*Afterthoughts & Addenda* *3 Point Emphasis* - 12:03 - ChatGPT loves to use lists of 3 items, groupings of 3 adjectives, sentences with 3 related clauses, groups of 3 paragraphs and so on, to make its point. If you look at the text example on screen there, you'll find examples of 3 different types of hat listed, or three advantages from using the device, etc.
11:45 you said something that sounded like "chiveless"; not a word I know. I tried googling but didn't find it. In the context it seemed to mean identifying characteristic. How is it spelt?
@@AtomicShrimp I've just googled the etymology. Apparently it comes from the Hebrew for "ear of corn"; chosen, entertainingly enough, not for the meaning but because it was hard for foreigners to say! What an awesome word.
The "we can't communicate on sundays" excuse sounds like it could be fun to use on scammers when they give deadlines. Sundays, holidays, there's always a reason to push a response further into the future.
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I whole heartedly agree with the AI (or lack of) comments. So far, I've not seen any AI in use for the classic telephone-based scams. There's no need. It's a pure numbers game and I'm not entirely sure it's worth the investment for the scammers. A typical scam call center will spend almost nothing on the hardware needed to make phone calls. That pretty much amounts to the cheapest PC and headset available. Expenditure is the fixed costs of paying agents, buying data and calls and bonuses. Why fix something that isn't broken? Scamming AI is some way off (thankfully).
Thanks Jim (great to see you here!) There's also that hypothesis where the most successful scammers are the worst written, because the only victims they trap are the ones who sail through the whole scam oblivious to the absurdity of it. If scammers use AI to make their scams more believable, they will waste more time and effort running half the scam with victims who wake up halfway and say 'waitaminute'
@@AtomicShrimp Although one would think that they could use AI to make it more believable, but I suppose a dumb script would filter out people... AI is more useful for scambaiters though. You can just have a AI bot generate the responses and waste their time. I just tried for fun on some spam email and with some tweaking the AI could waste their time forever!
A new video from A.S. nice. It seems like a lot of the cold calls use an AI to me. Medicare, Final Expense, home warranty and others have an AI opener. The phone rings you answer. I am xxxx xxxx with xxxx company to up date your Medicare. Do you have part a and b? You answer. Pause. What is your age? You answer. Pause. Let me transfer you. Then someone that barely speaks english comes on with questions.
lol maybe not as much lately.. since its so much lower than it used to be.. at least i think.. sadly now that i think about it its probably gone up,, which is quite disheartening. and youre probably right
I enjoyed the return of these videos, especially 'You know, the sort of information you should never share with a stranger on the Internet.' I'd like to think this mantra has caused at least a few people to stop and think rather than fall victim to a scam.
Thank you for your slogan “the sort of information you should never share with a stranger on the internet!". I’ve ingrained this into all my children whom are all now teenagers and are well aware of what they should not be sharing with strangers on the internet 😂😂 ❤❤❤❤
5:15 "It's not a demand, I just need you to comply, without question " Bwahahahaha i burst out laughing at that part. Thank you for the good laugh today 😊
I've been enjoying these as background entertainment while I sketch. I think it could be quite interesting to spin up a completely fresh fake webmail account, and email some of the previous scammers out of the blue with "okay, what do I do next?" and see what happens.
a friend of mine got a phone call where scammers were impersonating his bank. he didnt fall for it thankfully, but it turns out the real scam was to keep him on the phone for 5 minutes or longer. that was enough time for them to collect the data to replicate his voice with ai and then attack his grandparents, who luckily also didnt fall for it. pretty crazy times we live in
It's a scary world out there, I recently called my mom to work out our own "secret code" because of it, in case one of us is in real trouble. Luckily she's tech-savvy enough to know about this scam
My dad got a call back when scammers would pretend to be someone's grandchild to get them to wire money to them for some kind of emergency. My dad was always sharp as a tack, so he didn't fall for it. Besides, my kids always greeted him with a very enthusiastic, "Hi Bepa!" whenever he answered the phone, so he was suspicious right off the bat. Elderly people, especially those with reduced mental capacities, could easily fall for this sort of thing. My mother had dementia and, like many others who suffer from that awful condition, became dangerously generous with her money. If she believed one of my kids needed her financial help, she wouldn't have hesitated to whip out her checkbook or debit card! (We did take those things away eventually, but it was very difficult on all of us.) Sorry to prattle on, but I find this extremely disturbing and infuriating. I really hope there's a special place in Hell for these people!
