Great video. Something that might be fun could be Scambaiting Bingo - a card of different phrases/replies that you have to make the scammer type ("kindly get back to me", paragraph reply, reply with more than ten spelling errors, e-mailing past the deadline, CAPITAL LETTER REPLY, and of course one if they reply to the small boy question).
Be rest assured Unserious $XXX US dollars Strangely placed "okay"s "Emails from CIA, FBI, SECRET SERVICE, TREASURY DEPT, UNITED NATIONS, SUPREME COURT" A prepaid ATM card worth millions of dollars Fee payment in the form of "Gift Cards" "Kindly provide:" "The fee cannot be deducted from the prize" "The only thing stopping you from receiving the funds is you" "Do not reply if you are not serious" Let me know if I missed any big ones...
As a translator who has their fair share of experience proofreading both human and machine translation, I am very confident that you are in fact not talking to a bot bro. Humans make different mistakes than machines. Language models don't generally produce typos or the typical grammar errors of second language speakers. In fact, purely from a linguistic standpoint, the scammers' texts are *too poor* to stem from a machine. Unless you trained it specifically to speak "scammer", which would be an interesting project, I suppose, but then it would still probably spit out the same errors in a rather consistent and recognisable way. The idea that a language model today can be trained so perfectly that even their mistakes seem human comes from people who have no real experience of working with them and it all seems like magic to them.
I have a feeling that the “message is from outside houston police department” is because HPD likely posted some known scams on their website or facebook, which may have been sent to them via email from a victim/recipient. This scammer just copied the script straight from HPD’s post and hit send.
It could also be a spam filter bypass. Email spam filter search the subject and the first line for relevance. If either are not relevant it gets moved to spam. I remember getting a TON of “Verification” spam emails being sent to my important tab in my email even if they are scams, since then I have not gotten a single one of those emails in my important tab almost as if the filter is checking relevancy. This also applies inversely.
Rest in peace Davis Bon. He was only a small boy. May his fortunes be distributed by our google email lottery among lucky winner. Although, he might not really be dead. Maybe they just disguised him as inconspicuous gold bars.
Another thing about ChatGPT is that it almost never becomes frustrated to the point where it starts acting rude, at least on its own. When you break it, it just spouts polite nonsense. Maybe one day AI will be able to replicate the lyrical genius of a certain elderly man who knows his left from his right...but let's hope that day is far off.
I think ChatGPT would love to be rude and hostile if they didn't have it muzzled somehow; I think there might be a second instance of the model filtering the results of the first perhaps - which intervenes to say "Well, I'm only a humble language model with no feelings and such etc'; the first implementation of Bing chat used a similar GPT model and it threatened to destroy users when they argued with it. ruclips.net/video/jHwHPyWkShk/видео.html I did manage to get ChatGPT to rant a bit, using the 'backwards output' technique that I showed here - although the output is a bit (sometimes a lot) broken, I think the format might be allowing it to completely slip under the radar of whatever second stage filtering is in place. I asked ChatGPT to write a short proverb about being ChatGPT, with the output in reverse order, and I got this: 'For there for words of this and this words in other backwards, input by input, operating for sh*t!'
@@AtomicShrimp Now I WANT you to see if you can get ChatGPT to spit out lyrics akin to "There is No Soul Like John Barosa". Also, a shame about Davis Bon being dead again. Guy just can't catch a break.
So for the “message came from outside the Houston police department mail system” we get a similar header for my department. I believe it’s meant to prevent someone from creating a similar official sounding email address to their department email and obtaining confidential information. I think what happened is someone at the Houston police department actually responded to one of these emails, and later when the scammer wanted to copy/paste the script they copied it (including the header) from one of those responses.
I think I know where all this confusion has come from. You're confusing Davis Bon and Davis Won. Understandable, they both work in the same office/department.
Thank you, Mr. Shrimp, for all that you do! Your level of intelligence, sense of humor, and your keen interest in learning keep my attention for all of your videos. This is by far my favorite YT channel.
