Confronting our viewer that runs a scam

[@bionicleboy9]

The owner being a fan of Honest Guide, is a twist I wouldn’t have seen coming

[@ProfWereW]

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

[@Matlalcueitl]

Was a fan… ;)

[@bobloblaw204]

@bioniclcboy9 It's like the criminals that listen to the police scanners to avoid trouble. He just wants to see what Yanek is up to.

[@galaxspace1]

Not fans. Common practice for scammers to follow people exposing scams so they know how to cover their own tracks

[@themockingjay8645]

"I used to be a fan of Honest Guide, until Janek exposed my MO" Just like how Logal Paul used to be a fan of Coffeezilla, until Coffeezilla exposed his scams

[@boop]

Google's recommended stores are littered with these scams, they seriously need to take care of these.

[@chuckmarius323]

afaik you can pay google for a spot on these "recommended" sections, same with their adds... and they do no checks whatsoever! You can freely advertise scams on youtube and have google search promote scam websites. one of the many reasons I stopped using google.

[@stefanboicu]

Facebook as well

[@windharp]

And that's one of the reasons why the "Don't buy from Am*zon" call doesn't work so well. Even though they do a lot of bad things, it just works. I find myself going back to the big platforms more often nowadays...

[@ChasseurTueur]

but its how they make money :)

[@mrflappie6553]

At the moment I'm writing this I'm in a dispute with a 'dropshipper' that won't return my money, even after involving a bailiff and will probably have to involve civil court to actually retrieve my money. Too many of these 'people' to go around,.

[@insanimal2]

Amazing that you were able to get the footage of the guy on the other end of the phone call

[@THEdarbimoore]

Ikr ! Crazy😊

[@sdsorrentino]

Honza is getting really crafty with the sneaky hidden cameras.

[@MrOpen2012]

That's not him actually. I believe he or his friend put some puppet on hand and pretended to talk.

[@xCode135]

@@MrOpen2012 No I found the instagram account of the owner and I can confirm he looks exactly the same

[@Wolf36181]

@@MrOpen2012 woah?! really?! i couldnt tell from 8:49 in the video!

[@roasttoe]

The doggy hanging up the phone and walking off was superb 😂

[@anonymous-k9p2d]

Honza is at the same time, a journalist, a policeman, a judge pretty much the president of Czechia but with all powers: executive, legislative, judicial hahahaha I love it waiting for part 2 honza is the hero we need

[@ibmezouar]

You mean Jãnek 😅

[@dantetre]

Honza is the cameramen, editor and undercover-agent. Janek is the host.

[@Mini_Min_]

Before shopping anywhere - always check the Impressum / About Us section. Only buy if you see the correct legal information - a company address and tax registry number. If you only see random, irrelevant gibberish and only some suspicious telephone number or e-mail (in many cases not even that) - you know it's a scam.

[@Redrally]

This comment needs to be higher.

[@Ex0rz]

This. Or just shop in trusted shops that are well known. Not a bad idea to check that the VAT number is actually legit if you suspect anything.

[@FreekDijkstra]

Best to check some reviews, this will quickly get an idea if something is going on. Alternatively, if you find an address, use Google Street view to check if there is indeed a physical office or warehouse there, or that is a fake address. And yes, I've fallen for dropshippers too. So far they delivered, but sometimes after 2-3 months. 6 months is clearly fake. If you don't want to go to the process of making a legal complaint, do make sure to dispute the payment with your bank provider. If you used a credit card, you have a good chance to get a refund. For a bank less likely. If you paid by some online bank, like Paypal, never mind. You lost your money in that case.

[@JP01_]

Most people don’t do that tho nor will they 😂

[@ZsoltMate]

"Impressum" is mandatory only in EU.

[@Pitsa666]

"It's not a blackmailing it's a negotiation" so true

[@Shaboinki]

Since the “young millionaires” on YT have started boasting about how easy it is to make money using drop shipping, many such scammy websites have emerged. They think they are hustling. Even many Etsy shops simply show their shop addresses in Europe, but drop-ship items from Temu/Alibaba. I have stopped using Etsy for this reason and it hurts real small businesses.

