That cheery "You too F**ker" just slayed me. I used to work legitimate CSR jobs and there are so many times I wish I could have just busted out a response like that.
@@jacobhinger5039 both of these comments are true. I've worked as a CSR in bank call centers for the past 8 years and the times i've cussed someone out after they're hung up is innumerable.
@@RaechylBlackfyre is it really that hard? If only talked 2 times with ebay customer service, both times were pleasant short talks, both wishing a good day at the end xD
I've ended two scambait calls kind of like that. After wasting their time by putting them into an unsolvable situation both said, "What do you expect me to do now?" I suggested they perform a sex act on me and then I hung up. It felt good.
Took him some years, but well into his adult life, he's finally learned manners. He's still not there yet, but he's on the right track. Give it a few decades and he might develop self-image and critical thinking.
CSR training for newbies lasts like 1 or 2 months, where they train you and give you ways to keep your cool among other things, obviously this people isn't trained for such useless things, all that time needs to be spent in training them on scamming people.
Two things with Comcast from a longtime Comcast customer. 1. They rarely give discounts. 2. When you call the toll-free number, you are dumped into an automated queue, where you have to answer a series of questions so they can direct your call to the proper rep. Only after completing this do you get to speak to a human. If you do not encounter this when you call them, it is not Comcast.
@@six87urnext Sorry, that was not my intent. However, in my defence, most of these scamming operations are run on a shoestring budget. I seriously doubt that they are willing to spend the money and take the time to set up a proper automated call center. And I do know of what I speak. I spent 35 years, before retiring, working in IT.
i wish i'd had a clever response the time they tried to scam me. i just couldn't understand her accent. i asked her to repeat who she was calling from three times and ultimately she hung up on me.
@@aaronmoore186 Yeah I was going to say, indian accent = automatically scam. I think even companies caught up with this and won't hire anyone with indian accent to avoid issues.
Safest idea is to never call a number they provide in a message like that. Just use the customer service info available in your app that you know is legit and ask them about it
I do that too, last year I got an email saying I needed to change my Apple password and I just went to the actual safe site to change it than click the link
The most important thing to identify scams is the need to pay using a gift card. No legitimate company requests gift cards as payment. But scammers need that form of payment because all other ways to get the money are easily traced back to them. Gift cards break the chain making tracing the money incredibly difficult.
@@kenludlow7391 By the time they are asking you to pay for gift cards, they've probably already asked for identifying information about you that they can sell to other scammers or use for other scam attempts. Best to twig their game long before reaching that stage and just never call their number in the first place.
I work at a Walgreens and I think I saved an old woman from being scammed. She came in looking for apple gift cards, saying she had it on her phone which ones she needed. She didn't know what they were, or how they worked. She thought they cost 5 dollars. After explaining what they are and how she might be getting taken advantage of, she didn't buy them. Felt good.
Awesome! Walgreens employees at the store where I go, have always been really kind and alert for scams. So even when I've been having a really bad day, I'm always cheerful at Walgreens, just to hopefully make their day better. Really cool people, from the cashiers to the pharmacy.
hearing the scammer say "piggly wiggly" fuckin slayed me. as someone legitimately from the middle of nowhere down south i haven't heard that name in years. another banger video xDD
I'm so glad you finally got the surgery to remove those sunglasses. That must have been really tough living your life with those things on your face 24/7.
I wish Target would ask when people buy these gift cards if it is for the ComCast or T-Mobile offer in order to then warn people it is a scam. Or the stores should have signs posted where the cards can be purchased to warn people of possible scams and which ones to watch out for.
@@ameliab7245 Most of these stores do have signs now, huge signs, right near the gift cards. Warning people that businesses will never want to be paid in gift cards, anyone asking for you to get gift cards is a scam, etc.
I work at comcast CS and if they are not trying to shove an Xfinity Mobile line down your ass, they are scammers, they pressure us a lot to sell those lmao
@smol_pupper123 tbh I don't think it would have worked that well. Sure a few might have but regular viewers of kitobga know the second gift cards are involved, or not telling people certain things, it's a scam.
I work at Target and i'm glad to say that the almost 2yrs I've worked there i haven't had one person try to buy a bunch of gift cards. Target and many other stores are VERY aware of these types of scams.
I think if they had been less stingy they would have succeeded more often. someone who buys 1 card of 500 stands out much less than someone who buys 2000 cards.
Apparently they're sending customers to Lowes and Home Depot now for gift cards because CVS and Target added limits to their gift cards. Hopefully Lowes and Home Depot start doing the same thing too.
I used to work in Electronics at Target and had people try to buy large amount of gift cards every few weeks. It really depended on which leader was in on if they would get sold or not. Some leaders cared and some did not. I actually had someone come in with $1500 of google play gift cards trying to exchange them for cash because they bought them and realized it was a scam before actually giving them to the scammer. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do.
Just remember if any company wants you to pay them with gift cards, hang up. There is NO legit company that will ask for payment in gift cards, in the US at least. And if in doubt hang up and look up the companies number and call it to check, don't call the number the scammer gives you always look up the number. Love your work Kitboga
If you have some spare time, do not hang up, act like you would fall for it, but only stall them a bit. They cannot scam anyone else, who is not knowing these scams, while they are on the phone with you.
@@andrewvelonis5940 You do not have to bring creativity like them. Just give them some bogus data when they ask for personal info, act like you have no clue. Usually the funniest things just come up as you talk with them. Stalling them for a minute is better than hanging up, as you will occupy them and that costs them money, both actively in hours and passively in lower "sales". If you have the ability to setup some vm(virtualbox is free - never let them access your main pc), install some old windows(no need to license that, trial is just fine), with some browsers and random freeware. Just like some rarely used pc. Take a snapshot, so you never have to reinstall and are able to wipe the scammer from the vm with two clicks, after you are done. Then make them do their stuff and act like they will make a fortune on you. Slightly interrupt them, i.e if they use a browser, press "ctrl w" to close the tab. The last one who "sent me to the router" to "get the serial number", while he installed teamviewer as his backdoor, became very anxious. Downloading and installing took minutes on my "old" computer and he had to come up with more excuses. That idea just came up as I saw, what he was up to.
That reaction at 1:20 was so funny to watch live Kit was convinced it wasn't a scam until the scammer dropped the f-bomb. Sheer confusion and incredulity spread over his face. 😂😂
I almost fell for this one as well. They kept calling from a number that the ID even said was xfinity, so I thought it was legit. They asked me about my router and told me they were gonna send a new one. They didn't ask for gift cards though, they asked for the card I use to pay for the account. That's when all suspicion turned to reality for me and I hung up. Thanks to this channel for making me suspicious of all these scams.
