Filling Out A Scammers Form, But With HIS OWN REAL Details!
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Filling Out A Scammers Form, But With HIS OWN REAL Details! Today, I thought it would be a good idea to utilize a scammer's refund form to scare him with his own personal information!
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Apparently the scammers are turning to either text to speech or text to speech to text to speech because my Father in law almost fell for a scam yesterday.
My Nephew made him go to the bank right after he made him get off the phone.
I can't believe he fell for the "This is the Federal Gov do what we say to stay out of jail scam.".
pls give info to Police to get these (*&&^% locked up!
So happy the old lady didn’t end up getting scammed. Disgusting scammers. Thank you for your hard work.
How delusional do you have to be to refer to them as "customers"? Do you mean victims? I felt terrible when I heard that trusting older lady crying. These scammers are indeed disgusting!
Shut your mouth and listen to me
@@unnamedchannel1237 that was insane! Imagine someone in a call centre in the UK or somewhere doing that? Someone from Amazon! They'd be sacked on the spot
I have a mini air horn. I would have used it after I heard that.
@@melodyvalentine8779 yeah, lawless 3rd world countries don't care.
I love how she calls everyone a "customer" after the call, like she actually sells something.
They're probably trained to do that so they "stay in character" in case someone hears their background conversation.
Just hearing her use that term was making my blood boil. She provides no service or product, she just takes like the parasite she is
It's most likely a reflex. Working at a call center, they really hammer home certain aspects, specially how you are to refer to callers/called ones.
To them they are customers, they are getting paid to call people and lie, to them they are customers since that’s their job lol.
Gimmy your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle
It kills me how self righteous the scammers are. It’s almost like they have convinced themselves they are actually helping people.
Right, so despicable…
Seems like russia needs to bomb few scammer buildings as well.
Ye, the way she referred to them as "customers" lol. These people have managed to fool themselves.
AOC: they are feeding their families
@@DokolenkocmHugeDickInches lmao at ur name
I love how she calls people useless for not having money when she’s the one trying to take money that isn’t hers lmao scammers are unbelievable
Don’t get me wrong, they are scumbags, but technically they are “useless to her” in a literal sense.
Lol exactly
@@Rederisthey are useless themselves because can't get an honest job
The most disgusting part isn't even the scam itself, but how these scammers treat their victims in such condescending, despicable and abusive behavior.
They were born in the slums... maggots.
i've seen a former scammer talk about it. they are under the impression that all those things we've been saying about how great and rich western nations are for the last few centuries is actually all true. they think that even our poor have far more than they could ever use.
yes, there is a difference in standard of living, but they generally dont think that what they take actually hurts people. again, they think even our poor have more money than they could even try to spend in their lifetimes. while i'm sure they do not take it literally, they do take the "streets paved with gold and diamond fountain" talk to mean that even our poor are fabulously wealthy.
The most disgusting part about these scams are them using an English name but have a heavy af Indian accent
@@mediumsurmoon6283 kind of sort of. you do got to realize that their target demographic wouldent be able to pronounce their real names.
it's also a very common practice to adopt a name in the language of wherever you're doing business.
i had an indian as a boss one time who went by "Zee" because down here in the south, no one can pronounce his real name ("jigar") correctly.
@@rakninja Yeah. I went to an international school in my junior year of high school, and nearly every Asian person had an English name they chose before they went to USA.
When she's crying, my heart broke. That poor woman. I wish so much harm on people who do this to the elderly and vulnerable.
And still the scammer wouldn't give up
Those people in India need to stop mass producing so many babies. That's the root cause of their financial woes. How can one expect a government to support over 1.35 billion people? That's unfathomable.
Me too, and then it made me even more sad thinking about how there is another disabled elderly woman out there who did get her money stolen. Scambaiter can't possible save every victim, and my heart aches for them, but I'm glad he does what he can even though it is sometimes hard to watch like here
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@@sinfullyciel Those people in India need to stop mass producing so many babies. That's the root cause of their financial woes. How can one expect a government to support over 1.35 billion people? That's unfathomable.
That store manager was giving out vibes that she wasnt going to do anything to help out, but she proved me wrong; job well done! I was expecting you'd call her back to thank her or something! Keep up the good work!
Judging by how quickly the store manager intervened after the second call, her hanging up “OK thank you” now sounded more like rushing out, like she already saw the old lady by the gift card rack and realised this might not be a prank call.
At any rate, kudos to her.
was a store manager once and we do kind of rush callers a bit for the sole purpose of keeping the line open for emergencies or if we're expecting a particular call at the time that you may have been calling. But store managers always try to do their best haha we just sound like assholes because some customers are garbage and we're not getting paid enough. But most managers I have worked with usually try their best to address problems or issues brought up.
I think she cared but didn't believe him, and only checked for the lady for what she perceived to be the 1% chance it wasn't a prank
@@sigmachadgigamale - I agree. She was quite persistent when she approached Mary. I suspect Mary was showing signs of distress in person (in particular, probably a lot of confusion), which led to the manager checking in on Mary further until she divulged enough information to deduce that the call to the store was true.
A less caring manager likely would have left after being fed the "it's a friend's birthday gift" line.
I disagree. I could understand when he wanted to give their name or description.
Man, it can't be exaggerated how happy it makes me feel to hear the manager who was rightfully skeptical about James (Let's be honest, it's a very strange phone call to get), decide to trust James, and warn the old lady.
This old lady was forced to go outside, and is at that moment in a very confusing situation and the fact that she's crying is all the scammers fault. Despite hearing her cry these heartless people just try to get money out of her anyway.
Elderly lady who can barely walk was sent to the Kroger so they could steal hundreds of dollars (this time!) from her. I would like to contact Kroger management to comment that store manager.
