Yeah, these are pretty desperate people. No one with a supercar will give 2 sh1ts about me out of the blue. Even if I met someone who was flashing objects to impress me I'd not be interested, friends only... Reminds me of when aa few co workers across my life got upset when I didn't want to join in on pyramid schemes, they quickly stopped liking me as much, and later on all the schemes fell apart and guess who lost...
Why would TH-cam not monetise this content? It’s factual, informative, educational. Jim is a legend and is saving millions of people from these horrific scammers everyday. TH-cam is a strange beast.
@@JimBrowning look what happened for example when a load of well known TH-camrs were promoting the Lord and Lady scam from Scotland (forget the name of it now, but it was all over for a few months). Such a grey area with it, none of them could tell if it was genuine or not, hence went along with it. Kinda goes against your mantra of helping people save money too!
I did report them to the Dubai police many months ago. They initially showed interest. Enough interest that I had a team travel from Australia to Dubai with known Aus victims. The police took all of this evidence, but then went silent and stopped correspondence. I'm not sure what to do, but I had hoped for better in UAE
@@JimBrowning hmmm well that’s interesting! They’re probably worried about their international image being tarnished if it hit the news. I wonder if they quietly shut it down and deported them - or not.
I mean what do you expect lmao. This is par the course in black and brown countries. All leftist clowns who constantly harp about the supposed evil nature of western nations and white people are conveniently silent on this stuff going on Scot free in black and brown garbage dump countries.
Love this Dude! He's such a reliable and respected source. I love that he's so simple about things and we get to see that wholesome recovery . Loved this one, *Strong widget* ! Congrats!
@Sashazur Common sense is a developed skill. You learn it through critical thinking and/or experience. Sadly, critical thinking is in short supply nowadays, and often muddied with misinformation. So you're stuck with experience...and that's not a fun way to learn not to get scammed.
@@magnum333I know. I was sort of unknowingly involved as a freelancer when I designed a crypto tech that they used in a scam, when I knew I tried to snitch. Ended very badly, but in the end I just left them alone.
I am from Kentucky and I love you for doing this *Strong widget.* These scammers are worse than insects, ruining most country's and city's name. I don't know how are they so proud of scamming people. I pray that anyone who reads this get a successful money recovery in life. Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose is the result of hard work and hustle overtime
They are proud of scamming people same way empires where proud of decimating other nations and stealing Thier resources. They will always be people who believe that resources should be taken by force especially white people they like using force too much
This is an eye-opening revelation about cyber threats. It's shocking how deceptive people can become. This information is definitely valuable to prevent such online scams.
Simple logic. If a model looking girl matches you on a dating app, go to the bathroom and look at your face.. That should tell us all we need to know 😂
Big props to the person who got that footage. Solid work as always Jim, these people are lower than filth. Also, heard you on BBC Radio 5 Live couple of weeks ago. Brilliant, you are getting recognition for your work.
I never realised these romance scams were run as big organisations, I thought it was individual people, but I know now from watching informative videos like this.
If there is a way to make money, somebody has likely corporatized that. Unfortunately that’s just the way the world works. If it makes money, somebody will try employing other people to help do it for them
If there are people stupid enough to throw money in the hopes of getting a girl there will be people and groups smart enough to capitalize on their stupidity.
While I understand and respect your wanting to disable the "scammer" look Imao, you're so so beautiful - inside and out. So many of *Strong widget* on the internet subs have been here for years and years loving you for your huge personality, your content, your embracing of weird and different, your skill AND your creativity. Literally no angle could ever make you look any less than inspiring and beautiful to me 💞💞💞
how can you not know this? The whole dating online scene is now destroyed because of this. :) You can't date online anymore because of this because 99% of woman on those apps are these fake profiles. This is already going on for 8 years+ or so now.
Bro I’m glad you’re posting again not seeing you’re videos had me worried … i love you’re videos , my grandma almost lost 40,000 from her savings, i watched one of you’re videos years ago and spotted the scam right away ..thank you jim you are the 🐐🐐🐐🐐
Honestly the more I learn about Dubai the more I'm just blown away that people actually want to go there. It represents literally everything wrong with humanity...
So glad this video was released, I was also contacted multiple times by scammy numbers (I have no idea how they get our phone numbers) and I have watched enough of Jim Browning videos to know that it is a scam. So a BIG THANK YOU JIM !!!
Never give your phone to facebook! Out of my last 3 phone numbers, the only common denominator for the ones that got a shit ton of scam ads was Facebook. My current phone number has not been given to facebook (I deleted my accounts long ago) and I only use it strictly for services that require it for safety measures, so far not a single scam has reached this number.
Data breaches, buying phone number lists from sites that you signed up for online or apps you downloaded for free, and also from contacts' phone numbers of friends who might have downloaded the app, etc . Nowadays, event comments and reviews are taken from the source and used by bots. That's why you can't trust videos on TH-cam, even if they have good comments. Shame on TH-cam for removing the dislike button.
“Pig butchering scam” is the last combo of words I expected to hear on this channel, but if there’s nefarious intent, and a phone, Jim will be there to report it lol
*This man spends hundreds of thousands of time just to help us. He helps those in need while also helping us. He always puts a smile on our faces and we should appreciate it. Hats off to Him! I love you dude☝🏻. Crazy I've never payed crazy attention to the Strong Widget movement but when I say ancestral your a gift to our people* ✊🏼💯
I can see your point. What you have to keep in ming that some people are lonely. Some people ache for companionship. Then you find some beautiful person who has taken interest in you and actually cares (or appears to). What makes these scams extra disgusting to me is that element. While it is not everyone (who doesn't like easy money) a lot of people fall for it because they need that emotional connection. The money is just the icing on the cake. We have to educate and help everyone. This is really the only way to fight this thing.
I used to think like that, but now that my parents are in their 70's and starting to struggle with cognition and memory, I can see how the elderly fall for these scams. My mum keeps sending me screen shots of a facebook post claiming $1.00 iPhones. It is only a matter of time before they become victims .
My dad lost $17,000 on an oil and gas scam. He fell for it because he was lonely and he looked forward to talking to the scammer. I almost fell victim to the pig butchering scam. Winnie followed me on Twitter. She was a 30 year old, hot looking Chinese babe. She DMed me to ask if we could start a conversation on WhatsApp. Every day we would talk, and that went on for months. After she had built up my trust, she said she could show me how to make some money, if I would buy digital currency. I was saved by my bank because they refused my transaction. I asked Winnie if we could continue our relationship if we didn't talk about digital currency and that was the last I heard from her.
It's incredible how many people are brutally victimized by this scam. The victims losing their life savings, the workers kept as slaves, and the models held hostage and paid practically nothing. All so a few men at the top can get rich.
@@boldandbrashcrafts727 It's true that they are not much better, but holding the passport means the worker cannot get a different job or leave the country. They are literally enslaved. Also, if they want to leave, they tell their boss, who will most likely blackmail them into working for free.
Any worker who would be homeless if they did not work is enslaved, especially now we have the technology to easily produce abundance. I'm not disputing that people with their passports taken away are in an especially bad position, but workers in an Amazon warehouse are little better off and a lot of clothes manufacturing is worse than either.
John Oliver did a story of this on Last Week Tonight, but I think he should do a follow-up featuring you in the story. Your work is masterful. I will never stop supporting your Patreon.
SerpentZA covered this kind of scam TWO YEARS ago. Most MSM news outlets covered this scam a year ago. BBC, WSJ, ABC, FORBES, GMA (a show) amongst others. It’s unfortunate that people think that John Oliver brought this story into the mainstream, or was the first to cover it in detail. He was not. In fact his show is TWO YEARS late to the party.
Keep up the awesome work! Wish I could help otherwise! My only option is keeping these scammers on the phone for as long as I can to waste their time and prevent others from being called...
My father has been succeptible to these scams, they are disgusting. My mother recently passed, and they pretend to console him while trying to rob him.
@@JimBrowning I suspect that scammers have abandoned Myanmar cos there's been a civil war there for over a year and, supposedly, the central gov is slowly losing.
A neighbour of mine is going through the very same at the moment, and now I have a great video to show him to validate what I've already explained to him. Thanks!
