How Scammers Stole BILLIONS in COVID Relief Funding
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Law enforcement officials are estimating that over 200 BILLION dollars in pandemic unemployment assistance has been lost to fraud. How did this happen?! How do we stop it from happening again? Thanks to an inside source from Nigeria, I'll show you how scammers filed fraudulent unemployment claims using the names of U.S. citizens. - บันเทิง
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can you mention me in a video plese
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I’m not gonna use it but okay
@@hamster7899 um..
This may seem like an insensitive statement, but who in their right mind would give out their social security number to someone they've never met in real life?
ok for real tho why are you everywhere
you will be surprise
The same people who think that a soldier with broken English is falling in love with them.
I had a few scammers called me and on chatrooms. Funny they always asking for money. When I clearly told them No I don't have any money. Heck I don't even have money for myself!! 😆
I assumed some of them came from a data breach
I work at a chat support agent for an unemployment agency. Little do these scammers know, we can see exactly where they are writing in from.
Every single day, my company is having to find new ways to prevent them getting unemployment funds. Nearly 75% of my chats, are based in Nigeria.
We can’t outright call them out either. We have to submit a form that could take weeks to be reviewed, and by then? They’ve figured out a new way to scam.
It’s pathetic. They aren’t only stealing someone’s identity- but federal funding we barely have to begin with.
Nigerian here. I love that you keep putting out this stuff. Here's hoping you get more and more scammers to divulge their methods. It's sickening, heartbreaking, and bloody embarrassing. It also ruins things for most honest Nigerians trying to work online. And I can't even imagine the pain the victims go through, financially and emotionally. Keep up the good work, Green! 💚
So awesome of you to speak up & stand up against these scammers! Keep being genuine! ❤️
Na gift card werey dey find 😂
hi, I replied back to your email, I sent the $800, when will I receive my $2 million? thank you
❤️🥰🥰
I am heartbroken
My Country is a deep mess
Bro I'm a Nigerian you, I have all it takes to scam, But I choose to hustle
Nothing is sweeter than legit money
That's cool. It must be a lot of pressure to do the dirty way. Keep grinding!
As u Dey take legit money u done carry am build house na or buy!! Carry ur legit money go buy glk na
Nigeria music needs to be made available as a notification tone
Yes!!!
I would love having that music as a notification sound if I could link it to my scambaiting email addresses.
I like the Jamaican music he used as well
Lol.. Indeed
Haha
The exscammer who gave you all this information is such a good person. It takes a lot to change sides just like that.
Indeed it does
Makes you wonder
He is still probably a scammer.
@@bediosoro7786 it wouldn't make sense to leak all of this information and stay in the business
@@picture_of_a_swan because he was be looking clean. Second he comrades knows about it. Or he is not being successful in the business so he want Ben to help him. The best way to be clean is to work with the local police for crack down. No one can verify his sincerity. So maybe I am wrong but I don't trust so called ex scammers.
I had a scammer tell my social security was suspended. I told him it’s not possible and he hanged up. Lol!
This triggers me so bad. I am a single mom completely on my own financially and I needed that money so bad. I had such a tough time getting a hold of it and I had no money, no income, for like six months. It was a fight to get that money. For about 6 months I sat back and watched the news as scammers were spending that money frivolously.
Yeah this topic gets me lol
Keep sure to inform yourself more about these scammers one misstep and godforbid you may become homeless
I've seen people accept 100K+ in fraudulent funds from unknown sources and then they immediately cut a cashiers check to a person they don't know and then finally hand deliver it to a unknown 3rd party in a random parking lot. As long as scammers have access to such malleable and gullible people fraud will be incredibly difficult to prevent.
I call it the natural selection. Harsh. But true.
I think we need a Sesame Street for "street smarts" and "real world awareness."
It did magic for families that can't afgord preschool, Takalani even addresses the local issues there including HIV, it can make a difference in privacy and fraud as well.
It will never be perfect, but the earlier you can teach someone to question and examine, the better a chance they have.
