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an Amazon scam just called me how can I help you today let me cut to the chase actually will you let me remote onto your system and give me the access to your computer why for fun are you crazy yes I am I'm perogi from scammer payback on YouTube let's answer your questions from the internet this is scam baiting [Music] support from mango May and the question is what are the red flags of a scammer someone that is trying to rush you to go make a quick decision like hey you need to go to the

store and buy gift cards you need to send money through cash app as soon as possible that's a red flag they want to move as quickly as possible on their victims because if there's any lag in time maybe a family member or something will intervene and say hey who are you talking to why you sending money to these people also someone remoting into your computer or your phone that's more than likely a scam so don't ever let anybody do it even if it's someone claiming to be tech support and then the third is this form

of payment so a lot of scammers will use cash app they'll have you go buy gift cards just like these right here send wire transfers or even go buy Bitcoin and send it to them that's typically a pretty big red flag that you're talking to a scammer at Lazy Joselyn says why do scammers always need gift cards this is the easiest way for a scammer to get money from a victim they get the victims to buy these Target gift cards for instance have them scratch off the code on the back and then tell that code

to the scammer and they'll go to a website it's kind of a bartering system and they'll say hey I'll give you $1,000 a gift cards you give me $800 of Bitcoin This Is How They launder money and it's a way for them to stay Anonymous and get the money really really quickly this questions from cor and it says how many types of online scamming are out there on our Channel we deal typically with the popup tech support scams you get a popup on your computer and then you call into a fake Microsoft support and they

want to see all your money we've run across other types of scams that are out there from romance scams where someone's pretending to be a celebrity we had someone just came by our office their mother who's 90 plus years old was foll in love with a country star out of Nashville and the only way she could help him was by sending tens of thousands of dollars if your mama or your grandma is talking to some celebrity on Facebook it's probably not them at mad balala says guys guys real quick how do I mess with a

scammer when I mess with scammers I really enjoy reversing to their computers I can actually watch them when they're on phone calls with victims just like right here this is their phone system and from there we can intervene in actual scams that are happening so say grandma wants to send2 $5,000 to the scammer she's on the phone with them we can see the phone number we can get in contact with the victim or we can even send law enforcement directly to their house and stop the scam one of my favorite things to do is just

pissing off scammers they're trying to remote into my system and have me do different things on my computer so I do things like right click when they say left click I ask them to turn their volume up on their microphone are you not able to listen to me are you deaf I don't listen to them I don't do anything that they ask me to do why are you opening that again and again if I'm telling you not to it's the best Fe feeling ever when you hear them yelling at you and cussing at you you

know who you're talking to right now you piece of sh and I know the fans really enjoy that too they enjoy all those moments of scammer rage I've even done things like access the scammers webcams and force them to show their face to the world one of the best things I think in our Channel's history was we hacked the one of the guys that sends out these scam emails and that's all he does every day he logs in these us Cloud servers to be able to bypass email security like we have his face from his

webcam and we had his location from his computer he had a python script that was sending these scam emails out to victims tens of thousands every day and we edited the email so when he would send out the scam email the entire email said Hi here's my photo I'm trying to scam you he finally realized that he had gotten got and he had been sending his own information out to all these victims it was a real fun way of trolling these guys moles for days on Reddit asks the guy's name is moles for days I

want to start scam baiting any tips how I know I can make a fake persona make an email and stuff virtual box but I'm just worried I'm going to get hacked or something if you're worried about getting hacked maybe you probably shouldn't do scam baiting the number one thing is really just protect yourself never let a scammer on your physical computer also never talk with scammers on your actual phone number they will take that information and find who you are I've seen scammers SWAT people before some of them are really malicious so you don't want

to make the wrong scammer angry at real superola says what do these random scammer texts hope to achieve to see if one somebody's actually there or too if they're going to respond if they can get you to respond then they probably got you because then they can now start to run their scam most of the scammers just work off of first name last name phone number email address there could be a data breach and they're buying this off the dark web with a bunch of information so just even an email address or a phone number

could lead a scammer to know everything about their victim from their full name their husband wife kids physical address you name it it's all out on the internet _ dice King says Which social media has the most scammers enlightened me I'll probably say Facebook there's a lot of bots on Facebook and scammers and they target specific groups I've seen a lot of religious groups that donate money to certain causes they'll go in there and they'll start seeing hey this person's given $500 to this cause I'm going to reach out to them and try to scam

