The Struggle to Claim "FREE" Online Rewards
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2022
- Go to privacy.com/pleasantgreen to get $5 free money! Seriously!
I ran into a RUclips video saying I could win FREE Power Tools for just trying them out! Well...I looked into it and it isn't as easy as you would think!
Check out a previous video I did on this program regarding a Dr Pepper fridge: • Be Careful with "FREE"... 
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My step Mother is a pro at getting free stuff from surveys and contests! You should totally interview her. She's in her 60s now and retired. Has made a hobby out of it. She can tell if its a scam or not almost instantly. I tried to do it and I don't have the patience hahaha. She has won so many weird things and items. Folding benches, tool sets, shirts, shoes, a trip to the Rose Bowl! So much stuff. It's so entertaining to watch her go.
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Let's make this happen
Dude what’s the secret I want to do it as well no lie
When I had a dispute with my next door neighbour I found out I was quite good at ordering free things to their house, nothing of any use of course and lots of "gay interest" magazines and vaginal cream (they are male).
Id love to see this!
@@beingdeeply double bump
We are truly living in the Golden Age of scamming. That's why Ben is so freakin' valuable!
Ben’s always been valuable
FB has the worst scam adds in my wall!
and youtube made it easier by removing the thumbs down so people could tell if its a scam if the comments are disabled. if they think it's a scam on RUclips look at the comments and look at the rating
This is why i have two emails, one for actual business and others email for sketchy websites, registrations, and such so if i do get weird emails, their going onto my secondary email where they can say hi and hello all they want
Yeah, these "free gift" scammers keep moving the posts so you have to spend money and time to get the promised gift. Even then, you probably still won't get it!
I really hope you get that Dr. Pepper Fridge one day
You should leave a Dr. Pepper fridge in vodka for a week and see what happens.
@@vinceonthewebDr Pepper and Vodka? Yuk
I’d love it if somehow you could go down the rabbit hole of asking the actual companies in the affiliate program who they’ve paid commissions to on this Dr. Pepper fridge marketing scam and then have Trilogy Media confront them face to face.
Great Idea!
Reply could be sorry that is not my department do go back to HR and check with them::dang
Those companies know what's going on. And they don't care.
id would love to hear affliate companies that learn of these scam tricks and what they think.
Thanks you for continuing the fridge saga. And damn right, people like this rely on others giving up.
Maybe we’ll get a trilogy??
@@PleasantGreen yes please! 😁
@@PleasantGreen ✌🏻❤️
This looks exactly like the fridge one
@@PleasantGreen hello new subscriber here
I've never actually seen anybody complete one of these. I always thought they went endless. Wasn't worth it lol but I'm impressed none the less
Love these videos man :-)
I love your vids!
love to see scam baiters interacting haha feels like a crossover
SCAMMERPAYBACK?????? OMGG UR HERE?
Awesome of you Pierogi.
Sup bro
I think one possible reason for why the fridge video performed better than the taking down a scam center video is because everyone can relate to the fridge thing on a personal level. That gives the content universal appeal. In contrast, there are very few people who can relate with the experience of taking down a scammer call center. This narrows the video appeal to the smaller niche of folks who are interested in scam baiting and scammer hacking.
Also, stuff with the RUclips algorithm. As long as a popular video pulls people into a good channel, there's a high likelihood that viewers will check-out other videos or become a subscriber. Trying to understand the nonsense RUclips thinks is relevant is like trying to understand the ramblings of a mental patient. Just smile, nod, and take what you can from the experience.
Way more competition on videos about call centers than videos about Dr Pepper fridge offers.
In the mid 2000s, my Dad responded to an ad to get free golf clubs if he tested them. He signed up for the ad. The company was wanting delivery fees and delayed sending the golf clubs. A family friend said this looked like a scam. My Dad was out some money, not a lot, and never got his clubs. His correspondence and waiting took about a year. My parents were also victims of the computer error scam where the scammer tries to hold their computer performance hostage until they paid a large sum. The sum was about 3x the purchase price of the computer. My parents refused to pay. The scammer got mad and gave up. My parents were confused and shocked. I was mad that this had happened. I kept the computer in good working order and was outraged that this had happened. Their computer was not corrupted or anything.
Awesome story man
Hi there, if your computer get hacked and seems to be just fine or running even better, just do a factory reset immediately.
Yeah just reformat it at this point. Oh wait this was many years ago? At least you reformatted it back then right?
@@betruly7894 Lol uh no. Chuck the HDD and start all over.
