Just say 'WHAT?' to Scammers (Scambaiting) Also: is it Mostly Old People Who Get Scammed?

Scambaiting time again! - this time, including a not so successful attempt to try just saying 'WHAT?' to scammers.
Intro and outro music was composed by Eric Castiglia: / supercast
Links pertaining to this video:
BBB Scam Tracker report: www.bbb.org/bb...
UK Fraud & Computer Misuse report: www.ons.gov.uk...
Action Fraud Scam Statistics: www.actionfrau...
Barclays Scam Victim Misconceptions: home.barclays/...
In case you have questions about my scambaiting videos or efforts, you might find the answer below:
Why do scammers promise such big rewards, and demand relatively small fees? - • Bringing Scammers Toge...
Is it just old people who get scammed? - • Just say 'WHAT?' to Sc...
Why are scammers frequently 'Reverend'? - • We Probably Mean Harm ...
Can you help me recover money from scammers? - • OK... There Is No Adva...
Has Atomic Shrimp been scammed before? Is this all about revenge? - • What the Heck is a Cle...
Why are the scams so badly written? (Also do stupid people deserve to be scammed?) - • I'm Just Mad About SAF...
Why do the scammers ask for personal details (that they don't seem to use)? - • A Little Nonsense Now ...
Why don't you scam the scammers? - • John Warosa: Redemptio...
Are you helping scammers to get better at scamming? - • John Barosa: Resurrect...
Why not tell the scammers to deduct the fee from the prize? - • The John Warosa Legacy...
Who is John Warosa/Barosa? - • The John Warosa Legacy...
Did you steal your script, or steal or the idea of scambaiting from someone else? • OK There Is An Imposto...
Why don't you make more/only scambaiting videos? • OK Let's Cross The Str...
If the scammers want Steam/Google Play/iTunes cards, are they kids/gamers? • Let's Create One Big U...
Can I send you scam emails for you to bait? • Let's Try Continual De...
How can I get started scambaiting? • John Barosa Rides Agai...
Why do you blur the scammers' email addresses? • Making A Nuisance Of M...
Why don't you read the scammer's emails in an Indian Accent? • Let's Get Wholesome Wi...
Why don't you report these scammers to the police? • Let's Try A Series Of ...
Are these stories real? • The Scammers Who Dumpe...
How do people even fall for scams? • The Scammers Who Dumpe...
How do people even fall for scams? (Revisited): • OK - Seems Legit (Scam...
How safe is scambaiting? • OK - Let's Try Speedru...
How do you Receive so many scam emails? • The Least Credible Sca...
Aren't you just wasting your time? • The Surprising Return ...

[@DetectiveWraith]

Aggression? Yes -> Righteous Indignation No -> Confusion

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Yes

[@jama211]

You're a genius

[@se-pr6pk]

What?

[@DetectiveWraith]

@@se-pr6pk I agree. I don’t understand this comment at all! Like, why does it have so many likes? It doesn’t deserve them at all! It’s literally just an IF function.

[@katzbkewl9900]

@@DetectiveWraith What? Are you confuse? The comment has so many likes because of the if, is considered humor. How are you not understanding? Did you go to school?

[@PhoenixClank]

"clear as mud" is a brilliant expression and I'll work on incorporating it into my everyday vocabulary.

[@keybutnolock]

It is a very common expression here in the UK. English is so understandable, is n't it, is it not ? : )

[@kjdude8765]

@@keybutnolock It is also common in the States, however it's a purposely incorrect statement. It's used as a quip when the direction is not actually clear but everything is proceeding anyway.

[@keybutnolock]

@@kjdude8765 So... not sure but do it anyway, kind a thing ? Oh right, got it.

[@kjdude8765]

@@keybutnolock Exactly. When someone asks: Is that clear? And they expect a positive answer. So you say sure, clear as mud. Often times with a co worker or someone who is in the same situation as you.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@keybutnolock Or is it?

[@forlandm]

I would seriously have liked to hear more about the peculiar customs of Hurdle Slaughter.

[@AtomicShrimp]

More information films about the whole of Slaughter Valley are coming...