What if you tried just changing your mind over and over and over again? Like at first to get them on the hook you act really interested, then you suddenly act really disinterested and decide you don't want the money, and when they try to convince you to take it act like they are convincing you and now you're really interested again, then lose interest again, see how many times you can make them think they have you back on the hook before they give up
Funny that scambaiting is what drew me to this channel so many years ago, yet now I stay more for for the other varied fare. Scambaiting is still amusing and oh, so witty, and I always sing with the ending song, in harmony, no less, but I have come to prefer the walks and the patterns, and the pottery, and the gardening, and the cooking, and the cans, and . . .
I was just thinking yesterday it had been a while since we'd had any Atomic Shrimp scambaiting, and here we are. Next I'm going to think about how it's been a while since I won the Coca-Cola lottery and see if that gets me a prize.
Yegads, I've always smiled while watching these, but "It's not an order, I just need you to comply , without question with the request I make" actually made me laugh out loud 😂
Having watched your videos for some time now, I feel confident enough to tackle some scammers, and I can weed the wheat from the chaff by simply asking them "What's your girth? Is it very large?" If it works for Davis Bon, it'll work for me, I'm sure.
getting your emails flagged as spam or malicious? kinda sucks. but getting your emails flagged as unserious?? I can't imagine a worse fate to happen to someone and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy
You know, watching the progression on these videos and finding how little scammers now respond or engage in a meaningful way anymore actually puts what you have said before into perspective. They are getting sick of being mocked. They are sick of conversations going nowhere, so the moment that the conversation even SEEMS to meander, they just instantly drop it. Unfortunate for entertainment, but so so fortunate for real victims.
1:30 So because I'm a huge nerd, I checked the card number they sent in the email. You can check a card number against the 'luhn algorithm', if it resolves as zero it's a legitimate card. That card resolved to 8. Big shocker, I know.
I had to Google "Luhn Algorithm" and it's very interesting! I suck at math, so it's very good that there's a tool that will check the numbers for you. Thank you for sharing this bit of information!
Thanks for confirming, I was wondering whether when I saw it come up. I feel they should've generated one that actually passes, but someone that checks the card numbers probably isn't their target anyway.
3:35. Thought I'd do the maths (or make a calculator do it for me. If you have 18,087.71 shares and each is worth $258 the total worth is $4,666,629.18. It was pretty easy to know by eye that they were incorrect because there's no way a figure ending .71 will end with 0.00 after being multiplied by 258.0. You think they'd at least fact check their maths?
"You know, (say it with me) the kind of information you should never share with a stranger on the internet." I don't know why but it always makes me chuckle.
I don't know how, but the sudden "When does the code?" near the end of the last conversation was timed and delivered with such precision that I can't help but laugh at it; doubly so because it broke the scammer as well.
"If i was not serious, i would not be able to care about secrecy" this broke my brain and stunned me for a second, which makes it an absolutely FANTASTIC retort to a scammer
I heard of two scams being stopped in their tracks on the bus this yesterday. More and more people know it instantly because of the efforts of yourself, and those like you. Keep it up.
11:17 it is COMPLETELY fair for you to bait scammers living in "those conditions". Plenty of people there don't steal money from others to make their living, the scammers are taking the easy way.
Havent seen John Warosa or his colleague John Barosa in a while, are they okay? I hope they havent died, and if they did we should go check if they have stopped being dead yet so they can make a return
no point trying to claim the Coca-Cola Lottery sum now since over 10,000 strangers on the internet already know the code. surely one of them has already claimed their wining claim’s.