As someone who actually works at an Xfinity store, we've been seeing a decent bit of these emails coming in with people asking if they are real. Real shitty to see them happening but really good to know the workings of these scams
It's actually really... heartwarming? I guess? to see that there are people who are making the effort to check with Target through a legit line. I mean you never know when something is actually some great promotion, but it's great that people have learned enough to be like "Let me ask Target through their legitimate email if this is real first".
It starts out cleverer than usual but then...gift cards. Always gift cards. Obviously some people are falling for this. It really needs to be drilled in that gift cards are never a legitimate payment method for any company.
Last time I bought a gift card at CVS I noticed on the touchscreen it said if you were told to buy gift cards against your will or something like that press yes or no etc. thought that was a nice proactive touch.
I work with an elderly person and they got one of those scam calls promising a new car. This elderly person immediately knew it was a scam, but they had seen some scam bating videos in the past and thought they’d try their hand at it despite me trying to get them to hang up. Anyway the scammer managed to get this person confused enough by asking them things more rapidly than they could make up answers-they weren’t that quick to begin with. They let the name of their actual bank and their mother’s maiden name out before I finally got them to hang up. The scammer kept calling back too and I had to stay close to this person to make sure they didn’t pick up again. Please don’t engage these scammers unless you have a clear plan and experience that Kitboga and others like him have. Just hang up or, better yet, don’t answer unknown numbers. All you do is tell them there is a living person behind the number and they’ll sell your number to every scam center and bombard you with 20 calls or more a day. They are getting smarter and more percistant. Heck, this one almost fooled Kitboga. It was only by sheer luck he caught it. Be vigilant, and make sure your loved ones are too.
Kit may not delete files or gain access to their systems, but he does waste their time, and in my opinion, is the funniest of the scambaiters. The man's got a gift and is still wasting their time which means less people are being scammed. Keep doing you, man. We love and support you!
sometimes he does report them or give people who CAN gain access to their system the information so he’s like an all around batman edit: PLUS he’s funny. best guy ever
Yes, they tried that with me. They even were able to look up the amount I still owed. But when they asked for money in order to lower the amount, that's when I knew they were scamming me.
God it's so wild to me that people fall for "oh you have to go to another store and buy their gift cards and then come back and give them to me. Don't go to our physical store location at all but do go to this unrelated store." I feel so bad for people this works on, I can't imagine what other crazy trouble they get themselves into.
Same thing is being attempted with scammers impersonating T-Mobile. It was the exact same thing as this Xfinity scam and the phone number they provided in the message was not a T-Mobile care number. They are also using A.I. voice changer, sounds like the TMobile automated voice, but the wording used gave it away as someone who does not speak English as a primary language if you listen close.
The editing combined with Kit = 500% pure entertainment and knowledge! (From the fake Biden saga reference lol) This was a great call on Twitch, nothing like watching live! 💜💜💜
What if the end goal of the youtube channel was to get donations and it was a scam the whole time the long con 😂 Lol idk why that came up unto my mind when I saw this 😅😅
My mum is in a crochet group with a bunch of other women, mostly elderly women. And recently the organiser of the group got hacked and the hackers sent emails from her address saying that she was stuck in Florida and needed to borrow money. They knew her name, the fact she was holidaying in Florida, her husbands name, her husbands health issues. And so the email was very convincing. My mum was ready to go out and get gift cards for her before I told her to call the organiser and check with her if she really needs help. Surprise surprise it was a scam, but honestly if Kitboga hadn’t made me so vigilant of the fact scammers use gift cards so often, I might not have recognised it.
my grandfather got a call like this, he thought it was real and doesn’t have good hearing so he asked me to talk to the person. once i heard them ask for a gift card, i knew it was a scam. there were also other hints towards it being a scam, thank you for the videos, kit! thanks to them i was able to stop my grandfather from being scammed
I always tell my mom to NEVER click links in email or texts. And never take the phone calls. She's to go to the company website and either log in or call the 800# listed there or on her bill. If there's a legit discount, they'll have it. And if, heaven forbid, she does take the call - if they ever ask for gift cards for payment, hang up and block the number. Luckily, my mom listens. And she's even taken the extra step a few times of reporting the information directly to the companies. I've also sent my fair share of spam mail to various fraud departments. I especially make sure to send in the one's that are so well done, you have to dig to realize it's spam. Spammers are getting better and more dangerous. Stay alert!
AI will create a new wave of this as it can imitate proper speaking, spelling and writing style. "In the style of an X letter/bill" I hope openAI have something to stop this happening
The 240/month is honestly the most realistic of the three here. Cable companies package the popular channels in onesie-twosie with tens of unpopular channels and then sell those packages, so if you only want to get the popular channels you’re stuck paying for all of the channels you don’t want for a lot more money than you would have had to if they sold channels individually. Cable is almost a scam.
But there's nothing plausible about it. They falsely claim to be 'partnered' with them and ask you not to mention the 'partnership' to the clerks when you cash out the gift cards... which they're requesting as payment method... it's stupid any way you slice it.
@@papayer yeah it's not a bulletproof grift or anything, but they're still giving a reason why Target would be involved at all. Plus it plays into those promotions where you get a rebate in the form of a gift card from a store like Target. It's meant to make people drop their guard, and "don't mention it at the store because we've had issues where Target staff don't know about the promotion" might be enough to convince the people they're out to scam
@@ShadowNinja452 you’re forgetting that they’re not scamming us, they’re scamming people who don’t know and are often easily confused. Anything they do that makes the scam more plausible to someone like that is going to help avoid questions.
These particular scammers are aware of you and your channel. Which probably means they actually just had to get a new scam. Which means, it is working!!! You are shedding light on them and spreading knowledge! Knowledge is power baby!! They had to get new scams 🤣 only a matter of time until the system just breaks down totally.
Hii love your content please keep up the amazing content. And I have a suggestion, why not "get into an accident" on your way to target and see what the scammer does in response?
I’ve gotten a couple texts about my non existent Netflix account being frozen lately. They are definitely getting better with grammar and spelling so make sure to always search for phone numbers on snail mail, or online but don’t use any promoted sites. Those are usually right at the top of your search.
Thanks for all that you do to try and help us who are prey for these heartless scum. I am 71 and was scammed out of $105K last year by the "Geek Squad". I cringe every time I think of it. Anyway, cool sunglasses
This video saved my boss from making a huge mistake. She metioned to me in passing a couple days ago that she got a call from comcast and was going to get a sweet 50% off deal if she paid for 8 months in advance. Because i saw this video, I was able to stop her before she went through with it. Thanks for what you are doing brother! It makes a difference!