[@dennisd9554]

I don't use Etsy much, but I was looking for stained glass the other day (just curious because I make stained glass and thinking of selling some on Etsy) and was floored by how much absolute CR@P came up for sale. Stuff that wasn't stained glass but just mass-produced plastic junk. There were listings that were legitimate and you could tell from the pics they were unique pieces for sale. You could usually spot them by the price (~$300 USD) and lots of pics from different angles. But I'd also worry that at that price it would attract scammers that just steal images and pretend to sell stuff and never deliver, like this video.

[@hrzo1]

there is no Czech word: Fraud = Podvod :D

[@Justdigit2]

Whahaha MAN!! You are a genius!! 💯💯 Somebody in CZ is sweating now.... Looking forward to the follow up.

[@Darwinek]

The guy in question is in Thailand right now, enjoying his easily made money.

[@ccdsds3221]

What is there to sweat about?

[@Justdigit2]

@@ccdsds3221 For his CZ company name is mentioned next week.

[@DesertFoxz]

OMG, you killed that guy! That hang up is like what you see in a movie when the detective proves his suspicions to the suspect. He couldn't say another word or lie his way out, it was over.

[@masaitube]

It is simply crazy that the government fails to protect its citizens from such criminals. I hope he gets a retroactive sentence so that he never leaves prison again.

[@missneonnoire]

I don't even live in the Czech Rupublic but I'm invested. Please do a follow up regardless of what happens!

[@thatmonsieurwolf]

Thank y'all for the constant advice, you're lifesavers.

[@Dearminder]

Report all domains to domain registrar, thats all u can do, or even find hosting and report to it. Report it to authorities for anticonsumer and watch it burn, being blocked by isps on dns level

[@StrifePulse]

The thing is that if this happens which takes a while to go through, these guys will just open up a new domain and it's a cat and mouse game. Needs to be rooted out in a more comprehensive way if anything.

[@jonascink5235]

Amazing work! I hardly often leave a comment but after This work I have to! As always! Thanks for making Prague and Czechia and world in the end a better place

[@fletho]

You are actually being extremely polite. If it was Danish national television making such an investigation, and were as sure on their facts as you are, they would confront him heads up without any warning and without blurring his identity. Keep up the good work.

[@omgpickle]

We need more people to act like Danish national television.

[@sunny_muffins]

Oh God! You don`t know how much I love these guys! The best duo ever!

[@mobimaks]

08:50 Plot twist: it was Janek all along!

[@rory9174]

I could almost hear the guy's brain grinding gears while he tried to quickly fabricate reasons to absolve himself from any wrongdoing and distance himself from this business.

[@fraanzfan8158]

You are a gift to humanity 🙏

[@hikinvikin]

360 business days is 504 normal days... Equals 1.38 years... So, it's even worse

[@FernandoCicarelli]

So much looking forward to the second part of this video 😁😁👏🏻👏🏻

[@AZgamer100]

You my friend, are a hero.

[@torbenmayer]

"It's not blackmailing, it's a negotiation, an offer you can choose to refuse" - an amazing and very funny statement.

[@TegraZero]

in india Airtel telecom does this. they sell 1 month plan but in their Terms and Condition they claims we identify 1 month as 28 days . we are entering the era where we can't even claim 1 month should be at least 30 days.

[@googleuser8740]

Technically a month can be 28 days

[@verda7019]

...They define their month by the shortest month rather than the eleven others? That doesn't even make sense (outside of money); what a terrible company.

[@emilianogentili6332]

Vodafone in Italy tried to do and did it for a while to have a month of 28 days, but consumers associations managed to revert to 30 days, through judiciary action

[@googleuser8740]

@@verda7019 Yes of course they will define it in a way that best suits their interest why wouldn't they?

[@garyrowe58]

Had a site guarantee a response in 24 hours ... after two days waiting I complained, and they then explained that their 'in 24 hours' was really 3 days - of 8 business hours each!!!

[@FlameEmber]

Better than Santa, we have Honest Guide standing up for all the honest and innocent people. Merry Christmas. ❤

[@brekkoh]

The ability to stay cool headed and joke about how the guy follows this channel, while being internally furious is a rare skill Janek has

[@rogerflorida1498]

I love the side by side conversation, that was great!

