Love the scammers who get busted and then threaten the would-be-victim, as if the victim can't report everything to the authorities and hand over the evidence of the scam and threats in one easy motion.
As a cashier at a local store, i see a lot of older people buying gift cards. I always try to get them to understand that you can't actually pay any bills, taxes, fines, or bail any relatives out using gift cards. Some actually get angry at u for insinuating that they might have fallen for a scam
It's good you do that, but people just tend to let their pride (especially if they'd fallen for it) to get angry. The older the worse the issue. Lord knows how many times I had to explain dimensions to paper when making stuff for my elderly relatives. It doesn't matter I explained it, she just wanted it done despite it being relatively impossible (due to skillset or lacking programs/hardware).
That’s awesome of you to notice that and attempt to assist. Some people tend to get embarrassed easily and feel like their pride is hurt. When I was in customer service I did a handful of due diligence checks just to make sure people are aware and cared for. In these sorts of situations where someone gets their feathers ruffled over it, I tend to sort of reiterate: “I have no doubt you wouldn’t be scammed, but I would rather warn you and it not be an issue, than not warn you and you get tricked by someone with ill intent”. (Or something of that vibe). Or I’d just fib and say “it’s store policy to warn the customer of scam risks if they buy gift cards in greater than x value. It is just a precaution and I want to do my due diligence.” Unfortunately the latter tends to work more than the former, just because it’s easier to believe someone is warning people just because their minimum wage job requires it than because you’re a sympathetic person and care about the well-being of others who may otherwise be complete strangers.
Yeah, I’m a YR12 student, grown up with the internet and such, and even I would have gotten fooled with that. Cherry on top? I’ve learnt the Russian Language. I’d think I’m immune to scams, but a scam like that is something I’d actually fall for.
I'm curious, why reject the money? I've never used Paypal, but I doubt "I sent this random person money and they didn't give it back" is grounds for any kind of trouble. Just pocket the $90 and nothing goes wrong
@@georgiykireev9678 legally you have a duty to try and return something that was lost otherwise it is considered theft. Such as finding a phone on the ground, you have a duty to "try" to return it, simply meaning you have to tell the police or something or put up posters in some alley that no one passes through so you can say "you've tried to return it."
@@georgiykireev9678 The main goal of the scam is to have the target send $90 back, where the scammer will then refund the original $90 they sent, effectively doubling the money. If the target claims it, the scammer can just chargeback it and get it back, no harm no foul, and the target is suddenly down $90. Rejecting it is really the safest option.
1:00 I think the "clothing description" was just a cold read. Beanie. Gray sweater. Shoes that arent new. Its pretty generic and probably one of the most common outfits for chilly weather. It's like guessing someone's name is Michael. They probably did it in a weird attempt to get you to reply or think they knew you personally. Or at least knew something about things. They just guessed.
I forgot they said name but that's even easier because you can look up phone numbers and who they're registered to. Or they had a list sold from an online marketing thing where you put your phone number into a form with your name and that's how they got the number to begin with. It's weird, but I'd guess lucky con man faster than anyone who actually knows you
@@GeneralArin I would argue it's much more likely for them to have seen them and gotten their phone number from a mutual clothes is one thing, name is way different
The reason for the PayPal payment being on hold is mainly due to it being a brand new account. It's done for every PayPal account that gets money almost instantly right after. It's to make sure it's not a scammer, etc. With the physical service being the reason? I dunno about that, I only do digital services for PayPal.
I found a uttp member who probably used the worst rage bait HE USED TECHNOBLADES DEATH JUST TO GET RAGE BAIT LIKE ARE YOU REALLY GONNA USE SOMEONE WHO PASSED AWAY FOR ATTENTION Don't reply to them just report them and have a good day
Damien, as a wrestling fan, you must remember Seth got jumped by a guy in the audience a few years ago because he had been scammed by a fake Seth. For two years he had thought real Seth scammed him and waited for the day he could go to a show and get his hands on Seth. Also, Liv and Kayla are currently dealing with the same guy who's convinced both of them have scammed him out of money and he's openly threatening to hurt and end them on Twitter.
On a similar note to the one with the different a's, if you can't tell the difference between "log in" and "Iog in," they might be able to get you easier. If you can't see the difference, it means the font on your device makes capital i's and lower case l's look the same. I've gotten spam emails and texts like this, but because the font I have set gives the i's the extra lines, it was easy to see through.
Also, it doesn't have to be the word log in, it can be anything with a lowercase L or an uppercase i in it, which can include things like Hulu. Netflix or Instagram
I've been staring at the 2 "log in"s to try to spot the difference for 2 whole minutes, and I can't tell if the font of one of them is thinner than the other or if I'm gaslighting cuz I still can't spot the difference.
Two of my best friends are pro wrestlers for EPW (not very big names yet) and recently, they had some idiots make fake accounts of them and try to scam people into buying merch. I got a message from both of them in extremely broken English asking me to buy merch so they could get to Pennsylvania for a match. The ironic part is I was on the road with one of them taking him to a match in Tulsa. For the next three hours, my friend and I spent a lot of time trolling the scammers. The scammer got so mad that he threatened to report both of my friends for lying about who they are. He eventually gave up and deleted the account. I still think it's weird they weren't pretending to be from a bigger name organization like WWE or APW.
If you get an email that you didn't request asking you to click a link and sign in. Don't do it. Instead enter the link manually by typing it out yourself.