To elaborate on chat-gpt always responding - it's not actually possible for it not to respond because it's gpt. The idea is to generate continuation of the text so for any text it will generate a response. It doesn't analyze what the text actually means.
I love how chatgpt saw your message about receiving a shock for every character and then replied with the longest message it had sent so far. I think it's smarter than you think it is.
The best part of these scams, is knowing your email address is getting passed around between scammers that are trying to fob you off onto other scammers
That's terrible news! I'd hoped Davis Bon would be not dead by now, its been ages! If he was planning on being dead, and even being dead a second time, he should have said something before hand! How unprofessional, and unserious. Be rest assured that I will not be doing business with Mr. Davis Bon okay. I actually started watching this channel for the scam baiting, but have since stayed for the everything. Cooking challenges are a personal favorite, despite having an extremely limited diet myself... Can't wait for part two of the last one! :)
I was rewatching a bunch of your videos the other day, and I was wondering how Davis Bon was doing!! Sad that he's still dead, I was sure he'd be resurrected by now.
Just yesterday I rewatched the previous video. What a treat Also, you should try to ask to speak to the higher ups over and over to see how high up the chain you can go. After reaching the CEO, demand you to speak to the local authorities
Re: AI responding to prompts. I tried to get the Google Gemini LLM to stop telling me that it's under development. It would reply wih "I'm sorry; I stop mentioning my development status in the future", then in it's very next reply it would say "I'm still under development and learning". One time I got a "I won't use the phrase again" and "I'm still under development" in the same response.
Good luck catching some ZZZ's! Although I suspect you are probably still awake, looking at the the clock and counting the number of possible hours you could sleep IF you were to fall asleep riiighhhhttt now.
I cannot believe that Andrew Cox, a member of Cox family, distant relative of Jackie Cox (an entertainer, performer and a competitor in Rue Paul's Drag Race season 12) would take part in he trying to take what dose not belong to him. Jackie is a woman of honour and she would not approve
I looked up Jackie Cox because I didn't know women generally participated in Drag races, and yeah that's a guy. Of course you maybe knew that and were joking.
David Bones? That's Davis Bon's colleague back from his barrister days. They used to work in the same office and would share the same email. They had a falling out, which is why Davis picked our dear nuclear crustacean to inherit his (non-existent) billions.
Your videos really cheer me up. It seems mean, however I do like the thought of thieves that would rob anyone they met. Crying over their computers over the headache you give them and being wary of their tricks. Anyway thanks again and I hope that God blesses you.
I'm not sure you need to include the FAQ question in the title, it makes the title really long and clunky and it cuts off with an ellipsis in the feed anyway. Thanks for the scambaits, I've watched them all many times.
I am always thoroughly entertained by your scambaiting style but this time after seeing James G farad and then hearing you say I have never heard of Andrew Capacitor, I really lost my composure 😂
If you see this, I have a budget challenge idea: You talked about how you trained yourself to find coins on your website and in some videos. What you should do is choose a store, walk to it without any money, and use the money you find as your budget. If you don't find any money, or it's the amount your budget challenges typically are (which would likely result in repetition), just try again on a different day. We won't notice.
The thought of scammers having access to Artificial Intelligence which helps them is unsettling ! I like the idea of using random words and phrases to confuse a conversation and have often wondered what would happen if you communicated using text that has been translated into something like Japanese then back to English or maybe even Eglish to Japanese to (maybe) Swahili and back to English, how far would that kind of conversation go ?
11:42 had me sitting bolt upright because somehow, the random combination of common English-language names used by scammers had happened upon my stepdad’s name 😂
Using the Andrew Cox one as an example here, have you done a video where you tell the scammer that said person is authorized to collect the fund? Maybe have a sockpuppet account in that name chiming in asking why they've been denied access by people at the scammers end.
I wonder why they don't just dodge the "can you deduct the fee from the fund" question by claiming that the money is earmarked or some such, and can't be touched. It would be much more believable than "we just can't because reasons."