@@hotaru8309 isn't preschool for free tho?
"how am i supposed to keep track of all my passwords?"
notepad :)
Make sure to keep them all in a "passwords.txt" stored on your desktop too
@@fungifactory8925 yep
Use a password manager
Or just write them down and tape that on your wall/desk.. as long as noone you dont trust sees it its all fine.
Never write for what a password is though to make it a bit more secure if someone sees the list - cant do anything with it if they dont know the Email, Logins etc
It's crazy how victims dont see how broken the english is to tell it's a scam
Never underestimate people’s ability to be that fucking retarded.
Unless if you’re a elderly that knows nothing about scams even in this day of age or that if you’re not all there mentally regardless of who you are, ain’t got no excuse to fall for this BS.
Seriously! I do not blame the victims cause it’s not fair but it makes me scratch my head.
When I call Amazon and I get an rep in a different country, I ALWAYS ask to speak to a rep in the United States. I don’t trust the overseas reps, even though I do call the authentic Amazon customer number. You just don’t know if a scammer is working for Amazon just to get people’s information to sell to scammers.
Anyone can ask to speak to an Amazon rep in the United States if they ask. They will transfer you.
Tbh it’s all part of the scam. The scammers want to weed out all the ones that are CLEARLY smart or just want to waste their time so they use broken English so the not so smart ones think ‘there’s no way these are scammers because I’m clearly smarter than them’. It’s sad but true
I am so glad that you are out there to spread happiness in the world. You try to make friends with a scammers well also trying to stop the scamming from happening.
Speak of the divil, i just got a call saying my social security got revoked 🤣
@@insideedition4116 no
@@onecringymofo How ironic LMAO that we get spam comments on a video about scams, same as the ads.
@@modernlogix 🤣 the irony
@@insideedition4116
When I was a teenager I got blackmailed twice. I didn’t give out any personal info. It was still pretty scary and also mentally scaring. I wish we didn’t live in a kinda world where people are able to take away not only hard earned money but relief money needed when struggling to survive this crippling and sensitive time. I appreciate what you are doing, it’s important that you keep up the informative and helpful work you do here. Duces ✌🏼
Thank you so much. I've been subscribed to your channel for about 2 years now, and I want you to keep spreading awareness about scams!
Truly INCREDIABLE!!!!! I was very lucky that I caught on my scammer and did not send any money. I can NOT imagine how awful it would be if they took my life savings. Thank you! for the education Ben.
Great work on this one! I didn't even realize this was a scam that was happening. It's crazy that some people fall for the dating tactics. Interesting to know the scammer lingo as well.
Phenomenal work! Learning the scam lingo is soooo valuable. Thanks Mr. Ben!
Ur first
Lol
Way too early mate
@@actorguy6707 I'm a channel member...we got to see it first.
@@DEYOCLUB We know
This is so sad, I hate it when people get scammed. I work in retail and I do my best to help people not get scammed. If someone is buying a google play card ( a common card that scammers seem to have people buy) for like $100+ dollars I always ask " are you buying this in response to a email/phone call/text message you received" actually had one lady said yes a phone call from the government, I just told her nope it's a scam don't buy it and she said thank you and left. unfortunately I know many other retail workers won't go the extra mile but I try to tell everyone please be aware and pass on the information about scamming.
Thanks for telling that lady about that scam hopefully more people do go that extra mile
Wow that's actually a very good point! Anyone who sells giftcards should ask obligatory why they are buying the giftcard and if they've received a message saying to buy one. That would surely stop most scammers in their tracks.
this is the only channel where i watch the adds til the end so the guy can get more money and help more people, i have discovered this channel like few days ago and just, keep up the nice work
As challenging as this pandemic has been for everyone including business, it is disgusting that people from other countries would steal relief money from innocent people. Like imagine having a struggling business and barely making enough to feed a family and pay for a house, and then a relief bill gets passed to help you. And having it never show up would be ABSOLUTELY devastating
Struggling business, barely enough to feed family and pay rent. Sounds exactly like the kind of circumstances that would force one into ... scamming.....
