Pressure washing community have a very common scam where they want us to take a cashiers check of like 10k and pay off somebody then take the rest for ourselves. We would love to see you track these people down.
Yes I am a owner of a small pressure washing business and this is true
I had a guy on fb message me randomly. He said hello and then asked me to send him gift cards. These scammers aren’t even trying anymore 😂
Of course I spent a few days writing him and sending him photoshopped gift cards with one number cropped off 😂
LOL. That's a good one. Thanks for taking the trouble of photoshopping a.s.o. Hopefully the guy was very frustrated (and didn't come up with a better plan because of this).
That is so cruel!! I love it!!
LOL i have a "chinese girl" (probably an indian dude)messaging me the other day in a wrong number situation starting with "hi" too...but *she has not ask for anything yet...let´s see where this go lol
@@salaekis Had one similar except she was Russian.
@@salaekis Grab her dude, because those don't come around very often....She love you long time !
Great video!
I almost fell for this one except I noticed the weird differences in addresses and followed a similar process if figuring it out. The bank teller also offered the advice that it was probably a scam when I asked.
I love how this convo went from him getting a job to sending money directly on zelle to a random person in like 5 minutes
In my bank I've been collecting those checks, and people get mad when we tell them that the checks are fake
Yeah. Sad. And when people come in for cashiers checks that you know are for scams and you insist they dont do it but they insist it's their money and they are not stupid.......
I bet $100 that Pleasent Green is going to put the Ben Dover joke on his gravestone
Here lies Ben Dover, may he rest in Mike Rotch
@@thelurkeroftubes lol right
@@thelurkeroftubes I think he would rather rest in Mike Hunt.
I am Autistic and I learned about this in 2019 the hard way, luckily my bank caught it before I was really screwed... Scammers are trash!!! Thanks for the video this needs to be shared!
I am glad your bank caught it.
You have a weird last name
I am autistic too but what does it have to do with falling for this scam?
@@MisterChief711 We don't always have the easiest time reading into people's intentions or understanding what they're saying.
I ❤ how you just threw in that KEEP commercial 😂😂😂😂😂
FINALLY a pleasant green video!!! it’s MY lucky day lol
Me expecting a good package via FedEx: sorry son, not happening due to covid.
Me expecting a fake check via FedEx: delivered one day before.
I really like how you reported it to the authority’s some people just expose them and do nothing about it