Thats nice.. My mom sent her whole 200k inheritance to a romance scan recently. Shes unemployed and eventually will be homeless now.. In a city where all shelters are 100% full all year
@@stephdau The scammers play on these two sins, lust and greed. No random woman will ever contact you out of nowhere asking to be friends let alone business associates😂
Keep it going pal. It is such a sad and poor state of affairs how people are being preyed upon. Edit: There, I have changed it from "prayed" to "preyed". Thank you all for correcting me and improving my spelling haha
@@ryantseko4269 I can understand this perspective, because some scams feel like they're quite obvious. This isn't the case for everyone, however. Scammers use a bunch of psychological and persuasive tricks to fool people into lowering their guard. Often, they target those who might not be as good at tech as others. That being said, even people in the industry will fall for scams. It's important we keep an eye out for ourselves, and our friends + family. Remember to slow down, breathe, and think to yourself "what is being asked of me?" when you receive unexpected "urgent" comms. Source: I work in cyber awareness.
@@ryantseko4269 I believe the scammer alone is at fault. He/She instigated the event with obvious malicious intent, therefore, no further blame needs to be explored. Blaming the victim is always a difficult and contentious stance to take my friend.
@@ryantseko4269 If I was going to pass blame from the scammers, I wouldn't pass it down to the victims, but up to the environment producing scammers. As it seems clear (to me anyway) that environmental factors are a large contributor to making scammers, given how most scammers are in India, (which then means you should probably pass blame further up to the world for being the way it is) but who wants to do that, then that means we might be part of the problem, and that *feels* bad, so it couldn't be that. So instead since one can't do anything about the scammers, and being at fault can't be right, that only leaves down, to the victim, where you can feel confident that if *you* were them you wouldn't get scammed, so that must mean it is the victims fault for being stupid. Sigh.
Just the other day I went to your TH-cam page cause I hadn’t seen anything from you in a while and was worried the scammers finally caught up to you. Im glad to see you still around and stopping these scammers.
@@greek_freak5429Just this style of scam, only by the organizations operating in Cambodia, is estimated to bring in revenue equivalent to half of Cambodia’s annual GDP. Individual victims have transferred millions of dollars. No where on earth is too far away to reach for a million dollars.
Yeah I thought so too. But to be fair there are countries where you can hire some "witch" to cast a spell on your behalf and quite often it involves animal sacrifice
I’m glad someone covered this! A lot of these people are Chinese who live in Southeast Asia, places like Thailand and Cambodia. Gonna watch the full video now!
I was a victim of this type of scam in early 2020 and it is incredibly shocking to realize how well they work to get you to fall for their entire scheme. Back in time, when the scammer asked me to take out loans to withdraw my "profits", I decided to stop following their instructions and then they become very aggressive afterwards. As I was trying to understand what was happening, I came across a subreddit where people were sharing their stories and my heart broke as I realized that my loss was nothing compared to theirs. Some of them were involved for more than a year, some others lost tens of thousands of dollars. In the end, I'm glad that this process taught me a lot about how they do things and that I was able to help people who were engaging in such a degenerate scheme. Thanks Jim for what you have done so far, and good work as always. Be wary, be cautious, and stay safe out there people!
Between yourself and streamers/youtubers like Kitboga I have learned so much about the scamming world it's insane. Thanks for these videos I tell a lot of people about them hopefully coming your way regularly.
Honestly at the end of the day, it makes me so happy knowing you've lived your dream and are just doing what you want to do. No matter whether you quit or continue, i'll be cheering for you *Strongwidget* because of all the good you've done for myself and so many other people. Thank you.
"If you recommend it to 5 friends and they each recommend it to 5 friends you get a share of their profit!" My brother in Christ this is called a pyramid scheme, what poor soul still falls for these?
@@WingMaster562This. Being poor and desperate figuratively rewires your brain. You cannot think straight if you're poor. The same goes for being lonely.
There's some exceptions mostly related to anything in the entertainment/scam industry which also includes your standard red pill dudes like Tate. There it's a mix of luck, social connections or willingness to compromise your own integrity/manipulate people. Sometimes hard work pays off in entertainment and you get lucky but a lot of times you don't.
I'm not on any dating apps, but have encountered these scammers on Instagram. They are fairly easy to spot. Always an Asian woman with a glob-trotting lifestyle. I had no idea of the scale of the operation though. Well done for exposing it.
I heard about this scam on an incel/self-improvement forum around 2020. So it isn't anything new. I guess that this early scammers are just beginning to expand their operations. Your description of their profiles are spot-on. I really hope that they would not try to better camouflage themselves, as if finding somebody wasn't too hard already.
This is some of the most powerful investigative journalism on TH-cam right now. 1000+ people is actually insane. This is the top of the food chain of phone scamming.
Mr Browning, it's always a pleasure learning from you sir. How you've helped the world is amazing, you deserve so much recognition, awards, and praise!
Hey Jim, I have encountered such people on Matrimonial sites! Fake profile pretending to be a nurse in UK and the whole chat was so damn weird!!Thank you for highlighting such issue for public!!
scammers titling their victims as 'clients' really triggers me. what lowlives. they can't even be honest with themselves. this video couldn't have had better timing. i spend a lot of time on r/scams and this scam version is probably the worst one to crack. the stories the friends and families of the victims share there are just heartbreaking. once these evils get their hands around a victim's neck they won't even stop even though the victim goes broke. that only puts them on to plan b; pressuring the victim to take up loans and hound their friends and families for money. they don't give a carp. it's really scary and sad that someone is capable and willing to do this to another human being, often vulnerable, to boot. thank you for shedding light on this, jim! i refer people to your videos all the time! 👍
Not sure how people still fall for these scams. I remember during my dating app days You could immediately tell a scam account when they messaged you. Usually it was a mega attractive model way out of your league sending the first message being overly friendly. Just block and move on.
Some people are just bad at recognizing the signs or just ignore the signs because all their blood is flowing to the wrong place... If you remember Ashley Madison, they were found to be buying fake profiles, and there were only a few thousand active *real* women compared to hundreds of thousands of active men.
The terrible state of dating apps nowadays where most men get few to no replies from genuine women and the Halo Effect where attractive women get favourable treatment and logic steps out of the way of emotion. Scammers use both to exploit and con their victims. If anything, loneliness has been tragically monetised in this day and age.
Well it’s a good thing I take pleasure in telling those people off I guess, it’s great responding with just “what.” Or something equally standoffish and seeing them desperately try to maintain a cordial tone to get your money.
For the low level staff i would be more carefull with my judgement. Of course they know what they are doing, but it is easy to say its disgusting while you are not in the same position as they are. If you or I would be a immigrant worker and had to choose to work as a slave construction worker or a near slave scammer im sure alot of people would compormise their morals.
As a scambaiting fan myself, I HAD this same opinion until I saw John Oliver's cover of these scams from a couple of weeks ago. At least some of them are scammed/human trafficked into doing it themselves, it's not always their choice. I'd recommend giving that video a watch too if you haven't seen it already. Have a great day!
I dont think thats true. A scammer in a poor country with a yearly avg. Income of lets say 50$ can scam a small percentage of for example a csgo inventory. If you steal 50$ but the victims have 3000$ in skins in my opinion the scammers are not automatically pure filth.
@@apbecker no i dont believe they deserve it. But it isn't a huge loss. I myself have been scammed out of 30€ and later after talking a bit more to the scammer i understood. He had the ability to take hundrets of my Euros but decided on 1 item. I have empathy for those misfortuned of us. It also thought me a valuable lesson about safety on the internet. All in all i'd say the 30€ for an exploit that coule have cost me thousands is a valuable lesson aswell
Thank you for sharing this, I’m from Dubai and have a few connections with the law enforcement. I’ll definitely share this with them and get this hole dug. Disgusting operation…
My personal favourite tactic when a message like that comes through on WA or SMS is to go full "Darmok and Jalad" in the conversation. They really really try to keep the conversation going before giving up.
You are a hero Jim, thank you for exposing these tools. Also a huge shout out to the dude who got hired there , realised what it was and filmed it. I hope he stays safe.
Great work, *Vortextrace* - I’m thrilled that you’re actively combatting these scammers. It’s crucial to prioritize the safety of the elderly and the public by taking every necessary measure to protect them. You truly deserve recognition for your efforts!!!!!!
it is scary... indeed... very clever they actually have a real model sending out fake videos and pictures... interesting... i wonder how she justifies this to herself? she must know they are stealing people's money and she is happy to be a part of this... i do hope her family find out and shame her... for willingly being a part of this thievery
Some years ago i noticed that on many dating apps/websites there are profiles of models (too perfect), and they ALL have extremely similar backgrounds (a room in white colors), and the photos also look like they were shot on the same camera. That's when i started suspecting some organized scheme. I tried to look these photos up through reverse image search, got no results - i.e. they were not taken from other websites, and thus came to a conclusion that someone had actually involved models into shooting those, specifically for doing something on dating platforms. Once i saw these offices from the footage, i recognized those rooms. Now i finally know a much more detailed answer for what's this about. Thank you
My jaw actually dropped when you said Dubai. The UAE does not mess around with punishment for criminal activity among those who are not ultra wealthy. There must be some sort of loophole the scammers are abusing.