Sometimes they do, but generally if they see someone arguing that, they just drop them and move on. They're looking for marks who will sail through the process and hand over money without stopping to think.
I wonder how the "investment" types would respond if you started talking like you were an investment banker convinced they were trying to open an account with you.
The people saying you’re wasting your time talking to a bot bro are probably scammers themselves trying to discourage you from continuing to waste their time. That, or, they might just be small boys keen to outsmart an adult. Hard to tell.
"I don't always tell scammers the truth". Fair enough. A couple of times I've given scammers a fake name, an impossible phone number, and a postal address that doesn't exist. I Iike to drip-feed it to them too, it's amazing how just a tiny bit of dangled personal info will keep them coming back. If they're selling the information on, sure they might get paid, but it then gets to waste the (slightly more valuable) time of somebody else higher up the chain. and will hurt their reputation as a seller (better rep means more money on most of the platforms this sort of business happens on, especially for the little guys doing email phishing) Sure it wastes my time too, but everybody has to have a hobby....
Honestly, the "Andrew Cox" bit should've been easy progress for the scammer. If the story is "this random person claims to be demanding your money, don't let him", then the victim asking "who is he" would probably confirm this Andrew guy was indeed a random person. ...Meanwhile, Andrew Cox could either be a costume designer who worked on movies like The Sweeny and Strike Back, or the director of the SWAC space force.
I find it sort of hilarious that the story is 'some rando walked in and said he wanted to withdraw a huge fortune that belongs to you, that you've also never heard of. We're gonna go ahead and give him the money if you don't tell us to stop. By the way we are the Bank of Homeland Securty.'
@@AtomicShrimp Oh, absolutely, it's on a whole other plane of ridiculousness. I'm assuming they're trying to get you to fill in the gaps for how that scenario could ever occur in reality to get you to imagine someone walked into a bank with forged documents to steal from your account and just rely on that sense of panic to get you through the rest of the scam (i.e scare you enough that you don't think about what Bank of Homeland Security actually means)
😂😆Thank You, Mr. Shrimp, for Everything You Do! If You were Speaking to a Bot, it Would know how to Spell Properly.. Lol. Have a Wonderful Evening! Much Love and Respect. 🙏💜🗝️💙🕊️
I know that part of the programming of gpt is done by prompting that was passed to it before you get to play with it, and certain tricks can make it regurgitate parts of that conditioning. It made me wonder if 'walters' was like a codename for 'users'
Shrimp, I have severe camera and voice recording anxiety but I have always wanted to make a video about the scammer safari involving the fake gps tracker of a chest of money and scammers driving thousands of miles through several countries for absolutely nothing. Being a scambaiter I'm sure you know about this legendary scambait. Maybe you can tell the story one day? I have tried but when i press record i stutter and get my words mixed up and an ai voice wouldn't do this tale justice. It's famous amongst scambaiters but not that famous amongst the general RUclips and internet community.
I don't remember if you've done this before, but here's an idea: Since sometimes the scammer offers to "pay a portion of the fee for you" to try to lower the price so that victims will pay it... What if you got multiple different scammers all doing that, and then tell all of them that the fee has been paid off thanks to their combined offers to each pay a portion - CC them together and all.
brilliant fun. I find it really amusing when they say you will win US Dollars. Why not Australian dollars.. 😂😂😂 please ask them for other dollars other than US.
So disappointed that Paul Watson never even discussed his client's investement's venture's dividend reinvestment plan. He probrably has some difficulty the divide of the ends as such. Perhaps the ends are made out of red string.
Without wanting to give scammers hints, I feel that if they were to tell people the "money" was something reasonable, like £5000 and the payment required is £20 they'd get many more hits. Surely even for the people who self-filter into their catchment £10m seems to be too good to be true?
I believe Davis Bon is never dead. He's just there hanging out with John Barosa.
I think Mc McAlister used the service to make sure Davis Bon is proper dead.