I have a challenge for your next scambaiting video. When you get one of those emails with no punctuation and huge sentences, try to read it in one breath. Live your videos. Slow TV is just awesome. Thanks for everything you do. We appreciate it.
I do, too! Mr. Shrimp has such a soothing voice and way of speaking. I usually play his scam baiting playlist and drift off to sleep in a happy mood. 😌😴
@@AtomicShrimpDeath has an unfortunate tendency to last for an indefinite period of time. But be rest assured, he will be remembered as someone who was not a small boy.
I was introduced to your channel through the scambaiting videos some years ago, and while I've since gotten into and now love your other content (especially your cooking videos), the scambaits are still my favorite content of yours to watch, and I always get excited whenever a new one arrives.
After seeing all these odd foundations trying to send you money, I have to wonder what the most bizarre "company" is that you've received an e-mail from.
You should escalate this secrecy stuff. You could next insist on two secret codes, a sign and counter-sign, then move on to substitution ciphers, and insisting the scammer learn and use one.
I think it's really funny when you flip the script and start making demands of them. Demanding them to fabricate and incorporate your very reasonable requests into their scripts. Such as the code, finding the warosa legacy fund, or saffron explanations.
Didn't watch the video yet but my general advice for people paranoid about ai's, go poke at them online. You will quickly realize it isnt that scary. Plus you will notice patterns in the text construction like overly long sentences, mentioning stuff that wasn't established etc. But once you'll see it you will recognice ai text everywhere. Have fun and safe browsing and don't click shady links :3
I can’t believe the “We can’t communicate on Sundays” came from the scammer and not you! I suppose even when you’re a despicable, lowlife scammer, you’ve still gotta have standards!
Even if the mark doesn't ultimately send the money/gift cards/wire transfer or whatever, they're still harvesting all that personal data, and that's a surprisingly valuable commodity. You're right with the 'it's 2023 and there's still advance fee fraud' thought. I suppose there's a steady stream of naive internet users arriving all the time, enough to make it a bit worthwhile.
I think a funnier question is how AI could be used in scambaiting itself. If one of the main goals is to distract potential scammers and keep them busy or annoyed by wild goose chases in the hopes that they will give up or have their accounts banned, and if many scammers aren't fluent English speakers, perhaps an AI could string them along in a convincing enough manner to at least distract them a little or gather enough proof for a report?
This exists already on Kitboga's channel, he programmed an AI and let it talk to scammers using voice changers to waste their time. Not LLM level, but AI (video "I Made an AI Bot to STEAL from SCAMMERS "). And he made a second video where he uses LLM's but reads out their response manually (video "I Tried Calling Scammers with an AI Generated Script")
I love how they say "We cannot release vital details to someone that has not been verified" whilst asking you yourself to reveal vital details to someone that has not been verified 🤣
These are so much fun. I watch with a smile on my face. I'm glad you waste scammers time and annoy them, I think that's fine to do because it's the least of what they do to innocent, naive people. Love your content! ❤
I think using AI could be a smart thing to do here. As a tool to craft responses that is. Slanted sentence structure, overexplaining and making up data on the spot seems to me quite compatibile with style of emails you get. AI also tends to be very apologetic when confronted on fake data which also could be a fun avenue to explore. I know its not righteous indignation but could still be something. This sounds like a pitch for a fun episode to me but obviously i'm not the one running the show and I recognize I might be mistaken. Ciao now e: i do realize that the video above contains evidence to the contrary but im sure we realize ita not impossible to bypass
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*Afterthoughts & Addenda*
*3 Point Emphasis* - 12:03 - ChatGPT loves to use lists of 3 items, groupings of 3 adjectives, sentences with 3 related clauses, groups of 3 paragraphs and so on, to make its point. If you look at the text example on screen there, you'll find examples of 3 different types of hat listed, or three advantages from using the device, etc.
Well, I also like to use examples in threes. Should I be worried? 🙂
11:45 you said something that sounded like "chiveless"; not a word I know. I tried googling but didn't find it. In the context it seemed to mean identifying characteristic.
How is it spelt?
@@davidmurphy563 shibboleths. Specific words or phrases that clearly identify a culture or language group.