Yes because this doesn't seem illegal. You're transferring money to some girl you matched with, how is that illegal? Being stupid SHOULD be illegal but it's not.
I am extremely impressed by what you have done here. I didn't know there was a word for this, I've seen evidence that this has been done to a couple buddies over the years... I've tried explaining to them that they're being scammed but they don't believe me. your video is absolutely amazing and the investigative journalism you've done here deserves a Pulitzer prize.
Ive been helping out a family friend that got scammed for 4 years by a pig butcher scam (he's also disabled from cerebral palsy). We finally managed to convince him they're scammers, I just wish I had a way to get back at them for causing distress to the family for years. They managed to get his social security number, drivers license, family member information, ect. It's extremely frustrating.
How am I supposed to know when an actual, 9/10, 24 year old, wealthy Asian woman is randomly interested in my average ass for no reason and it's not just these scammers?
Great work, *Vortextrace* - I’m thrilled that you’re actively combatting these scammers. It’s crucial to prioritize the safety of the elderly and the public by taking every necessary measure to protect them. You truly deserve recognition for your efforts!😊😊
You have to train suckers early not to be suckers or this will never stop, unfortunately. Education earlier and earlier about human deceit is a very necessary thing.
@@YepSmokeIf you train the suckers, the scams will just get better and then you might have a harder time seeing the con. The suckers in this world are what allow the scammers to be so obvious and still make profit.
I got a random text message inviting me to a barbeque. I told them they had the wrong number and then they responded back talking about some chance meeting and fate and wanting me to download telegram and saying they missed me. My responses had just been a few words and definitely nothing that would warrant someone pretending they were obsessed with me, so I was like, yeah, this is definitely a scammer. I quit responding completely after the third time they mentioned downloading telegram.
I've gotten a few texts like that. Whenever I did a phone number lookup on them, it would always point to them using a voip number, which is a pretty good indication that they're not on the up and up
You people are amazing! I appreciate you rescuing so many possible victims. Raise awareness You've gained yet another fan. I appreciate you offering this service. These con artists must be stopped right away; they are despicable. You're greatly benefiting the world by doing this myRETRIEVAL.
It's good that they record it, but I wouldn't call every little action like that "heroic". The word "hero" has lost all its original meaning. Not every good little deed is heroic. I think you have to be at the level of rescuing someone from a burning building to be considered a hero.
I found myself addicted to your videos ❤ The purpose of it, the justice, inteligence well used, a straight to the point explanation, not a single annoying yell to sound "cool" like they do on other channels and etc... If I could give you a bear hug, I would! 😂 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Appreciate every investigation you dive into to make the world more aware of these scamming operations. Making vidoes like this to educate the masses on this serious matter is a noble feat that I'm sure most of us who watch are more than thankful for.
So this explains the influx of this type of person trying to start conversations with me. I have managed to stay safe from this scam by genuinely having zero interest in investing money, and refusing to entertain the idea. But I can see how people could fall for this. I am glad to finally have an answer to a minor mystery that has been bugging me for almost a year. Thank you for this video, and your other ones, keep up the good work
Thank you for bringing attention to the scam, and educating us. Nearly fell for this kind of scam (and by "nearly" I mean "lucked out"), and awareness helps everyone avoid being scammed. It's also ironic that I got a scam-ad on an anti-scam video. Oh well, reported.
I almost got caught out by a scam on a dating site, turns out it was a group based in Paris who had a genuine in house model who coerces people into compromised actions on cam, records it, then blackmails them into transferring money. Thankfully I didn’t let it get to that point and got the police involved, but apparently others got severely screwed over. Basically f*k all these scammers, keep going with what you’re doing “Jim”, you’re doing an amazing job exposing these utter arse boils
The in house models are just as bad as these scammers. Preying upon the naive and desperate. I'm glad you kept a clear mind and don't fall for these scammers
@@pnoodl3s775I used to get women contacting me on dating apps asking me to visit a site or asking me to send them money. Either way I don't entertain scammers even a woman claiming she wants to get to know me.
I have been the victim of a pig butchering scam in early 2021. Gold spot trading. Used MT5 software. Even did checks with other trader friends. Absolute rug pull with a carrot of $18,000. Ultimately lost close to $7500 of mine and my family's money. Thank you for making these videos and brining awareness.
I'm sorry about all of the non-empathetic people here just laughing and joking about your pain and suffering. After watching this video, I believe I, too, have been duped by this same scam, and I and my family are still suffering from it even now. But don't give up. Use this as an opportunity to seek God and through that become a better and wiser man.
@@magnaz26 Thank you for having such a compassionate heart. Such a rarity yet such a powerful energy to share in these times. Much love and light. 🙏🏼💜✨
Wow! Big thanks to this insider.. I am baffled at the scale of these scams going on.. I always imagined the scam messages i got came from some small office in India. I've had numerous occasions where someone would text me with the wrong number and they would actually try to engage in conversation. An immediate red flag, of course. In this day and age, basically anyone contacting me through phone or text that i do not already know is certainly a scammer!
@nmatalonis8458 the reason for the social stigma around the adult film industry, is an obvious one. instead of working hard to add to society, you are using your body for money. few men want an ex pornstar, and the ones that do(typically overly s3xualize women), aren't the kind of men women want to be with, for good reason. no one wants their children in the adult film industry, and rightfully so. and for anyone wanting to scream mysogyny, at my words, i hold the same views for men who trick women with ideas of love, and working towards something just to use them. its disgusting and heinous. and i don't think men should be in the adult film industry. i don't think women should want to be with men who were in it either. Imo i have 0 remorse for these women. they knew what they were doing, and scammed people for money, who were pursuing a romantic relationship with them. if you view what the tates do as bad, then you should view what these women are doing as worse. imagine having the person you love take everything from you... and there was 0 mutual benefit to it, they were only in it for themselves, and to TAKE from you. youre just a cash cow to them. (kitboga has a video of a scammer who tried to be romantic with an older woman to get her to go through with their scam, promising her marriage, etc, and that was only over the course of a few hours on the phone, not weeks/months of getting someone emotionally invested... yet, at the time, i saw that scammer as the sickest most deranged person i have ever met... who uses love to get things from people... its disgusting) it also bothers me that even when women are doing something so heinous, people feel bad for them, because the women will face social repurcussion, based off of the type of person they are... as if thats an excuse: "im so scared of people finding out what im doing, im going to keep doing it so people never find out, beacuse im being 'blackmailed'..." that screams manipulation/cheater energy, and complete lack of remorse. youre being blackmailed with what... your lifes decisions, and people being told what they are? imagine viewing the tates as victims, for what they did to women, because they were going to face social repurcussions for what they did, by people telling everyone what they did.... like do people not see how backwards that reasoning is... yet SO many people have it, when it comes to women...
@@JohnSala74 She should just stop being a who--re and marry a man to take care of her. "But I dont need no man!" Ok then, go be a scammer and who-re. Gee, she really showed us how independent she is.
*HONESTLY, HE'S AN AMAZING PERSON. HE USES HIS TIME, MOVES AND BASICALLY HIS LIFE INTO HELPING PEOPLE WHO ARE LESS FORTUNATE. USING AN EXCELLENT HELP MODEL AS WELL IN MAKING PROFITS, HE REALLY IS STILL DOING IT OUT OF HIS OWN HEART. YOU REALLY ARE A SAINT AND A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL PERSON. LOVE FROM ALLSTATE STRONG WIDGET*
As a woman, I’ve always wondered why men I match with on dating apps say things like ‘oh thank god you’re not a scammer’. Scams like this don’t target women, so I was basically immune. Now I understand why a lot of guys are so wary, this is horrendous! Thank you for bringing this to my attention Jim, along with countless others! EDIT: I now understand that it can work in reverse. I’ve not experienced it myself but am grateful to know nonetheless!
@@JimBrowningMy sister in law is being scammed as we speak. A guy see met on FB has been sweet talking her for a month and is talking her into sending money to a fake trading website. No matter how much we try to warn her she belives this guy. Unfortunately she will have to learn the hard way.
@@JimBrowning it definitely does, I've had a few crypto scammers on Tinder and I know of quite a few ladies who have fallen for them, largely because they've been sucked in by facetiming with the person in the photos!
Totally got a text like this while I was out on a job. "Is this so and so from the store?" "Nope" I responded. They thanked be for being nice avout the mistake, still some what normal, right? But as soon as they give me the name and a little bit of their life story I checked out immediately... Nobody does this. Its romantic, right? It would be nice to believe you can make a nice connection by accidentally speaking with a stranger but unfortunately in this world... It's almost always a scam.