[@Halvor1970]

Excellent journalism!

[@endunry]

Idk if this is something else. But there are a lot of sites where the original site had a good traction and ranked high on google. The Site goes offline, the domain is open again and scammers buy these domains with high ranking and keep the legal information the same (they use wayback machine to get the info) and scam there. The original holders then dont know anything abt this. These scams are really popular rn and honestly i think the same group of people that run these are behind the ddos attacks on the wayback machine because this is an easy verify to that. (I mean yeah the guy you called could be a scammer, but its very likely he actually doesnt know what youre talking abt)

[@jensvanderveen5490]

360 business days for a backpack to arrive is wild

[@jasosik]

you can be your own secret santa :D

[@SpaceRanger187]

Could be worse, could be 400 days lol

[@AlkaVirus]

nice job you used the buzzword. Congratulations. Your comment is also "wild"

[@pavlal.4552]

Plot twist: the backpack is sewn, packed and shipped from the Moon. 🤦

[@PeterT-i1w]

not in communist countries. we used to wait 10+ years to get the car we paid for

[@nickm1049]

Report the domains, lying about domain ownership will get the domains be shut down

[@marksaar9698]

Merry Xmas Janek ❤

[@race2win2021]

I love the fact you really walk the extra mile to stop these scam websites, I've been scammed by a different website before and i had to pay the shipping back to company which was more than the product itself + shipping. So i put a expensive car with very good looking pictures and price ~8000 euros cheaper than normal price and attached their number in biggest newspaper from my country.F**k scammers !!! Hope this helps someone else out !!!😂

[@GeoTactics]

How about getting the credit card company to reverse the charges? Then file a complaint with whatever commerce dept your country has. A scam is a scam.

[@beecat4183]

Janek is the Czech Coffeezilla

[@rfkrfk]

Can't wait till next week

[@desunistallerinc]

Report all websites to the domains registrars. They don't like when someone gives them fake names and run scam business on websites registered under them.

[@martinconnelly1473]

I ordered an aquarium light power supply to replace a faulty one through Ebay. It didn't arrive by the stated date so I contacted the seller. The reply was that they had been sick so they would send two instead as a good will gesture. In the post tomorrow, delivery in a few days. After a few days I contacted Ebay, showed them the correspondence and got a refund. These people try to drag things out until the time limit for making a complaint has passed then say you were too late complaining. Keep your eye on that date if something does not turn up when expected.

[@stormstereo]

In the EU, the 14-day clock starts ticking from the day you receive your order, not from when you place it online. Sellers on Ebay are required to follow EU consumer protection laws if they make products available to EU consumers and ship to buyers residing in the EU. Any seller or website can of course still be a pain to deal with, like in your case.

[@devinhigoy221]

A guy wouldn't send me a box of videogames and kept shipping out a box and returning it back to his address. So after going back and forth with the guy for 3 weeks and a half asking why the package is not arriving almost a month late I decided to make a complaint with ebay. After some time I got my money refunded. Make sure to check the seller's reviews before buying from anyone.

[@dennisd9554]

@@devinhigoy221 Agreed. I always scrutinized the seller reviews on eBay before bidding on or buying anything. As a seller, you can also put limits on anyone bidding on your stuff if they don't have enough positive reviews. That weeds out bogus or flaky buyers.

[@vylia]

Loved the puppet! And, of course, thanks for sharing this information. I've similar websites before, but I was always suspicious. I don't know what's the trigger, but somehow, I don't trust them. Waiting for the next part of this story.

[@ehehenhe]

Great Investigation !

[@harqc.x]

thank you for your investigation and sharing with us

[@wheeler9161]

This is my favorite arc in the Honest Guide storyline.

[@steven.stevenson94132]

Will be watching next weeks

[@keithparker5125]

When scamming becomes a 'blood' sport. Keep up the good work Janek!

[@mees1249]

Love your sarcasm.

[@mathiasfleurackers5323]

In belgium and the netherlands the scamsite is called “mezamstore” ordered and will recieve very late. I saw this video and immediatly recognised everything on the site. Thanks for the video. These things should stop. The government should fine these very hard. This is not fair

[@adc604]

Patiently waiting 7 days for this one, lol. Nice work Honza!