@@atharvsharma1866 show you where you will be taken, if it's sketchy then you can simply delete it, if you don't know where but curious, put a space in between the Http (s):// S in parentheses because there will most likely not be one
@@atharvsharma1866Not get your account details stolen by a phishing scam (look this up - if you’ve fallen for this in the past you should change your account details ASAP)
One of the better things about having a screen-reader (aside from the , like, _accessibility of the entire digital world for totally blind people like me_ ) is that things like the letters in different languages that look like English letters _jump out at me immediately._ They're announced by the screen-reader and the word is not pronounced correctly if the right characters aren't used.
I _hate_ when scammers pull the "I love you" card or say to elderly people "you're like my grandma/grandpa". How dare they fucking play with someone's kindness and loneliness like that?! And why are they SO FUCKING ENTITLED TO SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY?!?!?! This videos is funny and entertaining but has also sent me into a rage. XD
i use to work for TSA, got to meet the WWE wrestlers. Got to meet Eddy Guerrero, THE Latino Heat! Big Show was there as well. all had to go through selective screening because WE decided to have them all get last-minuet tickets which put them in 'selective screening' hot-zone. I went on break soon after they showed up so sadly i did not get to meet the rest of the group as they came through. it was hilarious watching big show lounging back against the barrier, arms over the sides, flirting with our supervisor who is...well she was a good 5'5". She was, and hopefully still is, Very happily married with grown kids, so she was giving him the most 'unimpressed' attitude i have ever seen. It has been a good decade since i last saw her, so i am not sure if she and her family are still all alive and in good health. Honestly, i hope so. she was the greatest supervisor i have ever had.
@@AIHumanEquality yeah, i know...the world lost 'Latino Heat' far too early. and what sucks the most is, i met him in 05, a little before his death. but back then, it was a passing thing. i had other things to worry about than a figure from a wrestling soap opera. But it is still sad. I miss how it was, thinking back on it. But after he passed, wrestling was really nothing anymore. though to me it was nothing more than a show for laughs at their poor acting.
Those USB flash drives could potentially also be a shell around a fake drive which could be rigged to destroy your machine or at least your USB port on a hardware level by overloading it with electrical current. Also, the shell of the flash drive could be dismantled and it could have had its internals swapped out. Just like sticking a body part into a random hole to try to find out what is inside, especially under sketchy circumstances, you will want to just not do that.
@@NbNgMODexactly, and that's the big red flag. Any normal person would have just sent the tracking number. But in this case there was never going to be a tracking number because there was never a PS5.
Oh nooooo, that Playstation one was suspicious from the start, it never sounded legit. The second the seller didn't want to take Paypal and suggested a less safe alternative, that should have been the end of it.
Isn't Zelle the one that has zero buyer protection because it's intended for friends and family only? Iirc if you get scammed on Zelle you're shit out of luck. That's also why the playstation scammer was so angry they couldn't use a non-paypal method.
Big reason why Zelle is usually tied to your actual Banking Website. So that you can easily check whether or not you sent the money to someone you know ans Vice Versa
Brother it's not tragic or sad that they fall for it it's hilarious as all get-out people who are dumb deserve to be laughed at unless they are incapable you know what I mean unless something's wrong up in the head then it's not okay to laugh as hard lol
Best failed scam attempt I've ever been witness to was when a scammer called my granddad saying that "the IRS is illegally holding your tax return and if you give us some info, we can get it to you sooner." My granddad asked the guy, "How can that be when I just got my tax return in the mail today?" (He hadn't.) The scammer hung up 😂
I was once giving away a beat up old bicycle online and some dude messaged me asking for it. I was like sure let's set up a day and time but then he wanted me to download some voice chat app to discuss that and I was like wtf? Dude, we were already speaking over email, I'm not gonna use some shady app instead. I blocked him and went with the second person to message me about it.
9:01 well, the police can search a property without a warrant if they have the owner’s consent which means, if you’re renting, the property owner can let them search without you knowing
I would definitely hand it in rather than just throw it away too. There's a chance someone might be able to track down who left it, and that's big if it was someone in baggage handling.
I feel it’d be pretty fun to rifle through, but remember to be careful, as to get the file on the VM you’d have to plug it into your actual machine, and certain RPi usb sticks can just run shit on plug in
Did the person whose outfit was accurately described post anything on social media that day? If their outfit was visible online somewhere it's entirely possible that the scammer had both their phone number and whatever social media they posted it on, hence knowing what clothes they had on
I had the same thought. It's likely just a bit of social engineering. Or did he give out his number in a store or something where it's easy to be overheard?
For some reason when they were talking about Leonardo Di Caprio, I kept thinking it was Leonardo da Vinci and kept saying “is anyone gonna tell them he’s been dead for centuries now”
Worked walmart service desk, saw a lot of scammers and scam victims. Had a guy who was trying to send money to his "girlfriend" in the Philippines so she could come visit him. Super common. The *best* part was that he had recently been scammed by a DIFFERENT "girlfriend" in California...asking for money to come visit him. 🙃🙃🙃 He got mad that we wouldnt let him send money because "this one was legit". A sad one was a woman who came in wearing her McD's uniform to send money to her internet "boyfriend" so he could buy her an engagement ring and she was in denial, on the verge of tears, that it was a scam. I think she tried to go to another walmart but we have to report the victim & scammer so it flags it in the system and won't allow the transaction to go through.