No way, i was contacted on reddit about a week ago, she said shes in new york and she originally came from Singapore, same script and she wanted my WhatsApp, i instantly realised its a scam and started wasting their time
Bless your heart *VortexTrace* . Its so sad how the scammers prey on the elderly and the uninformed public. Bless you and all others who fight against these crimes. It’s horrible how mainstream media is not doing the right thing by shining light on these things to help the public.!!!
I was a victim of a romance scam in 2020 from Tinder, the handwriting was very similar to this. And I lost a ton of money via "investing" even though I saw red flags, but "she" hypnotized me and knew what buttons to push. After that I have seen many more with the same handwriting, and I dodged all the subsequent bullets. I have no mercy for scammers, none whatsoever.
My dad got got by one of these scams for over 40k we backed up his whole whatsapp and sent it to the authorities but i dont see him ever getting anything back
yeah, it's like. The devil is running the industry hidden in plain sight. To be fair, this was probably one of the reasons why I stopped using Facebook and Snapchat.
Last year, I fell for this pig butchering scam. I was having a rough time financially back then, so hearing a stranger say about the income opportunities, while also sending "proofs" of people getting profits (ironically from binance) is what pulled me in, thinking that this might actually solve my financial distress. For the first month, I received payout, so naturally I believed it further, and so I invested $90 of my savings to these animals. The worst thing I did is I invited my friends here (though they didn't spend a penny thankfully). A month later, I lost ALL my money. Not only was I feeling like a complete idiot, but also, I felt embarrassment and guilt bringing my friends in (although they didn't lose anything). Thank you for exposing these scams, brother. Never stop doing what you do.
Jim I can see myself going fishing with you and having a blast with the Stories of Scammers exposed you are a breath of fresh air keep it up we need people like you to help the world one scammer exposed at a time.
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It was a pleasure unveiling this with you, sir.
If you're the one here risking your life, thank you and good luck exposing more!
Nah tell us the truth bro, you need to spit fax, Jim hired all these actors for the TH-cam content.
@@MrUssy101 you can really call me stupid but you're joking right?
Hes either trolling or braindead @KGBColonelGeorgeCostanza
@@MrUssy101Duhhhhh 🤦
I don’t know who I have more sympathy for, the victims or the employees held captive. The stories I’ve heard haunt me.
I was watching a news story about this style scam out of Cambodia, the scammer compound was surrounded by barbed wire.
Nice to see you here, mate 😊
Yeah, these are pretty desperate people.
No one with a supercar will give 2 sh1ts about me out of the blue.
Even if I met someone who was flashing objects to impress me I'd not be interested, friends only...
Reminds me of when aa few co workers across my life got upset when I didn't want to join in on pyramid schemes, they quickly stopped liking me as much, and later on all the schemes fell apart and guess who lost...
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Hi Ben!
Why would TH-cam not monetise this content?
It’s factual, informative, educational.
Jim is a legend and is saving millions of people from these horrific scammers everyday. TH-cam is a strange beast.
But it's scary and real life. Not all advertisers want real life :(
it's youtube man. ultra leftist socialist ideology that likes censoring.
@@JimBrowning look what happened for example when a load of well known TH-camrs were promoting the Lord and Lady scam from Scotland (forget the name of it now, but it was all over for a few months). Such a grey area with it, none of them could tell if it was genuine or not, hence went along with it. Kinda goes against your mantra of helping people save money too!
@@gflo2781 Established Titles?
Remember when the adblocker was broken i could see adds of scams all day, youtube is supporting scammers.
My rule is that whenever a pretty girl talks to me, a scam of some kind is in the works.
A very profound outlook indeed...
If they reached out to you first, most likely. If they bring up anything about making money, most definitely
"I don't care who the IRS sends, I am not paying taxes"
Yup. Same. There is no reason a pretty girl would talk to me unless she wants something.
LOL meanwhile there's a hot girl somewhere going "This keeps happening to me...I thought I was beautiful. What is going on??!!"
The scale is shocking! Even having an in-house model. That’s next level. I hope Dubai Police will take swift action.
I did report them to the Dubai police many months ago. They initially showed interest. Enough interest that I had a team travel from Australia to Dubai with known Aus victims. The police took all of this evidence, but then went silent and stopped correspondence.
I'm not sure what to do, but I had hoped for better in UAE
@@JimBrowning hmmm well that’s interesting! They’re probably worried about their international image being tarnished if it hit the news. I wonder if they quietly shut it down and deported them - or not.
"I hope Dubai Police will take swift action." I see what you did there :P
@@JimBrowningsounds like money exchanged hands somewhere.
@@Francis0206 Corruption is an issue literally everywhere.
It blows my mind how much energy and brainpower gets invested into scams rather than something truly meaningful 😮
You would not believe how much more money than drugs this makes illegal gangs! (Or considering you subscribe to this user, maybe you would!)
It takes less brainpower to scam vulnerable people out of their money than to make the same amount in the same time honestly.
It's insanely lucrative, so it's not so mindblowing to me :-/
More money is spent on psychology of legitimate gambling than the sum total of global mental health care.
The mind can do incredible things, it's up to you whether you choose it for good or bad things
Slavery and scamming, does it get more disgusting!?! Thank you Jim, and thanks to your contact for bringing awareness❤
I was thinking the same :( these scammers literally can’t go back home. That’s just evil.
irqi rp/pst vietmi rp/pst , pink skin cucsin p/gg
diversity is never going to be a strength.
I mean what do you expect lmao. This is par the course in black and brown countries. All leftist clowns who constantly harp about the supposed evil nature of western nations and white people are conveniently silent on this stuff going on Scot free in black and brown garbage dump countries.
@@nootnewt3How do you think Dubai was built? It's all slave labor.
Love this Dude! He's such a reliable and respected source. I love that he's so simple about things and we get to see that wholesome recovery . Loved this one, *Strong widget* ! Congrats!
One of the best ways to avoid being scammed is to watch videos like this. Education is power.
Another way is to have some common sense!
@Sashazur
Common sense is a developed skill. You learn it through critical thinking and/or experience.
Sadly, critical thinking is in short supply nowadays, and often muddied with misinformation. So you're stuck with experience...and that's not a fun way to learn not to get scammed.
This is the problem with the snowflake, not prepared for the real world.
Not being a total idiot helps a lot
@@ApinofArcnah some ppl know its a scam but still believe in that 1% that its not a scam
UAE local here (not from Dubai). I know a few higher up authorities in Dubai and I’ll definitely share this with them. Great work as always Jim!
Thank you. I did try to raise it with them, and after some initial interest, it seemed to stop. This was over 6 months ago.
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Please keep us updated
@@JimBrowningreally surprising you had no uptake - also live in Dubai and in my experience their cybercrime division is next-level.
@Rudolph-1 let's go fam. I'm rooting for you. Please keep us updated.
Shoutout to the whistleblower. Huge respect for the integrity.
It must be really dangerous to f around with these gangsters in the middle of the desert.
Imagine the worst when you mess bad with people's money stream.
The butchering may become real @@DudleyaSetchellii
@@magnum333I know. I was sort of unknowingly involved as a freelancer when I designed a crypto tech that they used in a scam, when I knew I tried to snitch. Ended very badly, but in the end I just left them alone.
@@leviackerman5866 Good to know you escaped from them. It would have been better to avoid them completely in the first place.
I am from Kentucky and I love you for doing this *Strong widget.*
These scammers are worse than insects, ruining most country's and city's name. I don't know how are they so proud of scamming people.
I pray that anyone who reads this get a successful money recovery in life. Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose is the result of hard work and hustle overtime
They are proud of scamming people same way empires where proud of decimating other nations and stealing Thier resources.
They will always be people who believe that resources should be taken by force especially white people they like using force too much
This is an eye-opening revelation about cyber threats. It's shocking how deceptive people can become. This information is definitely valuable to prevent such online scams.
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Simple logic. If a model looking girl matches you on a dating app, go to the bathroom and look at your face.. That should tell us all we need to know 😂
oh no jim liked a gpt comment
The only way that this can be stopped is by educating people, which is why your video is so important for others to see. Thank you 🙏🏻
Big props to the person who got that footage. Solid work as always Jim, these people are lower than filth.
Also, heard you on BBC Radio 5 Live couple of weeks ago. Brilliant, you are getting recognition for your work.
Ohh could you say more about that BBC Radio audition? Is it still on iPlayer?
The worst of it is how it's basically one group of victims being targeted at another group of victims. Like a modern Colosseum.