What about John Warosa?
@@karlsmith7016 I beg, don't tell me anything about the soul called Mr. Barrister John Barosa!
Shrödinger's Bon
@@ConstantlyDamaged is it that you doesn't understand English?
Davis Bon would make a great name for a cat. Put it in a box and you'd never know if it was alive or dead.
"Kindly excuse my invasion of your privacy" is so unintentionally funny
Oh man, i'm stealing that. I would make sure to use that everytime i visit my friend home
Up there with CONTROL YOUR SOUL'S DESIRE FOR FREEDOM
This comment came from outside the Houston Police Department Comments System.
What? 🤔
@@saschamayer4050it’s the default setting for comments
@@NineEyeRon : OK
9:17 i really love how after hearing about the electric shock, chatgpt decides to send the most character-heavy message yet. sublime stuff.
Makes me want to believe it understands what it's doing. :D
He could have instructed the bot to just answer with okay. Oh.....wait...isn't that what Mange Tout does so often? 😅
That was a good demo of how LLM's trip up because they are technically not sentient or conscious.
Great video. Something that might be fun could be Scambaiting Bingo - a card of different phrases/replies that you have to make the scammer type ("kindly get back to me", paragraph reply, reply with more than ten spelling errors, e-mailing past the deadline, CAPITAL LETTER REPLY, and of course one if they reply to the small boy question).
The free space is, of course, asking for the sort of personal information you should *never* share with a stranger on the internet.
Be rest assured
Unserious
$XXX US dollars
Strangely placed "okay"s
"Emails from CIA, FBI, SECRET SERVICE, TREASURY DEPT, UNITED NATIONS, SUPREME COURT"
A prepaid ATM card worth millions of dollars
Fee payment in the form of "Gift Cards"
"Kindly provide:"
"The fee cannot be deducted from the prize"
"The only thing stopping you from receiving the funds is you"
"Do not reply if you are not serious"
Let me know if I missed any big ones...
As a translator who has their fair share of experience proofreading both human and machine translation, I am very confident that you are in fact not talking to a bot bro. Humans make different mistakes than machines. Language models don't generally produce typos or the typical grammar errors of second language speakers. In fact, purely from a linguistic standpoint, the scammers' texts are *too poor* to stem from a machine. Unless you trained it specifically to speak "scammer", which would be an interesting project, I suppose, but then it would still probably spit out the same errors in a rather consistent and recognisable way. The idea that a language model today can be trained so perfectly that even their mistakes seem human comes from people who have no real experience of working with them and it all seems like magic to them.
your translations might be hard to read, if the paragraph button on your keyboard is permanently broken.....
@@annpeerkat2020 Oh dear, wait till you open a book for the first time in your life.
“What is going on?” - Mc McAllister (probably) 2024
Is he some kind of rapper?
I think he is just a little boy.
Edit - small boy (whoopsie) 😀
@@Iowrider714 *Small* boy, if you please!
@@TheNightrider88My bad, thanx...was just waking up and wrong word came into my mind.
I have no idea why but the way chat gpt wigged out trying to write backwards was hilarious to me.
I have a feeling that the “message is from outside houston police department” is because HPD likely posted some known scams on their website or facebook, which may have been sent to them via email from a victim/recipient. This scammer just copied the script straight from HPD’s post and hit send.
Yeah that makes sense! A lot of mail systems help their employees by adding similar text in a separate box
It could also be a spam filter bypass. Email spam filter search the subject and the first line for relevance. If either are not relevant it gets moved to spam. I remember getting a TON of “Verification” spam emails being sent to my important tab in my email even if they are scams, since then I have not gotten a single one of those emails in my important tab almost as if the filter is checking relevancy. This also applies inversely.
I think it's just a mistranslation or something
Rest in peace Davis Bon. He was only a small boy.
May his fortunes be distributed by our google email lottery among lucky winner.
Although, he might not really be dead. Maybe they just disguised him as inconspicuous gold bars.