@@ninjafruit816 yep
@@ninjafruit816 you don’t need to scam if you can affford a computer they know better
You should now look into the billions stolen by american individuals
people were claiming to have small businesses and we're being given 10 million
not to mention the hundreds of inmates who had relief money deposited into their relatives accounts ,the government was sloppy with how they handed out this money
@@gidd or look into Democrats giving stimulus to foreign and us people who don’t qualify under the table
The problem is not unemployment applications, but rather the apps that let you receive money from the government. There are many apps that give you a virtual US Bank but they restrict you to receiving money from US companies only.
'Tis both.
It's how the applications work, they did choose to accept cash app, and the apps.
But cash app is for USA and UK only. They must have jumped hoops to get an account since they're in Nigeria.
My SSN was simply stolen and used to claim fraudulent unemployment benefits in 2020. I became aware only when I got hit with a tax bill I had to dispute. Fortunately, I didn’t have to pay a dime, filed a police report (they did nothing so far), and “reported” the fraud on different “agency” sites. Coming to your channel and learning more about how to protect yourself online has been more beneficial than any “help” from a government agency.
I’m happy you came up with this video... commenting before watching
More people have to watch stuff like this because so many people just fall for this and end up getting scammed, yes I know some scammers do this so they can provide there family’s but they don’t have to do this to other people. Just makes me feel bad for everyone being scammed😭
You’re right I think if I didn’t watch scam baiting sights I would’ve been scammed by now
@@MoNsTeRDaRkZz perhaps. Cyber safety is important
Surely saving all your passwords in one place is worse? If that’s hacked you lose everything
Not when dashlane can't even see your passwords.
Then they won't b happy with me. I don't write it down and I forget. I end up asking for a new password. ,:-)
@@mamacindyrogofsky495 honestly that may actually be the best thing to do lol 🤣🤣
@@alphazero5614 Explain to me how it can remember it and save it without having it stored somewhere?
@@Tarak_Selic it uses hashes generated from your password to save your password making it unable to be seen, so if your password is "password" then what Dashlane will see is a random jumble of letters.
It makes complete sense now as to why almost two years later unemployment reached out to me needing to verify my unemployment benefits in 2020 were in fact legitimate. I was so annoyed they reached out when I already received benefits for being unemployed for a few months in 2020, but I didn’t even think of scammers stealing unemployment money!
Wow men you should really thank that guy for sharing those facts with you, I mean its cost a lot to get such information here tooo ...yea am from NIGERIA
Best thing when pleasant green uploads!
Wow, that’s one heck of an FBI agent with cat headphones 😂
@Nekorei Cat Ears
Meow wait just a minute, he's a professional.
Great video! Shared it on Facebook to help get the word out there.
I have worked for IDES in Illinois and had dealt with people that were having fraud claims under and have noticed a lot of different trends for a lot of them
My grandma got scammed... if you would like to prank the scammers that scammed her, I would like that.
I was scared at first when I
Contact with sir Verattycyber on !G but he prove himself and make me happy at last with the $10k you generate in my cash app few days ago thanks 🙏🙏🙏 a lot.
I received an email saying some of my info was missing on my unemployment claim. Now I didn't have a claim in so I knew it was a scam but when they send the same mass email to thousands of accounts, they are bound to get a few bites. Please never open these emails or click on links you don't recognize. In fact, assume EVERYTHING is a scam..
Great job exposing Scams, I still don't understand how people fall for any Scams ( IRS, SSA, Amazon, Dating Sites, Etc.) just to name a few, I would think that asking for a social security # or money in any form would be a Red Flag!!!
Hey green, before you even hit 500k, (he's at 499k right now) congrats man. keep taking down scammers
Love your videos. Gives so much perspective.
Hi
You be low key Nigeria man no cap asin...
I swear my brother
Na so😂😂😂
Ye ba bwe
I’m dey talk nonsense 😂😂😂😂
@@investorjames6734 you dey funny sha😂
You should literally make a movie about these scammers, not a documentary, but a real redemption story.