@@AtomicShrimp Ah, I see. Thanks so much.
@@AtomicShrimp I've just googled the etymology. Apparently it comes from the Hebrew for "ear of corn"; chosen, entertainingly enough, not for the meaning but because it was hard for foreigners to say!
What an awesome word.
The "we can't communicate on sundays" excuse sounds like it could be fun to use on scammers when they give deadlines. Sundays, holidays, there's always a reason to push a response further into the future.
Or Mondays, in fact my religion prohibits me from taking business except for Tuesdays between 5:00 and 6:00 apm.
I do weekends off due to "my religion forbidding the use of technology on weekends." 😂
Thursday? Cant communicate on Thursday as its National Strawberry Jam Awareness Day
Or just make up a bunch of holidays
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I whole heartedly agree with the AI (or lack of) comments. So far, I've not seen any AI in use for the classic telephone-based scams. There's no need. It's a pure numbers game and I'm not entirely sure it's worth the investment for the scammers.
A typical scam call center will spend almost nothing on the hardware needed to make phone calls. That pretty much amounts to the cheapest PC and headset available. Expenditure is the fixed costs of paying agents, buying data and calls and bonuses. Why fix something that isn't broken? Scamming AI is some way off (thankfully).
The man himself in the house. Nice to see that you watch Atomic Shrimp!
Thanks Jim (great to see you here!)
There's also that hypothesis where the most successful scammers are the worst written, because the only victims they trap are the ones who sail through the whole scam oblivious to the absurdity of it. If scammers use AI to make their scams more believable, they will waste more time and effort running half the scam with victims who wake up halfway and say 'waitaminute'
@@AtomicShrimp hi John Warosa
@@AtomicShrimp Although one would think that they could use AI to make it more believable, but I suppose a dumb script would filter out people... AI is more useful for scambaiters though. You can just have a AI bot generate the responses and waste their time. I just tried for fun on some spam email and with some tweaking the AI could waste their time forever!
A new video from A.S. nice.
It seems like a lot of the cold calls use an AI to me.
Medicare, Final Expense, home warranty and others have an AI opener.
The phone rings you answer.
I am xxxx xxxx with xxxx company to up date your Medicare. Do you have part a and b? You answer. Pause. What is your age? You answer. Pause. Let me transfer you. Then someone that barely speaks english comes on with questions.
Putting his net worth in the opening line of an email is probably exactly how Musk sends emails
Wouldn't be surprised
Yeah that one was real actually
lol maybe not as much lately.. since its so much lower than it used to be.. at least i think.. sadly now that i think about it its probably gone up,, which is quite disheartening. and youre probably right
jebediah you sure about that 😆😆😆
... and ends every email asking to be taken "very, very seriously"
You know you've gotten under a scammer's skin when they start throwing the "you are not serious" accusation around.
A sure sign that they are a small boy.
The worst crime you can be guilty of... being a goofy goober...... *shudders in fear*
@@Bean-hz8jo : Only a small boy would say that. Are you a small boy?
@@samy7013 get with the times grandpa, them kids grew up 😹
I enjoyed the return of these videos, especially 'You know, the sort of information you should never share with a stranger on the Internet.' I'd like to think this mantra has caused at least a few people to stop and think rather than fall victim to a scam.
Thank you for your slogan “the sort of information you should never share with a stranger on the internet!". I’ve ingrained this into all my children whom are all now teenagers and are well aware of what they should not be sharing with strangers on the internet 😂😂 ❤❤❤❤
OK
I think every email service needs an option to flag things as unserious
Now if it were only that easy.😂
They do already it's called reporting spam
@@gregwessels7205iit already exist you can report and flag scams and spam directly in the Gmail app
@@Jojobizzare80 oh wow tell me more
We’ve already got Spam and Junk inboxes, but what about Japes and Sillies inboxes?
5:15 "It's not a demand, I just need you to comply, without question "
Bwahahahaha i burst out laughing at that part. Thank you for the good laugh today 😊
I've been enjoying these as background entertainment while I sketch.