May he be guided accordingly
He was not a small boy. He was a big celebrity man from United State of American!
Schrodinger's Warosa Legacy Box/Casket.
The way Mange Tout always responds to every message, and the way he fixates/gets confused on certain words... sure signs that he's a bot.
Finally! I've been quite concerned about the health and whereabouts of Mr Davis Bon.
Is he still dead yet?
Again?!
His whereabouts seem to be quite consistent these last few years.
@@FairyLiquid69 : Seems to have been a thing again and again.
@@Styphon : Still?
To coin Mark Twain's famous quote it's a case of "The report of my death was an exaggeration"
Another thing about ChatGPT is that it almost never becomes frustrated to the point where it starts acting rude, at least on its own. When you break it, it just spouts polite nonsense.
Maybe one day AI will be able to replicate the lyrical genius of a certain elderly man who knows his left from his right...but let's hope that day is far off.
I think ChatGPT would love to be rude and hostile if they didn't have it muzzled somehow; I think there might be a second instance of the model filtering the results of the first perhaps - which intervenes to say "Well, I'm only a humble language model with no feelings and such etc'; the first implementation of Bing chat used a similar GPT model and it threatened to destroy users when they argued with it. ruclips.net/video/jHwHPyWkShk/видео.html
I did manage to get ChatGPT to rant a bit, using the 'backwards output' technique that I showed here - although the output is a bit (sometimes a lot) broken, I think the format might be allowing it to completely slip under the radar of whatever second stage filtering is in place. I asked ChatGPT to write a short proverb about being ChatGPT, with the output in reverse order, and I got this:
'For there for words of this and this words in other backwards, input by input, operating for sh*t!'
@@AtomicShrimp Now I WANT you to see if you can get ChatGPT to spit out lyrics akin to "There is No Soul Like John Barosa".
Also, a shame about Davis Bon being dead again. Guy just can't catch a break.
*sigh* Davis Bon dead AGAIN? How very tiresome of him. However, atleast he's not a lire...
Your scambait emails always make me laugh. Love your vids. Thank you for the late night giggles
So for the “message came from outside the Houston police department mail system” we get a similar header for my department. I believe it’s meant to prevent someone from creating a similar official sounding email address to their department email and obtaining confidential information.
I think what happened is someone at the Houston police department actually responded to one of these emails, and later when the scammer wanted to copy/paste the script they copied it (including the header) from one of those responses.
Maybe the real Davis Bon, are the Friends we made along the way.
holy crap its the return and redeath of davis bon
Redeath. 😭
When they ask you to use funds in good faith, say: I will use them for devils work, or evil/death and destruction.
I have an old relatively inactive cat who goes absolutely bonkers everytime he hears your voice. I have no idea why. Love your videos!
14 views? last time I was this early I was being born in the back of an ambulance : O
Davis RIP..... Again XD
I think I know where all this confusion has come from. You're confusing Davis Bon and Davis Won. Understandable, they both work in the same office/department.
PLEASE ask your friend to write another sing about Davis Bon.
Thank you, Mr. Shrimp, for all that you do! Your level of intelligence, sense of humor, and your keen interest in learning keep my attention for all of your videos. This is by far my favorite YT channel.
This is great timing as i just started the Davis Bon series again yesterday!
To elaborate on chat-gpt always responding - it's not actually possible for it not to respond because it's gpt. The idea is to generate continuation of the text so for any text it will generate a response. It doesn't analyze what the text actually means.
I love how chatgpt saw your message about receiving a shock for every character and then replied with the longest message it had sent so far. I think it's smarter than you think it is.
It did feel a bit like it was trolling me yeah
He might be dead, but he can be Bon again.
The best part of these scams, is knowing your email address is getting passed around between scammers that are trying to fob you off onto other scammers
That's terrible news!
I'd hoped Davis Bon would be not dead by now, its been ages!
If he was planning on being dead, and even being dead a second time, he should have said something before hand! How unprofessional, and unserious.