[@zoe1755]

@@AtomicShrimp iv been watching your videos and I love your 'no fucks left to give' attitude towards trolls! It's so funny! 🤣

[@lordprotectorofthevale5854]

There is actually a road known as slaughter lane near my house. It’s called that because there used to be a slaughterhouse nearby.

[@GeoffreyScott571]

Austin?

[@NHarts3]

@@AtomicShrimp I now have a strange urge to start a cult where the code phrases used between cult members are all nonsensical phrases from scam emails.

[@nonna_sof5889]

At some point the second one started to sound like a Dr. Seuss book... and now I want to see a scam bait written in the style of Dr. Seuss, thanks.

[@NHarts3]

Omg I noticed and commented the same thing 😂😂

[@ooc329]

Personally, I'm interested to see whether something similar to "Just say 'What?' to scammers," but a little less conversation-ending, would work - perhaps something more like "I'm sorry but I don't think I quite understand that, could you explain it in simpler terms?" And then on each reply, you say the same thing, but less and less formally, eventually ending on "U wot m8?"

[@atomicdancer]

"Do you like Green eggs and scam?"

[@j.w.tompkins7440]

"The sun did not shine It was too wet to play There's money for you in an African Bank"

[@TheReaper569]

"i need a trustworthy, sincere, accountable being" So a trustworthy sincere and accountable alien or a dog is acceptable?

[@circuit10]

Well, dogs and aliens are beings, just not human beings :)

[@TheReaper569]

@@bigguy7353 i as a trustworthy, sincere and accountable dog am very offended by your speciest approach.

[@johnlucidity8242]

Does a tree with those qualities count then

[@thedestroyasystem]

@@bigguy7353 I dunno. I’d say they’re beings, as “living beings” is a phrase to simply mean “living things.” Being denotes life and some form of cognition, so animals and onward but not plants, not sentience. This is just my interpretation though.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Sentience appears to be defined as the capacity to sense things and have feelings. Dogs are sentient by that measure.

[@TheGreenarrow88]

Once had a fake tech support call about "viruses making my computer slower", kept them strung along until I asked if what they were doing would get rid of the ants inside my computer and then they hung up

[@dothmotherknowyouwearth]

HAHA amazing

[@davidarmstrong2078]

I had a scam call like that from India again recently. I asked them "What caste are scammers?" and they hung up.

[@zanthous6938]

@@davidarmstrong2078 That one is gold.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@davidarmstrong2078 Haha classism.

[@hooksncrosses3419]

I had one call from India last year. In his heavy Indian accent he said his name was "Kevin Smith". In my heavy English accent I told him my name was "Raj Singh". He got very confused and hung up on me. It was brilliant. (I know that there are plenty of Indian/English out there who would have a name like that and sound like me. I just don't think he expected me to say that name.)

[@ulthii]

I'm not sure if intentional, but the typo in the slide about not letting yourself feel invulnerable just because you notice other people's failings felt rather poetic

[@AtomicShrimp]

Let's pretend I did that on purpose

[@An_Agent_0]

@@AtomicShrimp I think you did that on purpose.

[@AtomicShrimp]

@@An_Agent_0 It is the sort of thing I would do, isn't it? But maybe it's just where I'm breaking in a new keyborad

[@vgaggia]

@@AtomicShrimp Could be that talking to all these scammers with broken english, you in turn, have developed a small bit of broken english without realizing.

[@xaxaiuedufraine4897]

Left me feeling quite ulnerable, personally.

[@LiterateGoblin1]

I found all of the UPS edits with "To hell with you" immensely entertaining.

[@warmgoodrob5611]

Accurate tagline for my local UPS

[@waynemontpetit8181]

@@warmgoodrob5611 😆

[@mikesantiago14]

To hell with you!

[@LavenderJJ_]

One fun idea I like would be to pretend you're working at the bank the scammer is impersonating, but still play dumb, thinking it's just a colleague at your work. You could just try very subtle things like signing off your email as a worker at HSBC or whatever bank the scammer is pretending to be.

[@pharoahcaraboo9610]

This has great potential but also these scammers are as situationally aware as bricks, I’m not sure if they’d notice and if they did they’d probably bail immediately. 😂

[@inventiveusername5191]

Cute idea, but I feel like there's some legal risk to it. I can't imagine multinational banks look too kindly on people impersonating them, even for something as innocent as scambaiting. Especially public enough figures to have hundreds of thousands of YT subs.