Dude, at this point, If I were a gift card company, I'd supply this guy with fake cards. Heck i'd launch a limited edition kitboga card to thank the guy.
@a dude you are soo cool what a cool response wow. You must be the saddest person, just a lonely little human engulfed in their own shitty existence. Such sad very alone.
This definitely seemed legit up until the request for Target gift cards. Still, people who don't know about these scams could be tricked. Thanks for continuing to bring awareness to these scammers!
I worked in the cable tv industry and the number of times I had a customer come into my store wondering why their discount they got from one of these scammers wasn’t on their bill is horrifically huge. Not only are they out the money they gave to the scammers, they are still stuck paying their bills
I fell for a scam recently. The scam was simple. I had to show up to work for 8 hours a day for 5 days a week and work very hard for near minimum wage. They told me that if I kept working for years and continued to do well I would get more money and have a chance to own a car or home one day. Turns out it was all a scam and there is no way that honest work will ever lead to wealth.
I have a iPhone and never answers calls that I don't know. A few weeks ago I received a call from a Russian number and sent it to voicemail. They left a voicemail and the voicemail number showed a Florida # saying they were Comcast and I had 50% promo and I knew it was a SCAM. Love your channel. Keep up the great work.
I really wonder if the people who work these call centers are stuck in some type of human trafficking (or debt consolidation, indebtedness) situation. The idea that there are this many people willing to be so awful to any other human... It just makes the world seem so bleak.
I’ve heard interviews with ex-scammers and they say that a bad economy with a job market full of nepotism and classism leads to a younger generation with very minimal prospects. That combined with many years of a false image that America is just bursting with money, and even our poor live like kings-propaganda that America itself is guilty of promoting: they just don’t see us as victims.
I heard that recently, people in my home country are being lured in with what they think are legit jobs and then it turns out to be a scam call centre. It's really hard to get out of it and people are afraid something bad will happen to them or their family if they do. It's hard to feel even an ounce of empathy for a scammer but knowing this makes it really sad.
I actually fell for an Xfinity scam a decade ago. I was in college and we lost wifi regularly so one day i responded to one of these texts and pretty much from then until the end of college I'd get invoices from them saying I owed crazy amounts for a literal hour of screen time. Absolutely stupid, but learned a lesson.
I work for the business side in the billing team and this is happening to the business people too. Getting calls to go to target and pay in advance and youll get half off for 6 months..saying Comcast is working with target. It's so sad to have to break it down for the cus, thank goodness I watch these videos already I could smell the scam the second my callers described it to me
A housemate of mine fell for this scam back in like 2015 when she was trying to get xfinity . She tried to tell us guys "we got scammed" and tried to have us all pay her for the 400 she got scammed out of.
This is one of the more sophisticated one I heard. I remember one of this covered by another scambaiter and he even connected the call to actual Comcast representative but I never did catch how the scam works. Unlike the typical refund/gift card scam, this one sounds more easily manipulated... All of the setup are made professionally, and the amount that they ask isn't something so ridiculous like other scammers, a comcast plan starts at 60 bucks and half that is merely 30... And it tops usually at 300 ish bucks which is what Kit has... So their range is 30-150 bucks, unlike those who asked 500-1000 bucks in a single call. This one is particularly dangerous, if not for the First scammer cursing, they won't be dragged to the Pits of hell by Kit for it and Thank God he did
Holy Shit, Kitboga has eyes?! I was sure behind those glasses were just endless voids that suck up all the bullshit you get while calling those scammers
As someone who has been with Xfinity for years, they will never call you for anything. They will always email, physically mail you something, or if they are running some kind of promotion, they will attempt to sell you something when you call to change your service address or check for an outage, essentially meaning you have to call them
they do call sometimes, i have nonstop xfinity mobile calls trying to get me to switch my phone plan to them. also 100% legit cause i’ll call customer service and they have the call logged and attempt to sell me it again lol
Sometimes I can't watch these videos because I used to work in an actual, non scam call center, and have talked to these exact people and it gives me ptsd to have to listen to it again
If you ever get these kind of "offers", always call the number on your bill and ask them directly about it. Remember: any kind of "high pressure, limited time" offer is bound to be a scam.
woah, the scams are getting way better, however.. SO ARE WE!! BE DILIGENT! DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE. well done Kitboga and team, this one ALMOST got away.
Gift card payment kills it, and you're not supposed to talk to their "partner" Target. Another idiotic scam, although they did put a hair more effort into it than some.
@@purplefishy8164 It's less than that, unless you're referring to how many actually stay on and then keep going with them, versus just dumping them. These people are lazy and don't want to do the work that other people do. Look at some of the small Pakistani shops using old and simple hand fabricated equipment to rebuild everything automotive. These guys are good and the shops thrive on reputation. Not easy work however, but interesting to watch on YT. These scammers refuse to even be resourceful enough to try to make their scam have a shred of credibility.
I got a Capital One email that had me so convinced, it looked soo legitimate. I called the phone on my card and determined it was fake. The fake CO email was one . Off the real CO. 🤯
I got a text message saying that I had a formal complaint filed against me and to have me or my lawyer call immediately....I googled it and it was a scam
Ahh, so that's how the scam goes with the discount thing. I used to get the 50% discount calls about a service I wasn't even signed up for (probably FIOS but my memory is trash). A quick google gave me the results of "it's a scam" and I went on with my life. Lately I've gotten them again, this time for Comcast, so either the scammers decided to try a different company or have been able to figure out I do actually have Comcast.
While you've had a lot of scammers give excuses why you can't tell Target why you want their gift cards, then explaining why you can't tell their "promotional partner" the reason was new to the palate 😂
Sometimes the scammer will look up your address to see if it's real. Or to check if you own an expensive house so they'll ask for an appropriate amount from the victim.
"you can send unlimited texts per day" 'well i dont need that many. Lets negotiate because i dont want to be greedy and take more than i need. Im sure there are some people starving who dont have enough text messages. Can i donate some of them to a food bank?'
So not only would someone be out the money they give the scammer but then they would lose their Xfinity services by thinking they don't have to pay for 6 months. That's crazy
Not XFinity but another cable provider but my parents once didn't pay for cable for several years, they didn't realise it was still connected as they were using satellite. Then when they found out and called to cancel the cable company thought to send them a bill for more than 5 years of unpaid service. They'd bought the house and cable shouldn't have been connected, but the previous owner had failed to cancel (or more likely had canceled and the cable company had messed up, that happened to me a few years later with the same cable company).
I literally have watched you for so many hours but I still got scammed but as soon as they said the gift cards, I realized it was a scam because I learn from your videos.
i work for an internet and cable company and i’ve had 2 people calling in that did this scam wondering why their bills didn’t go down bc they paid $600+ 😭
We literally started outsourcing our support to other countries for cheap labor, and we taught them the ropes. Literally karma, cause and effect, in the most non-mumbo jumbo sense.