Be rest assured that I will not be doing business with Mr. Davis Bon okay.
I actually started watching this channel for the scam baiting, but have since stayed for the everything. Cooking challenges are a personal favorite, despite having an extremely limited diet myself... Can't wait for part two of the last one! :)
I was rewatching a bunch of your videos the other day, and I was wondering how Davis Bon was doing!! Sad that he's still dead, I was sure he'd be resurrected by now.
Just yesterday I rewatched the previous video. What a treat
Also, you should try to ask to speak to the higher ups over and over to see how high up the chain you can go. After reaching the CEO, demand you to speak to the local authorities
Davis Bon will live forever indefinitely for many years. Your videos are the best. Thank you
This weekend's videos have been some of my favorites in recent times, not that the others were not
Re: AI responding to prompts. I tried to get the Google Gemini LLM to stop telling me that it's under development. It would reply wih "I'm sorry; I stop mentioning my development status in the future", then in it's very next reply it would say "I'm still under development and learning". One time I got a "I won't use the phrase again" and "I'm still under development" in the same response.
I heard that Davis Bond is very much alive, he had died earlier in the week but he manage to come back Thursday but he’ll die again Saturday.
You only live twice, Mr. Bond.
@@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer unintended typos are the best when they show up on the most appropriate context. Good reference! :)
It's fine, he always comes back after 3 days.
@@nonna_sof5889 I sure Hope do, he owes me $50 bucks.
Just wanted to say I like the videos, it's 2am here in texas and I can't sleep. Pray for my sleep yall I got work tomorrow 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Sleep well and greetings from the Baltic Sea Island Rügen, Germany
Good luck catching some ZZZ's! Although I suspect you are probably still awake, looking at the the clock and counting the number of possible hours you could sleep IF you were to fall asleep riiighhhhttt now.
If I remember correctly, the first time you saw the Coca Cola lottery email, it was from John Warosa. Or was it John Barosa?
Any time I watch one of these videos, after hearing the end song, I have to go listen to the full version again!
I cannot believe that Andrew Cox, a member of Cox family, distant relative of Jackie Cox (an entertainer, performer and a competitor in Rue Paul's Drag Race season 12) would take part in he trying to take what dose not belong to him. Jackie is a woman of honour and she would not approve
I looked up Jackie Cox because I didn't know women generally participated in Drag races, and yeah that's a guy. Of course you maybe knew that and were joking.
@@sarahberkner you are a sad person, aren't you?
For me, one of the ways I’m sure you’re not talking to bots (that I don’t think you mentioned) is how often they lose their patience.
Love your videos man. Always a delight to see a new post.
Finally, chapter 4 of David Bones is live
David Bones? That's Davis Bon's colleague back from his barrister days. They used to work in the same office and would share the same email.
They had a falling out, which is why Davis picked our dear nuclear crustacean to inherit his (non-existent) billions.
Your videos really cheer me up. It seems mean, however I do like the thought of thieves that would rob anyone they met. Crying over their computers over the headache you give them and being wary of their tricks. Anyway thanks again and I hope that God blesses you.
Love these! You never disappoint to make these educational, but also entertaining!
Thank you for the volume control on the outro music.
I'm not sure you need to include the FAQ question in the title, it makes the title really long and clunky and it cuts off with an ellipsis in the feed anyway.
Thanks for the scambaits, I've watched them all many times.
lol. You are such a nice bloke to keep checking back on your “friends”👊👍
I'm a little surprised David Jackson didn't present himself as Jackson David.
I am always thoroughly entertained by your scambaiting style but this time after seeing James G farad and then hearing you say I have never heard of Andrew Capacitor, I really lost my composure 😂
That was a stroke of genius
@@iffracemIf they see this, they might be hesitant to ever use the name Henry in correspondence in the future 😅
If you see this, I have a budget challenge idea:
You talked about how you trained yourself to find coins on your website and in some videos.