You’re a legend man, I love your stories.
I always heard about fraud, I thought it was just people lying on their apps for unemployment. I didn't realize it was actually out of country people. It's sad, the money was sent out to help, but like most well meaning things, it was exploited.
i call out scams all the time lol they hate it and end up cussing me out.
they be mad
Lol me too or I get blocked 🤣
Youre really good at transitioning to ads - these products youre advertising are great and its even better how you transition to them
Thanks Ben! Great information.
_legend has uploaded finally_ 😲
I’m not surprised I know a guy that said that about 7 of his dead relatives were living with him and he got all the relief checks. Almost $10k for one person?? Still can’t believe that he got away with it...
You got some really good information man ... your inside man is a real gee
I find it hard to believe that anyone would fall for that. I know it happens a hell of a lot, it just surprises me that people can be that dumb.
I am so glad *verattycyber on !G* didn't disappoint me after I explained my order and the situation I was facing ,glad he raised me 20000 dollars 💵 for just the little I have to invest with him.
Unbelievable. Thanks for this video
Yesterday I was looking at your channel, saw your last video was a week ago, got excited for the next one! Here it is! Thanks Pleasant!
Omg can’t believe but thanks for sharing this with us and blessings 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hello dear
This is your best video so far. So well done.
Without dating, I had a scammer steal my SS# and apply for unemployment benefits (and get approved). I was able to stop the claim without them getting any payouts, but it was very stressful. I not only had to change my passwords on everything in the world, I had to report to the IRS, SS office, and about a zillion other places.
Went thru the same. Happened after I applied for unemployment here in my state. I really don’t know how they got my SSN but they applied and got money in 2 different states. I even got a 1099 for taxes..it was crazy. You have to make a report to the FTC and police reports because it’s identity theft and the DES here was aware of what was going on because they actually called me after I reported it. Glad you were successful in stopping them.
God to see u back missed ur vds
I used to work for Money Gram corporate and the BBB in the early 2000's. The amount of fraud that came across my desk was unreal. MG was the worst. Trying to convince people that the person they were sending cash to was a scammer, and they just wouldn't believe us. Sometimes it was coyote scams, Nigerian boyfriends, Nicaraguan gambling, all kinds of things. Now it's worse because of the prevalence of the internet. These scams have been going on for decades and there is still so little awareness relative to the occurrence.
I received an email from my HR department asking if I had applied for unemployment. Obviously I had been working so I told them no and they said to fill out a fraud form and mail it to our local government. I had asked what information this person used and they emailed back everything they had, they used an address I haven't lived at in well over 20 years. The state had paid out 10 weeks of unemployment before verifying with my employer and myself.
Ive still been waiting for my state to review my unemployment case since october 1st of last year.
That's about when they caught on to that PUA fraud
@@bappppp Yeah and I had something weird go on in 2019 so im sure that's what the hold up is. As far as I know my info didn't get scammed but honestly who even knows at this point. I haven't gotten a penny yet that's all I know.
No it’s because I have been collections your payments all along 😂😂
Illinois?
i called a scam centre and said “you won a free trip to hawaii press 1 to claim your prize” all thay said is “we are not allowed to claim it” and i said i knew where that are and i said that are in nigeria and thay hang up i think that got them scared.thank you for reading this it long oof.
i got one of those but i live in hawaii
@@notmarcus17 so did they try to give you a resort sat instead XD
It's India that does those stupid scams
im so glad that to hear that scammers are turning away bc of pleasent green. great job mr. Ben Dover! :)
Gosh 🤣🤣 he’s learning the Nigerian slangs , it cracked me up hearing him pronounce it🤣. Am not a scammer but there’s something non of these scammers have told you which many Nigerians know they use
But i respect you cos this is like a project or research , it comes with hard work. men you need to sell this knowledge
I'm Nigerian born and bred here, it's crazy how normal scamming has become, i mean even guys that dont need to do it do, it's an open secret. Another crazy thing which I guess shouldn't be crazy is what alot of those guys do with the money, I mean...if you didn't really work hard to earn your money the legit way you wouldn't know the value of it. Its just sad.