7:20 A scammer did this to me before. They used my name as well to scare me more since they found me on insta. They also sent me pics of bloody bodies and shit to drive the point home. Scared me at first then I realised if they were coming for me they would need to get through at least 30 cops due to my campus security
at 15:27 I woulda just forwarded the messages to the local police department. My mother almost got scammed once, and she stopped to use the bathroom upon coming home. While she was in the bathroom, I hung up on the scammer and proceeded to use the gift card myself, then told her how the scam worked.
21:07 super curious what harm finding one of these would be; there are monitors up on display playing mundane loops, and they have thumb-drive slots somewhere: maybe plug obviously-dubious-malware-thumb-drives into one of them, then-just stand-back to see if something happens, maybe terrible maybe awesome, probably nothing till the next day or so.
When you hover over a URL hyper link if you have the settings on your browser the address of the URL will be highlighted starting at the bottom left of the window....
That's always my first check too. Unless you are 100% sure it's a site you know and trust, or one you just requested info from, it's always best to go directly to the site to.
good tip: get a screen reader. those things can't see appearances. they can only see unicode. if it says a word funny, it's a dead giveaway. also, if you have trouble seeing or just want to listen to articles, it helps in other ways too!
My favorite recent scam attempt was an instagram account messaging me to see if I was interested in being a sugar baby any of the sexual aspects of that role. The first red flag is that my instagram hardly has any pictures of me, and is mostly filled with crafts I've made, silly cosplays, and crappy art. The second was that he had a brand new account and was following thousands of people already. Absolutely zero effort went into that scam 😅
Just a heads up on the ip thing, you can actually find someone's location via IP and it's unnervingly easy. Learning digital security teaches you scary things
but its not accurate? i tried it on mine. and yet it did show me my city. but not my address. and there is alot of buildings and houses in (REDACTED) so no.
I have an old laptop with a completely fresh Linux installation on it, and NOT connected to the Internet at all. So it doesn't have anything to steal, and if malware gets on it I can simply reformat it. I'd use something like that to see what's on the USB drives - there's a good possibility they got in there by mistake and belong to someone else on the flight.
I remember when I first started using money transfer apps, I was scammed into giving a random girl $50 because she stole the identity of an actual girl I wanted to help! 😭
I sometimes type in cyrillic and I wasn't able to tell! But to be fair I type in Russian very rarely with my mother. We mostly type in Italian. But it's crazy how even a trained eye can't tell. Also remember that some cyrillic letters type the same as regular old QWERTY. But register differently. Like if I typed o and о they look exactly the same. Except if I type the former o I'm most likely going to get search results in italian and or English. If I type the latter I'm immediately going to get search results in Russian. I guess it has to do with the unicode or however that's called of each single letter. Edit: I was right, it's called unicode. It's a type of coding where there's a number assigned to each letter. So any service that has some form of text input can immediately recognize the language or source.
Wow, it's crazy that they use the same shape for those letters, but the computer will see them as two very different letters. A lot of links, especially in email links in Outlook for example, will tell you where they are planning to go in the bottom left of the window. It's it's a mashup of random letters I hard pass. If it looks like it could be a legit site then I go directly to the site and skip the link. If I do have an account there I can log in anyway. It also helps that most scams target the US so I can easily report all of those right away as phishing attempts.
@@D64nz I got scammed once and my mom a few times. I don't know if it really works but Google allows you to report sketchy websites. There's a form you can fill online where you link the page and write down the reason why you're reporting the page. I did it once but I'm not sure if it did anything.
One day when I was working at GameStop, we had an older lady come in wanting to buy $900 worth of Apple gift cards. Her reasoning was that she was contacted by the United Nations about her husband that was overseas, and that they needed those apple gift cards in order to get him home. She refused to listen to my coworker and I when we told her that it was a scam.
my mum is really worried about me being scammed as I am very disabled and ill, rarely am able to leave the house, live with my parents for health reasons, am on lifelong disability benefits and really really lonely. I feel like I would do anything for a girlfriend but I am really internet savvy and try to keep in the know with scams. I also do not trust people at all. I have had my trust broken way to many times and I hate people so i don't think there is any need for her to worry
Yes, if it's mobile IP address. If you're connected to a home network, like through cable provider... The address would direct you to the nearest data center where your connection is bridged
Take the Ironkey to your friendly neighborhood computer store. Not one of the big corporate shops, but some local dude with a little shop. Tell him you think it may be someone's crypto wallet, or it may be a virus, or whatever. Tell him where you found it. He'll be able to look at it on an isolated device, with you right there in the room. That way, if it IS possible to open it, like if it really IS a crypto wallet, then maybe you hit it rich, LoL...... and if it's some major virus or malware, again, you'll find out, and no one will be harmed by it. At least, that's what I'd do.
If a scammer texted me and tried to sell me on them being some celebrity, I'd play along for a bit, but when they ask for money I'm going to tell them that I should be sent money since their (insert newest movie/song/album/etc here) did well and they surely have plenty they can share. Waste my time? Ehhh...depends on how you look at it. But it beats suckering someone's grandparent, parent, or a gullible friend.