them it doesn't matter if you're on Instagram x Facebook whatever private your profiles so that these people can't Target you at ciny kin says apparently when you reply to a scam texts they track your phone I don't think that's the case scammers are not that sophisticated they are mass messaging people and then if somebody's actually willing to respond then they'll start running their scam so it's not like somebody sitting on a phone on the other side so you're really not getting back at anybody by cussing them out or anything like that just don't respond report

it as junk and block it also scammers will send links for instance a UPS tracking number and those are deadly to your phone it's a fishing attack and they'll get you to click on something and go to Safari or if you're on a Droid which is more susceptible to malware on mobile devices you you might click on that link and it could download an app onto your phone if they know it's a live person they will Mark that down that somebody's responded and then the next scam and then the next scam they'll just keep sending

it out so you'll get more if you want more spam respond that's actually the truth by the way I kid you not I do have an Amazon scam that just called me I don't know if you guys want me to call it but yeah andon how can I help you today I got a voicemail from you guys do you receive any order ID number sir all right let me cut to the chase actually I've got a $10 Google Play card will you let me remote onto your system and give me the access to your computer

why for fun what are you crazy yes I am about you guys because I want to access your computer what off man excuse [Music] me I enjoy this too much @ user10 18901 what is the most absurd scam call that you have received I've had scammers write up Wills like living wills for my grandma characters he will need to take his grandmother viian on a trip to his homeland scammer went through a wedding ceremony with me it's weird when you're on this side you're playing a character but you hear him saying I'm kissing you right

now I am kissing you it's just it's a special moment I guess he had me r reveal myself I pulled down my mask and it was me are you really are you a female they're playing a character they're playing a Microsoft rep and now he's getting married to some Grandma but it's really a guy blue hair on the other side Ronnie's gum says Hey scammer payback what software do you use to change your voice on the scam calls I actually don't use software I've got a hardware device that I use when I talk with these

scammers but I think it'd be easier to show you the device and all the voices that we do on these scam calls let's go here is my scam bait setup this is everything that I use when I'm messing with scammers it starts with how I change my voice now I use the Roland vt4 and I've got a couple presets on here but it allows me first to pretty much become anybody that I want to with a few clicks if I want to change my voice voice into becoming a grandma Vivian Rogers I can do that

Vivian Rogers is uh just a blend of my grandma my mom and I blended all into one crazy character that takes these scammers on a crazy trip all crazy characters and shenanigans aside these tactics allow me to distract the scammers so that I can get into their computers and that's how I change my voice to mess with scammers great was taken on Reddit says how do people spoof their number to a specific number scammers can use specific software to spoof their phone numbers they could pretend to be the FBI they could pretend to be your

best friend they could pretend to be you never believe just because somebody calls you pretending to be XYZ person that it's actually them hang up the phone and call the phone number back back because if a scammer spoofs a number they can you make it look like they're calling from the number but they can't receive calls at Ugo great 100 says I was scammed yesterday as I connected my wallet to crypto wolf they collected my money please how do I get my money back and also secure my wallet from these scammers this is a red

flag to me I don't know if this is actually a real tweet or not or a real question because they go into the comment section they go into tweets and they actually write this exact thing I was scammed Somebody went into my crypto account and started to take money how do I get my money back and then from there somebody will respond and say hey you need to reach out to XYZ person cuz somebody that's genuinely trying to figure out how do I get my money back they'll run across this and they'll think oh they

recommend this person I'll go reach out to them crypto is supposed to be very secure if you don't understand it I would highly suggest to not deal with it there are ways to have physical key codes and phrases on a physical device a lot of people want the Simplicity of having everything in a computer or having everything in the cloud or saving password here or there there's something to be said about having physical security if you've got a bajillion dollars in Bitcoin put those codes onto a physical device because it's another step that they would

need to be able to access your stuff at pink Eagle says at people who work at scam call centers do they pay enough I would say absolutely no if you look at the culture in India there's a lot of unemployment especially when the pandemic hit you have these kids that are doing everything that they can to pay for their families for their mom their dad their brothers and sisters one of the things we do when we are monitoring SC scammers as we download their files and a lot of scammers will host financial information on their

computer so if you get a manager's computer it's like a gold mine one of the call centers we were monitoring they were making almost a million dollar up to a million dollars a month and their salaries equaled up to about $7,500 for almost 100 scammers so you look at this and who's really making the money it's not XYZ that you're talking to on the phone it's the boss scammer a that's on the phone with a victim and runs the scam they might get a percentage let's just say 10% of a scam based in Indian rupees