I think it could be quite interesting to spin up a completely fresh fake webmail account, and email some of the previous scammers out of the blue with "okay, what do I do next?" and see what happens.
I love that “Elon Musk” provided a wiki excerpt to (try to) prove his legitimacy
I'm like "Elon who?"
I mean, that seems pretty on brand for musk. "Don't you know who I am? Read my wiki."
If he was real he would have shown his id
@@chupathingy5862 wiki or diki?
@rinoz47 you mean a photo of his supposed ID, which usually always looks like something you see on a lanyard.
a friend of mine got a phone call where scammers were impersonating his bank. he didnt fall for it thankfully, but it turns out the real scam was to keep him on the phone for 5 minutes or longer. that was enough time for them to collect the data to replicate his voice with ai and then attack his grandparents, who luckily also didnt fall for it. pretty crazy times we live in
That's horrifying.
It's a scary world out there, I recently called my mom to work out our own "secret code" because of it, in case one of us is in real trouble. Luckily she's tech-savvy enough to know about this scam
My dad got a call back when scammers would pretend to be someone's grandchild to get them to wire money to them for some kind of emergency. My dad was always sharp as a tack, so he didn't fall for it. Besides, my kids always greeted him with a very enthusiastic, "Hi Bepa!" whenever he answered the phone, so he was suspicious right off the bat.
Elderly people, especially those with reduced mental capacities, could easily fall for this sort of thing. My mother had dementia and, like many others who suffer from that awful condition, became dangerously generous with her money. If she believed one of my kids needed her financial help, she wouldn't have hesitated to whip out her checkbook or debit card! (We did take those things away eventually, but it was very difficult on all of us.) Sorry to prattle on, but I find this extremely disturbing and infuriating. I really hope there's a special place in Hell for these people!
I don't think I'll be answering calls that aren't saved in my contacts anymore now
YIkes! grrr AI just trouble all around
Can’t believe you’ve never heard of the Coca Cola Lottery Shrimp! I won it last year and the prize was dinner with John Warosa!
WOW!!! What was he like?
@@SaxonSuccess a little confusing tbh. Kept telling me he was John Barosa too 🤷🏻♂️🤣
Mr barrister John Warosa? That soul?
@@thisperson5294 indeed!
Did they change the prize? The first time I entered, it was a box of cash disguised as innocuous gold bars.
What if you tried just changing your mind over and over and over again? Like at first to get them on the hook you act really interested, then you suddenly act really disinterested and decide you don't want the money, and when they try to convince you to take it act like they are convincing you and now you're really interested again, then lose interest again, see how many times you can make them think they have you back on the hook before they give up
You might need to hint at having a little of money to get them interested enough to try to convince you
maybe also try just a tiny bit of nonsense, to confuse them a bit
Ah, the lost art of Edging.
Funny that scambaiting is what drew me to this channel so many years ago, yet now I stay more for for the other varied fare. Scambaiting is still amusing and oh, so witty, and I always sing with the ending song, in harmony, no less, but I have come to prefer the walks and the patterns, and the pottery, and the gardening, and the cooking, and the cans, and . . .
I was just thinking yesterday it had been a while since we'd had any Atomic Shrimp scambaiting, and here we are. Next I'm going to think about how it's been a while since I won the Coca-Cola lottery and see if that gets me a prize.
I love the variety of your content. Thanks for the effort you put in (:
samee i love shrimps vids been watching since 2019 on my nan's account
As soon as I saw the scammer's name was "Adam Smith" I thought "I wonder if Shrimp is going to make an invisible hand joke." I was not disappointed.
"Flag your email as unserious" is an amazing threat
Yegads, I've always smiled while watching these, but "It's not an order, I just need you to comply , without question with the request I make" actually made me laugh out loud 😂
Having watched your videos for some time now, I feel confident enough to tackle some scammers, and I can weed the wheat from the chaff by simply asking them
"What's your girth? Is it very large?"
If it works for Davis Bon, it'll work for me, I'm sure.
"Hello, we are here to inform you that you have won all the money in the world."