James made the call "strange", those moments where he couldn't explain himself properly made it weird. He'll improve with time.
it's really not hard.. "hi, i'm a TH-camr who is making videos about scammers, and i'm trying to save as victim coming to you". people know what youtubers are, no one is going to trust "a private investigator"
@@nvcn86 You must be young. xP People don't see "youtubers" as anything trustworthy. It's like if someone tells you "Hi. I use facebook and warn my friends about scammers." None of that makes me sound trustworthy. You don't know me, or the people who follow me. I could be pulling a prank.
You might ask me: "How do you know an elderly lady is going to come here soon."
Then I'd have to explain how I hacked into a scammers telephone call.
Now you shouldn't trust me at all, because you would either think: "Think this guy could be hacking me!" or "'Hacker' my ass. You're just trying to look cool, aren't you?"
Even after this, if I was in their shoes, I'd still say: "Yeah, sure, sounds great. I'll keep an eye open, whatever. Good luck with your videos." And I'd be slightly annoyed it wasn't a customer, and I definitely don't want people calling that phone when a customer is trying to call.
Know that most grown-ups and elderly still don't have the slightest idea how hacking works. So just by phoning them and telling them you're a hacker might make them think that you somehow hacked their telephone. "Get out of my telephone!" xD
But I know how you feel. In the past I never understood how the truth could leave people suspicious.
And even though he is a private investigator, I agree that it doesn't sound reassuring either. It just means "a person who investigates things for themselves". Could be a dude in a tinfoil hat who believes in aliens, thinking they're on the heels of an alien trying to scam humans.
@@nvcn86 the first thing a person will think after hearing the word "youtuber" is that either she's being pranked or she's being invited to play along with their prank. which makes it less reliable.
Imagine ripping off an 88 year old lady who can hardly walk. That’s the lowest of the low.
You have no idea about the 'moral' values of indians. Lol..
@@mehedihasan6073 not all
@@mehedihasan6073 mind giving some examples of the moral values? Lol
@@AcageronJunk ~ There are none.
@mehedi Hasan broo😭
The audacity of scammers to call these innocent people "customer". As if they are providing some sort of service.
Makes my blood boil
Those people in India need to stop mass producing so many babies. That's the root cause of their financial woes. How can one expect a government to support over 1.35 billion people? That's unfathomable.
That is the bit that sickens me too. They truly are scum
@@rohitchakravarthi94 Those people in India need to stop mass producing so many babies. That's the root cause of their financial woes. How can one expect a government to support over 1.35 billion people? That's unfathomable.
Yeah FR
Those scammers even have the audacity to get mad at "customers" when their scam fails. I'm glad people like you exist, keep up the amazing work.
stealing is like a drug. It's why kleptomania exists. They get addicted to easily getting what they want. Imagine if you made $1000 a day, how would your lifestyle suddenly change?
@@nathanielbass771 facts
Sometimes I think a few of these scammers get trained to believe the bullshit by whoever the head guy is
It’s makes me laugh to hard when that happens it’s a win win customer doesn’t fall for it and scammers get nothing well pissed off af tho 😭😭😭
@@nathanielbass771 The sad thing is, they don’t make that much. They get addicted to the possibility of being able to do so
You're amazing! It's nice to see someone be so proactive against scammers
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The old lady that started crying broke my heart. I feel like she lives alone and has no one to look after her and then these pathetic bastards still try scamming her.
It got me so angry I could feel the veins in my forehead popping, and I suffer from LOW blood pressure. Now I need to go take a walk in the snow to cool off.
Ikr this is really sad 😢.. That's why I love supporting SB, so he could continue saving old vulnerable people from this
I wonder how do all these stories end. As was mentioned on many channels of this type, police barely fights scammers in India, so how many people actually got scared enough to stop robbing people? 20%?5% I doubt revealing their personal info is enough to stop them. You can call me whatever you want, but if I found out there are people involved in this kind of activity living in the same city I live in, I would call a few good friends of mine and would have a talk with those guys, because I think only beating the shit out of them helps. Hope there are Indians, who agree with me, someone need to teach the scammers a real lesson.
This is why you need to teach your parents/grandparents about this stuff and also genuinely show care for them and visit them
that was so sad, my grandparents get depressed whenever they feel that mentally they are slipping. i can only imagine the sadness and self loathing that poor lady was feeling. fuck, im going to hug my grandparents today
Mad props for the store manager who actually took action and helped that poor woman from being taken advantage of. That's what customer service is.
Definitely. I was nervous after the first call. Even more so after the second, being only "Okay, thanks." Was glad to see the second call was so short because she was actually just taking swift action. Such a relief, though it hurt to hear the old, confused, lady in pain from simply standing/walking was crying because she was so distressed while the lady was saying "Leave the store now, go, go!" As if any sincere service line would tell someone "the managers coming?? Gtfo!!" 😂
Yeah that "ok thanks" and "who do you work for?" Was cringe
@@yuioyup Yeah it was kinda cringe, but it's a fair question to try to see where your anon tip is coming from.
@@yuioyup cringe? Not at all. That's a legitimate question because there are many fake things out there in this world. Depending on his answer she can simply ignore or take heed of what he was advising her to do. Heck, it's not usual at all that a private investigator from TH-cam helps inform a local store manager :)
She will likely be scared from this for the rest of her life. The internet and even phones are super confusing to old people. I hope she has a relative or a nice neighbor that can do her online shopping and physical shopping from now on.
Props to the store manager actually getting involved; Didn't let us down. GREAT EFFORT !
& what's even better is that she'll be more aware & talk to the other employees.
At first it was as if she didn't believe him and brushed him off as some kind of prank or scam in itself. Glad store person actually took notice.
It was pretty close tho..
Store managers like that are dime a dozen, stores don't hire actual human beings anymore. I'm surprised it took the time out of it's day to even do something. Stores need to do better than hiring low common detonators.