their salaries are so tiny it's hard to live off of at mojack Marine says I have some very interesting scammers that have been clicking like on all my tweets all day what do you think that they are trying to accomplish how do these creeps make any money there's these types of scams where they're Bots that are mass-producing these likes and comments and trying to get you to engage with them they'll pretend to be even like a love interest or romantic interest and they'll get you to send compromising photos for instance and they're recording this they're

taking pictures and video they're saying if you don't give me money I will release this and it's really one of the most disturbing types of scams this actually happens a lot to teenagers as well and there's been a lot of mental health problems from these types of scams imagine a teenager that has no money and they think that they have no future because somebody took a picture of them and they're going to use it against them it's very sad so it goes way past just like these idiot Bots and sextortion scams are really really terrible

these scammers will then then start to push like you need to end your life you need to do this you need to do that they're cruel very cruel it really pisses me off honestly there actually were some scammers in Nigeria that got extradited to the United States because of a teenager that lost his life because of a extortion scam so there was Justice for that teenager at Lazy nerd tweets what are the programs that you use we use a VPN to protect our internet traffic we also use virtualization software so VMware we've used virtual box

in the past as well to hide our systems in virtual environment we have fake bank accounts we can use these fake Banks and we can change the dollar amounts and all that just to make sure that the scammer thinks that we're an actual victim at CER says why do scam callers keep calling me and then say nothing I'm listening give me your pitch I'm here for it I think that they're just trying to see if somebody's there who is on the other line also with the increase in artificial intelligence that's happening they could just be

recording your voice so they want somebody that's talking to them so they can get a sample and use that voice to scam another person so you might actually be helping out scammers if you pick up the phone and start talking so I would advise against it at D Kelly FCU what are some common scams targeting seniors and how do they occur I remember uh getting a phone call because my grandmother had almost been scammed and it's the typical Grandma scam they'll get data from data Brokers on elderly people in a certain area and they'll call

up the victim they call up my grandma and she's in her 90s and and they say your grandson is in trouble and they need money to either get get out of prison or out of the hospital and these are actually scammers in the US that are carrying out these scams which is pretty scary they were going to have her go to the bank use her debit card and get out 10 or $15,000 and the scariest part was somebody was actually going to drive to her house they'll pick up this money and then the money's gone

so thankfully my aunt was there at the house at the time grocery shopping so she had the debit card and no money was lost but this is one of the things they work upon is the fear of the grandparent another one on top of the grandma scam that's gotten a little bit more sophisticated the scammers are using voice changing technology artificial intelligence they will take a video of a child's uh social media account for instance and they can actually clone that have the grandchild call in and say hey I'm in trouble please but it's not

a real person it's a you know it's a voice clone they're doing deep fakes of family members celebrities they've even done deep fakes of myself we've seen two of them your case is a huge financial case of scam and I will need to hand it over to the federal anti-cam agency not that they're like amazing but if you look for it to be me you might think it's me actually this next one is from Kora and it says how do scam call centers work if they take up the entire Office Buildings aren't they making their

presence obvious and how can they not get caught there's been big buildings that we've highlighted before talked away on one of the floors could be one of these scam call centers a lot of these scammers especially the the bosses they will go create side businesses with that dirty money to make it look as if they created a legitimate company there's there's so many eyeballs on the scam call center industry I don't think there's going to be these hugee huge call centers anymore they're moving more towards these they call them safe houses where you can have

a call center group that's got 100 scammers in it but they're in five different locations because if one location gets hit then the other one's shut down not all scammers are in India we've seen a lot of different call centers opening up in different parts of Asia Eastern Europe and even like Pakistan for instance and we've run across political figures tied to these scam groups and even in the United States from a moneya laundering standpoint really big organized crime that are working with these call centers overseas it gets pretty serious once you start to follow

the money Trail at it me chop says scammer payback I just spent two hours scam baiting a guy and got a money MU address not sure what to do with it can you help first off good job one thing people ask me a lot are what are these money mules what is havala havala is a process that the scammers in India use to transfer money and they do this money laundering technique so that they don't get caught by authorities it could be a gift card it could be a wire transfer it could be Bitcoin it

could even be I kid you not having the victim take cash and putting it inside of a box and shipping it to somebody in the United States these addresses are really important because we can give them to law enforcement and they can find one of three things a victim on the other side that's being coerced into doing money laundering on behalf of the scammers an actual criminal that is collecting this package that's tied to a big crime organization or the third could actually be additional packages so we found where one money meal address could lead