I am a Nigerian also. Quite sad
I'm also Nigerian and all they are doing is tarnishing the country's name some people from there are nice but most are scammers
It is good are We all say Nigeria but the truth be told it is people from the Southern part of the Country that are doing this
I'm laughing so hard when the guy has a straight face and cat headphones
Hi🇯🇲
Where you from and am not a scam😁
@@lilneil6010 I'm married
@@cdarbo9818 ohh ok
LOL was this guy trying to get it on in the comments of a video about dating scams? That's some audacity and/or obliviousness.
Am Nigerian. Scamming started in Aso rock. I hate scamming. There's dignity in labour.
This is an education sir! Thanks to you for this.
When the FBI agent wears cat ears headphones you know you didn’t expect the unexpected
pleasant green: "gets a scam"
also pleasant green: "its show time baby"
Always great content. Thank you!
Hi
63 Billion is a lot of loss! It's sad and pathetic.
As we enjoy the scammers getting wasted, it's so sad when we realise how the needy ones may have missed the funds...
Someone tried to scam me by saying that they were over seas in the military and said how they were willing to do all this things when they met the person they fell in love with. Knowing how I feel about people just saying they will do anything for “love” was a huge red flag to me and also the fact that not only have I been in the military and have family that is currently in the military and have dated people that have been in the military and have friends that are also in the military, yeah, I wasn’t falling for that bullshit. I messed with the person for a while but when he started asking me for money, I laughed and laughed and laughed! Then I said what makes you think that I’d give you anything? If you’re in the “military”, I know for a fact that they would not let a soldier get stuck somewhere without finding a way home or back to the base. Also it was really fishy when the person could not answer where they went to basic or what job/ MOS they had. Two very basic questions. Not only that he kept sending me pictures that were old because he said he was over seas at the time but he wasn’t wearing any of the new uniforms and driving a civilian vehicle. 🤔 Nope, didn’t fall for any of that crap. Looking back on it now, I’m glad that I was smart enough to realize how scummy that person was but it was funny while it lasted.
Yeah I get a lot of those too but I like to mess with them I go along and play their little game I've had one guy for about six and a half months to play mind games with them act so stupid when he said oh I need your bank information so I could pay you money once my account opens up. You know like the crock of b******* they give you I can't believe people actually fall for it though that is crazy. Kudos to you
This one time, someone claiming to be military overseas messaged me on Instagram and after maybe an hour at best they put on a sob story about how they needed my help sending funds to their child back in the US. Our exchange was so casual and I definitely wasn’t flirting with them or anything (to give the impression I was interested in a relationship) and they still came in hard with the approach. I don’t remember what I said or if I didn’t say anything and just blocked them. Usually when I know someone is pretending to be a soldier I tell them they should be ashamed of themselves for impersonating someone who actually does something meaningful with their lives. These people are scum!
Those LED lights you got for free are actually really nice!
Mr. Pleasant Green you are doing a Great job.
Wow, it's amazing what you do here on this channel.
You know what crazy scammers have been on the rise since the pandemic started
Great work
I can't watch this
This guy is very accurate with this, this is how it's done,and people are proud of it
I work for a major bank and was pulled from my department to help with the high influx of these unemployment claims. It was crazy.
It’s absolutely amazing to me that people fall “ in love” with someone online! Especially when you’re reading broken English! Those messages are ridiculous! You can tell they’re from another country! If you can’t talk to me on the phone and I can’t see you on cam or FaceTime, it’s not happening!
My aunt fell for this he ended up confessing and disappeared
Hi
I met a girl online, she lied to me saying she loved me ect cause at first I wasn't giving her that attention, and I wasn't giving into her, when she kept persisting and I finally started to like her we met then she slept with me 4 times in 3 days and then just left and sent me a message saying I just wanted to sleep with u nothing more, she actually hurt me in ways I never knew it was possible, these so called fake love stories at least u ain't heart broken from the end of it.