[@GalanDun]

@@inventiveusername5191 Nah. It's only illegal to impersonate cops

[@SuzanneRush]

Unfortunately, they're too shameless for that to matter. A common tactic is to try and claim there's a new policy or process and shame the employee for not knowing it then 'kindly' guide them through it. Especially in larger companies, employees are sadly used to that in day to day, and fall for it more than you'd think, and even those that don't accidentally give them stuff to improve their next attempt (policies, terminology, job role/department titles, better quality images). Might be able to inject some false terms that'll tip off a future employee, but even guff info that sounds believable enough for them to adopt it might make another victim more likely to believe them, so not a good trade-off unless you're sure they specifically/mainly target employees and can disseminate the 'key word' you trained them to use.

[@drunkensquirrel7545]

@@GalanDun It's also illegal to impersonate a CPA - AKA Chartered Accountant outside of the US. It would be side-tearing funny to be a fly on the wall if a scammers actually did call a cop or a CPA... *especially* if s/he's a Forensic CPA. 🤣🤣🤣

[@hanselindenbirken]

This ‘Ups’ scammer must loathe his job..... Why else would he tell the ‘office in charge’ to go to hell? Either that or he’s a really small boy who thinks that swearing makes him sound intimidating.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I think he may be a small boy. Looking back, I should probably have asked.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@AtomicShrimp Always good to know.

[@hanselindenbirken]

I definitely would!! I’ve been baiting scammers with requests for ‘intransigent implacablons’, so when they express their confusion, I tersely retort by asking them if they are small boys.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@hanselindenbirken You know they are :D

[@jbreckmckye]

I wonder why they get so angry, so quickly. You'd think they'd at least pretend to keep their cool - for the sake of the act. Perhaps it helps them zero in on victims more likely to be compliant?

[@Mogamishu]

It is also because they are primitive, poor, working class people of low educational level and lacking in social skills. Responding with anger and rudeness is the only way they know how.

[@J_Lynn]

it's a tactic, I believe. If you act aggressive with people they will often feel the need to do whatever will calm you down even if it doesn't make much sense. I don't imagine it works very well over e-mail where people have plenty of time to think about the situation, but scams performed over the phone or in person probably do pretty well with this tactic because you're more able to control how long the scam-ee takes to process things.

[@Dockhead]

@@Mogamishu thats a bigger insult to those who they scam then.

[@TheShadowcreator]

Keep in mind that these people are criminals, it's not like they have the customer service skills required for a real job. Some scambaiting videos I watch have people who act more professional- it seems like those people are using scamming as a stepping stone to a better job.

[@jbreckmckye]

@@J_Lynn That makes a lot of sense. If you act aggressively when your mark pushes back, there's a good chance they'll drop it just to avoid conflict.

[@the_rahn]

"What's the is the today?" absolutely killed me

[@beware_the_moose]

I would like to see more of this "asking almost questions" stuff

[@bassemb]

I just left a similar comment, I dunno what it was about this phrase that had me laughing so hard!

[@Roadent1241]

I have so many quotes I saved from listening to Kitboga. There are some absolute bangers. Most recently, these are my three favourites - Why zip code do you want it? I have already said the thing of the words. Ma'am, please don't do anything on the.... that. ((He wasn't really referring to anything in particular.))

[@kayb9979]

@@Roadent1241 Probably cross reading the wrong lines on their script.

[@Roadent1241]

@@kayb9979 They do it all the time though, and they can't speak a sentence with consistently correct tenses to begin with. "Will you have to got this sir?" .... Are they asking about something in the past or future? XD if they get asked to clarify they just repeat it.

[@PaulphotoeyeVideo]

My wife does the shopping for an elderly friend. The friend sends cash to various scams that promise luck, money etc. The friend gives them to my wife to post. She doesn't post them and returns the cash to the friends purse. All without the friend knowing. This proves there are other scams the elderly get caught up in.

[@thomasherzog86]

sometimes, doing the wrong is doing the right. best of happiness for her and yourself.