Some scammers are smart. My parent have each had their credit card numbers stolen MULTIPLE times by scammers that they've never talked to, and aren't even in the same country as
17:27 Ima be honest Find my sucks. Soo once I came home from eating at a restaurant and I set my stuff down. I realized I couldn’t find my phone so I went to my drawing tablet (I may or may not of been raised as a iPad kid) and went to “find my” It said my phone was across the street. 5 seconds later it was down the road. It was up the street again. Etc etc. wanna know where I found my phone? In my bag. On a chair in the living room. Tl:dr. Find my told me my phone was across the street, it was in my bag. Wouldn’t trust it.
@23:40 - honestly that sounds like Venmo is in on the scam. They can't undo _all_ the transactions that stemmed from that original fraudulent 1500? It's just numbers in a computer system, it's not like dude sent an actual gold bar that's lost in the wide world or some shit. They're punishing the victim harder than the actual scammer.
8:11 as a native speaker of Russian and Belarusian, which are both Cyrillic languages, this is not a Cyrillic a, the Cyrillic a is «а», this is probably a Greek «α»
Minor nitpick, but the one at 7:42, the scammer link a is in cursive. Cyrillic a is written the same as latin script a, so while you can say the "false" a is in cyrillic, so is the "true" a.
The second one sounds like social engineering. Could be that's your regular outfit and you have it in many photos you post, and add a little extrapolation. Similar to how cold readings work. 😊
Love the scammers who get busted and then threaten the would-be-victim, as if the victim can't report everything to the authorities and hand over the evidence of the scam and threats in one easy motion.
"Here, lemme get my proof of a scam and threat of violence in writing for ya before you go" 🥴
"Leonardo Di Caprio is coming to visit me!"
"Brianna, you're 29 years old. You're too old for him. No he's not."
I wonder what she would say
Two times the age limit. Age limit is 14
I wonder what she would say
I MISREAD "Brianna" AS "Batman" QWRJIFEACKDNB
@@matthewboire6843”you’re just jealous” or something like that
As a cashier at a local store, i see a lot of older people buying gift cards. I always try to get them to understand that you can't actually pay any bills, taxes, fines, or bail any relatives out using gift cards. Some actually get angry at u for insinuating that they might have fallen for a scam
It's good you do that, but people just tend to let their pride (especially if they'd fallen for it) to get angry. The older the worse the issue. Lord knows how many times I had to explain dimensions to paper when making stuff for my elderly relatives. It doesn't matter I explained it, she just wanted it done despite it being relatively impossible (due to skillset or lacking programs/hardware).
That’s awesome of you to notice that and attempt to assist. Some people tend to get embarrassed easily and feel like their pride is hurt. When I was in customer service I did a handful of due diligence checks just to make sure people are aware and cared for. In these sorts of situations where someone gets their feathers ruffled over it, I tend to sort of reiterate: “I have no doubt you wouldn’t be scammed, but I would rather warn you and it not be an issue, than not warn you and you get tricked by someone with ill intent”. (Or something of that vibe). Or I’d just fib and say “it’s store policy to warn the customer of scam risks if they buy gift cards in greater than x value. It is just a precaution and I want to do my due diligence.” Unfortunately the latter tends to work more than the former, just because it’s easier to believe someone is warning people just because their minimum wage job requires it than because you’re a sympathetic person and care about the well-being of others who may otherwise be complete strangers.
The only time my mother (who's in her 70s) buys gift cards is for me.
Natural selection
Woah, yeah that 'Cyrillic a' tip at 8:26 is great to share, had not heard of that before
Yeah, I’m a YR12 student, grown up with the internet and such, and even I would have gotten fooled with that. Cherry on top? I’ve learnt the Russian Language. I’d think I’m immune to scams, but a scam like that is something I’d actually fall for.
See, I would never click on any weird email links, but that one did throw me off when I looked at the two links. Deadass thought they were same
For real, that would've gotten me so hard. Granted, I don't click bank links in my email, but that completely would've gotten me good
Yep, it's scary that almost everyone didn't notice it.
Did no one notice that both pairs had the same difference? The first pair of links had different 'a's too.
Kathleen: "Refund the money."
OP: "No, I know this scam."
*Kathleen actually sent it by mistake*
Well he rejected the money so she would get it back anyway
@@minimek1479 true, but imagine
I'm curious, why reject the money? I've never used Paypal, but I doubt "I sent this random person money and they didn't give it back" is grounds for any kind of trouble. Just pocket the $90 and nothing goes wrong
@@georgiykireev9678 legally you have a duty to try and return something that was lost otherwise it is considered theft. Such as finding a phone on the ground, you have a duty to "try" to return it, simply meaning you have to tell the police or something or put up posters in some alley that no one passes through so you can say "you've tried to return it."
@@georgiykireev9678 The main goal of the scam is to have the target send $90 back, where the scammer will then refund the original $90 they sent, effectively doubling the money. If the target claims it, the scammer can just chargeback it and get it back, no harm no foul, and the target is suddenly down $90. Rejecting it is really the safest option.
1:00 I think the "clothing description" was just a cold read. Beanie. Gray sweater. Shoes that arent new. Its pretty generic and probably one of the most common outfits for chilly weather. It's like guessing someone's name is Michael.
They probably did it in a weird attempt to get you to reply or think they knew you personally. Or at least knew something about things.
They just guessed.
Name too
I forgot they said name but that's even easier because you can look up phone numbers and who they're registered to. Or they had a list sold from an online marketing thing where you put your phone number into a form with your name and that's how they got the number to begin with.