Gotta admit I had a similar moment. Got a msg on my phone saying that my utilities were going to be cut off due to non-payment. The utility was on auto-pay so I called the number they provided to find out what was going on. I'm told that they had replaced my analog meter with a digital one and that I owed them $600 for the new meter. I told them I didn't have $600. They asked if I had $200. Again I said no. They replied by saying "Well then, you're in trouble" and hung up. It was at this moment that I realized something didn't make sense because never had I heard of someone from any customer service dept responding like that. I called the utility, verified that it was a scam, and gave the number the scammers were using to the utility.
"They even put you on hold so long you think its real"
I felt that in my soul.
For me, that'd just be a hangup after 2 minutes of waiting.
I swear 🤣🤣🤣
That cheery "You too F**ker" just slayed me. I used to work legitimate CSR jobs and there are so many times I wish I could have just busted out a response like that.
That's what you say after you hear the disconnect beep.
@@jacobhinger5039 both of these comments are true. I've worked as a CSR in bank call centers for the past 8 years and the times i've cussed someone out after they're hung up is innumerable.
@@RaechylBlackfyre is it really that hard? If only talked 2 times with ebay customer service, both times were pleasant short talks, both wishing a good day at the end xD
@@AkanoWire Some people are incredibly entitled and believe being antagonistic and difficult is the best way to get their way
I've ended two scambait calls kind of like that. After wasting their time by putting them into an unsolvable situation both said, "What do you expect me to do now?" I suggested they perform a sex act on me and then I hung up. It felt good.
What makes this more hilarious is if that first scammer learned to have decent manners, Kitboga wouldn't have stayed to mess with them
Took him some years, but well into his adult life, he's finally learned manners. He's still not there yet, but he's on the right track. Give it a few decades and he might develop self-image and critical thinking.
NONE of them know manners. They just know stealing money.
You can sprinkle sprinkles on piece of shit, but it doesn't make it a cake
CSR training for newbies lasts like 1 or 2 months, where they train you and give you ways to keep your cool among other things, obviously this people isn't trained for such useless things, all that time needs to be spent in training them on scamming people.
Imagine if its a legit CS but the caller is having a bad office day.
Two things with Comcast from a longtime Comcast customer.
1. They rarely give discounts.
2. When you call the toll-free number, you are dumped into an automated queue, where you have to answer a series of questions so they can direct your call to the proper rep. Only after completing this do you get to speak to a human. If you do not encounter this when you call them, it is not Comcast.
😂 damm now you just told the scammers that watch his channel what they did wrong 😂
@@six87urnext Sorry, that was not my intent. However, in my defence, most of these scamming operations are run on a shoestring budget. I seriously doubt that they are willing to spend the money and take the time to set up a proper automated call center. And I do know of what I speak. I spent 35 years, before retiring, working in IT.
I notice with xfinity they ALWAYS give discounts to new customers not existing ones :(
3) If they answer within 2 hours, its probably not comcast / xfinity :P
the trick to getting through the automated queue is the password: "You too, fucker" and BOOM a live representative will hop on the line
I got a call today, for this. I was like "Oh this is the newest scam, huh?" They said "Yup!" and hung up. LOL
i wish i'd had a clever response the time they tried to scam me. i just couldn't understand her accent. i asked her to repeat who she was calling from three times and ultimately she hung up on me.
this is a more realistic scam than others. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
You hear an Indian accent and the phone cutting In and out its Probably a scam
Maybe this group is some kind of sub-contractor for a legit support group.
Even when you call the real Comcast, you're still getting scammed
Somewhat believeable until they ask you to go get gift cards, then obvious scam.
@@aaronmoore186 Yeah I was going to say, indian accent = automatically scam. I think even companies caught up with this and won't hire anyone with indian accent to avoid issues.
Safest idea is to never call a number they provide in a message like that. Just use the customer service info available in your app that you know is legit and ask them about it
Same idea with sketchy emails. Don't click the link and manually navigate to the page in question and check for a problem through there.
I do that too, last year I got an email saying I needed to change my Apple password and I just went to the actual safe site to change it than click the link
@@klausing8 exactly
The most important thing to identify scams is the need to pay using a gift card. No legitimate company requests gift cards as payment. But scammers need that form of payment because all other ways to get the money are easily traced back to them. Gift cards break the chain making tracing the money incredibly difficult.
@@kenludlow7391 By the time they are asking you to pay for gift cards, they've probably already asked for identifying information about you that they can sell to other scammers or use for other scam attempts. Best to twig their game long before reaching that stage and just never call their number in the first place.
I work at a Walgreens and I think I saved an old woman from being scammed. She came in looking for apple gift cards, saying she had it on her phone which ones she needed. She didn't know what they were, or how they worked. She thought they cost 5 dollars. After explaining what they are and how she might be getting taken advantage of, she didn't buy them. Felt good.
Definitely sounds sketchy, good on you for warning her and likely saving her from losing her money.
Thank you!
More like $500.00 each!
Awesome! Walgreens employees at the store where I go, have always been really kind and alert for scams. So even when I've been having a really bad day, I'm always cheerful at Walgreens, just to hopefully make their day better. Really cool people, from the cashiers to the pharmacy.
You are a hero ❤
hearing the scammer say "piggly wiggly" fuckin slayed me. as someone legitimately from the middle of nowhere down south i haven't heard that name in years. another banger video xDD
i've always liked when people get tripped up it, and they end up with "piggle-e wiggle-e" lol
I'm so glad you finally got the surgery to remove those sunglasses. That must have been really tough living your life with those things on your face 24/7.
I’ve often wondered how he could drive at night with those glasses permanently being attached to his face
As far as I know, he needs them so he can so he can see
This comment is very underrated, 😂 have a like from me
maybe to protect his identity?
@@ChrisTian-sd5yq nah he takes em off a lot. its either just an iconic accessory or just so he can see
I love when they ask not to tell anything to the store. It's like "yeah, they are our buisness partners, it 's just that they don't know it"
So generous, 💀
I wish Target would ask when people buy these gift cards if it is for the ComCast or T-Mobile offer in order to then warn people it is a scam. Or the stores should have signs posted where the cards can be purchased to warn people of possible scams and which ones to watch out for.
Such a bad reputation for Indians around the world
@@ameliab7245 Most of these stores do have signs now, huge signs, right near the gift cards. Warning people that businesses will never want to be paid in gift cards, anyone asking for you to get gift cards is a scam, etc.