[@donkeek8107]

I hope, no matter if he reimburses the money, you will inform the police or some other legal body. He/they will not stop scamming people

[@sebastien79a]

She is a director of a load of dissolved (closed) companies in the UK. A couple I checked were struck off.

[@Jens.M]

Trustpilot helps a lot when you wanna buy something in a store you don't know or looks shady or a lot stores have the same item.

[@Shaboinki]

Trustpilot and Reddit are your best friends while online shopping. I often order motorcycle gear by browsing the cheapest listings on google. I do 10-15 mins of research on the shop and have never been scammed yet.

[@nandinhocunha440]

Google is to blame too. They will recommend you a scammwr site even you misspell it

[@raisage]

I love it when Janek goes badass mode!

[@10jpmorgan]

Thorough research! I love to see you guys bust scammers!

[@MartienBLY]

i love this one, i cant wait for part 2.

[@lusimyer]

As serious as this was..the dog puppet was to cute and funny! Especially the hang up and walk away!! 😂😂😂😂

[@tomasbumble6128]

Looking forwards to next week video :D

[@Delqa]

Great video!

[@paradoxparade1]

"My sister and one of my viewers?!" - Janek "Ross Geller" Rubeš 🤣😂

[@MyLOBsTerr]

I am so glad that you are doing all these videos and a lot people can lead about different typea of scam and can avoid!

[@lusimyer]

I am very hesitant on ordering online, especially now. There are so many fake websites it's not funny. It's very hard to know the legitimate ones now,as the fake ones are getting really good at faking it. I have recently learnt my lesson and now I NEVER order anything from a KZbin ad!! You have to be on your guard 24/7, and check everything on the website and THEN even google the reviews on the company. If you miss this once,you can easily get scammed.

[@raphaelarctic]

"You know who i am" omfg that was badass

[@robinsebelova7103]

Sadly I got caught at similar "Shopping galery". I wanted a sailormoon cap with moon sickle on it and searched for it through google. Found it, ordered it 2 years ago and it still hasn't arrived (and probably won't ever).

[@gianni2272]

You are an absolute madlad

[@BubbBlubbii]

if my sis did that i would just laugh at her and tell her how stupid she is scam site's exist since almost for ever and Ordering Merchandise from anything is just dumb as well as people that are fans of what ever are something else

[@WaynesWorld999]

We've had it all wrong. Janek is nit an Honest Guide. He is but a Virtuous Adviser!

[@sunsetguy37]

Can't wait to see the update!🤣🙏

[@DonDuracell]

So they're basically collecting orders for certain item. And only after that threshold is reached at their supplier in Cina / India or whereever then they order wholesale for a fraction of the price per unit. If they're smart the supplier even takes over the shipping and processing for them and they still make money.

[@DynoosHD]

Nice Christmas to all scammers. Be allways be scared of the presents from THE HONEST GUIDE.

[@mazapandust]

THE ULTIMATIUM!!!! i love it. i'll be back in 7 days to see what happens!

[@Th3Pr0digalS0n]

2 year shipping was common, in the 1800's.

[@MegaWebsters]

Or, if you say, "build me an aircraft carrier".

[@sinjull2256]

Remember, that was 360 business days. If you take away all the holidays, weekends and such roughly it is 1½ years for the package to arrive.

[@senadhajdarevic2939]

Svaka cast ja sam i Pule i dolazim.u prag 30.12..i puno si pomogo.

[@sweet_amir]

In short. Your sister wanted to buy something very VERY cheap and yet didn't read what the catch was.

[@DerEineMann]

amazing, can't wait

[@PurpleloveRecords]

Damn i been seen your videos now around 6-7 years time goes fast your video is amazing and always top notch quality and enjoyable to watch like action movie when you get the scammers 😂😂🎉🎉

[@Resolute900]

Plot twist: TheY now claim to be getting the all important fabric for the back pack from Brazil, The cotton to stitch it -from New Zealand, The zippers -from the UK, The brand label -from Nigeria, And the inner canvas - from Canada. Apperantly, the first 2 have arrived and waiting for the rest. please be patient while we await the raw materials after which production should begin.