@@grimsonforce7504having a detonator at all is a little overkill for a store, no?
Its so sad to see people falling for these ruthless scammers, especially that old 83 yr old lady victim who couldn't even walk, forced to get to the shop! she got confused, scared and even cried and yet, the scammer had no mercy! people like that really deserves to be punished.
I wish you could do something more, maybe like get those every single scammers arrested or make them taste their own medicine
Are you from the scamland? 🇮🇳
@@ahmedniyaz8636 seems like your brain is overflowing filthiness lol go see a shrink, it may help
@@munbee_ yeah atleast I don't go around scamming people of their life savings. 🇮🇳💰🥷
@@ahmedniyaz8636 You sounds like from terroristland!
@@ahmedniyaz8636 are you being racist?
Bro ngl, You actually are doing a great job and not only you're making fun content for us, But you're also building confidence of people who ain't aware of these things!
Keep it Up man, I really like this type of content, i Sometimes laugh watching the scammer's reaction 😂❤️
I wish I had’ve known about James in 2016.
I was scammed $100K USD and it
totally ruined my life.
I can’t tell you how it feels to lose your life savings
and it’s the 1st thing that you think about
every day that you wake up and
it’s the last thing I think about if I can fall asleep.
Im 56 and will never earn it back.💔
@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder I’m sorry to hear about that, I hope you have good friends/family members around you to support you.
@@Lauzuna I wish I could say I did but unfortunately that’s not the case and to make matters worse in 2012 I got a condition called rabdomiolisis and the top right of my leg swelled up crushing my sciatic nerve paralysing my right leg so I also had to stop working.
These scum that scam scam from real people and I can’t begin to tell you how every single day, I worry about how I’m going to pay for something when I worked nearly my whole life and now, don’t have anything to show for it.,
(To make matters worse, my details that I had back in 2016 were sold on a suckers list so I continued to be a target but I had nothing left to steal!
I had to change my email, my phone number - everything) just knowing that somebody got a laugh out of taking my last dollar,
still makes me burst into tears just thinking about it.
Hey, thanks for your best wishes they mean the world. Cheers xxx
@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder Geez, those scammers do deserve nothing but pain and loneliness for picking on such a person like you
@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder Sorry to hear that, that's very painful
It's like you know the scammers think that it would feel them that they just took a lollipop from them like a child,
But knowing that it was your whole life savings,
I'd say these scammers are disgusting and are menace to the society, and further they spend this money on shit stuff, THEY HAVE NO VALUE FOR MONEY, THEY NEVER WORKED HARD TO KNOW IT'S VALUE ABSURD DUMB PEOPLE
Glad the store manager listened, and stopped the scam. It could be any ones grandparents. Very vulnerable people. Keep it up. Your making a positive difference in people's life.
did i ask if u asked?
It did not sound like she was listening or even cared initially. She hung up on him twice with no interest as to who was going to get scammed. Her only response: “thank you” *click*
@osdude 2 dont respond to this bot. Just report for spam
Yeah the manager seems indifferent for both call. Kinda surprised they actually act
@@Hewanliar1 I feel that I would have responded similarly. I think that I would have thrown in a thank you for alerting us or something like that in there, but I can see myself having the same tone. It's not that I don't care or wouldn't act. In my mind I have gained the information and formulated an appropriate solution to the problem. Convincing the other person that I care is lower on the list of importance than fixing the problem. It's interesting to hear the call and how it come across to even me. I'll work on trying to communicate more effectively. I happen to be on the autism spectrum, but I'm sure that some neurotypical people who rely heavily on logic and less on emotion can relate too.
The female scammer, whilst swearing to herself about the lady, called her a customer. This delusional scammer believes these people are actually customers. This is eerily evil. Their consciousness has been seared. I hate hearing and seeing elderly abuse. Thank-you for helping all these people and saving them from being scammed.
average indian woman
I think it's more likely they always refer to them as customers or clients to prevent slipping up, both when they're talking to the victim, or mentioning their 'job' outside of the workplace, as even in India this is not a legal or acceptable thing to be doing.
Also, in a call center, voices can sometimes be overheard from other people sitting next to you, so I'm sure their bosses and fellow employees all call the victims 'customers' to avoid being found out.
I agree but she did say "f...ing customer". If a customer over heard that she would still have a lot of explaining to do and be hung up on.
It's not necessarily that she believes it's a customer, but that they are trained to use that terminology at the beginning.
@@WillToWinvlog She probably does believe that it's a customer though, simply because it's hard to use such terminology constantly without it becoming a part of your beliefs.
Her crying absolutely destroyed me I'm so glad they didn't finish the scam, I only hope she was okay after this! 😭
Props to the Rite Aid workers for following through. They were pivotal to stopping the scam.
Yeah they usually just ask one weak ass question and dont press any further. They need to ask, did someone prep you and tell you to lie to me? etc.
Yeah I hope they consider that for training material in the future. I work for a smaller grocery retailer. We are always on the lookout for scams. And especially looking out for old people in general.
@@pineappleparty1624 I don't know why more places don't have training for it. I used to work in a large store with attached auto center. Even as an auto mechanic because I was expected to know how to run the register I had to take the scam training. Anyone asking for multiple cards or with a total value over $250 was supposed to raise a red flag. I know in a lot of these videos they are always pushing for thousands in cards from a single store, but you'll get people coming in wanting 3 $200 cards for google play, or walmart, even Xbox and PlayStation. After you see a couple people (usually pointed out by more experienced employees) in the process of trying to buy cards for scammers, it become readily apparent when someone is being scammed. There is almost always a certain look of panic and urgency on their face. That red flag goes up 10x if they are on the phone while trying to checkout.