to 10 packages that have actual cash them these money mule crime organizations are actually utilizing things like Airbnb so they'll fly in a non- US citizen into the states they'll be here maybe on a Visa or here for a couple of weeks or something like that get them rental cars they'll get them airbnbs they'll get them hotel rooms and they will start moving these guys all around the US their boss will call them up and say hey go to this place and collect this $20,000 parcel or go to this Airbnb and stay there for 3

days and collect all these packages they'll even send actual money mules to the victim's homes now these victims are getting cash out they're buying even gold bars I've seen half a million dollars of gold bars purchased before they're taking this gold and they're going to pawn shops selling it for cash and then putting in a Bitcoin this is where for me it starts to get pretty scary because a lot of organized crime they're very good at moving money around and they have a very good process guys that are they call them Runners that are driving

all around the US with fake IDs using rental cars they get a percentage of this so if they steal $100,000 in gold bars they might get 20% we had group that we were monitoring that was doing about half a million dollars a day and this is happening everywhere around the US the crime groups they are working with these scammers overseas they work in like WhatsApp groups telegram groups signal groups and they stay under the radar from governments from law enforcement and they're really good at what they do at R and disk says someone hacked into

my Amazon accounts and ordered a couple of things I now have their address what devious things should I do in P.S I probably won't do it so be clever well if you want a CL ever answer send them a glitter bomb okay secondly don't send them anything I'm really not saying to send anything essentially what happens is someone takes over somebody's account and then they buy these things and ship all the stuff to a random house we actually had uh somebody in my neighborhood I drove by this one house like nobody lived there and the

packages just started showing up and then you're like okay maybe they're out of town and then you start seeing the packages in the windows and then you're like okay maybe they're out of time for an extended amount of time and then you start literally seeing packages in the front yard and I'm not talking one or two packages I'm talking like 100 packages at one point I finally saw some Vans show up to clear out all these things it's somebody that thinks that they're running a business or a side business to make a little bit of

extra money here or there and they don't know where the money's coming from but they're getting paid to collect these packages they're in communication with their boss they're telling them hey receive this iPhone go ship it somewhere else and then that's where the real scammer is they collect that iPhone they sell it and then they made money Lou wants to know I'm so confused guys how did someone or something get into my Instagram and post a Bitcoin scam I have tofa I'm not stupid enough to click links I'm genuinely so lost there's probably something that

you did to give access to the account if you had tofa there are ways around it tofa is two Factor authentication my recommendation on TFA is to not run it through your text messages there are ways that hackers can still utilize getting around TFA through your text messages so there are authenticator apps to use and they actually have codes that once you download them and connect them to your accounts you literally have to have the physical phone with these codes on there in order to get in so I highly recommend using authenticator apps with all

of your social media accounts if they were on one of your devices and you were logged into it and you didn't know that that device has somebody on it if they have access to your email address they'll send a password request to that email that they have access to and then they got your account at allanore GC says online security tips I should know is public Wi-Fi safe is VPN good it's actually probably not faster these days than just using your cell phone so grab your cell phone and just tether off of it it's a

much safer option than logging into and probably giving away your data to all these companies just to use their public Wi-Fi also never use Wi-Fi at the airport you are around thousands and thousands of people at an airport not to say there's just hackers running around everywhere at the airport but just be proactive about your own security vpns are great for protecting and encrypting your traffic turn them on whenever you want to feel more protected but don't use these public Wi-Fi they hackers Galore if they wanted to create fake Wi-Fi spaces you log into it

and they say hey we need your Gmail you just gave someone your Gmail and they've owned your account at the es Markin says at scammer payback how do you get access to scamers machines we have various methods the first one is just a reversal they want to remote into my virtual machine so the first thing is allowing the scammer to get access to your computer and then from there I will send a request to their machine from there we can run a few files without them seeing hopefully and then we have permanent access to their

system to do whatever we want we have other methods of getting access to scammer systems I can't share all of them because I don't want to give away all of our secrets but we've also sent in operatives into call centers and they will then give us the access there are people that have been ex scammers that are pretty much fed up with the scam industry and they want to do good we had one Insider that he reached out to me and said hey I want to help you if you can get me back home and

he did that we helped him we want to form these relationships and area people who are fed up there's so many folks in India that are sick and tired of this and they want to fight back at techie guy nearby asks how come there are so many illegal call centers operating in and around Kolkata in police Administration they're not aware of it such Shameless activities Savatage the efforts of genuine entrepreneurs who are doing some very good work here I've done a lot of studying of Kolkata it's a beautiful Tech Hub hydrabad there's a big Tech