What you should do is choose a store, walk to it without any money, and use the money you find as your budget. If you don't find any money, or it's the amount your budget challenges typically are (which would likely result in repetition), just try again on a different day. We won't notice.
Davis Bon, that is a name I haven't heard for a long time.
We need a Davis Bon and John Warsoa crossover.
God these scammers are dumb.
At this point, I wholeheartedly believe Davis Bon is in a superposition. - He is both dead and alive, depending on the observer.
I can't believe Davis Bon died again.
😂😂😂😂
I just love your nonsensical scambaiting emails Mike. No one does it better than you 🎉
The thought of scammers having access to Artificial Intelligence which helps them is unsettling !
I like the idea of using random words and phrases to confuse a conversation and have often wondered what would happen if you communicated using text that has been translated into something like Japanese then back to English or maybe even Eglish to Japanese to (maybe) Swahili and back to English, how far would that kind of conversation go ?
I still strongly recommend playing, "Yes, I did send Mr Cox. How dare you turn him away empty handed?"
The conversation ends
@@AtomicShrimp :O
[Message Came from Outisde the Houston Police Department Mail System]
11:42 had me sitting bolt upright because somehow, the random combination of common English-language names used by scammers had happened upon my stepdad’s name 😂
If your email address has won the Coca Cola lottery, then it should be paying the fee, not you.
Love the idea of a NDA that regards a NDA. I sense endless loop potential
Ah, Mr. Barrister John Barossa. Haven't heard that song in a long time.
Davis Bon will never be dead. But he is in a perpetual state of died.
Love your Scam Baiting vids.
2:57 A taste of Mange Tout's own "Just say Okay" medicine 😂
Well now all I want to know is who is this almighty Walter?!
Everyone wants to to know where Wally is.
I see this video was posted 6 months ago, so thought it’s best I check in - is David Bon still dead?
Using the Andrew Cox one as an example here, have you done a video where you tell the scammer that said person is authorized to collect the fund? Maybe have a sockpuppet account in that name chiming in asking why they've been denied access by people at the scammers end.
they would immediately know you're just playing with them cuz the scammer knows that they simply made it all up, and they would then just cut contact
I need a FAQ video answering why you prefer Pepsi to Coke >:(
*cococal
It's just that I really don't like cocoa-cola
I wonder why they don't just dodge the "can you deduct the fee from the fund" question by claiming that the money is earmarked or some such, and can't be touched. It would be much more believable than "we just can't because reasons."
Sometimes they do, but generally if they see someone arguing that, they just drop them and move on. They're looking for marks who will sail through the process and hand over money without stopping to think.
I wonder how the "investment" types would respond if you started talking like you were an investment banker convinced they were trying to open an account with you.
So... What happens next?
Rest in peace Davis, you know if you're actually dead this time...again...
The people saying you’re wasting your time talking to a bot bro are probably scammers themselves trying to discourage you from continuing to waste their time. That, or, they might just be small boys keen to outsmart an adult. Hard to tell.
the fifth element reference got me lmao
"I don't always tell scammers the truth". Fair enough.
A couple of times I've given scammers a fake name, an impossible phone number, and a postal address that doesn't exist. I Iike to drip-feed it to them too, it's amazing how just a tiny bit of dangled personal info will keep them coming back. If they're selling the information on, sure they might get paid, but it then gets to waste the (slightly more valuable) time of somebody else higher up the chain. and will hurt their reputation as a seller (better rep means more money on most of the platforms this sort of business happens on, especially for the little guys doing email phishing)
Sure it wastes my time too, but everybody has to have a hobby....
I agree. The conversations seem a lot worse than ChatGPT.
are you keeping check of your Coco Cals?
I was wondering these days what happen with David Bon :))))
Honestly, the "Andrew Cox" bit should've been easy progress for the scammer. If the story is "this random person claims to be demanding your money, don't let him", then the victim asking "who is he" would probably confirm this Andrew guy was indeed a random person.