The sad part is, most of the time when you try to ask questions about who they are for, why they are buying this much, if they want another card instead because it's better, etc. they get defensive and sometimes angry. These people buying these cards are almost always terrified because of the threats from the scammers, so much so that all rational thinking goes out the window.
@@2009dudeman Wow yeah, its really sad. Thanks for looking out for people.
These store employees should be trained to see this. Normal people dont go to the store to buy 1000s of dollars of gift cards. They should at least try and at least mention that fake Amazon, police, IRS scammers do this to unsuspecting people and if they asked them to lie they about it its not real. These workers are the last line of defense. If something seems very off people need to say something.
"He knows everything. He might as well type my mother's name."
That was too funny 😂😅
I was fully expecting him to type it out!!!
If this were a movie, he could have sent him a deepfake porn of his mother. We have the technology.
if i was them i would have started running real quick
@@thomas-australia Right? I would've shit my pants right there and then!
that one kill me ahahah
Dude actually calling the store multiple times to save that old lady from getting scamed, what a legend.
Yeah what I hated the most is that the store manager did not give a fuck, if that was her grandma would she have acted the same ?
@@theMyouknow right, she did have a shitty attitude, but she did get the job done, bro.
@@theMyouknow She probably just didn't believe him. It sounds pretty incredible after all.
@@theMyouknow Didn't give a fuck? She got off the line immediately and saved that woman from the scam.
@@jeffrey44 Not immediately, it took 2 calls and reluctance to get up and check
Thanks for helping people become more aware of these awful scams. It’s difficult watching the victims being scammed, and I’m sure you are frustrated, when unable to do anything to help them!
bro just got scammed 50 dollars
@@GeebzSteezHe didn’t get scammed he sent the money to support scambaiter
Interesting to hear the scammer talking to herself and referring to the victim as a "customer". They must have some sort of self delusion that what they do is an actual job.
Well, it certainly *is* a job. A despicable one, but a job nonetheless.
@@luc4662 if you want to call being a thief a job, sure.
@@ShoppingAttic why can't theft be a job?
definition
"a task or piece of work, especially one that is paid."
@@YourBiggestHaterM8 it becomes a job if someone comissions you to do it
its a psychological thing. have you every talked to a murderer? they will always spin the story to make them sound like they are the good guys. "i was in the wrong place at the wrong time around the wrong people" "they had it coming" "i had no choice" "i was doing gods work" "it was self defense" they spin a self delusion in order to not feel the crushing guilt that comes with a job like that. its a subconscious reaction. its like people saying "im 98 years young" they are changing the name in an attempt at changing the symptoms.
Jesus Christ, The amount of hate in my heart escalated so quickly seeing the scammer using ridiculous reasons and taking advantage of an old person that has lived and seen so much. The fact that she didn't lose any money made my day.
You haven't seen much, my friend. Check out Kitboga's "angriest scammer" video. He pretends to cry multiple times, and the guy simply screams at what he thinks is an old woman, with no heart whatsoever.
However, I would ask you to remember, these, no matter how horrible, are people. They have reasons for doing this. That's not to excuse what they're doing, but just remember there's almost never true evil in people's hearts, just what they think are justifications for that evil.
And scammer is so rude!
With the help of Jesus Christ the hate in your heart will disappear, and you won’t use His name as a curse word anymore.
@@RandomInternetStranger how about if those justifications itself are stupid like wanting to buy a car or new clothes?
@@shambld17 There almost always aren't those types of justification. Usually the necessity justifies the means to meet them, and if someone truly does emotionally manipulate elderly people into giving them mass amounts of money to buy a car, then they're in the vast minority, and shouldn't be considered.
The actions of the few shouldn't taint your opinions of the many. Just because those people could possibly exist, doesn't mean that the rest of those people think the same way.
I love how these people get angry at the "customers" when they are trying to scam them. Like "how dare they actually care about their security? They should just let themselves be scammed!!" Like seriously, they people have issues...
I think that's a tatic they use in their social engineering hustle. They act angry in order to put further pressure on their mark and disrupt their capacity to make decisions.
@@BROMP But they are doing it AFTER they hang up on them. Some of the recordings are taken from the scammers microphones by this hacker making this video.
@@TalkingHands308 I think they just get mad at the fact that they lost money :/
they are over patriotic and are extremely ignorant, they get mad if you say anything against their country
@Rotten_desperate
Lol yea.. Most Indians are like that lol..
8:56 The best sound of relief I've ever heard. Thank mate for saving the old lady.
This guy is the one that brought me into cyber security
Glad I got to inspire you!
Good, the world needs more Scambaiters
How ??? I went in so bad. Listening to that lady cry infuriated me beyond words. Scammers are rampant and we need more people like you guys. I want to help !!!!
I really wish I was this talented id screw with these scum all the time
@@willnicholson18 sweet thanks a lot. I’ll check it out 👊🏼
Bro I was about to loose my shit when the store people didn't take him serious at first. I work in retail myself and I personally believe every retail worker should be educated about this, especially in America and in the UK this should be mandatory since it happens there the most.
Well, we don't know that they didn't take it seriously.. the thing is they maybe didn't feel like they could have much conversation because it goes way ouside their job description and they could get in trouble if e.g. it was a scammer calling them.. so they might have just spoken to their manager straight away. People don't always have the best response on the spot. Also they are aware of people buying gift cards so they probably already had procedures in place. They didn't need to give personal info about the person to the guy on the phone. It seemed like they might not take it seriously, but was hard to say 'cos they weren't communicating much.
what about Australia or didnt you get geography at school?
@@Rusty_Gold85 wow you learn what countries get scammed the most in Geography?
@@Rusty_Gold85 "especially in America and UK where it happens the most". They never implied those are the only places that get scammers.