The scammers are not victims.. they choose to do this. They know it's wrong. They're just shitty people.
Thanks for all the work you do! Not only saving victims and bringing awareness, but striking fear into these scummy scammers!
Thanks for the support.
How can I message you directly
Thank you so much for posting this JIM!!! My friend is involved in 3 of these relationships as we speak! Sending him the video now!!! Thank you again
Wishing you good luck with your friend!!!
Three!? 🤣
They should just call it Simp Butchering.
@@JasonlaroseLaRose 💯
@@Кабиналах 💯 crazy!!!
I never realised these romance scams were run as big organisations, I thought it was individual people, but I know now from watching informative videos like this.
I believe it started as such, but then it became big business like most of criminal activity.
If there is a way to make money, somebody has likely corporatized that. Unfortunately that’s just the way the world works. If it makes money, somebody will try employing other people to help do it for them
@@KolMan2000its not just corporatizing it. It’s often straight up modern day slavery.
If there are people stupid enough to throw money in the hopes of getting a girl there will be people and groups smart enough to capitalize on their stupidity.
Gold Diggers Inc.
While I understand and respect your wanting to disable the "scammer" look Imao, you're so so beautiful - inside and out. So many of *Strong widget* on the internet subs have been here for years and years loving you for your huge personality, your content, your embracing of weird and different, your skill AND your creativity. Literally no angle could ever make you look any less than inspiring and beautiful to me 💞💞💞
I never heard of "pig butchering" scams before. Very insightful, thank you for sharing!
I recommend you check out the episode on Pig Butchering on Last Week Tonight that just came out!
It’s real. And anyone can fall for it. My friend, a smart man. a doctor. Was scammed 150k. No romance involved but some bogus investment.
I'd never heard of these scams either. Every day is a school day.
I guessed it was chinese the moment i heard the term
how can you not know this? The whole dating online scene is now destroyed because of this. :) You can't date online anymore because of this because 99% of woman on those apps are these fake profiles. This is already going on for 8 years+ or so now.
Let’s go Jim!
Can you put a scammer in a jar for a month or until something interesting happens?
Daj boze
@@GanvyNOOONOOONOOONOO YOU DONT HAVE TO DO THAT YOU DONT HAVE TO DO THAT NOOOO
This guy has millions of subscribers? For what? Eating jellybeans m
IM LEAVING PRUNES IN VODADOKA VODKA FOR A WEEK OR UNTIL SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENS
Bro I’m glad you’re posting again not seeing you’re videos had me worried … i love you’re videos , my grandma almost lost 40,000 from her savings, i watched one of you’re videos years ago and spotted the scam right away ..thank you jim you are the 🐐🐐🐐🐐
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May God help us
Honestly the more I learn about Dubai the more I'm just blown away that people actually want to go there. It represents literally everything wrong with humanity...
IT'S WORLD-WIDE.
It's not just Dubai. Scammers can be found everywhere. It's just easier to find them in rivaling countries. Such as inda /China vs America or Canada.
So glad this video was released, I was also contacted multiple times by scammy numbers (I have no idea how they get our phone numbers) and I have watched enough of Jim Browning videos to know that it is a scam. So a BIG THANK YOU JIM !!!
Never give your phone to facebook! Out of my last 3 phone numbers, the only common denominator for the ones that got a shit ton of scam ads was Facebook. My current phone number has not been given to facebook (I deleted my accounts long ago) and I only use it strictly for services that require it for safety measures, so far not a single scam has reached this number.
Any website or service you sign up to sells your data to data brokerage firms, and then they sell it on to cunts like in this video.
It's called "pig butchering" because they see white men as pigs
Data breaches, buying phone number lists from sites that you signed up for online or apps you downloaded for free, and also from contacts' phone numbers of friends who might have downloaded the app, etc
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Nowadays, event comments and reviews are taken from the source and used by bots. That's why you can't trust videos on TH-cam, even if they have good comments. Shame on TH-cam for removing the dislike button.
Bro go reverse and try to scam them back, i always get atleast some money out of them and its quite entertaining
“Pig butchering scam” is the last combo of words I expected to hear on this channel, but if there’s nefarious intent, and a phone, Jim will be there to report it lol
Jim hired all these actors for the TH-cam content. Period.
Can you prove it? Please atleast make a video about it @@MrUssy101
Man this scam is pretty wild though, they even got a communications van
pink skin caucsian p/gg
irqi vietnmi rp/pst
Jim, THANK YOU for defending us. Thank you for exposing them, educating us, and being a positive force in this crap world. 👍👍👍
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Gotta save the Twitter paypigs from getting scammed
I'm done bathing my dear, what was your bitcoin address again?
*This man spends hundreds of thousands of time just to help us. He helps those in need while also helping us. He always puts a smile on our faces and we should appreciate it. Hats off to Him! I love you dude☝🏻. Crazy I've never payed crazy attention to the Strong Widget movement but when I say ancestral your a gift to our people* ✊🏼💯
The fact that so many people have no idea how to spot an obvious catfish really worries me.
You sound so sexy when you say that...
I can see your point. What you have to keep in ming that some people are lonely. Some people ache for companionship. Then you find some beautiful person who has taken interest in you and actually cares (or appears to). What makes these scams extra disgusting to me is that element. While it is not everyone (who doesn't like easy money) a lot of people fall for it because they need that emotional connection. The money is just the icing on the cake. We have to educate and help everyone. This is really the only way to fight this thing.
I used to think like that, but now that my parents are in their 70's and starting to struggle with cognition and memory, I can see how the elderly fall for these scams. My mum keeps sending me screen shots of a facebook post claiming $1.00 iPhones. It is only a matter of time before they become victims .
@@maxpotenza9868thats so hard to see. im sorry you and your parents are going thru that. i hope they stay safe from scams 💛
My dad lost $17,000 on an oil and gas scam. He fell for it because he was lonely and he looked forward to talking to the scammer. I almost fell victim to the pig butchering scam. Winnie followed me on Twitter. She was a 30 year old, hot looking Chinese babe. She DMed me to ask if we could start a conversation on WhatsApp. Every day we would talk, and that went on for months. After she had built up my trust, she said she could show me how to make some money, if I would buy digital currency. I was saved by my bank because they refused my transaction. I asked Winnie if we could continue our relationship if we didn't talk about digital currency and that was the last I heard from her.
It's incredible how many people are brutally victimized by this scam. The victims losing their life savings, the workers kept as slaves, and the models held hostage and paid practically nothing. All so a few men at the top can get rich.
sadly not much better than something like Amazon or Nike, but these do it more openly
To be fair only a complete MUPPET would fall for these romance scams
@@boldandbrashcrafts727 It's true that they are not much better, but holding the passport means the worker cannot get a different job or leave the country. They are literally enslaved. Also, if they want to leave, they tell their boss, who will most likely blackmail them into working for free.
Any worker who would be homeless if they did not work is enslaved, especially now we have the technology to easily produce abundance. I'm not disputing that people with their passports taken away are in an especially bad position, but workers in an Amazon warehouse are little better off and a lot of clothes manufacturing is worse than either.
@@BaldMancTwatwelcome to dubai
John Oliver did a story of this on Last Week Tonight, but I think he should do a follow-up featuring you in the story. Your work is masterful. I will never stop supporting your Patreon.
I watched this video after watching John Oliver's. This content is amazing.
Oliver is a communist.
The people doing these scams are evil.
Could you give some info on how to find it? Perhaps the name of the episode (I know youtube doesn't allow links)?
SerpentZA covered this kind of scam TWO YEARS ago.
Most MSM news outlets covered this scam a year ago. BBC, WSJ, ABC, FORBES, GMA (a show) amongst others.
It’s unfortunate that people think that John Oliver brought this story into the mainstream, or was the first to cover it in detail. He was not. In fact his show is TWO YEARS late to the party.
Keep up the awesome work! Wish I could help otherwise! My only option is keeping these scammers on the phone for as long as I can to waste their time and prevent others from being called...
My father has been succeptible to these scams, they are disgusting. My mother recently passed, and they pretend to console him while trying to rob him.
atleast he found someone to console him lmao
@@ayoubzahiri1918😂
@@ayoubzahiri1918 Taking advantage of a vulnerable person with mental health issues more like.
@@ayoubzahiri1918sick
@@ayoubzahiri1918 incredibly insensitive thing to say. Sorry to hear of your mother's passing greendragon, I hope your dad is doing better now.
Good on ya, Jim. Keep spreading these messages far and wide.
Thank you, I will
@@JimBrowning I suspect that scammers have abandoned Myanmar cos there's been a civil war there for over a year and, supposedly, the central gov is slowly losing.