@@criptin4075 Matter not anymore. Back up regularly, save your passwords to someplace you're familiar with. The usual "don't be normy" type deal. And if worse comes to worse, chuck your HDD and start fresh with a new one, and have an installation tool on hand. And most of all be careful, the Internet is _free_ and forever a lawless land.
"I just hacked and took down an entire scam call center and it didnt do nearly as well as me complaining about a fridge"
I am cry laughing into oncoming traffic
To be fair, I watch ALL of your hacking of scam centres and even post them on my facebook and send them to my relatives. I, like you; am an advocate for protecting people from scammers. I really enjoyed watching all of the shenanigans that ensued! Thank you Ben! I appreciate what you do.
Finnally someone that knows how to use grammar.
Terms and Conditions stated they could substitute for a different item of equal or greater value. But the fridge was $100 and you only got a $25 gift card. I'm surprised you didn't call them out on that.
The fridge was$100 on eBay from a totally different seller
The original retail value of the fridge was very likely to have been around $25, but now that they're no longer being manufactured and cannot be purchased as new at their original MSRP, people are selling them on eBay with a significant markup since they've since become a "rare" item.
@@mattmurphy7030 a cheap mini-fridge? cheapest I can find is $10 new, so $25 for a branded one seems plausible.
@@mattmurphy7030 some of these cheap fridges don't use a compressor but some electronic heat exchanger where when you send power to it one side gets hot and one side gets cold and they use the cold side in the fridge. Can't remember exactly what the thing is called rn.
@@trevorgray3681 Most of them are naff enough to almost warrant being called a scam in themselves for declaring themselves as fridges!
It's always a great day when Pleasant Green uploads
agreed. (agreed chain)
Day 2 of slowly making it out the hood: i ate burger king inside target high asfc & i smokë weed on my RUclips channel as my job ☄️ til im out the trenches 🦅
We love to see it
Ah, tis but a sweet notification
Agreed.
"More Quest for Free Stuff" would make a great channel name for people who do dumpster diving.
True 🤣
Dude, we love videos like this cause it widens your audience and you're talking to us rather than the scammers. It's more interactive :)
Btw Who the hell would "let it go"? You got scammed out of your Dr. Pepper mini fridge. I may not have as cool of one, but I love my mini fridge and this is simply not fair for you. You even deserve the little window.
Thank you for taking one for the team and proving that had any of us completed the offers it would still not work out.
I've been leaving comments for months asking you to adress this, too many people believe in these scan videos. thanks for finally making q video about it
You’re welcome!
Dude, you could've told them that the fridge does NOT cost 25€, that is not "equal or greater value"
I have been waiting for another 'Free' Rewards video from you. I stare laughing into the void remembering "I took over a freaking scam center but people like a grown man whining about a Doctor Pepper mini fridge better"
Ben when you said "More quests for free crap" I lost it. Hahaha! Keep making videos. They save folks, and they're hilarious.
if only we lived in a world were you could actually get these rewards from taking surveys n stuff
I wish.
yea getting money out of thin air will be amazing...
@@andreknudsne7648 it’s not thin air, because data is a commodity
@@wolfetteplays8894 dont think that data of ONE person alone can bring you anything.. then you have to make a scam operation like in this clip lol
Money printer go BRRR
I wonder if you can scam the scammers by constantly requesting for the fridge and they give you gift cards back
Lol
When i saw the ad style and the emails i knew it was the same scammers as the Dr.Pepper ad. Mr. PG your videos are educational and ur viewer's should never fall for such lame scams.
So glad you’ve covered this! I keep seeing the YT ad videos and I’ve gone through the same process. No one seems to be talking about them. Looking forward to this!!
Dr. Pepper Mini Fridge and Scented Candle sounds good right now or Cotton Candy. Thank you Pleasant Green for the amazing video! You are the best at these!! Keep up the good work. We need to stop these scammers!!!
Got some cotton candy. Haven't tried it yet but though.
@@dustinnukem5458 let me know when you do
@@dylnjshua4256 I think you can get it at the dollar store.
@@dustinnukem5458 who is daft enough to pay $25 for spun sugar balls with a hint of Dr Pepper?
@@michaelgreen1515 Not I. I got it at the dollar store.
Have your reported these scammers to companies whose "deals" they are supposedly selling (SmileDirect, Walmart, etc.)? If so, what has been the response of these businesses?
To be perfectly blunt though, these companies probably don’t care. It gives them customers and makes them money, so as long as the means aren’t overtly illegal, they don’t really care how scammy it is. I hope I can be proven wrong, though.