"That's fine and all, but
do you have a big cock?
if it's a lady scammer, ask her what is her onlyfans account
maybe also ask them if the money is glarded?
@@jmatt440 Good point. You have to be sure.
you're right@@crunchyfrog555, especially if your account is in a tax clode
getting your emails flagged as spam or malicious? kinda sucks. but getting your emails flagged as unserious?? I can't imagine a worse fate to happen to someone and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy
I don’t know why, but “it was some squares” just absolutely kills me lmao
You know, watching the progression on these videos and finding how little scammers now respond or engage in a meaningful way anymore actually puts what you have said before into perspective. They are getting sick of being mocked. They are sick of conversations going nowhere, so the moment that the conversation even SEEMS to meander, they just instantly drop it. Unfortunate for entertainment, but so so fortunate for real victims.
I'm not sure if it's because they're sick of being mocked or if it's just a simple case of learning when to cut their losses
I feel honoured to see this video now! Keep up the great work!
1:30 So because I'm a huge nerd, I checked the card number they sent in the email. You can check a card number against the 'luhn algorithm', if it resolves as zero it's a legitimate card. That card resolved to 8. Big shocker, I know.
Thats actually a bit of really nice information right there, thank you!
I had to Google "Luhn Algorithm" and it's very interesting! I suck at math, so it's very good that there's a tool that will check the numbers for you.
Thank you for sharing this bit of information!
That's a really nice feature. You can do similar checks on UK NHS Numbers (though I don't think they use Luhn) to pick up on errors and typos.
Thanks for confirming, I was wondering whether when I saw it come up. I feel they should've generated one that actually passes, but someone that checks the card numbers probably isn't their target anyway.
You say you're not supposed to share this information with strangers on the internet but you just shared your secret code.
3:35. Thought I'd do the maths (or make a calculator do it for me. If you have 18,087.71 shares and each is worth $258 the total worth is $4,666,629.18. It was pretty easy to know by eye that they were incorrect because there's no way a figure ending .71 will end with 0.00 after being multiplied by 258.0.
You think they'd at least fact check their maths?
"You know, (say it with me) the kind of information you should never share with a stranger on the internet." I don't know why but it always makes me chuckle.
I don't know how, but the sudden "When does the code?" near the end of the last conversation was timed and delivered with such precision that I can't help but laugh at it; doubly so because it broke the scammer as well.
I like to believe the scammer did share the secret code, secretly, in secret. (And that is why mr. Shrimp didn't notice).
After all these years, it’s still entertaining to watch that kind of videos.
You weren't asking for a secret code. You were asking for a magic spell that would make whatever you want happen.
Love it 😂
Just a bit of appreciation for the consistency and quality of your videos for the last good few years. Good man 👍🏻
"If i was not serious, i would not be able to care about secrecy" this broke my brain and stunned me for a second, which makes it an absolutely FANTASTIC retort to a scammer
17:38 that animation is an amazing touch, thanks shrimp!
"im going to flag your emails as unserious" is so good
I heard of two scams being stopped in their tracks on the bus this yesterday. More and more people know it instantly because of the efforts of yourself, and those like you. Keep it up.
11:17 it is COMPLETELY fair for you to bait scammers living in "those conditions". Plenty of people there don't steal money from others to make their living, the scammers are taking the easy way.
secret code… secret pin number… what’s next, secret wife? secret spaceX starship? NUCLEAR CRAB??? RADIOACTIVE LOBSTER????
We've already got a nuclear duck
I'm so tempted to put in the punchline
Imagine asking one of those "I can buy anything for you, just send me money" scammers for fissionable crustaceans. :D
Wait wait listen to him, I think he's on to something
The secret SpaceX spaceship is where all of Elon's exes will go to hide from him.
Remain blessed mr. Shrimp
Gods's BLESSings
I«ve been struggling hard with depression this last few days. This video is what i wished for so i could at least laugh for a little while. Thank you
Havent seen John Warosa or his colleague John Barosa in a while, are they okay? I hope they havent died, and if they did we should go check if they have stopped being dead yet so they can make a return
One thing I can tell you.