A neighbour of mine is going through the very same at the moment, and now I have a great video to show him to validate what I've already explained to him. Thanks!
Thats nice.. My mom sent her whole 200k inheritance to a romance scan recently. Shes unemployed and eventually will be homeless now.. In a city where all shelters are 100% full all year
@@raaaaaaarr : sorry to read that. 😔
Don't bother. He won't get it. You are wasting your time with an idiot.
@@stephdau The scammers play on these two sins, lust and greed. No random woman will ever contact you out of nowhere asking to be friends let alone business associates😂
@@Liberum111 thankfully for my neighbor, preventing people from being exposed to that kind of scam is actually part of my work. 🙂
Keep it going pal. It is such a sad and poor state of affairs how people are being preyed upon.
Edit: There, I have changed it from "prayed" to "preyed". Thank you all for correcting me and improving my spelling haha
Thank you so much for the support Nik
Are they fools to be falling into such things. People need to be wise, those who want to get scammed will be scammed the smart one will pass it
@@ryantseko4269 I can understand this perspective, because some scams feel like they're quite obvious. This isn't the case for everyone, however. Scammers use a bunch of psychological and persuasive tricks to fool people into lowering their guard. Often, they target those who might not be as good at tech as others. That being said, even people in the industry will fall for scams. It's important we keep an eye out for ourselves, and our friends + family. Remember to slow down, breathe, and think to yourself "what is being asked of me?" when you receive unexpected "urgent" comms. Source: I work in cyber awareness.
@@ryantseko4269 I believe the scammer alone is at fault. He/She instigated the event with obvious malicious intent, therefore, no further blame needs to be explored. Blaming the victim is always a difficult and contentious stance to take my friend.
@@ryantseko4269 If I was going to pass blame from the scammers, I wouldn't pass it down to the victims, but up to the environment producing scammers. As it seems clear (to me anyway) that environmental factors are a large contributor to making scammers, given how most scammers are in India, (which then means you should probably pass blame further up to the world for being the way it is) but who wants to do that, then that means we might be part of the problem, and that *feels* bad, so it couldn't be that.
So instead since one can't do anything about the scammers, and being at fault can't be right, that only leaves down, to the victim, where you can feel confident that if *you* were them you wouldn't get scammed, so that must mean it is the victims fault for being stupid. Sigh.
Just the other day I went to your TH-cam page cause I hadn’t seen anything from you in a while and was worried the scammers finally caught up to you.
Im glad to see you still around and stopping these scammers.
How would they catch up to him? Isnt he too far away? What can they do?
@@greek_freak5429 The US thought the same thing until Pear Harbor happened. Just because someone is far away doesn't mean they can't harm you.
@@greek_freak5429 Yeah, it's not like they can trick him into deleting his TH-cam account, right?🙂
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@@greek_freak5429Just this style of scam, only by the organizations operating in Cambodia, is estimated to bring in revenue equivalent to half of Cambodia’s annual GDP.
Individual victims have transferred millions of dollars.
No where on earth is too far away to reach for a million dollars.
Even im.subscribe to Jim, YT dont give notification
I legit thought from the title that people out there are stealing and butchering pigs illegally 😭💀
Facts bro😂
15th century type crime
Yeah I thought so too. But to be fair there are countries where you can hire some "witch" to cast a spell on your behalf and quite often it involves animal sacrifice
It's a funny name 😂
Lol
I’m glad someone covered this! A lot of these people are Chinese who live in Southeast Asia, places like Thailand and Cambodia. Gonna watch the full video now!
yeah they do that in PH for how many years😢
and glad now that a lot of those chineese are deported and there is so much more to be done
Shout out to the brave guy risking his life for everyone to see what is going on! He deserves huge respect and even a medal!
I was a victim of this type of scam in early 2020 and it is incredibly shocking to realize how well they work to get you to fall for their entire scheme. Back in time, when the scammer asked me to take out loans to withdraw my "profits", I decided to stop following their instructions and then they become very aggressive afterwards. As I was trying to understand what was happening, I came across a subreddit where people were sharing their stories and my heart broke as I realized that my loss was nothing compared to theirs. Some of them were involved for more than a year, some others lost tens of thousands of dollars.
In the end, I'm glad that this process taught me a lot about how they do things and that I was able to help people who were engaging in such a degenerate scheme.
Thanks Jim for what you have done so far, and good work as always.
Be wary, be cautious, and stay safe out there people!
..more fool you and them.
so I am curious. Were you that horny or just plain dumb to fall for it?
If you fell for this then you are an idiot.
They're all over bumble and tinder these days too.
Well I feel like an idiot.. i just became a victim to this, but luckily it was only with money I could afford to loose 😢
Between yourself and streamers/youtubers like Kitboga I have learned so much about the scamming world it's insane. Thanks for these videos I tell a lot of people about them hopefully coming your way regularly.
I adore Pierogi too! 😊
Honestly at the end of the day, it makes me so happy knowing you've lived your dream and are just doing what you want to do. No matter whether you quit or continue, i'll be cheering for you *Strongwidget* because of all the good you've done for myself and so many other people.
Thank you.
"If you recommend it to 5 friends and they each recommend it to 5 friends you get a share of their profit!"
My brother in Christ this is called a pyramid scheme, what poor soul still falls for these?
Ignorant people often on social media.
@@joshuacr don't forget AMWAY & the scientology cult are both massive pyramid schemes that the USA is unwilling to stop
Vulnerable people
@@WingMaster562This. Being poor and desperate figuratively rewires your brain. You cannot think straight if you're poor. The same goes for being lonely.
The people I’ve met that fall for these know it is a pyramid scheme, but they think they can outsmart it
Nothing in life is for free, everything that requires hard work and is presented to you as "easy money" should immediately be a red flag.
There's some exceptions mostly related to anything in the entertainment/scam industry which also includes your standard red pill dudes like Tate. There it's a mix of luck, social connections or willingness to compromise your own integrity/manipulate people. Sometimes hard work pays off in entertainment and you get lucky but a lot of times you don't.
@@Iceman96051 so, nothing is free.
@@olm4700 Everything has a price, be it coin or blood.
I'm not on any dating apps, but have encountered these scammers on Instagram. They are fairly easy to spot. Always an Asian woman with a glob-trotting lifestyle. I had no idea of the scale of the operation though. Well done for exposing it.
I heard about this scam on an incel/self-improvement forum around 2020. So it isn't anything new. I guess that this early scammers are just beginning to expand their operations. Your description of their profiles are spot-on. I really hope that they would not try to better camouflage themselves, as if finding somebody wasn't too hard already.
@@krazownik3139it’s been a thing on tinder even before that
They are on X or Twitter, too.
@@DudleyaSetchellii tiktok too recently
A friend of mine fell for this exact scam a week or so prior, the financial as well as the emotional impact of this nasty scam truly is sinister.
This is some of the most powerful investigative journalism on TH-cam right now. 1000+ people is actually insane. This is the top of the food chain of phone scamming.
Mr Browning, it's always a pleasure learning from you sir. How you've helped the world is amazing, you deserve so much recognition, awards, and praise!
Hey Jim, I have encountered such people on Matrimonial sites! Fake profile pretending to be a nurse in UK and the whole chat was so damn weird!!Thank you for highlighting such issue for public!!
scammers titling their victims as 'clients' really triggers me. what lowlives. they can't even be honest with themselves.
this video couldn't have had better timing. i spend a lot of time on r/scams and this scam version is probably the worst one to crack. the stories the friends and families of the victims share there are just heartbreaking. once these evils get their hands around a victim's neck they won't even stop even though the victim goes broke. that only puts them on to plan b; pressuring the victim to take up loans and hound their friends and families for money. they don't give a carp. it's really scary and sad that someone is capable and willing to do this to another human being, often vulnerable, to boot.
thank you for shedding light on this, jim! i refer people to your videos all the time! 👍
They'll call em customers too
Same with nigerian scammers, victims are just clients and projects to them
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@@JesusChrist-qs8sx very true. anything but "victim".
Not sure how people still fall for these scams. I remember during my dating app days You could immediately tell a scam account when they messaged you. Usually it was a mega attractive model way out of your league sending the first message being overly friendly. Just block and move on.
Some people are just bad at recognizing the signs or just ignore the signs because all their blood is flowing to the wrong place...
If you remember Ashley Madison, they were found to be buying fake profiles, and there were only a few thousand active *real* women compared to hundreds of thousands of active men.