@@pprudencio1966 it’s actually stealing money from them if they aren’t making royalties
@@wolfetteplays8894 They don't care about relative pennies lost. At most they will send a cease and desist.
As if they’re bothered….
I know better but would like to think some of those companies would care, especially the charities
I recently found your channel because I got that Dr.Pepper fridge video recommended to me . But honestly ever since I’ve been binging your channel everyday since! Love your videos sooooooo much !
In Germany these things exist. Here is a Computer parts Shop that has a program called Test, Review, keep i won a Keyboard from Corsair a few years ago and i still use it today. In this program you apply for a raffle and if you get selectected they just send you what you applied for
At this point dr peppper should just sponsor him. He’s so dedicated lol
I remember when I was in my teen they advertised on T.V this Ad about drawing. They sent you a sketch to do and send back. It was terrible but they still said it was good enough to go to their art school. Funny now that I think about it
I remember this!! What was the company called again??
That was the one where you had to draw a Teddy Bear or something, rightv
I think it was called Art Institute of America. Not real sure.
My experience was super awesome. As soon as I seen those ads, I closed my browser and never looked back. Been living my life to the fullest since then. Best week ever!
Ben, I thoroughly enjoyed the Dr. Pepper fridge, the video about shutting down the scam call center AND this one greatly because I cannot stand fraudsters!! These scams to sign up for all this nonsense for nothing make me MAD!
Hello, Pleasant Green, I have been binge watching your videos for the last month and I love them. I like that I can watch them twice and they never get old for me. Thank you for the content and showing us these scams!
Thanks for watching!
@@PleasantGreen me too
When I found you a few years ago, Pleasant Green were the only two words that popped into my head when I thought of scams. That’s also how I saved my grandma from one of these scams, so thank you for what you do.
Wow that’s amazing to hear
I saved my mother from the fake Amazon email scam one time. She texted my dad and I in the group text and she asked about it, I said, “Ignore it, it’s a scam.”
I enjoyed seeing those scammers caught! Probably why they haven’t been calling recently. Do what makes you happy Ben. I enjoy each of your videos!!!
I found your channel because of the Peoples Call Center. I really enjoy your teaching style. And the fact that you show all sorts of scam ads that we all can come across. Learning a lot here, thank you!
Keep up the good work! Keep catching those scammers!
Love how RUclips has strict rules when trying to monetize videos yet ads are a lawless town that can be a bunch of scammy shit
Love that you continued the mini fridge series!
I always wanted to see where these end up going, thanks for this! Please make more videos like this!
When you know it's a scam, but you, "play the game" anyway.
I tested the waters on one of these promotions. I got as far as redeeming the 3 offers....but I wasn't interested in redeeming the offers.
I already knew it was a scam, so I didn't push it.
thank YOU for identifying the voice actor/fake profile picture and giving us a taste of how far the rabbit hole can go.
these scams have been around for as long as the Internet, lol.... I remember 12 years ago (I was like 10) I created an email address and found all these websites promising free gifts like a free PSP and other tech and stuff, all they wanted was for you to sign up for a few magazine subscriptions under a two-year contract paying over $1000 in did magazine subscriptions for them to possibly send you the "free Item".
I remember getting one of the full screen pop ups of the government seeing me on adult sites. (I was not) and I couldn't click out of the popup cause they made it seem like a locked screen. So out of panic, I shut it off. Then turned it on and it was gone. Biggest annoyance that I prob lost whatever I was working on
@@critterwhisperer5821 those are def annoying… Alt + F4 or opening task manager to end the task is best in those cases and make sure u have an adblocker like ublock origin or adblock in chrome and edge if u have both browsers.
Ben Dover you need to upload more frequently!! Can’t go more than a week without watching you
Congratulations on your new tools, and your mini fridge from before. Im sure these videos show exactly how easy it is to get them.
2:00 "the same FREEking guy" nice pun lol
Pleasant Green: the scammers are going to sell your data
Also Pleasant Green: here's an ad for a company who's profit comes from selling your data.
Irony of a company called privacy who " may share data that is not personally identifiable with third parties."