[@StefanyDjuba]

Maybe she should talk with the friend? If the friend finds out, they could go behind her back to post their money and end up losing it anyway

[@PaulphotoeyeVideo]

@@StefanyDjuba the friend is in her eighties. My wife is in contact with her daughter and is fully aware of what goes on. The friend had over 2k removed from her bank account a while back. The daughter spoke with the bank and they actually sent a person who deals with fraud out to see the friend and her daughter. The bank refunded the missing money.

[@deejayk5939]

Wonderful! you are a good friend to her.

[@TankEngine75]

That's nice

[@tifforo1]

Saying "$1 million dollars only" is an absolute guarantee that the person is from India, because it makes absolutely no sense to use "only" in this context until you remember that people in India use "only" to mean "exactly."

[@PuntiS]

Same thing with "do the needful". As far as I know, it's only indians using these terms.

[@circuit10]

@@PuntiS I've also noticed that people from India seem to say "kindly" a lot

[@IceBlueLugia]

Yep, all these 3 are accurate lol, can confirm as an Indian

[@hooksncrosses3419]

Yes, I found this. The African scammers tend to call you "dear" a lot and go on about how "honest" they are.😂

[@karthikkumar6861]

Oh so that's what it means. Always felt weird to me when people added "only" everywhere.

[@igorszamaszow171]

As a tribute to both Mrs Wang and Hurdle Slaughter I will use "goodbye to us/me" in conversations on a regular basis from now on.

[@jumpyspiderlady8454]

I always love when you get to the righteous indignation part.

[@bengineer8]

Hi Jumpy. Small world.

[@jumpyspiderlady8454]

@@bengineer8 oh hey Ben!

[@tsg7official]

This is cool.

[@YTStoleMyUsername]

Same here. "Or are you a small boy?" always makes me laugh out loud 😂

[@snooganslestat2030]

@@YTStoleMyUsername Lol yeah I love that. Strangely it makes the scammer indignant but not righteously.

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

I like to lead them on and act like I am doing what they want and near the end ask them 'What about the puppies?" the rest of my conversation is all about the puppies. It drives them crazy!

[@beeragainsthumanity1420]

WHAT???!?!??!!?

[@risingphoenix5618]

WHAT??!???!??!!?!?!!!?

[@foxyseven609]

WHAT?!?!?1!??!???/?!/?!/1?!/1?

[@jonathanrichards593]

Dude, don't leave us hanging! What's the is the today with the puppie's??

[@bradmiley]

WHAT????? A soul named Mr John Warosa just called saying something about puppies.

[@lindastone6868]

"Tell me more" may work better as a hook.

[@the.rest.is.confetti]

True!

[@Ametisti]

Tell me more

[@danny8063]

new video titled 'Just say 'tell me more' '!!!

[@JC-hi8fk]

“An Australian citizen who works at JFK Airport” That’s a hell of a commute…

[@MuchWhittering]

To be fair, "citizen" and "resident" don't mean the same thing. Lots of Australian citizens live in America.

[@Swollen_Goat]

Hearing you say " You wot m8" killed my gut.

[@oz_jones]

U havin a laff, m8?

[@Roadent1241]

I'll clock you in the gabber, m8, I sware on me mum

[@ieatbananaswiththepeel4782]

*sips my koala*

[@Matt.m6]

U got a loicense for those crumpets guv

[@Cinnamon_Shaey]

every time you said "WHAT??!??!?" i just had the David Tennant doctor who scene where the flying space Titanic crashes into the TARDIS

[@rooty]

This was my immediate thought lol

[@Newcras]

You have one of the smoothest and relaxing voices on KZbin tbh. Sometimes I just like having your voice in the background because it sounds so friendly.

[@alankeyes8267]

He's on my nap play list.

[@danny8063]

I fall asleep to his vids every night I have them on loop OK,

[@sam735]

I agree! Maybe he should try doing ASMR...

[@VengefullyQueerDragon]

​@@sam735Auto Scammer Menace Response

[@michaeledmunds7266]

"I have been trying to clear you out." You got them so frustrated they started slipping into honesty. XD

[@JIL713]

I would’ve genuinely replied “WHAT?!?!” to a request for $3680

[@paranera913]

The UPS scambait absolutely had me in tears - great work as always!