Yep I worked retail fine jewelry. I knew a scam was happening but the store manager said there was nothing we could do. I got rid of the young woman, scammed the elderly man not giving him his purchase for two days due to cleaning and polishing. I then called his son whose number was on the back of his drivers license thank God it was there. I called my county’s Adult Protective Services . They informed me that care centers drop the elderly off at the mall where a young woman or others befriends them, welcomes these vulnerable persons into their family and proceeds to take them for their life savings. Put your contact information on their ID card, etc and be super present in their life.
The scammers are relentless, even when the lady was crying she still kept trying confusing her to rob her....UNBELIEVABLE!!
special place in hell for people who do this
@@Yizee no hell
I felt bad for the old lady. Poor grandma could barely walk and these scammers are so in-human. I pray for these scammers to lead a sad and painful life.
I thought the old lady was going to get scammed because the store manager sounded like he didn't care at all. I'm happy she was saved and it's all thanks to you. Very sad to hear her crying at the store. These scammers are absolutely heartless to do this to an 88 year old lady. They wouldn't care if she dropped dead in the store as long as they got their few hundred dollars.
I wouldn't say he didn't seem like he cared he was just confused and didn't want to do the wrong thing and I'd say handled it with enough caution and was clear to her what was going on
Some of the stores in my area put up signs around the gift cards warning people about scams
@@atomicbogator6799 after all he did interfere and help out the lady :)
When being told that he's talking to an investigator and preventing a scam, the manager wouldn't want that to be on his record that he willingly aided a scam.
I worked at a bank for 6 years, and we would try to update our customers on new scam trends that were going around. Thankfully a lot of our older customers would come to us specifically because the scammer told them not to. I feel so bad thinking about all the people who probably DIDN'T come to us.
Yeah man, no one knows how many people became victims, but dont feel low as helping as many as you could is also a huge contribution 😀 thanks sir/ma'am.
It may be post-parental-protection, but in my country 60+ people recieve a weekly newsletter on recent scams and even have to read warnings at their atm, because in the last few years almost half a billion got scammed from old people
@@fatalityin1
What country is this, if you don’t mind me asking?
Thank You James. I wish more stores would take this serious as the elderly do not have extra money laying around, at least I don't. Thank you.
bro this is such a kickass career. i wish i could do what you do, as good as you do it. what a heroic job, well done, stay healthy and right on !
I felt so bad for the poor old lady. she was crying and totally overwhelmed with the situation
yeah it's painful to watch vulnerable people fall for these scams
The amount of indifference they have to just ruin the livelihood of a pensioner is what angers me the most. They do not care that they are taking every last penny somebody has.
Those people in India need to stop mass producing so many babies. That's the root cause of their financial woes. How can one expect a government to support over 1.35 billion people? That's unfathomable.
@@G.L.999 China has double that.
The scammer has such a weird speaking pattern, they sound more like a machine rather than a person. Its so bad they refer to them as 'customer' the lie they tell themselves.
I've heard quite a few scammers talking like this. They are trying to mimic an American accent but just end up sounding like a robot.
That poor elderly lady, actually made her go out, even caused her physical pain, yet the scammer carried on! 😡
Absolutely no morals, they are disgusting!
‘You can go to your friends and family members and borrow $200……”
Boy they feenin for that money.
It infuriates me how they target elderly, helpless victims. I think it is extremely damaging to India‘s image as a nation that they don’t crack down much harder on these soulless lowlives.
Apparently it's good for India cuz it helps line their pockets they don't care about the image cuz money but this is all the stuff I've read and TH-cam comments so I can't be sure
poodia has NO image
@@TimothyGod I‘d disagree. The image of a nation is important when it comes to doing international business. For instance, the question if there is a functioning legal system (in this case one, that proactively stops criminals) matters, as it represents trustworthiness.
But even more importantly, tourism: Countries with a negative image will see significantly less tourists from other countries - and tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry.
I grew up in India. Just too many people and too little police to keep track of these things. The corruption and poor living standards of the overworked police inspectors piles on top of that to make them further indifferent to the plight of the victims. And lastly, there is no mechanism for the victims to register complaints. Even if there were, Americans are not so likely to call Indian police when defrauded. Especially with the disgust that they would have towards indians after being scammed by one of them.
@@taxiuniversum like I said, I know not much, this is what I've gathered from other comments. I'm just parroting
I would like to see them react to you telling the scammer that you have the contact information for his mom and ask him if you should call her. I know a lot of scammers are hiding it from their family - even their spouse
Tell them you'll send info to all their aunties and uncles.
Hold on a sec, I've got another call coming in. Hello? Hello mum. Do you know what your son is up to right now?
I would love to see that happen, if it wasn’t for the pain it might cause their family. Sometimes families are just unaware as everybody is living their own lives, with their own stress and problems. I don’t think that dumping all that blame, guilt, and family conflict is worth it for all the others that aren’t supporting the scammer tbh.
No it be a family thing
Anyway the store manager deserves a public commendation
For being vaguely competent? Not really. I'd fully expect someone in that role to be completely aware of this basic scam.
I would have call back to congratulate her honestly. She deserves the appraise.
@@hughanthony9500 it does sound like the manager isn't fully aware but a random call by "James" sounds very suspicious so they have to verify . but the 2nd call by James was quick on his feet so that helped.. I think the flaw is in the Gift Card themselves, why is it so easily redeemable and untraceable. They need just remove it entirely, nobody uses it anyways.
I like how the scammer really believes she’s a sales rep. She says “to hell with this customer” as if they lost a sale. Bro actually believes they’re customers. FYI, to have a customer, they’ve got to be able to receive a product or service in exchange for the transaction. They’re so into their scams, I feel like they forget they’re scamming
They probably think this is what having a respectable job in customer support is like too. I don't think these people are qualified for real IT jobs, so they wouldn't know the difference.
just lie enough and you'll start believing in it yourself
Correct 😌
This is what happens when you pathologically lie, you start to believe your own lies, it's part of why polygraphs are not 100%, its easy for people with psychological issues to convince themselves they arent lying.