Every company sells your data. Data is incredibly valuable. So you might as well give it for some actual good or service you want in return.
im guessing youre not using a linux computer or a custom firmware for your phone, microsoft, google and apple already know everything about you so compared to the tiny amount of data privacy takes, i dont think it will change anything
You writing a comment on RUclips and having a RUclips account…. You’re data is already been passed around
Ben I’m 21 now but been watching you since I was 17 years old and my god you shown me so many scams to be aware of thank you so much !
be careful he is a scammer fake BEN~
Reminds me of a book back in elementary school about getting free stuff. Back in the 90's
Love your content and how you spread awareness
I freaking adore you, Pleasant Green. The best anti scam youtuber out there.... Kitboga is cool but Pleasant Green is accessible for those who have learning disabilities.....he's even safe for the whole family to watch in terms of language. Keep on being Ben, Mr. Green 💯💯💯💯💯
Thank you for exposing these scammers. I am almost got caught up in a scam a couple of months ago. And when they wanted me to take out a loan to receive price money. I finally came to my senses and called my sister. Who told me to go back into messenger and to block the two accounts. (I realized later that I should have first reported the two accounts to META Facebook to have them taken down.) But I hope that by watching your videos, that I will become more hyper vigilant against the scammers.
I have gotten free items before from some company on Facebook. It was actually kinda cool, a car phone charger that opens up automatically & closes on your phone to secure it.
Can we just admire how much effort he puts in his videos?
The Dr. Pepper fridge was how I found out you existed and I'm glad I found it cuz not a lot of people are willing to buy through the scams to see what's on the other side and I'm glad you showed that off cuz I was really curious
I just found your channel from watching The People’s Call Center. This is worthy binge watching. Thank you!
You're such a great story teller..extremely love your humour,I can't listen to you all day 😂
A scam is scam. You know it when you see it, usually. Thank you for doing the "legwork" and showing people that these ads are scams.
As soon as I saw your thumbnail i said oh no it's the Dr Pepper fridge all over again 😂😂😂 Anytime I see a list of irrelevant questions and a bunch of silly reviews that sound like they came out of the mouth of a Nigerian scammer I already know it's a waste of time. Lol 😆 Thanks for another incredible video and as Always I appreciate all you do to keep us aware of the current scams!!
Your free fridge video was first I saw but sticking around for the rest of the great content
Proctor and gamble use to send my grandma a HUGE box of products and paperwork and she world review the stuff and fill out the paper work, needed probably 15-20 yetS ago but I remember the massive p&g box showing up full of random products
So you said they claimed they could provide you a prize equal to or greater than the promotional product.. yet they sent you a 25$ gift card for something you could only find online for $90+? You should ask them where they can find the Dr pepper fridge for 25$ and if they can't provide it ask for the 99$ or proof they found one cheaper
You should be aware that, scammers are now attacking discord users. Make a documentary on that!
Since you may be more familiar with that scam, it may be very helpful if you could gather some information about it and send it to him.
@@MaxPayne909 I watch him a lot but how do I contact him?
I did one of these style rewards years ago(back in the pop up era) and I did indeed get the item, a 100 something dollar printer. I don't know how many rewards I signed up for, back at the time their were far fewer subscription services save for news papers and magazines. Honestly these programs do make sense if the companies aren't scamming, it's the same premise as using Facebook, who sales your data and in exchange offers you the platform free of charge, you're generating leads and adrevenue. Then there is commissions these companies are making, so there is room for them to complete the reward without losing any money in the process especially since many of the participants aren't going to complete the process, following the 80/20 rule, probably about 20% of those who go through the program grt to the point where they can claim their reward, but they're made money regardless if you complete it or not. Back before Amazon shut it down, companies would advertise on fb to review their product for free and they were completely legitimate, in terms of Amazon fulfilling the order, you reviewing it and then your money being sent back to you.
Since I never fall for “free” things that cost money, I wouldn’t know the struggle. Sorry for your pain. Thanks for the good advice.
🤦♂️ the irony
Yeah one the hand, many random people are drawn to the fridge video. However, in the other, you've built a community that are engrossed merely at the notification of an upload. Don't change 'Mr Dover' 👌🏻
Scams like this are frustrating when I'm trying to tell friends about my mystery shopping experiences -- everyone thinks everything is a scam. lol
I am glad that I watched your video. I never knew how it will end to that kind of offer since I just ignore them Thank you for doing this video and this confirmed to me that those Free Ads are truly not true. Keep it up! Thank you so much.
Going back to watch the fridge video now! It never gets old!😂
Hey, if scammers use ad’s as pop up’s couldn’t you just make a ad clicking bot and waste all their money that way?
I love this products! Sounds legit.
No offense, but you sound like a scammer
I was only thinking of this channel in my head earlier and then it pops up.