Although this scam is awful, your source seems really nice and I am glad that he realised that scamming was not an honest way to make a living. Love your videos Ben and hope you have a lovely day :)
Hey for the guy that reformed you did good. Be the change you want to see. Call out those who do it and keep being the good person your mother raised.
I know many people here in Nigeria who do this, and when I read the chat between them and their so called clients, its so funny.
The activities of these scammers really makes it difficult for us nigerians doing freelance online work for foreign clients.. i am a comic book artist and getting paid Americans i work for ( which I'm supposed to be happy about) is and has always been a nightmare.. Been thinking of just quitting entirely
Don’t quit! Don’t let the scammer creeps get to you. If you quit, they will have won. Keep doing what you love to do, and don’t let them pull you down! 😄 I know this is a year later, but I had to say something!
This guy just showed my city what are the odds
@@insideedition4116 SCAMMER
@@insideedition4116
A thing that I've seen scammers do on Facebook is use hacked accounts to make the accounts older and to already have friends on their account (I mean, whenever people have hundreds of friends, unless it's someone close to you then you're not as likely to notice that someone on your friends list disappeared or that someone randomly appeared). Then they seem to add people through the friends lists of those people who see that so-and-so knows them and branch out from there. You can tell when this happens on accounts that had URLs set up because the name in the URL always seems to differ from the scammer's alias. But, of course, you won't even see that if you're on the app.
Befriending scammers. Now THAT is smart
Tell Ronnie his earphones looks cute
You keep updating young Nigerians with this your videos. Lol. Keep it up
Update wey don cast
Aje
Na real OG
I appreciate that the scammer stopped (hopefully at least)
Scamming is also very rampant on Facebook they know this and they're not doing anything about it except blocking people who complain about it I really wish you would do something on this subject against Facebook so they will take notice and start taking these people off their service
Just imagine how much more successful these scammers would be if they hired someone to not write in broken english. Scary.
Some of these scammers can write pretty good English. Most can't
@@SECYBERSAFE yeah, but the script is trash. They should have hired an English major on fiverr to write a script and double the profit
@@Rainaman- lol, perhaps. But this exposes them to the risk of getting caught.
More eyes and ears equals more vulnerability in their scam plans.
Don't ask me how I know 😈
Am a Nigerian
I hope things get better for us
So the society no longer have to look towards us as a threat
Wishing for an opportunity to help others
This man here is making us look like a threat he always find a way to link his scam to Nigeria and giving us bad images
I appreciate you understanding 🙏
@@michealross6516 bruh, this isn't a pleasant green thing. This is common knowledge for 90% of the world
You are doing great keep doing the gud Job 👍
We need more like buttons or something (possibly a super like), I feel as though clicking the like button one time is not accurately capturing how much I like this channel
1:21🔥 in ‘Scam We Trust’
G4 Boyz
On God 🙏🙏🙏
ctfu🤣😆
@@ijustbarleygotonline1650 Mr Ben is there a way I can have a word with you I need help
This is why really dont respond to face book friend requests from ppl I don't KNOW!!!!!!!
It's america eventually they'll get in the same stage of the evolutionary line
Right? I keep getting friend requests from so many beautiful young college women... although lately Facebook thinks I might be interested in Italian and Greek women. IDK....
This is why I don't use a facebook
It is a friend request. People are fucking weird. Why hoard all these contacts when you just need your closest friends.
Pleasant Green woke up today and said “Let me drop a banger video” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Na craz man
If the government can lose 63Billions just like that, then there is no excuse for all the people living under the poverty limit!
the fact this has a covid alert and not a scammer alert tells you everything you need to know about america
@@insideedition4116 you're disgusting, pretending to be him in order to scam when he's exposing scammers like you. Beware of these types of comments folks
@@insideedition4116 fake
america didn’t put that alert? youtube did?
@@fixzd4389 true, but not enough important people call out the hypocrisy my point :)
Oh no..
I will never stop until society stops