With this character I was hoping he was gonna pull out a belt sander to get the card numbers. Maybe next time lol
Came for the scambaiting, stayed for the eyebrow
It's iconic
I can't unsee them now 😂
I knew the comments section would be gold 🪙.
I cannot unsee his eyebrows now 😂
😂😂😂😂
🤨
As an Xfinity customer, all you gotta do is put the word "Comcast" and "discount" in the same sentence. That's how you know it's a scam.
I work for comcast, and yeah, the most that you’re gonna get is a contract for 2 years and a discount for a mobile phone.
The exception is when the phrase "want to cancel" is included, then they bring out ALL the discounts.
I work at comcast CS and if they are not trying to shove an Xfinity Mobile line down your ass, they are scammers, they pressure us a lot to sell those lmao
@@Agrival01Is Xfinity Mobile a scam? I switched to it lol idk it seems fine or at least equal to Verizon but maybe I’m missing something
Think about it, that one guy who cursed at kit ruined their entire scamming operation by exposing himself 😂
It’s scary when the scammers are so good they convince Kitboga they’re legit! That one dude who gave it away is gonna get fiiiiired
To be fair, they are cosplaying as a legal scam, aka xfinity.
@smol_pupper123 tbh I don't think it would have worked that well.
Sure a few might have but regular viewers of kitobga know the second gift cards are involved, or not telling people certain things, it's a scam.
I work at Target and i'm glad to say that the almost 2yrs I've worked there i haven't had one person try to buy a bunch of gift cards. Target and many other stores are VERY aware of these types of scams.
Thank you for posting this because I wondered about that.
I think if they had been less stingy they would have succeeded more often. someone who buys 1 card of 500 stands out much less than someone who buys 2000 cards.
Apparently they're sending customers to Lowes and Home Depot now for gift cards because CVS and Target added limits to their gift cards. Hopefully Lowes and Home Depot start doing the same thing too.
Not enough apparently because these scam centers have 50+ scum in each
I used to work in Electronics at Target and had people try to buy large amount of gift cards every few weeks. It really depended on which leader was in on if they would get sold or not. Some leaders cared and some did not. I actually had someone come in with $1500 of google play gift cards trying to exchange them for cash because they bought them and realized it was a scam before actually giving them to the scammer. Unfortunately there was nothing I could do.
Just remember if any company wants you to pay them with gift cards, hang up. There is NO legit company that will ask for payment in gift cards, in the US at least. And if in doubt hang up and look up the companies number and call it to check, don't call the number the scammer gives you always look up the number. Love your work Kitboga
If you have some spare time, do not hang up, act like you would fall for it, but only stall them a bit. They cannot scam anyone else, who is not knowing these scams, while they are on the phone with you.
@@higihups I've thought of that, but I don't have the imagination that Kitboga, Peirogi, IRL Rosie or Rinoa Poison do.
@@andrewvelonis5940 You do not have to bring creativity like them. Just give them some bogus data when they ask for personal info, act like you have no clue. Usually the funniest things just come up as you talk with them. Stalling them for a minute is better than hanging up, as you will occupy them and that costs them money, both actively in hours and passively in lower "sales".
If you have the ability to setup some vm(virtualbox is free - never let them access your main pc), install some old windows(no need to license that, trial is just fine), with some browsers and random freeware. Just like some rarely used pc. Take a snapshot, so you never have to reinstall and are able to wipe the scammer from the vm with two clicks, after you are done. Then make them do their stuff and act like they will make a fortune on you. Slightly interrupt them, i.e if they use a browser, press "ctrl w" to close the tab.
The last one who "sent me to the router" to "get the serial number", while he installed teamviewer as his backdoor, became very anxious. Downloading and installing took minutes on my "old" computer and he had to come up with more excuses. That idea just came up as I saw, what he was up to.
Only shady companies on 100 Feet Road
No one who would fall for one of these scams is reading Kitboga comments.
That reaction at 1:20 was so funny to watch live Kit was convinced it wasn't a scam until the scammer dropped the f-bomb. Sheer confusion and incredulity spread over his face. 😂😂
I like a person who can use "incredulity" in a comment.
@@timl.b.2095 I despise said individuals.
@@Jschmuck8987 theres two wolves inside of us /j
Just shows he's not infallible, just like all of us. Everyone can fall for a scam especially if it's a new one!
he (the scamer) blew his own cover
I almost fell for this one as well. They kept calling from a number that the ID even said was xfinity, so I thought it was legit. They asked me about my router and told me they were gonna send a new one. They didn't ask for gift cards though, they asked for the card I use to pay for the account. That's when all suspicion turned to reality for me and I hung up. Thanks to this channel for making me suspicious of all these scams.
Wow, that's a dangerous one.. those are the scammers that scare me.
Your ability to time and perfectly cut them off while they start talking and talk over them is amazing dude.
😂 Kit and Rinoa are great at this. Super funny.
1:16 Lmao. The scammer literally screwed himself because he said a swear word. Good going for him! 😂
As someone who actually works at an Xfinity store, we've been seeing a decent bit of these emails coming in with people asking if they are real. Real shitty to see them happening but really good to know the workings of these scams
It's actually really... heartwarming? I guess? to see that there are people who are making the effort to check with Target through a legit line. I mean you never know when something is actually some great promotion, but it's great that people have learned enough to be like "Let me ask Target through their legitimate email if this is real first".
Let's not act like Xfinity isn't a scam in itself 🤷🏿♂️
@@hinoakuma6386right 😂😂😭😭💯💯
It starts out cleverer than usual but then...gift cards. Always gift cards. Obviously some people are falling for this. It really needs to be drilled in that gift cards are never a legitimate payment method for any company.
We need a public service campaign, school and workplace presentations...something!!
Right next to the card display at the store, there is a sign warning people!
@deflepprocks1 scammers will create a false sense of urgency so they're not going to be standing around reading signs
That’s scetchy enough, but when they also tell you to lie about what you’re doing is the most baffling part.
this... "Tell your bank that you need the 100.000$ to buy a restaurant from Thailand!"@@AngryBoozer
It's delusional how scammers call other people who mess with them assholes, when they're actively stealing from people. 😂
I love how kit takes one word the scammer says and just over uses it to the point that it's so obvious, but they never pick up on it.
I wasn't even aware that this guy had eyes. I just thought his sunglasses were his eyes. Unbelievable.
🤣👌
You see, that's Kitboga's twin, Keyeboga.
I believe this is the first video he showed his eyes
@@Greysmdl Nope. He showed his eyes while cross dressing and video calling a scammer 😂
Actually, I never thought it is possible for him to take off the glasses. :D
Last time I bought a gift card at CVS I noticed on the touchscreen it said if you were told to buy gift cards against your will or something like that press yes or no etc. thought that was a nice proactive touch.