I got the same ad for the Dewalt tools on Facebook while playing games there. I th
ought about sending you the link but you already knew about it. I am new to your channel and i love it as well i am learning much.
I found your previous ones kinda boring but this one actually made me laugh out loud 2 or 3 times! Keep at it. Carve your niche in exposing these other types of scams. What about the prizes that you get for joining these various organizations like the NRA and such. Good video thanks.
Maybe if you payed him he wouldn't bore you
I once seen an advertisement for an electric lighter for dirt cheap, just a dollar with free shipping. And this was the time when they were just coming out, ads everywhere were selling them for 15-20+ dollars. So I figured "Hey? What's the worse thing that could happen?" I ended up using what was left on an old visa prepaid card and strangely enough they wanted photo copy proof of my address, which I thought was a little weird but whatever.
Fuckin thing came in 2-3 months later. I was shook to my core. My friends were jealous and gathering around to check it out, I automatically became the cool kid for a whole 13.2 seconds, and that memory is burned in my mind acting like a tiny nugget of dopamine I've hidden away in case of emergencies.
This guy could make a story about a wall sound interesting! Love it 🙏
Love how this guy so sarcastic about the questions
Please do not fall for these scams
“And to that I say…… NO! “ 🤣🤣🤣 justice for Ben’s free fridge !!
Bro no way I just got the same mini fridge ad, they still at it.😞
I hate napping, because if I sleep for too long I'm groggy the rest of the day.
I hope Ben starts an onlyfans soon!
Hey, I actually did the same thing you did when you made your Dr Pepper fridge video and followed all of the steps you took, except I didn’t pay anything bc I only did the free offers. Eventually I received an email saying that my fridge had shipped and soon enough, I received the exact one being sold on eBay that you found.
I enjoy your videos sooo much! Your attitude and delivery are wonderful. I think Ben Dover is the bomb. ;) Now where in the hell is my refrigerator? ;)
I still remember the Free Stuff sites I saw in the early 00s, where I got a Keyboard and a silicone broomhead and many other things, and I still use that broom to sweep my carpet, works really well!!!
"... a grown man crying about a Dr. Pepper fridge." 😂
We gotta get you enough ad revenue that you can hire an attorney to go to war with these people for your fridge.
I love this products, I likes too nap, and I worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I suppose I’m eligible for free tools and a free fridge.😂
Seriously though, thanks for all you do. I feel like these types of scams target younger people (who may feel impervious to being scammed) as opposed to the grandparents the call centers target, so it’s especially important to expose them.
I definitely fell for these kinds of things when I was a kid, spent wayyyy too long messing around with them.
Dang it. Seems like my free lambo isn't coming in. But the ad seemed SOOO believable.
meanwhile i get banned for commenting on a news story i saw on youtube
I’m truly shocked you were able to even get $25. I wonder what their “reward partners” think of this? They’re scamming their potential customers and that is just going to make them angry at their service because they were tricked into it. I’d think they’d be delivering low quality leads. Perhaps reach out to each “partner” and ask why they allow this.
It's not really a partner anways. The gift card provider is simply a company which provides gift cards automatically.
@@LuaTech I meant the subscriptions and services he had to sign up for to get the gift card. Those companies pay this company a referral fee. Maybe if they knew how this company was baiting and switching and lying they’d discontinue their referral code so the incentive to lie would be gone.
@@parabellum1002 oh yeah, he probably should.
This is one of the most RUclips common ads I’ve had over the last few months
I got sucked into an ad on free candles, and I figured out after 10 clicks of questions that this was probably a scam and quit answering their questions. But since they had my email address I got tons of emails for quite a long time unsubscribe to most but more just popped in. It took a good year to get rid of all those emails. I now avoid any ad that I see offering free stuff. Hope this video and comment keeps other people going down this rabbit hole.
Unfortunately, there's no truer saying than "nothing in life is free" if it was possible someone would monopolise the air we breathe then tax you for exhaling carbon emissions.
I’m liking this video right off the start because of your cool filming area.
i love the way he wore a dr pepper coloured t-shirt throughout the whole vid
i didn't watch the call center video because subconsciously i thought the thumbnail wasn't appealing enough
Thanks for the update. A family friend recently received an email saying he must contact them immediately "Regarding your purchase on May 34th."
Added note. I'm gonna buy a dr pepper candle for my husband. Thank you educating me.
Privacy is the best thing I’ve got from subscribing to this channel.
Wow, I just received my $500 in Drwalt tools and yesterday I received my Dr.Pepper Refrigeration. Thank you fee tool and free refrigeration