The terrible state of dating apps nowadays where most men get few to no replies from genuine women and the Halo Effect where attractive women get favourable treatment and logic steps out of the way of emotion. Scammers use both to exploit and con their victims. If anything, loneliness has been tragically monetised in this day and age.
I've noticed most of them have a bio that looks like it's written by ai
Well it’s a good thing I take pleasure in telling those people off I guess, it’s great responding with just “what.” Or something equally standoffish and seeing them desperately try to maintain a cordial tone to get your money.
incel @@tgheretford
all scammers are pure filth. I hope the proper authorities take swift action quickly!! thanks for sharing Jim!
For the low level staff i would be more carefull with my judgement.
Of course they know what they are doing, but it is easy to say its disgusting while you are not in the same position as they are. If you or I would be a immigrant worker and had to choose to work as a slave construction worker or a near slave scammer im sure alot of people would compormise their morals.
As a scambaiting fan myself, I HAD this same opinion until I saw John Oliver's cover of these scams from a couple of weeks ago. At least some of them are scammed/human trafficked into doing it themselves, it's not always their choice. I'd recommend giving that video a watch too if you haven't seen it already. Have a great day!
I dont think thats true. A scammer in a poor country with a yearly avg. Income of lets say 50$ can scam a small percentage of for example a csgo inventory.
If you steal 50$ but the victims have 3000$ in skins in my opinion the scammers are not automatically pure filth.
@@einhalbesbrotso basically, "I think those people deserve it, so the scammers are better"? good moral footing you've got there.
@@apbecker no i dont believe they deserve it.
But it isn't a huge loss.
I myself have been scammed out of 30€ and later after talking a bit more to the scammer i understood.
He had the ability to take hundrets of my Euros but decided on 1 item.
I have empathy for those misfortuned of us.
It also thought me a valuable lesson about safety on the internet.
All in all i'd say the 30€ for an exploit that coule have cost me thousands is a valuable lesson aswell
Thank you for sharing this, I’m from Dubai and have a few connections with the law enforcement. I’ll definitely share this with them and get this hole dug. Disgusting operation…
My personal favourite tactic when a message like that comes through on WA or SMS is to go full "Darmok and Jalad" in the conversation. They really really try to keep the conversation going before giving up.
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!!
Love it, I have started replying in Welsh, really frustrates them as they have no idea what language I am speaking/typing
Same goes with German sub dialects. Google translate doesn't work on them.
Shaka, when the walls fell
Lol what?
You are a hero Jim, thank you for exposing these tools. Also a huge shout out to the dude who got hired there , realised what it was and filmed it. I hope he stays safe.
Great work, *Vortextrace* - I’m thrilled that you’re actively combatting these scammers. It’s crucial to prioritize the safety of the elderly and the public by taking every necessary measure to protect them. You truly deserve recognition for your efforts!!!!!!
Thank you for creating this. More people need to be aware.
it is scary... indeed...
very clever they actually have a real model sending out fake videos and pictures... interesting... i wonder how she justifies this to herself? she must know they are stealing people's money and she is happy to be a part of this... i do hope her family find out and shame her... for willingly being a part of this thievery
Some years ago i noticed that on many dating apps/websites there are profiles of models (too perfect), and they ALL have extremely similar backgrounds (a room in white colors), and the photos also look like they were shot on the same camera. That's when i started suspecting some organized scheme. I tried to look these photos up through reverse image search, got no results - i.e. they were not taken from other websites, and thus came to a conclusion that someone had actually involved models into shooting those, specifically for doing something on dating platforms.
Once i saw these offices from the footage, i recognized those rooms. Now i finally know a much more detailed answer for what's this about. Thank you
At this moment some of those pictures are on Instagram
My jaw actually dropped when you said Dubai. The UAE does not mess around with punishment for criminal activity among those who are not ultra wealthy. There must be some sort of loophole the scammers are abusing.
Trust me the local police are aware. I went for an interview in that building when I was in search for a job. there is more Jim didn't talk about.
@@Pull_uppi am curious about what Jim didnt mention . I would very much like to know if you can explain
@@Erwin-rb2iw so you can tighten your scamming processes? Erwin is such a typical name for a Chinese to use in international business.
Yes because this doesn't seem illegal. You're transferring money to some girl you matched with, how is that illegal? Being stupid SHOULD be illegal but it's not.
someone from UAE scamming someone in UK on an American social media platform. it's basically impossible to prosecute.
I am extremely impressed by what you have done here. I didn't know there was a word for this, I've seen evidence that this has been done to a couple buddies over the years... I've tried explaining to them that they're being scammed but they don't believe me. your video is absolutely amazing and the investigative journalism you've done here deserves a Pulitzer prize.
Ive been helping out a family friend that got scammed for 4 years by a pig butcher scam (he's also disabled from cerebral palsy). We finally managed to convince him they're scammers, I just wish I had a way to get back at them for causing distress to the family for years. They managed to get his social security number, drivers license, family member information, ect. It's extremely frustrating.
Best luck. I feel sorry for him.
As a lonely person, these scams make me so angry! Thank you for stopping these people!
How am I supposed to know when an actual, 9/10, 24 year old, wealthy Asian woman is randomly interested in my average ass for no reason and it's not just these scammers?
Ok but careful because labelling yourself something can end up making you stuck in a situation
Lol not what the vids about
Great work, *Vortextrace* - I’m thrilled that you’re actively combatting these scammers. It’s crucial to prioritize the safety of the elderly and the public by taking every necessary measure to protect them. You truly deserve recognition for your efforts!😊😊
Thanks for all your time and effort for bringing out the truth about these scammers 😊
The amount of scams nowadays is breathtaking.
You have to train suckers early not to be suckers or this will never stop, unfortunately. Education earlier and earlier about human deceit is a very necessary thing.
@@YepSmokeIf you train the suckers, the scams will just get better and then you might have a harder time seeing the con. The suckers in this world are what allow the scammers to be so obvious and still make profit.
@@johnjjohningtoniii2439 TRUEEE DOOOOOD
I got a random text message inviting me to a barbeque. I told them they had the wrong number and then they responded back talking about some chance meeting and fate and wanting me to download telegram and saying they missed me. My responses had just been a few words and definitely nothing that would warrant someone pretending they were obsessed with me, so I was like, yeah, this is definitely a scammer. I quit responding completely after the third time they mentioned downloading telegram.
Same thing happened with me... I played along... Eventually they comes to investment in crypto and become a billionaire in one month 😂😂😂
Me to, although in the latest I got offered a job "liking youtube videos". 😂
Might’ve been legit! 😅
I've gotten a few texts like that. Whenever I did a phone number lookup on them, it would always point to them using a voip number, which is a pretty good indication that they're not on the up and up
The information you get about these scammers is mind-blowing! I'm glad some like you is on the case and can educate the rest of us.
Wow, this channel has become even better since I last watched a couple of years ago. Better than Netflix.
just wanted to thank you for bringing light to these types of scams
You deserve a medal for sharing this information. God bless you.
You people are amazing! I appreciate you rescuing so many possible victims. Raise awareness You've gained yet another fan. I appreciate you offering this service. These con artists must be stopped right away; they are despicable. You're greatly benefiting the world by doing this myRETRIEVAL.
I love how there's people willing to video this kind of bullshittery to expose it, real heroes
It's good that they record it, but I wouldn't call every little action like that "heroic". The word "hero" has lost all its original meaning. Not every good little deed is heroic. I think you have to be at the level of rescuing someone from a burning building to be considered a hero.
I found myself addicted to your videos ❤
The purpose of it, the justice, inteligence well used, a straight to the point explanation, not a single annoying yell to sound "cool" like they do on other channels and etc...
If I could give you a bear hug, I would! 😂
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Appreciate every investigation you dive into to make the world more aware of these scamming operations. Making vidoes like this to educate the masses on this serious matter is a noble feat that I'm sure most of us who watch are more than thankful for.
So this explains the influx of this type of person trying to start conversations with me. I have managed to stay safe from this scam by genuinely having zero interest in investing money, and refusing to entertain the idea. But I can see how people could fall for this. I am glad to finally have an answer to a minor mystery that has been bugging me for almost a year. Thank you for this video, and your other ones, keep up the good work
Thank you for bringing attention to the scam, and educating us. Nearly fell for this kind of scam (and by "nearly" I mean "lucked out"), and awareness helps everyone avoid being scammed.
It's also ironic that I got a scam-ad on an anti-scam video. Oh well, reported.