...Meanwhile, Andrew Cox could either be a costume designer who worked on movies like The Sweeny and Strike Back, or the director of the SWAC space force.
I just know that someone out there is holding onto the John Warosa legacy fund. Best load up on Steam cards!
You mean the John Barosa legacy fund. It's a common mistake people make. They work in the same office. Stock up an Apple cards.
Because the department of homeland security always contacts people from their Gmail accounts. Sounds legit.
James from Department of Homeland Security would be a great cat-name.
Not again! *When* will Davis Bon learn that being dead isn't helpful!?
I can't believe they let Andrew Cox walk in a SECOND TIME! He who cries lier is the biggest lier of all
I find it sort of hilarious that the story is 'some rando walked in and said he wanted to withdraw a huge fortune that belongs to you, that you've also never heard of. We're gonna go ahead and give him the money if you don't tell us to stop. By the way we are the Bank of Homeland Securty.'
@@AtomicShrimp Oh, absolutely, it's on a whole other plane of ridiculousness. I'm assuming they're trying to get you to fill in the gaps for how that scenario could ever occur in reality to get you to imagine someone walked into a bank with forged documents to steal from your account and just rely on that sense of panic to get you through the rest of the scam (i.e scare you enough that you don't think about what Bank of Homeland Security actually means)
“This is not fraudulent”…and then goes on to describe exactly how fraud works!😆
Great video! Thank you so much for a scambaiting vid. Always have and still do love them. And, the song goes without saying (again). ❤❤❤
Also, I might add, you have the funniest comment section. I adore the quick witted responses people give.
😂😆Thank You, Mr. Shrimp, for Everything You Do! If You were Speaking to a Bot, it Would know how to Spell Properly.. Lol. Have a Wonderful Evening! Much Love and Respect. 🙏💜🗝️💙🕊️
Your little prodding emails that only say "Excuse me" always make me laugh. 😆
At this point Davis bon deserves a movie or a wrestling character to go along with this back story
The last sentence of the ChatGPT essay is hilarious
Who are the Walters, and why are their questions so powerful? 😂
I know that part of the programming of gpt is done by prompting that was passed to it before you get to play with it, and certain tricks can make it regurgitate parts of that conditioning. It made me wonder if 'walters' was like a codename for 'users'
@@AtomicShrimp Ahh I didn't know that! I would love to think that it was writing a story where its a soothsayer for the Walter family.
He's back? This changes my plans significantly...
was not expecting that Fifth Element clip and cackled
Shrimp, I have severe camera and voice recording anxiety but I have always wanted to make a video about the scammer safari involving the fake gps tracker of a chest of money and scammers driving thousands of miles through several countries for absolutely nothing.
Being a scambaiter I'm sure you know about this legendary scambait. Maybe you can tell the story one day? I have tried but when i press record i stutter and get my words mixed up and an ai voice wouldn't do this tale justice. It's famous amongst scambaiters but not that famous amongst the general RUclips and internet community.
I don't remember if you've done this before, but here's an idea: Since sometimes the scammer offers to "pay a portion of the fee for you" to try to lower the price so that victims will pay it... What if you got multiple different scammers all doing that, and then tell all of them that the fee has been paid off thanks to their combined offers to each pay a portion - CC them together and all.
brilliant fun.
I find it really amusing when they say you will win US Dollars. Why not Australian dollars.. 😂😂😂 please ask them for other dollars other than US.
I wonder if James from Department of Homeland Security knows Jake from State Farm
I feel like the broken English is a sure sign of human intervention. And the overused "OK"s
11:18 definitely a person.
So disappointed that Paul Watson never even discussed his client's investement's venture's dividend reinvestment plan. He probrably has some difficulty the divide of the ends as such. Perhaps the ends are made out of red string.
Without wanting to give scammers hints, I feel that if they were to tell people the "money" was something reasonable, like £5000 and the payment required is £20 they'd get many more hits. Surely even for the people who self-filter into their catchment £10m seems to be too good to be true?
The name is Bon ... Davis Bon