It's weird how they still refer to the victim as a "customer" in private.
Same as banks irs etc
@osdude 2 Then why don't I care?
probably just their bad english
Well, its not THAT "customer" that you're thinking of
The purpose of doing that is to alleviate guilt. They can pretend that it's a customer because that sounds and feels better than "victim". It's not because English isn't their first language.
It’s really good what you do. Taking a little old ladies money is wrong on every level. I hope the prisoners take the piss out of them. Nobody likes them scum bags. No morals what so ever. Good awesomeness
the police is paid off by the scammers, they wont see the inside of the jail in most cases, its sad
@osdude 2 Shahbaz Alam, is that you?
Dude some prisoners do much worse stuff then these guys
10:20 is the timestamp for when he starts filling out the form 😊✌️
Yeah but then you skip all the good stuff.
Well honestly he *deserves* every single bit of the watchtime he can get from these videos.
Don't need to do this. Not even helping
It's horrific that anyone of any age can be SO unprepared for scams like this that they literally defend the scammer against someone trying to protect them.
Older people nowadays grew up in a completely different world. These scams didn’t exist back then.
So true, I consider myself quite literate in technology and have known about scammers for years now. Yet, i almost fell into one of these when i got a call saying my social was attached to a cartel member's purchase in texas. Everything checked out ( the guy had a legit american accent, and everything) and i even went to buy fucking gift cards. Good thing my mom stopped me lol. Sometimes these scammers know exactly what to say to trap you.
@@zp883 You went to buy gift cards? Why would they need money to fix your SSN? Jesus dude.
@@zp883 if you are _ever_ asked to buy gift cards, just straight up call your local police station (non-emergency line), you should be able to atleast get someone able to help you determine what is happening from a more objective 3rd party perspective
but, no gov't or anything will ever _EVER_ ask you to buy gift cards to resolve an issue, the second you hear that just immediately hang up, haha
Trust me guys, i know that was super dumb and i still beat myself up over it.
Man imagine the matrix surreal type feeling that store owner had during that haha. Great work Scambaiter!
Exactly 😂😂😂
Store manager tried to act normal
10:01 "you dont have even a single 200 dollars?" Lol. What?
:Atleast borrow some 200",
What tf that Indian bih thinkin lmao😭😭💀
You should try to track these people down on social media, actually find out who their family is and rat them out to anyone and everyone they know. A lot of their friends and family may already know and not care, but some of them will probably get shamed 😄
I’d pay money to see some one actually go after these scammers. Vigilante style.
My understanding is they would probably not be able to show their face in public anymore because the majority of the Indian population despise these scammers
im always baffled by just how rude and entitled these people are. How can you be INDIGNANT that someone is resistant to your illegal bullshit?
It's very hard to explain. They think that they are actually working, like, that's "their job" so to say, and so if the scam fails then their work was for nothing. They basically think the people being scammed deserve it because they don't know any better.
It's really simple.
You have a goal
Your goal encourages you to divide the world into tools (that help you) and obstacles (that hinder you).
Any victim that hinders you is an obstacle.
It is really basic
Too many Indians have a superiority complex due to the caste system with a need to display their social status.
They uphold education as supreme and so many who work at these call centres may have a superior education to the masses they live above, projecting that on to the westerners as inferior.
In addition they have a chip on their shoulder holding the Britishers/West as responsible for stealing their wealth. Politicians use this narrative to this day to avert blame for their corruption.
To top it all off due to the poverty, it is a dog eat dog scammer society.
Well, these people are criminals preying on the weak, so they are most likely psychopaths or at the very least have very low empathy. They most likely would have turned to crime even if they were not poor, they probably can't function in any real job because they are so insanely entitled.
@@Chimponaut Do you really think so? I think these people will believe that these are rich westerners who can afford to lose the money no problem.
Given that normal people do far worse than this, these people are probably in main quite normal people. Probably see themselves in a way like Robin hood to provide for themselves and their own family.
Like 1% of the population are sociopaths and have low empathy for strangers. And most sociopaths don't go to jail or commit crimes. I don't think it's an empathy related thing.
This was extremely satisfying to watch. You're a hero dude, like the Batman of the internet.
Why is he so good at hacking
more like robin hood :)
@@omniyambot9876 He is Hackerman.
the lady crying got me crying for her. So glad the store employees helped her
My mother works at a drug store and has had incidents like this. One time an old lady was so ashamed and guilty of that she started crying after my mom told her that she's being scammed and shouldn't buy the gift cards. These scammers take advantage of older men and women who just don't have the ability to understand what is happening to them. It makes me sick to my stomach.
It's not just about ability to understand it, it's also often simple lack of computer skills and not having kept up with technology, They're not dumb, they're just naïve and often don't know how all these things work.
One day when we're old, we'll maybe also have trouble understanding how the flubber corombobulates with the wober-buber to digitiekonionize the transfer of vibobules from our Poloniolator (everyone has to have one of these) to their quantumobulator to keep our bio-existenzionator from combustulatory dissexistentializing and ruining our day... or so we'll be told... nd then we'll feel terribly ashamed to be told we've fallen for a stupid scam.
The people who abuse old people like this deserved to be locked away and the key destroyed, let em' rot in the deepest dungeons. Some of the worst scum there is.
@@marinodezelak1180 This is totally legit and I 100% agree but the amusement I got from reading words like "flubber corombobulates" and "quantumobulator" was just too much haha
@@marinodezelak1180 Your comment is amazing! That's exactly what it must feel like for them.
@@marinodezelak1180 Great comment.