That “f***er” comment has since led to many more hilarious baiting calls to the “xfinity dumb cast” scam
Dude you’re a national treasure. Just wasting these parasites’ time is good enough, but you make it entertaining as all get out as well.
Thank you.
I work with an elderly person and they got one of those scam calls promising a new car. This elderly person immediately knew it was a scam, but they had seen some scam bating videos in the past and thought they’d try their hand at it despite me trying to get them to hang up. Anyway the scammer managed to get this person confused enough by asking them things more rapidly than they could make up answers-they weren’t that quick to begin with. They let the name of their actual bank and their mother’s maiden name out before I finally got them to hang up. The scammer kept calling back too and I had to stay close to this person to make sure they didn’t pick up again.
Please don’t engage these scammers unless you have a clear plan and experience that Kitboga and others like him have. Just hang up or, better yet, don’t answer unknown numbers. All you do is tell them there is a living person behind the number and they’ll sell your number to every scam center and bombard you with 20 calls or more a day.
They are getting smarter and more percistant. Heck, this one almost fooled Kitboga. It was only by sheer luck he caught it.
Be vigilant, and make sure your loved ones are too.
Kit may not delete files or gain access to their systems, but he does waste their time, and in my opinion, is the funniest of the scambaiters. The man's got a gift and is still wasting their time which means less people are being scammed. Keep doing you, man. We love and support you!
sometimes he does report them or give people who CAN gain access to their system the information so he’s like an all around batman
edit: PLUS he’s funny. best guy ever
I miss HoaxHotel he was my favorite
"Trying To Avoid Being Arrested By IRS (Ft. Elspeth Eastman)" is still my all-time favorite. I occasionally re-watch it when I need a good laugh.
Seeing you without sunglasses makes me totally understand how people could think Superman and Clark Kent are two different people
I was sadly scammed w/ student loan forgiveness 😪 Please keep making videos and making people aware
Yes, they tried that with me. They even were able to look up the amount I still owed. But when they asked for money in order to lower the amount, that's when I knew they were scamming me.
Oh no-sorry that happened to you
oh no, hope you got your money back D:
God it's so wild to me that people fall for "oh you have to go to another store and buy their gift cards and then come back and give them to me. Don't go to our physical store location at all but do go to this unrelated store."
I feel so bad for people this works on, I can't imagine what other crazy trouble they get themselves into.
Same thing is being attempted with scammers impersonating T-Mobile. It was the exact same thing as this Xfinity scam and the phone number they provided in the message was not a T-Mobile care number. They are also using A.I. voice changer, sounds like the TMobile automated voice, but the wording used gave it away as someone who does not speak English as a primary language if you listen close.
Kit is a nuisance, and I'm here for it
He’s the kid that loved to prank call pizza places and now he grew up and still loves to do it but now to scammers and for a good cause. ❤
More nuisances need to put that talent to use like this annoying scammers for a living.
The editing combined with Kit = 500% pure entertainment and knowledge! (From the fake Biden saga reference lol)
This was a great call on Twitch, nothing like watching live!
💜💜💜
What if the end goal of the youtube channel was to get donations and it was a scam the whole time the long con 😂
Lol idk why that came up unto my mind when I saw this 😅😅
@@gozzilla177 I definitely think we would know about it by now lol
Why did you donate through TH-cam? That's unsafe. You should've donated to Kit with giftcards. Preferably ones with 041234567891011 on the back.
@@RinnyThePrincess I wanna pay, tell me more
@@cherbenmoussa314 Well have you ever seen kitboga call himself to test to see if he is a scammer? HMMMMM?
My mum is in a crochet group with a bunch of other women, mostly elderly women. And recently the organiser of the group got hacked and the hackers sent emails from her address saying that she was stuck in Florida and needed to borrow money. They knew her name, the fact she was holidaying in Florida, her husbands name, her husbands health issues. And so the email was very convincing. My mum was ready to go out and get gift cards for her before I told her to call the organiser and check with her if she really needs help. Surprise surprise it was a scam, but honestly if Kitboga hadn’t made me so vigilant of the fact scammers use gift cards so often, I might not have recognised it.
Here in Australia the Scammers are now Targeting Australians with Commonwealth Banking Scam. They say that somebody bought something over $300-400.
This is actually a decent scam. I used to work for Comcast and we definitely would push discounts for loyalty and send out random emails all the time
my grandfather got a call like this, he thought it was real and doesn’t have good hearing so he asked me to talk to the person. once i heard them ask for a gift card, i knew it was a scam. there were also other hints towards it being a scam, thank you for the videos, kit! thanks to them i was able to stop my grandfather from being scammed
I like seeing Kit in these new situations that makes him stretch his creativity.
he sure is good at it
If I saw Kit out in the street and he didn’t have his sunglasses on, I would not recognize him.
If I saw Kit in the street, I would try hug him and he’d probably and rightly run away 😅
He has crazy blue eyes and even crazier eyebrows 🤣🤣🤣
im so used to the sunglasses that it feels weird to see his eyes 😶
Please also note that he also has torso and legs. 🤣
I always tell my mom to NEVER click links in email or texts. And never take the phone calls. She's to go to the company website and either log in or call the 800# listed there or on her bill. If there's a legit discount, they'll have it. And if, heaven forbid, she does take the call - if they ever ask for gift cards for payment, hang up and block the number. Luckily, my mom listens. And she's even taken the extra step a few times of reporting the information directly to the companies. I've also sent my fair share of spam mail to various fraud departments. I especially make sure to send in the one's that are so well done, you have to dig to realize it's spam. Spammers are getting better and more dangerous. Stay alert!
AI will create a new wave of this as it can imitate proper speaking, spelling and writing style. "In the style of an X letter/bill"
I hope openAI have something to stop this happening
There is no single cable company that A) demands 6 months advance payment, B) takes _Target_ gift cards as payment, and C) charges 240/month?
The 240/month is honestly the most realistic of the three here. Cable companies package the popular channels in onesie-twosie with tens of unpopular channels and then sell those packages, so if you only want to get the popular channels you’re stuck paying for all of the channels you don’t want for a lot more money than you would have had to if they sold channels individually. Cable is almost a scam.
My bill is almost $240 per month. And that with no premium channels or sports channels 😂
Did't know I could pay my internet bill in Gift Cards..... tottalllly legit. Thanks for putting these guys on blast Kit.
Having an actual plausible REASON to send you to Target is a huge upgrade to this scam, it’s scary!
But there's nothing plausible about it. They falsely claim to be 'partnered' with them and ask you not to mention the 'partnership' to the clerks when you cash out the gift cards... which they're requesting as payment method... it's stupid any way you slice it.