Davis Bon is still dead.
@@AtomicShrimp That is disappointing to hear but no matter, I will just ask again; Is he alive now?
Not yet
Unfortunately I was unable to read your reply as it was missing the secret code so I will assume that he is now in fact alive
@OmegaChip they’re not dead, they’re just resting.
Whoa -- Now we all know the winning secret code! We're all gonna be bagillionnaires! Thank you, Mister Shrimp!
no point trying to claim the Coca-Cola Lottery sum now since over 10,000 strangers on the internet already know the code. surely one of them has already claimed their wining claim’s.
I have a challenge for your next scambaiting video. When you get one of those emails with no punctuation and huge sentences, try to read it in one breath. Live your videos. Slow TV is just awesome. Thanks for everything you do. We appreciate it.
YAY another scambaiting video! Thank you so much for all the enjoyment you give us all!
Again a splendid video! I love your creativity on replying these scam mails. So funny!
You’re brilliant, I play all your videos all night to help me sleep, you totally chill me out . Well done 👍👍👍😂😂😂🏴🏴🏴
I do, too! Mr. Shrimp has such a soothing voice and way of speaking. I usually play his scam baiting playlist and drift off to sleep in a happy mood. 😌😴
If I ever start a sleaze-funk band I am definitely calling it “Honeypot Mailbox”.
Is Davis Bon still dead or has that issue not been resolved yet?
He remains stubbornly deceased
@@AtomicShrimpHow inconvenient.
@@firepeaman2440 @Atomic Shrimp he was quite exploded
@@AtomicShrimpDeath has an unfortunate tendency to last for an indefinite period of time. But be rest assured, he will be remembered as someone who was not a small boy.
You know you're doing a good job of pissing these assholes off when even I was starting to get annoyed by those numbers!
It's like "Just Say OK to Scammers", but with extra comedic buildup.
The way your code messages keep evolving like a mutating markov chain makes me die laughing
Nice! I love your creativity in finding new ways to annoy scammers like requiring a secret code. Thanks for producing these great videos!
I was introduced to your channel through the scambaiting videos some years ago, and while I've since gotten into and now love your other content (especially your cooking videos), the scambaits are still my favorite content of yours to watch, and I always get excited whenever a new one arrives.
Such great content! Keep up the fantastic videos!
I love your scambaiting - brings a smile to my face every time you upload a new one!
I watch your other adventures, too. Thanks for making me smile 😊
After seeing all these odd foundations trying to send you money, I have to wonder what the most bizarre "company" is that you've received an e-mail from.
"last year 2008"
aw, someone forgot to update their template for 15 years.
You should escalate this secrecy stuff. You could next insist on two secret codes, a sign and counter-sign, then move on to substitution ciphers, and insisting the scammer learn and use one.
I noticed that they often accuse you of not being serious. It seems like they only consider falling for their scams as being serious
Absolutely love these videos, you are amazing!
I think it's really funny when you flip the script and start making demands of them. Demanding them to fabricate and incorporate your very reasonable requests into their scripts. Such as the code, finding the warosa legacy fund, or saffron explanations.
You give invaluable information to help better prepare those against scammers, and at the same time trolling them!!
Bravo 👏👏
The fight against scammers is unending
17:37 excellent editing
I very seriously hope that ESL instructors in India never figure out that virtually no native speaker says "kindly" when they mean "please".
Didn't watch the video yet but my general advice for people paranoid about ai's, go poke at them online. You will quickly realize it isnt that scary. Plus you will notice patterns in the text construction like overly long sentences, mentioning stuff that wasn't established etc. But once you'll see it you will recognice ai text everywhere. Have fun and safe browsing and don't click shady links :3
It's funny how the sunk cost fallacy kinda works on the scammer, but with email conversations instead of money.
I think it would have been excellent to use the secret code as an encryption key for a message that is in your usual misdirecting style.
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I can’t believe the “We can’t communicate on Sundays” came from the scammer and not you! I suppose even when you’re a despicable, lowlife scammer, you’ve still gotta have standards!