It's weird, but I'd guess lucky con man faster than anyone who actually knows you
Basically just betting on the lottery and winning
@@GeneralArin I would argue it's much more likely for them to have seen them and gotten their phone number from a mutual clothes is one thing, name is way different
The reason for the PayPal payment being on hold is mainly due to it being a brand new account. It's done for every PayPal account that gets money almost instantly right after.
It's to make sure it's not a scammer, etc.
With the physical service being the reason? I dunno about that, I only do digital services for PayPal.
Biggest scam I've seen is those UTTP bots that seem to be *_everywhere._*
@@AbsoluteEgg good impression.
@@AbsoluteEggW + HAVE A GREAT DAY + YOU HAVE A LIFE + GO LIVE YOUR LIFE + YOU’RE AN AMAZING PERSON
@@AbsoluteEgg evil uttp be like
I found a uttp member who probably used the worst rage bait
HE USED TECHNOBLADES DEATH JUST TO GET RAGE BAIT LIKE ARE YOU REALLY GONNA USE SOMEONE WHO PASSED AWAY FOR ATTENTION
Don't reply to them just report them and have a good day
W+AGREED+MY CONTENT IS TERRIBLE+GOOD OPINION
Damien, as a wrestling fan, you must remember Seth got jumped by a guy in the audience a few years ago because he had been scammed by a fake Seth. For two years he had thought real Seth scammed him and waited for the day he could go to a show and get his hands on Seth.
Also, Liv and Kayla are currently dealing with the same guy who's convinced both of them have scammed him out of money and he's openly threatening to hurt and end them on Twitter.
On a similar note to the one with the different a's, if you can't tell the difference between "log in" and "Iog in," they might be able to get you easier. If you can't see the difference, it means the font on your device makes capital i's and lower case l's look the same. I've gotten spam emails and texts like this, but because the font I have set gives the i's the extra lines, it was easy to see through.
Also, it doesn't have to be the word log in, it can be anything with a lowercase L or an uppercase i in it, which can include things like Hulu. Netflix or Instagram
I've been staring at the 2 "log in"s to try to spot the difference for 2 whole minutes, and I can't tell if the font of one of them is thinner than the other or if I'm gaslighting cuz I still can't spot the difference.
@thatonewitch change the font on your phone to one that gives the the bars to I's and you'll be able to see the difference
Two of my best friends are pro wrestlers for EPW (not very big names yet) and recently, they had some idiots make fake accounts of them and try to scam people into buying merch. I got a message from both of them in extremely broken English asking me to buy merch so they could get to Pennsylvania for a match. The ironic part is I was on the road with one of them taking him to a match in Tulsa. For the next three hours, my friend and I spent a lot of time trolling the scammers. The scammer got so mad that he threatened to report both of my friends for lying about who they are. He eventually gave up and deleted the account. I still think it's weird they weren't pretending to be from a bigger name organization like WWE or APW.
Because those companies would sue the shit out of them. WWE is worldwide so you wouldn't be safe in any country from them.
My dad had plans to start his own wrestling show, but the idea fell through
responded to a scam text with "Peepee poopoo" and they didn't text back lol
Dolly: Great Response!
All fun and games till someone replies with "Big Chungus Among Us".
@@Vlad_Tepes_IIIBig Chungus Among Us
@@SkitsunantNOOO
If you get an email that you didn't request asking you to click a link and sign in. Don't do it. Instead enter the link manually by typing it out yourself.
what will that do?
@@atharvsharma1866 bring you to the real website where you can see there is an actual problem and if so fix it
@@atharvsharma1866 Make you feel like you bamboozeled the scammer as you scam yourself.
@@atharvsharma1866 show you where you will be taken, if it's sketchy then you can simply delete it, if you don't know where but curious, put a space in between the
Http (s)://
S in parentheses because there will most likely not be one
@@atharvsharma1866Not get your account details stolen by a phishing scam (look this up - if you’ve fallen for this in the past you should change your account details ASAP)
10:17 i feel like the voice acting was really entertaining when 'Jay' was angry lol
"Hey dude can I have the Tracking Number?"
*More Slurs and D_ath Threats than an entire CoD Lobby*
😂😂
Him: * threatens to come to my house and assault me *
Me: * racks my 12 gauge * "Shame"
@@Jackie_XIII Oh yeah, Stand Your Ground and Castle Doctrine will be on my side
I've lost count with the amount of scammer that have tried to contact me recently, all of them pretending to be members of rock bands or actors.
One of the better things about having a screen-reader (aside from the , like, _accessibility of the entire digital world for totally blind people like me_ ) is that things like the letters in different languages that look like English letters _jump out at me immediately._ They're announced by the screen-reader and the word is not pronounced correctly if the right characters aren't used.
Wow man, i really am grateful for your screen reader, I'm **partially** blind and have myopia, uses glasses but I hope you like your screenreader!
I _hate_ when scammers pull the "I love you" card or say to elderly people "you're like my grandma/grandpa". How dare they fucking play with someone's kindness and loneliness like that?! And why are they SO FUCKING ENTITLED TO SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY?!?!?!
This videos is funny and entertaining but has also sent me into a rage. XD
"Miss the rage!"
You have to have zero morals in the first place to be a scammer.