[@epsilonthedragon1249]

Wonder if you can get anything out of telling the scammers you don’t speak English (in another language, likely) in the hopes of forcing them to rewrite (or Google Translate) their entire template into another language

[@ButterGamesRoblox]

Yeah I'd guess they'd mostly just bail too

[@GwyndolinOwO]

my guess is they will bail but it might be for a few reasons A) if you talk to them in THIER language, it can be a huge red flag for them B) you talk to them with a language that the currency there isn't worth much, or the country is know to be/stereotyped to be poor or C) its just too much effort for a lot of them

[@KatyLawson]

@@TheRatsintheWalls The chances of bailing are high for any of Shrimp's scambaiting to be fair, and the chances of somebody latching on is just as likely. I'm certain he'd latch a few at least for enough email exchanges to make a video.

[@ButterGamesRoblox]

@@GwyndolinOwO Or they tell you to yse translate, lmao. I think Shrimp has done some bait where he was speaking broken English on occasion

[@thehomebrewer816]

Make this happen.

[@mastermewtwo5503]

"Thank you once again for your genuine interest in this transaction." All he's been saying was that he was not interested.

[@hallamhal]

I'd love to alternate saying "What?" And "You young whippersnapper!"

[@catslove3884]

Haha. I told a scammer I have already been with such and such company before he was even a gleam in his daddy's eye. He didn't get it. Guess they don't say that in his eastern country

[@Emily-the_funny_guys]

Mike, I love how you read the emails exactly as they appear. "Delivery emoji truck" hahaha

[@asteroidrules]

Truck emoji time. Also it just plain cracks me up that the scammers have so thoroughly dropped any effort of appearing professional that they're putting emojis in their emails.

[@lc1138]

Mike is professionnal in his reading that I.notice every single time he misses a word or inverts a formluation. There are not many of these times. Good job.

[@InsanityPrevails]

"If you are on my shoe, you will do even more." Can't say I've ever imagined being on someone's shoe to be honest

[@lllIIIlIllIIll]

I love how you photoshopped "to hell with you" on ups trucks and buildings

[@Amethystar]

"You are a noble, MATURED, trustworthy person..." And now I'm thinking of wobble-dogs... Excellent video, as always! Thank you for both sharing the best moments of your endeavors, as well as more scams (and their variations) for everyone to watch out for!

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

And your comment just made me hungry.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@Killer Koala Hungry?

[@waynemontpetit8181]

I once knew a bourbon that was noble, matured, and trustworthy. A wine as well.

[@Amethystar]

@@waynemontpetit8181 Might have to add that to my refined insults: "I know a 2020 Cabernet that's more mature than you!"

[@waynemontpetit8181]

@@Amethystar 😆

[@dudepersonvids]

I burst out cackling at "these people did not leave," I love that black and white segment. Brilliant.

[@ADaviDTR]

Some say that Mike is still saying "what?" periodically, in an ever-increasing pitch

[@Andarthiel]

The scammer saying "I'm trying to clear you out" was probably the funniest Freudian slip 🤣 🤣🤣

[@kenfreeman8888]

I always thank the UPS delivery driver. They very rarely respond with, "To hell with you."

[@rprince418]

You should seriously file a complaint for service not as advertised.

[@bicameralmind6785]

Wow! I had no idea you can be arrested via an email attachment. It's this sort of quality information that I come here for.

[@NHarts3]

But only if the stop hold doesnt lapse past 24hrs. Then the police cannot be arresting you 🚓

[@lidbass]

Information’s. Let’s keep it scam-correct, please. Thank you.

[@bradmiley]

I feel that there might be some demurrage due here.

[@Jenny.C1978]

“Do the police visit in person to do this, or do they send the arrest like an attachment?” This had me in stitches 🤣🤣🤣

[@ln5321]

The "goodbye to us" segment was so well done

[@born_again_torinos]

It is priceless that all these scammers are so bent out of shape when they think their time is being wasted. When it is they who waste every victims time.

[@beware_the_moose]

When I was younger I was often scammed by legitimate businesses, unfortunately the young get walked all over by retail "managers". Scams take all sorts of forms, the elderly probably are more prone to confidence scams while the young just get ignored when they try to exercise their legal recourse...

[@nikolairostov3326]

Really? What type of scam was it?