@@papayer yeah it's not a bulletproof grift or anything, but they're still giving a reason why Target would be involved at all. Plus it plays into those promotions where you get a rebate in the form of a gift card from a store like Target. It's meant to make people drop their guard, and "don't mention it at the store because we've had issues where Target staff don't know about the promotion" might be enough to convince the people they're out to scam
@@cactustactics yeah this.
Not really. Scammers may be crafty, but they’re often very slippery and leave behind clues to their true intentions quite a bit
@@ShadowNinja452 you’re forgetting that they’re not scamming us, they’re scamming people who don’t know and are often easily confused. Anything they do that makes the scam more plausible to someone like that is going to help avoid questions.
Anytime someone seems legit, as soon as they mention gift cards thats game over
These particular scammers are aware of you and your channel. Which probably means they actually just had to get a new scam. Which means, it is working!!! You are shedding light on them and spreading knowledge! Knowledge is power baby!! They had to get new scams 🤣 only a matter of time until the system just breaks down totally.
Hii love your content please keep up the amazing content. And I have a suggestion, why not "get into an accident" on your way to target and see what the scammer does in response?
I’ve gotten a couple texts about my non existent Netflix account being frozen lately. They are definitely getting better with grammar and spelling so make sure to always search for phone numbers on snail mail, or online but don’t use any promoted sites. Those are usually right at the top of your search.
He blew it dropping the F bomb.
And Thomas Kench
Yeah, that Fbomb screwed the whole thing
You know it's a scam when they're willing to accept ANY amount of money from the gift cards
I think the first clue is that they are asking for " Gift Cards" . No legitimate business is going to do that.
@@mythoughts6922 False. Sometimes the IRS will ask for payments on delinquent balances in gift cards.
No, the IRS or any government tax body will not ask you to do this.
@@GoonerJerry Lmao, no they do not.
@Ithecastic Then why are My Thoughts laughing their asses off?
Thanks for all that you do to try and help us who are prey for these heartless scum.
I am 71 and was scammed out of $105K
last year by the "Geek Squad". I cringe every time I think of it.
Anyway, cool sunglasses
So sorry about what happened to you. With any luck that money will bring nothing but bad luck and misery to the a holes
@@estelle3005
Thank you
This video saved my boss from making a huge mistake. She metioned to me in passing a couple days ago that she got a call from comcast and was going to get a sweet 50% off deal if she paid for 8 months in advance. Because i saw this video, I was able to stop her before she went through with it. Thanks for what you are doing brother! It makes a difference!
You know it's serious when even Kitboga believes a scam for a minute
Dude, at this point, If I were a gift card company, I'd supply this guy with fake cards. Heck i'd launch a limited edition kitboga card to thank the guy.
ok. but ur not
so who cares
@@0xAAA you got him fr. slammed a fellow commenter for commenting a comment in a youtube comment section
@@0xAAA You must feel so so good for dunking him like that! Congratulations 👏🏼🎉
@a dude you are soo cool what a cool response wow.
You must be the saddest person, just a lonely little human engulfed in their own shitty existence. Such sad very alone.
This definitely seemed legit up until the request for Target gift cards. Still, people who don't know about these scams could be tricked. Thanks for continuing to bring awareness to these scammers!
I worked in the cable tv industry and the number of times I had a customer come into my store wondering why their discount they got from one of these scammers wasn’t on their bill is horrifically huge. Not only are they out the money they gave to the scammers, they are still stuck paying their bills
So the scam is "You give us $720 in target gift cards, we (don't) reduce the cost of your comcast payments." How can anyone fall for this?!
These videos are always well timed self-care. Thank you for what you do, Kit!
Ur telling me. I just got back from the puzzle factory 😬
as someone who actually works in a t-mobile call center, that part was especially entertaining
I remember my days cold calling the elderly trying to sell them plans they don't need. It was awful.
TMOBILE BEACHED ME IN EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN AND WOMEN!!!
Do you accept payment with Target gift cards?
Kitboga is like the Eddie Murphy of scam baiters. Those family pictures in the background are hilarious.
My nosy self was all into the pics too 😂
I fell for a scam recently. The scam was simple. I had to show up to work for 8 hours a day for 5 days a week and work very hard for near minimum wage. They told me that if I kept working for years and continued to do well I would get more money and have a chance to own a car or home one day. Turns out it was all a scam and there is no way that honest work will ever lead to wealth.
😅
Honest work can lead to wealth! Provided you have enough wealth to begin with......
I have a iPhone and never answers calls that I don't know. A few weeks ago I received a call from a Russian number and sent it to voicemail. They left a voicemail and the voicemail number showed a Florida # saying they were Comcast and I had 50% promo and I knew it was a SCAM.
Love your channel. Keep up the great work.
I really wonder if the people who work these call centers are stuck in some type of human trafficking (or debt consolidation, indebtedness) situation. The idea that there are this many people willing to be so awful to any other human... It just makes the world seem so bleak.
I’ve heard interviews with ex-scammers and they say that a bad economy with a job market full of nepotism and classism leads to a younger generation with very minimal prospects. That combined with many years of a false image that America is just bursting with money, and even our poor live like kings-propaganda that America itself is guilty of promoting: they just don’t see us as victims.
Maybe it's easier to treat foreigners that way. But tax collectors do the exact same thing without the pretence of legitimacy.
I heard that recently, people in my home country are being lured in with what they think are legit jobs and then it turns out to be a scam call centre. It's really hard to get out of it and people are afraid something bad will happen to them or their family if they do. It's hard to feel even an ounce of empathy for a scammer but knowing this makes it really sad.
It’s because $2 a hour is their hourly wage. So even one big hit in a year is a enough to cover all their expenses for the year
I actually fell for an Xfinity scam a decade ago. I was in college and we lost wifi regularly so one day i responded to one of these texts and pretty much from then until the end of college I'd get invoices from them saying I owed crazy amounts for a literal hour of screen time. Absolutely stupid, but learned a lesson.
As they say, if it's too good to be true, it probably is. I've been scammed before, it can happen to anybody.
I work for the business side in the billing team and this is happening to the business people too. Getting calls to go to target and pay in advance and youll get half off for 6 months..saying Comcast is working with target. It's so sad to have to break it down for the cus, thank goodness I watch these videos already I could smell the scam the second my callers described it to me
A housemate of mine fell for this scam back in like 2015 when she was trying to get xfinity . She tried to tell us guys "we got scammed" and tried to have us all pay her for the 400 she got scammed out of.
This is one of the more sophisticated one I heard. I remember one of this covered by another scambaiter and he even connected the call to actual Comcast representative but I never did catch how the scam works.