@@AIHumanEquality yup
i use to work for TSA, got to meet the WWE wrestlers. Got to meet Eddy Guerrero, THE Latino Heat! Big Show was there as well. all had to go through selective screening because WE decided to have them all get last-minuet tickets which put them in 'selective screening' hot-zone. I went on break soon after they showed up so sadly i did not get to meet the rest of the group as they came through. it was hilarious watching big show lounging back against the barrier, arms over the sides, flirting with our supervisor who is...well she was a good 5'5". She was, and hopefully still is, Very happily married with grown kids, so she was giving him the most 'unimpressed' attitude i have ever seen. It has been a good decade since i last saw her, so i am not sure if she and her family are still all alive and in good health. Honestly, i hope so. she was the greatest supervisor i have ever had.
It's Eddie with an ie not a y.
@@AIHumanEquality it was also over 20 years ago. but thanks for the correction. my spelling has always been horrid
@@damienburroughs2119 I mean yeah he's dead if you weren't aware... He died in 2005.
@@AIHumanEquality yeah, i know...the world lost 'Latino Heat' far too early. and what sucks the most is, i met him in 05, a little before his death. but back then, it was a passing thing. i had other things to worry about than a figure from a wrestling soap opera. But it is still sad. I miss how it was, thinking back on it. But after he passed, wrestling was really nothing anymore. though to me it was nothing more than a show for laughs at their poor acting.
Those USB flash drives could potentially also be a shell around a fake drive which could be rigged to destroy your machine or at least your USB port on a hardware level by overloading it with electrical current. Also, the shell of the flash drive could be dismantled and it could have had its internals swapped out.
Just like sticking a body part into a random hole to try to find out what is inside, especially under sketchy circumstances, you will want to just not do that.
I don't know how the US works but threatening to beat someone up cause they didn't send you money feels like a very obvious crime.
That is in fact how the US works lol. Definitely illegal.
It is, it's extortion.
The fact you guys can just go from reading the craziest thing ever and just act like you didn’t in the next slide, like….. how!?
Editing
do you.. not know what edit cuts are??
The Playstation guy became so aggressive. Literally all he needed to do was send the tracking number. It's such a simple thing to do.
The guy could have a fabolous house in Narnia is trying to hide it from his wife.
They didn't have a tracking number
Edit: yes that means, they didn't send the package
@@NbNgMODexactly, and that's the big red flag. Any normal person would have just sent the tracking number. But in this case there was never going to be a tracking number because there was never a PS5.
It's a lot harder to do when you haven't actually sent out a package though
That guy you report to police and showing them the txt chain.
Oh nooooo, that Playstation one was suspicious from the start, it never sounded legit. The second the seller didn't want to take Paypal and suggested a less safe alternative, that should have been the end of it.
In cashapps defense, it also makes it harder for the seller to get scammed cause paypal is more likely to side with a buyer
Isn't Zelle the one that has zero buyer protection because it's intended for friends and family only? Iirc if you get scammed on Zelle you're shit out of luck.
That's also why the playstation scammer was so angry they couldn't use a non-paypal method.
Yes. You're correct. They will also remove all of your information from their database if you call them and request that your account be deleted.
Big reason why Zelle is usually tied to your actual Banking Website. So that you can easily check whether or not you sent the money to someone you know ans Vice Versa
something about hearing this narrator say "punk ass kids" was hilarious
Never had I thought that I'd see the day when Damien would be a narrator for the Scams subreddit! That's awesome!
TLDR for the last one: if someone sends you money, keep it!
I would turn in those thumb drives because people sending illicit content will use others baggage to get it into a country.
Even the ones that bypass China's Great Firewall?
The scams with the WWE superstars is still going on tiktok and it really sucks because people can be so foolish and fall for that stuff easily
Brother it's not tragic or sad that they fall for it it's hilarious as all get-out people who are dumb deserve to be laughed at unless they are incapable you know what I mean unless something's wrong up in the head then it's not okay to laugh as hard lol
Best failed scam attempt I've ever been witness to was when a scammer called my granddad saying that "the IRS is illegally holding your tax return and if you give us some info, we can get it to you sooner." My granddad asked the guy, "How can that be when I just got my tax return in the mail today?" (He hadn't.) The scammer hung up 😂
The second a scammer acts aggressive they’ve called themselves out as scammers 😂 the majority of the time it’s a scammer, not a bad employee
I love how the scammer was raging but was still polite enough to censor his swears
I was once giving away a beat up old bicycle online and some dude messaged me asking for it. I was like sure let's set up a day and time but then he wanted me to download some voice chat app to discuss that and I was like wtf? Dude, we were already speaking over email, I'm not gonna use some shady app instead. I blocked him and went with the second person to message me about it.
9:01 well, the police can search a property without a warrant if they have the owner’s consent
which means, if you’re renting, the property owner can let them search without you knowing
Imagine this person when she's expecting Leonardo but Michelangelo DiCaprio shows up instead.
I go to a tech school, id totally get a group of people together to set up a virtual machine and go thru that flash drive 😂
I would definitely hand it in rather than just throw it away too. There's a chance someone might be able to track down who left it, and that's big if it was someone in baggage handling.
I feel it’d be pretty fun to rifle through, but remember to be careful, as to get the file on the VM you’d have to plug it into your actual machine, and certain RPi usb sticks can just run shit on plug in
Did the person whose outfit was accurately described post anything on social media that day? If their outfit was visible online somewhere it's entirely possible that the scammer had both their phone number and whatever social media they posted it on, hence knowing what clothes they had on
I had the same thought. It's likely just a bit of social engineering. Or did he give out his number in a store or something where it's easy to be overheard?