[@rolfs2165]

@@nikolairostov3326 Like being sold something different to what you asked for and at a higher price, and then being told that no, you can't return the thing and get your money back. I'd consider my only run-in with a fitness studio being scammed as well. I had "won" a month of free training, but to get it, I obviously had to sign up and pay half a dozen different fees (sign-up, towels, whatever else), and I had to do it _today_ or the voucher would be invalid (which was illegal), so I basically signed the contract under force. After I had a chance to talk to my parents about it and sleep a night on it, I went and wanted to rescind the contract (which I was legally allowed to), but was told I couldn't do that and would have to cancel normally after the minimum three months. And because I had just turned 18 and had no clue, I let them do it and went there to train for three months even though I didn't really want to.

[@NHarts3]

@@rolfs2165 there are definitely those "soft" scams. When I was a first year student, I was scammed by a "tutoring service". They made everyone pay upfront, but then after the money was taken half of the "tutors" left and the ones remaining decided to only help the 2 pretty girls sitting in the front row. Slowly everyone else started filtering out. I was one of those that waited the whole session, but never got a minute of tutoring, and I was too shy and awkward to demand my money back. I was so pissed at myself and them. I realised I had lost my money once the man who had collected the fees left and 10 minutes had lapsed and most of the people were not being taught anything. They also promised us workbooks and notes and things, none of which appeared

[@beware_the_moose]

@@nikolairostov3326 the one that comes to mind was a retail store mis-selling on purpose, then refusing to refund and actually escorting 18 year old me off the premises for being firm, I was not rude or threatening, just 18 and insistent. Dixons, now Currys. I still hold a grudge 20 years later. You know the saying, annoy one customer, they tell ten. Well how many people are going to read this now? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤣 We also got scammed when buying a car, but I was older and more belligerent, so they didn't win. Scams are everywhere.

[@dianalovescolors]

My 2 grandaughters 20 and 24 have been targeted by scams alot. I'm glad they know to come to Nana now and ask if it's a scam. Some are Iike you say, they call them "grey" scams. Beware of their sense of urgency like "today only". When they throw terms like that out, you can bet it's not on the up and up. Take 24 hours to really think. There will always be another deal so don't play into that. 18-30 years of age are top consumers now so they will try to take advantage of that. Don't click on links unless you know the sender personally. They send out thousands of links, texts, emails, a day hoping to get a few bites. It's a numbers game for them. Take care and best wishes to you. 💙

[@Raiko01]

You should definitly explore the "Confuse the scammer" option more. That UPS conversation was hilarious. The scammer's english is usually very broken, so why wouldn't the scammee's english be broken aswell?

[@g.gidluck6470]

Just wanted to say that I’m really glad you’re spreading this awareness on scammers. Today my girlfriend sent me a snap with a shop for those reversible octopus plushies. The sale looked really good so I checked it out. But then a little voice in the back of my mind said “too good”. I decided to really check it out, and here is what I found. The brand name was similar, but not the actual name of the brand The background they used on their website was a low quality picture The deal seemed way to good to be true for such a popular product And all 7 reviews (suspicious in itself) were written on the same day Not saying it’s DEFINITELY a scam, but it’s enough for me to take my business elsewhere, and tell my girlfriend that it’s probably not to be trusted :)

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

If it was fake, why wouldn't they just forge the reviews? I guess they don't know how to use their website.

[@g.gidluck6470]

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 I’m quite sure the reviews were forged, but they weren’t patient enough to wait various amounts of time to make it seem more legitimate. I’m sure it wasn’t at the top of their priority, considering all the other ways in which their website was suspicious. I should have mentioned that all of the reviews (7 of them on a major brand) were 5 stars and positive, which made the whole situation suspicious.

[@TrixerFerKids]

7:35 "It's like you are misunderstanding my email" "Yes it is, isn't it?" 😆👍

[@krbacon]

Your voice is always quite calming to listen to while working.

[@LivingInTheShade]

I really enjoyed this, you ran them round in multiple circles! You're right everyone has a blind spot.

[@MuchWhittering]

The group of people that is most vulnerable to scams is the worryingly large group that believes themselves immune.

[@aaronkelly1926]

More excited for new Atomic Shrimp than new James Bond.