Unlike the typical refund/gift card scam, this one sounds more easily manipulated... All of the setup are made professionally, and the amount that they ask isn't something so ridiculous like other scammers, a comcast plan starts at 60 bucks and half that is merely 30... And it tops usually at 300 ish bucks which is what Kit has... So their range is 30-150 bucks, unlike those who asked 500-1000 bucks in a single call.
This one is particularly dangerous, if not for the First scammer cursing, they won't be dragged to the Pits of hell by Kit for it and Thank God he did
When that guy dropped that F bomb I literally laughed out loud. That was hysterical. Keep fighting the good fight!!! *huggims*
Holy Shit, Kitboga has eyes?! I was sure behind those glasses were just endless voids that suck up all the bullshit you get while calling those scammers
As someone who has been with Xfinity for years, they will never call you for anything.
They will always email, physically mail you something, or if they are running some kind of promotion, they will attempt to sell you something when you call to change your service address or check for an outage, essentially meaning you have to call them
they do call sometimes, i have nonstop xfinity mobile calls trying to get me to switch my phone plan to them. also 100% legit cause i’ll call customer service and they have the call logged and attempt to sell me it again lol
@@MamaCrochet95 I haven't gotten any calls from them, but that may be due to me actually having a phone plan with them lol
Sometimes I can't watch these videos because I used to work in an actual, non scam call center, and have talked to these exact people and it gives me ptsd to have to listen to it again
Lol, You should tell the scammers you gave the gift cards to the local Xfinity office and see how mad they get at you. Great content!
Talking over the scammer never gets old.
If you ever get these kind of "offers", always call the number on your bill and ask them directly about it.
Remember: any kind of "high pressure, limited time" offer is bound to be a scam.
woah, the scams are getting way better, however.. SO ARE WE!! BE DILIGENT! DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE. well done Kitboga and team, this one ALMOST got away.
Gift card payment kills it, and you're not supposed to talk to their "partner" Target. Another idiotic scam, although they did put a hair more effort into it than some.
@@billg7205 well, the reason they keep doing gift cards scams is because they work :/ if even 1 in 20 people fall for the scam, it's profitable
@@purplefishy8164 It's less than that, unless you're referring to how many actually stay on and then keep going with them, versus just dumping them. These people are lazy and don't want to do the work that other people do. Look at some of the small Pakistani shops using old and simple hand fabricated equipment to rebuild everything automotive. These guys are good and the shops thrive on reputation. Not easy work however, but interesting to watch on YT. These scammers refuse to even be resourceful enough to try to make their scam have a shred of credibility.
😂😂😂😂
Thanks!
i’ve never seen this man’s eyes until this video… i can’t unsee them now help
Congrats on 3M subs btw. Thanks for raising the awareness.
I got a Capital One email that had me so convinced, it looked soo legitimate. I called the phone on my card and determined it was fake. The fake CO email was one . Off the real CO. 🤯
That first guy did the dumbest thing he could’ve done by saying f**ker. Sucks for him but we get hours of content out of it 🤭
6:57 "My name is Peter Enis". Uhm... sir, that's P. Enis. 🤣
Kitboga not wearing sunglasses= a disturbance in the force.
Beware of "Voice Cloning" it's a new thing the Scammers are trying out and it could be used to fool you thinking you're talking to someone you know.
Sad things I'm looking forward to
Anti scammer videos of this types ot scams
Honestly at this point if someone calls me unsolicited I just assume it's a scam.
As you should
Got one this week from Coinbase. Got the usual 'secure my account' bs and when that went nowhere, suddenly my IP is a problem.🙄🙄🤣🤣
I never answer any calls unless I recognize the number. Very few ever bother to leave a message! 😄
I got a text message saying that I had a formal complaint filed against me and to have me or my lawyer call immediately....I googled it and it was a scam
Ahh, so that's how the scam goes with the discount thing. I used to get the 50% discount calls about a service I wasn't even signed up for (probably FIOS but my memory is trash). A quick google gave me the results of "it's a scam" and I went on with my life. Lately I've gotten them again, this time for Comcast, so either the scammers decided to try a different company or have been able to figure out I do actually have Comcast.
While you've had a lot of scammers give excuses why you can't tell Target why you want their gift cards, then explaining why you can't tell their "promotional partner" the reason was new to the palate 😂
Sometimes the scammer will look up your address to see if it's real. Or to check if you own an expensive house so they'll ask for an appropriate amount from the victim.
The scam lead up was pretty sophisticated to end up with, - you need to buy Target gift cards.
Just a good reminder to always stay vigilant and skeptical, you never know when you're trying to be swindled
"you can send unlimited texts per day"
'well i dont need that many. Lets negotiate because i dont want to be greedy and take more than i need. Im sure there are some people starving who dont have enough text messages. Can i donate some of them to a food bank?'
So not only would someone be out the money they give the scammer but then they would lose their Xfinity services by thinking they don't have to pay for 6 months. That's crazy
No one’s mentioning how MESSED UP that part is! They don’t even need to include the part about *not paying* for 6 friggin months!!!
Not XFinity but another cable provider but my parents once didn't pay for cable for several years, they didn't realise it was still connected as they were using satellite.
Then when they found out and called to cancel the cable company thought to send them a bill for more than 5 years of unpaid service.
They'd bought the house and cable shouldn't have been connected, but the previous owner had failed to cancel (or more likely had canceled and the cable company had messed up, that happened to me a few years later with the same cable company).
@@jwenting 😲i hope they fought that!!
@@dianafreeman419 oh yes, they did. Took a while though, that particular cable company is notorious for doing weird things like that.
At least with that they would notice after a month, comcast doesn’t let you be that late
Lol. That dude swearing on his way out. What a tip-off.😂
I literally have watched you for so many hours but I still got scammed but as soon as they said the gift cards, I realized it was a scam because I learn from your videos.
i work for an internet and cable company and i’ve had 2 people calling in that did this scam wondering why their bills didn’t go down bc they paid $600+ 😭
We literally started outsourcing our support to other countries for cheap labor, and we taught them the ropes. Literally karma, cause and effect, in the most non-mumbo jumbo sense.
Gotta admit I had a similar moment. Got a msg on my phone saying that my utilities were going to be cut off due to non-payment. The utility was on auto-pay so I called the number they provided to find out what was going on. I'm told that they had replaced my analog meter with a digital one and that I owed them $600 for the new meter. I told them I didn't have $600. They asked if I had $200. Again I said no. They replied by saying "Well then, you're in trouble" and hung up.
It was at this moment that I realized something didn't make sense because never had I heard of someone from any customer service dept responding like that. I called the utility, verified that it was a scam, and gave the number the scammers were using to the utility.