Though I wrap myself up in your cozy voice, the bedtime stories you tell are the scariest. Tysmfs, you legend.
weird comment, very botlike
@@selectionndead internet... the dead internet theory is no longer a theory
I almost got caught out by a scam on a dating site, turns out it was a group based in Paris who had a genuine in house model who coerces people into compromised actions on cam, records it, then blackmails them into transferring money. Thankfully I didn’t let it get to that point and got the police involved, but apparently others got severely screwed over. Basically f*k all these scammers, keep going with what you’re doing “Jim”, you’re doing an amazing job exposing these utter arse boils
The in house models are just as bad as these scammers. Preying upon the naive and desperate. I'm glad you kept a clear mind and don't fall for these scammers
@@pnoodl3s775I used to get women contacting me on dating apps asking me to visit a site or asking me to send them money. Either way I don't entertain scammers even a woman claiming she wants to get to know me.
Yeah don't do anything on camera you wouldn't want other people seeing
jeez. your insider has some courage. thanks for shining a light on this.
I've seen scams like this, didn't know it was called a pig butchering scam though. Thanks for the video and exposing it
I have been the victim of a pig butchering scam in early 2021. Gold spot trading. Used MT5 software. Even did checks with other trader friends. Absolute rug pull with a carrot of $18,000. Ultimately lost close to $7500 of mine and my family's money. Thank you for making these videos and brining awareness.
😂😂😂😂
Bro thirsty AF
Family’s money???
I'm sorry about all of the non-empathetic people here just laughing and joking about your pain and suffering.
After watching this video, I believe I, too, have been duped by this same scam, and I and my family are still suffering from it even now.
But don't give up. Use this as an opportunity to seek God and through that become a better and wiser man.
@@magnaz26 Thank you for having such a compassionate heart. Such a rarity yet such a powerful energy to share in these times. Much love and light. 🙏🏼💜✨
The amount of effort they put in to scam is astonishing
Why? They make a ton of money. Why wouldn't it be worth the effort?
Thanks!
Thank you Mik!
Jim Browning, you're the best! Great video!
Thanks Shelby
@@JimBrowningyo
Wow! Big thanks to this insider.. I am baffled at the scale of these scams going on.. I always imagined the scam messages i got came from some small office in India. I've had numerous occasions where someone would text me with the wrong number and they would actually try to engage in conversation. An immediate red flag, of course. In this day and age, basically anyone contacting me through phone or text that i do not already know is certainly a scammer!
Weird to be more worried about your family thinking you're in the adult film industry than facilitating mass fraud.
That’s a societal problem as well.
Plus we don’t know how bad the industry is in Dubai.
Thaaaaat’s purity culture!
@nmatalonis8458 the reason for the social stigma around the adult film industry, is an obvious one. instead of working hard to add to society, you are using your body for money. few men want an ex pornstar, and the ones that do(typically overly s3xualize women), aren't the kind of men women want to be with, for good reason. no one wants their children in the adult film industry, and rightfully so. and for anyone wanting to scream mysogyny, at my words, i hold the same views for men who trick women with ideas of love, and working towards something just to use them. its disgusting and heinous. and i don't think men should be in the adult film industry. i don't think women should want to be with men who were in it either.
Imo i have 0 remorse for these women. they knew what they were doing, and scammed people for money, who were pursuing a romantic relationship with them. if you view what the tates do as bad, then you should view what these women are doing as worse. imagine having the person you love take everything from you... and there was 0 mutual benefit to it, they were only in it for themselves, and to TAKE from you. youre just a cash cow to them. (kitboga has a video of a scammer who tried to be romantic with an older woman to get her to go through with their scam, promising her marriage, etc, and that was only over the course of a few hours on the phone, not weeks/months of getting someone emotionally invested... yet, at the time, i saw that scammer as the sickest most deranged person i have ever met... who uses love to get things from people... its disgusting)
it also bothers me that even when women are doing something so heinous, people feel bad for them, because the women will face social repurcussion, based off of the type of person they are... as if thats an excuse: "im so scared of people finding out what im doing, im going to keep doing it so people never find out, beacuse im being 'blackmailed'..." that screams manipulation/cheater energy, and complete lack of remorse. youre being blackmailed with what... your lifes decisions, and people being told what they are?
imagine viewing the tates as victims, for what they did to women, because they were going to face social repurcussions for what they did, by people telling everyone what they did.... like do people not see how backwards that reasoning is... yet SO many people have it, when it comes to women...
Both are pretty shit outcomes. Imagine defiling yourself
@@JohnSala74 She should just stop being a who--re and marry a man to take care of her. "But I dont need no man!" Ok then, go be a scammer and who-re. Gee, she really showed us how independent she is.
*HONESTLY, HE'S AN AMAZING PERSON. HE USES HIS TIME, MOVES AND BASICALLY HIS LIFE INTO HELPING PEOPLE WHO ARE LESS FORTUNATE. USING AN EXCELLENT HELP MODEL AS WELL IN MAKING PROFITS, HE REALLY IS STILL DOING IT OUT OF HIS OWN HEART. YOU REALLY ARE A SAINT AND A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL PERSON. LOVE FROM ALLSTATE STRONG WIDGET*
As a woman, I’ve always wondered why men I match with on dating apps say things like ‘oh thank god you’re not a scammer’. Scams like this don’t target women, so I was basically immune. Now I understand why a lot of guys are so wary, this is horrendous! Thank you for bringing this to my attention Jim, along with countless others!
EDIT: I now understand that it can work in reverse. I’ve not experienced it myself but am grateful to know nonetheless!
Many woman has paid Nigerians who advertised themselves as lonely attractive entrepreneurs from Britain that needs money to patent a winning idea.
It does work the other way too of course. I didn't happen to see any desirable male profiles, but you can guarantee happens.
@@JimBrowningMy sister in law is being scammed as we speak. A guy see met on FB has been sweet talking her for a month and is talking her into sending money to a fake trading website. No matter how much we try to warn her she belives this guy. Unfortunately she will have to learn the hard way.
@@JimBrowning it definitely does, I've had a few crypto scammers on Tinder and I know of quite a few ladies who have fallen for them, largely because they've been sucked in by facetiming with the person in the photos!
What an ignorant thing to say. This is how women like you end up getting scammed.
Totally got a text like this while I was out on a job. "Is this so and so from the store?" "Nope" I responded. They thanked be for being nice avout the mistake, still some what normal, right? But as soon as they give me the name and a little bit of their life story I checked out immediately... Nobody does this. Its romantic, right? It would be nice to believe you can make a nice connection by accidentally speaking with a stranger but unfortunately in this world... It's almost always a scam.
No way, i was contacted on reddit about a week ago, she said shes in new york and she originally came from Singapore, same script and she wanted my WhatsApp, i instantly realised its a scam and started wasting their time
Bless your heart *VortexTrace* . Its so sad how the scammers prey on the elderly and the uninformed public. Bless you and all others who fight against these crimes. It’s horrible how mainstream media is not doing the right thing by shining light on these things to help the public.!!!
I was a victim of a romance scam in 2020 from Tinder, the handwriting was very similar to this. And I lost a ton of money via "investing" even though I saw red flags, but "she" hypnotized me and knew what buttons to push. After that I have seen many more with the same handwriting, and I dodged all the subsequent bullets. I have no mercy for scammers, none whatsoever.
She didn’t hypnotize you, you’re just stupid.
Good work, you really help people avoid being scammed. Real hero.
4:00 I got so many of those messages last year, eventually one asked when I was available, and I said "February 30th" ... never heard from them again
My dad got got by one of these scams for over 40k we backed up his whole whatsapp and sent it to the authorities but i dont see him ever getting anything back
Lost his entire retirement
It's messed up that scammers are also being scammed by their bosses
yeah, it's like.
The devil is running the industry hidden in plain sight.
To be fair, this was probably one of the reasons why I stopped using Facebook and Snapchat.
I don't care if I am being offered $300 an hour to feed my family, there is no F ing way I am giving my "boss" my passport.
Born and raised in Dubai, will be showing this to people who should see it.
Last year, I fell for this pig butchering scam. I was having a rough time financially back then, so hearing a stranger say about the income opportunities, while also sending "proofs" of people getting profits (ironically from binance) is what pulled me in, thinking that this might actually solve my financial distress. For the first month, I received payout, so naturally I believed it further, and so I invested $90 of my savings to these animals. The worst thing I did is I invited my friends here (though they didn't spend a penny thankfully). A month later, I lost ALL my money. Not only was I feeling like a complete idiot, but also, I felt embarrassment and guilt bringing my friends in (although they didn't lose anything).
Thank you for exposing these scams, brother. Never stop doing what you do.
Me too same thing happened to me I got everything back
Jim I can see myself going fishing with you and having a blast with the Stories of Scammers exposed you are a breath of fresh air keep it up we need people like you to help the world one scammer exposed at a time.