Maybe we all have it coming when we get older and have to rely on the mercy of the younger generation.
I work in a hospital - the majority of my patients are 85 - 95. Listening to the 88 year old lady I felt helpless and the heartbreak yet satisfaction of her being saved made the video hard to watch - but I had to keep watching. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re amazing!
Would have been so much more satisfactory if we got the news of the scammer's arrest
We always say "thank you for your service" to our heroes abroad, but I rarely hear people say it for our heroes on home turf. I would like to thank you for your service. YOU'RE amazing.
Your doing pretty good. You contribute a lot of good in society. Keep doing what your doing and expose them. Thanks for the videos
@osdude 2 good for you
I'm so glad you exist. With your skills , yet your morals and conscience. I'm going through some shit, very different to this, but I've been deceived, and watching this makes me very emotional. God bless you.
These scammers are such ice cold predators. You're doing such a good thing for people, man.
Indians
Predators not sit behind trash laptop scamming old people from Indian, they just trash
@@pearhat640 no bro muslims
@@pearhat640 i am also a indian
Real shout out to the people in the store. They didn't HAVE to do anything, but did out of kindness. (they lost a big sale out of it)
Actually they could get in trouble for knowingly selling a card for fraudulent purposes
The margins are low on those cards for retail. It's just to attract customers as in we sell these too if you need it.
I agree that they did a good job, though also wanted to add that retail employees here usually just get paid per hour, and not per sale, so only the corporate office would care about if they made the sale or not. It is not to be taken for granted that they cared, though, either way. Also, I suspect most corporate offices wouldn't want them to make this sale, since it could be a PR disaster if someone broke a story about it. Well, you'd like to think that they are just good people, too, but usually with corporations they have a monetary reason why they don't do bad things.
Thanks James for helping the victims. We have this scam thing happening here in Malaysia too it’s called Macau scam.
Big companies should once in a while do anti-scam videos or put messages on their pages. Glad my bank does!
That poor old lady, these people are so sad and pathetic!!
The scammer was one of the cruelest I've heard in a long while
@osdude 2 you sound like a scammer 🤡🤡
I can't believe that these people have absolutely no sense of morality AT ALL. Don't they feel sorry about scamming an old lady? Forcing her to send money to their sorry asses? Fucking jackasses
The word you are looking for is "Evil".
6:50 sounds like the manager really doesn’t care at all.
I just woke up listening to my mom on the phone with someone at "Paypal" telling her to download some PC connection program and giving him the code to her computer because she got a phishing email saying there was fraud on her account and of course she called back the number in the email. By the time I forcibly ended the call, she had been on the phone with him for an hour, and had given him two separate credit card numbers to do some sort of "test." The worst part is, at first, she thought I was being ridiculous, basically told me to screw off, and even asked the scammer to reassure me that there is nothing funny going on!! Thank you for everything you do ❤️
Boomers...
@@TheNickBrotherhood
I’m sure it’s happened to someone in your family but they are too ashamed to admit it
These mfs will lead to society of literally no trust and total hate for all the 1.4 billion + Indians, man I was I had the power to execute these mfs.
Interesting how that lady keeps calling the people she is scamming Customers.. Wow
She really had the audacity to say “useless customer.”
So impressed by the store manager. Imagine getting that call out of the blue.
What's so impressive about that?
@@M.S.Fitness it straight up sounds like a prank or a scam itself, being skeptical isn't completely unreasonable from their perspective. The impressive part is still being on the lookout for the scam and not being entirely dismissive of the possibility
@@M.S.Fitness She helped the old lady and even took the phone out her hand. A lot a lazy MFs don't care to do any of that. They just say they can't refuse a customer from purchasing
@@sketchysketches381 lmfao they know all about it during there initial training. All old people get asked in my experience
A store manager being vaguely competent...
Old Lady: “The employee is saying I have to turn off my phone”
Scammer: “That is not correct”
Loved the part where u wrote they re names and then they shut down they r computers
I was ready to curse the manager of the shop after they didn't seem like they were going to do anything but was really relieved when they stepped in and put a stop to the scamming of the elderly lady.
Just like the victims have no idea that scamming is a real thing, people probably don't know that scam prevention is a real thing. You do because you watch these videos.
I really appreciate your videos the most on TH-cam. That poor old woman couldn't even stand and this scammer just still on her omg my heart 🥺
Why were you aborted? And how did you grow so big?
"I hope your not on speaker" the scammer says "tell them it's for a friend's birthday" - and the Store manager doesn't care, the cashier doesn't care, no one cares, it's absolutely disgusting - I'm so happy the store finally came to the lady's aid.
Clearly they did care though?
I have to say, thank you so much for doing this work. A childhood friend of mine fell for this and lost $1,500 dollars to these scum. The fall out afterward destroyed our friendship and I haven't spoken to her in years. It's such a relief to know at least some of them are being stopped.
How did the fallout happen between the two of you? She took it out on you?
@@demeter-the-great She never apologized for what she put me through. I was there with her as she gave them about $1,500 over 8 hours. No food, no water in a hot car. She refused to listen to me, my dad and another person trying to reason with her. I'm not upset that she got scammed, I'm upset that she dismissed my feelings.
9:22 that one hit me in the heart, that lady was so confused she broke down in tears. and the scammer is so heartless they just cared about getting paid
Love how the scammer refers to the Victims and “Customers”. Lmao that’s quite the service that she offers. Couple that with her awesome customer service skills and you have a Fortune 500 company!
It's probably something they do to make it psychologically more manageable for their scammers because it gives a sense of normalcy to their "business".
I used to translate McKinsey's guide to managing a debt collection... service. Sure enough, they also called their victims "customers" and the process of beating debts out of them, "healing".
I still feel dirty having been involved in this, even for a moment and as an external translator.