Hub up there as well there's Outsourcing that happens in India there are a lot of brilliant smart wonderful people in Kolkata especially and you look at some of these big bosses that made off with a lot of money the reason why they were able to was because they had police connections they were essentially paying per computer every seat in a call center they had given money to the police so in case there was a raid it was pretty much a fake raid and then they would pay the police off and then they would get out

so it made these scammers really confident that no matter what they did if they got raided they'll be back in you know a month or so but we've been fighting back for many years I've been doing this for 5 years now and it's forcing them and pressuring them to stop doing what they're doing or move somewhere else so Kolkata the police and the administration they've done a lot better of a job of shutting down these big call centers so you're starting to see a lot of the scammers scatter from Kolkata so I do want to

give credit to them for that here's a question from cor it's a great question why can an American YouTuber scammer payback perogi find the location of scammers in India when he is in another country and the India Police cannot I won't go into all the specifics but if they've got an internet connection we can typically find exactly where they are within like 10 m one of the locations I found it made me laugh because you just look on Google Maps and there's like a square of a building and his DOT is like smack dab in

the middle of it you know he's right in there we take this information we give it to us law enforcement but also India whenever they want it's just a matter of do they want to take action here's a question from at from ma serious question why do scammers almost immediately want me to go to Whatsapp or Google Hangout what am I missing when a scammer talks with you on Facebook let's say it's a romance scammer if you're on the platform and you're talking to Brad Pit for instance and you click on his picture and you

look at his followers and he's got 137 followers you might start questioning is this really Brad Pit the scammer has to start making up excuses why he's got 137 followers so if they get you to a different platform they're just a number or they're just a fake email that you're responding to versus a whole profile kind of a more private secure space for them that they can manipulate at Shred redberg says who in the world names their child scam likely that's like a statement and a question right there I like it the phone providers are

doing a better job with protecting people so you'll see the scam likely that's popping up these scammers are buying up phone numbers to bring about their scams and they get reported they get put into a database and then it becomes scam likely at morgs 1234 says does anyone know how you can find out if a site is fake or not convinced the dress I've ordered for formal is from a fraud site the internet has done a pretty good job with regards to stopping these types of fraud sites scammers are moving towards things like Facebook Marketplace

Craigslist things like that if you're on Facebook Marketplace and you're trying to buy a couch don't give deposits that's one of the first things they'll do is you need to pay for shipping oh you need to pay for this oh you need to pay pay half of it and then all of a sudden you've paid you know a couple thousand bucks to somebody you ain't got the couch don't pay anything until you receive the product or at least meet with the person first and have the money with you I don't know I don't buy St

off Facebook Marketplace I just don't believe it like if you start buying stuff off Craigslist you know a cat with one leg it's probably not a cat okay I'm sorry D I'm sorry bro okay I bought a cat off of Craigslist one time okay and it wasn't what they said it was I bought it for 100 bucks it was a cat but it wasn't the cat that I thought it was so I guess I got scammed okay she peed every you know I'm trying to bring some personal Insight so you know yeah next question please

I'm done at aen Chang 58 says just watching do any of these scammers ever get caught we're always being warned about scams but never hear of any being caught or convicted I understand the pain there because we all want the bad guys to go to jail and get in trouble really it's about jurisdiction you can't force another country to go arrest somebody because they're stealing money from citizens you just can't do it we've gotten a lot of people arrested here in the States money mules that are working with these scammers overseas I can't speak to

all the specifics because these are some pretty gnarly crime groups but there have been people getting caught and getting arrested here the us at Mike Stricker says scammer payback I watch a ton of your videos last night someone hacked my PayPal account and I actually got the phone number that they added when doing the password reset attempt how do I get this to the authorities without calling 911 like in a formal way scammers are really good about hiding behind burn numbers if you get this one shut down I'll just go to another one and it's

the same for emails and phone numbers take back your PayPal account is probably the best thing to do just take it back and change your password and make sure nobody gets into your account again but there's not much you can do about the random phone numbers at Mayville hey Google how do you get money back from a scammer you really can't get your money back that's the hard part these scammers are very good they might not be able to spell correctly sometimes but they're really good about moving money very fast if you have given your

money to a scammer it's probably not coming back sorry those are all the questions for today and on behalf of my team here at scammer payback thank you for watching scam bait support and always remember don't get get scammed [Music]