"Please send the secret code"
I'm SO doing this...I love the thought of driving a scammer insane...😂
when you think a good day can't get better, a good RUclipsr uploads exactly as my dinner's being served 😂
I hope this is the same Adam Smith that Kitboga strung along for 37 hours
This lunacy was just the right medicine to manage this Saturday! 😆
Love these vids but sadly most scammers today don't play along.
Always a good watch and listen, as all your postings are, no matter the subject.
Cheers
what shocks me that email based scams still exists in late 2023, what are the hopes these scammers have.
Even if the mark doesn't ultimately send the money/gift cards/wire transfer or whatever, they're still harvesting all that personal data, and that's a surprisingly valuable commodity. You're right with the 'it's 2023 and there's still advance fee fraud' thought. I suppose there's a steady stream of naive internet users arriving all the time, enough to make it a bit worthwhile.
If they send out 10,000 emails and get just one victim, they'll consider it a success.
I think a funnier question is how AI could be used in scambaiting itself. If one of the main goals is to distract potential scammers and keep them busy or annoyed by wild goose chases in the hopes that they will give up or have their accounts banned, and if many scammers aren't fluent English speakers, perhaps an AI could string them along in a convincing enough manner to at least distract them a little or gather enough proof for a report?
This exists already on Kitboga's channel, he programmed an AI and let it talk to scammers using voice changers to waste their time. Not LLM level, but AI (video "I Made an AI Bot to STEAL from SCAMMERS ").
And he made a second video where he uses LLM's but reads out their response manually (video "I Tried Calling Scammers with an AI Generated Script")
and the AI also tries to collect bank account information which he later reports to authorities
"Be blessed..."
I'm going to need a secret code for that...😂
I love how they say "We cannot release vital details to someone that has not been verified" whilst asking you yourself to reveal vital details to someone that has not been verified 🤣
Flagged as "unserious" should be a genuine email option.
Man, these scammers act like such a Cleck every time.
OK
So a Cleck is a small boy?
9:32 idk if this was on purpose, but i just now noticed the "invisible hands" joke with Adam Smith 😂😂😂
To be fair, Elon waffling on about himself for a solid two paragraphs before getting down to business is probably accurate. 😂
These are so much fun. I watch with a smile on my face. I'm glad you waste scammers time and annoy them, I think that's fine to do because it's the least of what they do to innocent, naive people. Love your content! ❤
The soul called John Warosa must have entered you Mr 🦐
Keep to it, keep to the code
You keep it, keep it to become
A relic - A cynic - An addict
_Auto-matic Des-truc-tion_
19:43 “flag your emails as unserious”. Oh no 😮
Babe wake up new Atomic Shrimp to accompany my sleep 🎉🎉🎉
Enjoy your videos man from the usa, keep it up brotha!
Wow, I was missing these. Just yesterday I was binging all the Warosa videos... Again...
I was having the most wretched day and seeing this at the end of it brightened me right up 💖
I think using AI could be a smart thing to do here.
As a tool to craft responses that is. Slanted sentence structure, overexplaining and making up data on the spot seems to me quite compatibile with style of emails you get. AI also tends to be very apologetic when confronted on fake data which also could be a fun avenue to explore. I know its not righteous indignation but could still be something.
This sounds like a pitch for a fun episode to me but obviously i'm not the one running the show and I recognize I might be mistaken.
Ciao now
e: i do realize that the video above contains evidence to the contrary but im sure we realize ita not impossible to bypass
Exactly what I thought, honestly.
Uh-oh, they've labeled you "un-serious"! You must be devastated!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I can't wait for you to hit 1 million!!!
A sad world when your email can win a lotto, when you, as yourself can't...
@atomicshrimp I hope you're ok as I hear a bit of illness in your voice. 😬 long time (slightly concerned) fan here. Love all your content.
5:00 “We cannot release vital details to someone that has not been verified” is the most ironic E-mail sent by a scammer.
Love it !!! 10/10
Genius mate, genius
Ah yes, Elon is definitely known to lead conversations with his biography and net worth