[@Resolute900]

Once your bag has been built after 13 months, we should like to inform you that because of our Quality standards, the Quality Control section would run it through their systems. This could take anything from a month to three months. Allow for this for a quality product!

[@mysticondeflamme]

One should always make purchases with a credit card, wherever available. Then at least you have an option to file a chargeback

[@wrongusername]

Subscribed. Good work!

[@Jablicek]

Oh no, you accidentally left the actual website in toward the end, instead of blurring it out. What a terrible oversight. Such a pity that you'll never read this comment and everyone watching will know exactly who it is. What a shame.

[@brendanbaxter4723]

your a legend man

[@RishavBhowmik-j1g]

This is amazing!!!!!!!! Just tooooooo good

[@Sznfctm]

Oh yeah my mother nearly bought something from the Hungarian version of this, but it looked suspicious and overpriced for some Chinese printed crap, so we checked and found the 365 days delivery. I guess the Hungarian site may be owned by the same person? Also the sock puppet discussion was genius, well done guys! 😀

[@4444kermit]

Brilliant and Thanks :)

[@Digger513]

Get him!!!

[@stevenmonster]

1:21 "you can read it right here about our shop". They seem to believe they are running a shop. Surely this gallery nonsense falls apart from there.

[@HelloOnepiece]

There is a reason why I only order from shops that have a least one physical store in a reasonable vicinity.

[@leonardhpls6]

That's the stupidest thing I have seen today

[@pragueexpat5106]

I do the same thing, and even when I do I use Google Pay or a one-time use virtual debit card, so I can protect my real/physical debit card info.

[@LwL_]

If she paid by credit card, she might want to get that blocked just in case. If it's truly some legal grey area, they probably won't stoop that low, since they're technically legal and want to stay that way, but I wouldn't rule it out. There's a different online shop scam where scammers buy domains that used to belong to shops that went out of business, pretend they are still owned by the old owner, and give them a phishing frontend copied from some large name brand store, with discount prices. If you buy from them, you will never get your product, and whatever you paid with is probably compromised. Though at least that's clearly not quite what happened here since any of the former owners of those sites would be instantly working with you to get rid of the scam site instead of whatever this guy was doing.

[@RB-us6tf]

Loved this! :)

[@scole402]

Spicy!!! Love it

[@Wacdonaldnoneyt]

The Honest Guide being honest of Scammers

[@mommam9434]

I liked the black mailing joke

[@kyuss0x1]

Go get em Janek,

[@appleish5043]

Sooo wild! Now I have to check the term n conditions of every online shops before completing purchases because it might be a scam?! Luckily I have been choosing one that has a local shopfront in Australia to do click and collect because I just can’t wait for the goods to arrive 😖 but this is wild! And as usual, thank you for being the Good Samaritan! Hopefully your sister get her backpack/money back!

[@marcellkovacs5452]

I'm surprised he didn't hang up as soon as he realised who was calling

[@SpinGoal]

1:35 Janek, you should check PPPeter from Slovakia, his series from China. He showed these "shopping galleries" in China. You simply order big amount of any product and they will create it in China and deliver to your destination in next months. So you can buy stuff worth 2€ of production and sell it for 20€ for example, but u must meet certain conditions such as minimum amount of products per order. Yes, these products are from China and that's how it works. It seems, this backpack wasn't in storage and they had to make a new order and yes, it can take up to a year to get your goods. Imagine how much of those "souvenirs" in Prague you see on every corner are from China worth 0.50€ of production, that are sold to tourists for a few €. This is business :D @edit: It's not dropshipping, it's similar, but it's something else.

[@florichi]

360 days shipping doesn't sound sooo bad. Canceled an order on Amazon that first said 7 days and after that one week 3-5months.

[@Mister_Beard]

Well even if you are based out of the Czech republic, your videos made ma aware of the ATM and exchangeoffices in denmark that runs more or less the exact same scheme. So Thank you

[@BenjaminHari]

6:58 you're surprised he hung up? Come on Janek, it's classic by now that they try some poor bullshit while stuttering and when they see it has no effect on you they either hang up or starts walking/running away from you lol. Your confidence is what breaks them, they know that what they are doing is bad and can't defend themselves. 😂😂