@@D64nz that's a good point, there's multiple ways they could have had access to both their appearance and their number. A bit unsettling, isn't it?
Or, it's just a cold read... A beanie? worn out shoes? And jacket?
Could literally be anyone
My older sis was Almost convinced that she was talking to Leam Nelson, lucky she didn’t send any $$$…what gave it away was them send his “passport”
it's been a bit since I've seen a recent video with damien !! the king's return
ill never understand how people will fall for those celebrity relationship scams (besides old people maybe????)
That's their main target, yes... Old or mentally degraded people.
"I have your address, Ill come to your house!"
ha ha ha ha ha ha, you won't leave in the same way you arrived.
Glad to see another video with the Rat King in here. Jack and Robin are kings as well, no disrespect to them. As always, great video!
For some reason when they were talking about Leonardo Di Caprio, I kept thinking it was
Leonardo da Vinci and kept saying “is anyone gonna tell them he’s been dead for centuries now”
Worked walmart service desk, saw a lot of scammers and scam victims. Had a guy who was trying to send money to his "girlfriend" in the Philippines so she could come visit him. Super common. The *best* part was that he had recently been scammed by a DIFFERENT "girlfriend" in California...asking for money to come visit him. 🙃🙃🙃 He got mad that we wouldnt let him send money because "this one was legit". A sad one was a woman who came in wearing her McD's uniform to send money to her internet "boyfriend" so he could buy her an engagement ring and she was in denial, on the verge of tears, that it was a scam. I think she tried to go to another walmart but we have to report the victim & scammer so it flags it in the system and won't allow the transaction to go through.
7:20 A scammer did this to me before. They used my name as well to scare me more since they found me on insta. They also sent me pics of bloody bodies and shit to drive the point home.
Scared me at first then I realised if they were coming for me they would need to get through at least 30 cops due to my campus security
That's actually scary
3:13 that hit way too much at home for me because my friend and I talk about that last week with his mother
Solo really didn't need to intervene in the fatal 4-way. Styles was there to be pinned, we all knew it
at 15:27 I woulda just forwarded the messages to the local police department.
My mother almost got scammed once, and she stopped to use the bathroom upon coming home.
While she was in the bathroom, I hung up on the scammer and proceeded to use the gift card myself, then told her how the scam worked.
I knew I liked Damien for a reason ☝🏽😤 he acknowledges him!
21:07 super curious what harm finding one of these would be; there are monitors up on display playing mundane loops, and they have thumb-drive slots somewhere: maybe plug obviously-dubious-malware-thumb-drives into one of them, then-just stand-back to see if something happens, maybe terrible maybe awesome, probably nothing till the next day or so.
When you hover over a URL hyper link if you have the settings on your browser the address of the URL will be highlighted starting at the bottom left of the window....
That's always my first check too. Unless you are 100% sure it's a site you know and trust, or one you just requested info from, it's always best to go directly to the site to.
lol… the ‘I’ll find you through your IP address while I’m over pissed off because when I click on links it tells me I’m in a city 6 hours away…
good tip: get a screen reader. those things can't see appearances. they can only see unicode. if it says a word funny, it's a dead giveaway. also, if you have trouble seeing or just want to listen to articles, it helps in other ways too!
My favorite recent scam attempt was an instagram account messaging me to see if I was interested in being a sugar baby any of the sexual aspects of that role. The first red flag is that my instagram hardly has any pictures of me, and is mostly filled with crafts I've made, silly cosplays, and crappy art. The second was that he had a brand new account and was following thousands of people already. Absolutely zero effort went into that scam 😅
r/BatmanArkham when? We need to see Emkay experience the Aslume
Just a heads up on the ip thing, you can actually find someone's location via IP and it's unnervingly easy. Learning digital security teaches you scary things
but its not accurate? i tried it on mine. and yet it did show me my city. but not my address. and there is alot of buildings and houses in (REDACTED) so no.
and plus. always use a vpn
I'm learning a lot. Thank you
I have an old laptop with a completely fresh Linux installation on it, and NOT connected to the Internet at all. So it doesn't have anything to steal, and if malware gets on it I can simply reformat it. I'd use something like that to see what's on the USB drives - there's a good possibility they got in there by mistake and belong to someone else on the flight.
I remember when I first started using money transfer apps, I was scammed into giving a random girl $50 because she stole the identity of an actual girl I wanted to help! 😭
I sometimes type in cyrillic and I wasn't able to tell! But to be fair I type in Russian very rarely with my mother. We mostly type in Italian. But it's crazy how even a trained eye can't tell. Also remember that some cyrillic letters type the same as regular old QWERTY. But register differently. Like if I typed o and о they look exactly the same. Except if I type the former o I'm most likely going to get search results in italian and or English. If I type the latter I'm immediately going to get search results in Russian. I guess it has to do with the unicode or however that's called of each single letter.
Edit: I was right, it's called unicode. It's a type of coding where there's a number assigned to each letter. So any service that has some form of text input can immediately recognize the language or source.
Wow, it's crazy that they use the same shape for those letters, but the computer will see them as two very different letters. A lot of links, especially in email links in Outlook for example, will tell you where they are planning to go in the bottom left of the window. It's it's a mashup of random letters I hard pass. If it looks like it could be a legit site then I go directly to the site and skip the link. If I do have an account there I can log in anyway.
It also helps that most scams target the US so I can easily report all of those right away as phishing attempts.