Great video! Breaks my heart to see so many people falling for these stupid stories. And great that Sven is your partner in "crime"!
Every time they insult the people they're hurting for not hurting themselves quickly enough.
These scammers should just rot in hell already.
..... good job... great job in fact... hearing the lady cry after realizing she scarcely avoided being scammed was heart wrenching...
I freaking LOVE you! Thank you for all you do.
I feel like throwing up every time I hear one of those criminals call a victim a "customer." Psychologically, that has to be the only way they are able to get through a day, talking to people who, for most humans, instinctively elicit a desire to protect them.
The female scammers upset me the worst. Maybe it has something to do with being a woman myself, but it absolutely boils my blood hearing them preying on innocent people using their sickly sweet, innocent young lady voices. And then, the instant they think things aren't going their way, the way they drop the innocent and helpful act and sound like the monsters they really are.
I think you hating the female scammer the most doesn't really have anything to do with you also being female, but instead because of her stuck-up attitude. Acting like her "customer" was beneath her and not worth her time.
The way she acted was like she thought she was the one having to go out of her way to help a person that didn't deserve it. Like the victim wasn't showing enough apreciation for the hard work she was doing.
The way she wasn't even trying to act like a proper support employee and just started making annoying noises the moment things didn't go exactly her way.
And this was all even before she was shouting at a crying cripple person to run out of a store she told her to go to in the first place.
I can't imagine that women being pleasant to be around in any situation.
The noises the scammer make and how quickly she gets impatient and frustrated makes me believe she's working high on coke or a similar substance. Just so rude and annoying for someone it's supposed to sound convincing (better of this way I guess, as they make the victims suspect something's going on)
She could have ate some Betel leaf. It's quite potent and it's common and cheap in India. I'm not even sure if it's prohibited.
Poor woman, I felt so bad when she had to sit due to pain, and then how she started crying when the manager stopped her.. I think about something like that happening to my grandma and it's just hearbreaking. I cannot believe these scammers are human beings, they deserve the worst of the worst.
My heart was pounding like this was being done to my granny. These people doesn't care about what someone is going through, the lady almost got a heart-attack but still the scammer pushed her to the limit. Everyone should inform their elderly members of their families and friend to not fall into this nonsense.
But Hindus are enlighthened and more civilized than dirty westerners.
If I heard and recall well from the narration the old lady has over $24,000 in depleted gift carts. She should not be spending her money gifting others or being scammed. Scambaiter foiled this one, but how is she protected from the next call as they have her number and have been sulking her hard earned money previously? The store manager sank all our hearts by being dismissive on both warning calls. Yet she then rose to the occasion suddenly. Kudos to her!
I was really concerned by that manager's attitude. I was relieved when she pulled through.
Love ya bro, you're a wonderful integral person.
I literally cry from seeing kindness.
It charges my life battery as I started to feel hopeless.
But it's wonderful to hear this kinda love you spread to help people.
Thank you sir for your work:)
Thank god there is people like you out there fantastic work
The fact that the scammer was referring to those victims as "customers" infuriates me.
THE AUDACITY for her to be smacking her lips every 2 seconds.
She should be ashamed
10 seconds in, and I already know this is gonna be good. Thank you for doing what you do!
When I saw the name I knew it was gonna be good lol
These scammers are disgusting. My heart broke for that old lady who started crying. Glad the store staff finally caught on.
Scambaiter, your kung-fu is the best. A pleasure seeing you work Sir. CARRY ON!
Are all of these operations so poorly misconfigured that you're able to gain this kind of access so readily? Or have you researched vulnerabilities on your own time to enable this kind of recon? Its extremely impressive.
Little bit of both
They aren't computer experts by any means, the only training they get is how to scam, somebody who knows what they are doing can easily gain their information with some time on their hands. Nothing he's doing is actually that hard to do if you have those skills and understanding of how computers and networks function. A lot of these people use remote access to get access to people's files and damage computers to get money out of them but remote access works both ways, they are actually making it very easy for him to access their computers where they look on Facebook and have tons of identifying information lying around.
Many might have security measures in place that crumble the instance the employees are allowed to take their laptops home.
Like say they usually use a VPN to create an encrypted connection. But then once they're in their own homes, they might be tempted to turn off the VPN because they get tired of it making the connection seem slow. Or maybe it just has an annoying connection sound on start up. I've seen people do a lot of stupid shit to their computers when left to their own devices, and I'm a software developer, so I can't even imagine what the guys in support must've witnessed.
You don't have to leave the store because this is a recorded line. WTF lol
Scammers are worst than vultures. Vultures have ethics. Scammers don't.
Vultures pick off the dead and dying they are vultures
I appreciate the fact that you are not just having fun messing with these scammers but are actually helping to stop the scam. Keep up the good work!
I just became a Patreon. After seeing how hilarious the tiers were, I’m even more glad that I did it. Your videos are so unique compared to other scambait videos and especially satisfying to listen in to their unfiltered panic as they process what you’ve done to them after they hang up. I am a fan of #1 Russian Hacker.
It's so depressing that despite nuking their infrastructure they can be back up and running in 24hrs or less. The only kill a computer dead thing I know about was the old zombieload exploit on intel chipsets, but even then you need physical access to the box. If anyone needs to have all their hardware destroyed, it's people that try to scam and make 88 year old women cry.
You haven't actually been considering to nuke a country with almost 1.4 billion inhabitants to stop scammers, have you?
Sometimes you can try to rewrite the bios by flashing random firmwares to it if you can with the OS running (some builds have a tool for this). It won’t boot after that if you intentionally botch it.
I wanted to cry for the lady dude, you are the best thank you for everything that you do.
4:29 ironically, I'm pretty sure that guy is more suspicious of you than the actual scammers 😂