@@D64nz I got scammed once and my mom a few times. I don't know if it really works but Google allows you to report sketchy websites. There's a form you can fill online where you link the page and write down the reason why you're reporting the page. I did it once but I'm not sure if it did anything.
One day when I was working at GameStop, we had an older lady come in wanting to buy $900 worth of Apple gift cards. Her reasoning was that she was contacted by the United Nations about her husband that was overseas, and that they needed those apple gift cards in order to get him home. She refused to listen to my coworker and I when we told her that it was a scam.
That’s my sons hands I just had to bust out laughing 😂 he could have said anything else 😂
Nah, thats a guy who wants his roommate to clean his room😂
When people quote the bible i know they're a scammer.
Hey there Emkay crew, could I possibly get the bank info of all the Narrators? Its for a school project.
This makes me wanna get a teaching degree so I can teach kids how to avoid scams so we have a safer generation
my mum is really worried about me being scammed as I am very disabled and ill, rarely am able to leave the house, live with my parents for health reasons, am on lifelong disability benefits and really really lonely. I feel like I would do anything for a girlfriend but I am really internet savvy and try to keep in the know with scams. I also do not trust people at all. I have had my trust broken way to many times and I hate people so i don't think there is any need for her to worry
1:15 when the scamer it's Also a Serial killer
Just what i needed rn
Correction, an IP address typically CAN be traced to a real world location, but a PayPal message won’t get anyone your IP address.
Yes, if it's mobile IP address. If you're connected to a home network, like through cable provider... The address would direct you to the nearest data center where your connection is bridged
Take the Ironkey to your friendly neighborhood computer store. Not one of the big corporate shops, but some local dude with a little shop. Tell him you think it may be someone's crypto wallet, or it may be a virus, or whatever. Tell him where you found it. He'll be able to look at it on an isolated device, with you right there in the room. That way, if it IS possible to open it, like if it really IS a crypto wallet, then maybe you hit it rich, LoL...... and if it's some major virus or malware, again, you'll find out, and no one will be harmed by it. At least, that's what I'd do.
about the first one, you can actually find out where someone lives by their ip address to some extent. be careful with who you share your ip with!
PayPal does put it on hold. It did it when I first used PayPal.
I wonder how many scammers follow through on their threats.
6:47 I swear I've seen them use this copypasta a billion times now
Wait...SO YOU ARE SAYING THAT I DODGED A SCAMMER?!
HOLY MOLY!
Explain?
19:28 the renualt should have been a red flag already
That thumbnail though
The inhales 😂
"refund the money or i-"
_how a shotgun works_
*Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd intensifies*
If a scammer texted me and tried to sell me on them being some celebrity, I'd play along for a bit, but when they ask for money I'm going to tell them that I should be sent money since their (insert newest movie/song/album/etc here) did well and they surely have plenty they can share. Waste my time? Ehhh...depends on how you look at it. But it beats suckering someone's grandparent, parent, or a gullible friend.
never use a unknown flash drive
. unless you have a junk computer that has no personal data on it
Why do these scammers think most of these would work on someone with common sense?
1. Easy to do in mass
2. Not everyone has common sense
3. Quite the payday
Because it does work. If it didn't, they would stop.
Also, they often add in mistakes to filter out the people who will pick up that it's a scam. They target a certain type of person specifically.
Some scammers are smart. My parent have each had their credit card numbers stolen MULTIPLE times by scammers that they've never talked to, and aren't even in the same country as
Ah, i see
Idk who told this person but with good enough programs you can definitely pinpoint the location of an IP address...
I prefer the scams that are just rick rolls
death threats are illegal
17:27
Ima be honest
Find my sucks.
Soo once I came home from eating at a restaurant and I set my stuff down. I realized I couldn’t find my phone so I went to my drawing tablet (I may or may not of been raised as a iPad kid) and went to “find my”
It said my phone was across the street. 5 seconds later it was down the road. It was up the street again. Etc etc. wanna know where I found my phone?
In my bag. On a chair in the living room.
Tl:dr. Find my told me my phone was across the street, it was in my bag. Wouldn’t trust it.
@23:40 - honestly that sounds like Venmo is in on the scam. They can't undo _all_ the transactions that stemmed from that original fraudulent 1500? It's just numbers in a computer system, it's not like dude sent an actual gold bar that's lost in the wide world or some shit. They're punishing the victim harder than the actual scammer.
bro beat the bots
HOW???
alright, wasn't expecting a fellow railfan to comment " " as the first comment but whatever
facts
The Playstation guy would have a pretty bad day if he showed up at my house lol
8:11 as a native speaker of Russian and Belarusian, which are both Cyrillic languages, this is not a Cyrillic a, the Cyrillic a is «а», this is probably a Greek «α»
8:05 …or just how most English speakers handwrite the letter
I acknowledge our tribal chief ☝️
But We Want Cody Damien
matthew 7:12 is actually what is written at 6:42 oddly enough
I am in fact also a huge wrestling nerd Damien
Minor nitpick, but the one at 7:42, the scammer link a is in cursive. Cyrillic a is written the same as latin script a, so while you can say the "false" a is in cyrillic, so is the "true" a.
The second one sounds like social engineering. Could be that's your regular outfit and you have it in many photos you post, and add a little extrapolation. Similar to how cold readings work. 😊
It feels they’re not trying anymore. To be fair, were they ever?
Ray 6:19 - be ready for any feat - though shall be trucked.