[@broadsword6650]

I look forward to revisiting Hurdle Slaughter, but will be ready to leave as soon as requested.

[@archivushka]

Scientist 1: one joule per second is too long, how about a shorter name? Scientist 2: what

[@2lefThumbs]

I see watt you did there👍👍

[@2lefThumbs]

@mrdoe97 OHMygod! I AMProvoked to respond to your comment. I reaisted the urge for a while. I haven't so FARADdressed your capacitance point, please excuse my reluctance, and stay positive👍👍

[@xyrene7189]

I love this thread HAHA

[@thomasherzog86]

the energy here is powerful.

[@xyrene7189]

@mrdoe97 very shocking, indeed; to the point it would make everyone ecstatic with no revolts

[@uplink-on-yt]

18:50 Sometimes, with trust wisdom will follow. He's right. Too bad it takes trust in a scammer to gain wisdom, and it's even worse that people fall for it multiple times - wisdom doesn't always follow.

[@meepnax]

I always have "What?" as the subject line in my scambaiting emails

[@SalahEddineH]

Omg how did you not mention the part at 3:00 about the unlawful CASTRATION of people. (I'm supposing they meant incarceration, unless the Hong Kong situation is worse than I thought)

[@brianlam1663]

I always enjoy doing the needful.

[@hiddenshadow2105]

I very much like those little videos ('Welcome to scenic Hurdle Slaughter' in this case). It is a pleasant surprise every time.

[@jboylan6970]

You're brilliant 👊 Just spent a week in hospital where I binge watched your vids. Thank you for preventing me from cracking up lol (no visitors allowed 😞).

[@waynemontpetit8181]

I once knew a bourbon that was noble, matured, and trustworthy. A wine as well.

[@Xclub40X]

John Warosa has a brother who is a chef..... Let's get him to cook up a plot His name is Mr Samosa

[@someonestolemyname]

Me who is actually from HK and want to escape from the "you know what", I am honored that the news is getting to the scammers but also kind of weirded out.

[@Mr-Cleric]

My mother and I keep getting texts from the "Royal Mail", saying we've missed packages. It's just a scam, of course, to trick the victim into handing over private info and credit cards, but it was astounding how perfect the recreation of the Royal Mail site was. Do you think you could make any sort of video about it, if you haven't already?

[@leticiaromano6054]

It's disgusting how easy this appears to be to set up and run.

[@blondesense1708]

We have that text in Australia, you tap on the link and it will download spyware to your phone and it sends the message to your contacts and collects bank info. Don’t ever click on the link! Even out of curiosity or to collect the website details to report. Just report the number it came from.

[@v380riMz]

​@@blondesense1708 That's not possible. Usually they are simple phishing websites. Driveby downloading exploits are very rare and go for upwards a million dollars.

[@Stettafire]

@@v380riMz No, one-click attacks are very real.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@Stettafire One-click attacks don't need to install native code in order to do damage.

[@guzmorer7123]

I am laughing so much at “what’s the is the today?” holy moly

[@ImmortalLemon]

Your video on how far scammers will go got me to spend 2 and a half hours on the phone going in circles with a scammer just to waste his time. I savored every single second knowing every moment I kept him running around me was one less second he could use to hurt someone else

[@gregiep]

Playing with the plural and singular of Williams and Jones had me dying. So funny! Great video s as always.

[@ARandomSpace]

But John, what are video is?

[@AsterInDis]

I nearly fell for an IRS scam one time. I tend to sleep pretty late and they called me while I was asleep. The combination of just-woke-up grogginess and the panic that I did something wrong made me fall for it initially, but I grew suspicious that I couldn't hang up and call them back. So I started searching online while talking on the phone and sure enough, it was a scam. So didn't get as far as sending money, thankfully.

[@Rainbowkitty09]

I'm going to have to rewatch later. Once the Williams Jones part came up, I couldn't stop laugh-convulsing and staunching tears enough to tap pause.

[@duzehalo]

I went "WHAT???" when the short started lmao, you're a genius, Shrimp 👏

[@user-njyzcip]

9:57 Scammer: "If you're interested in this and you're not here to toy with me..." Mike: Boy oh boy do i have some news for you

[@noeljr.7724]

Due to this channel I finally started doing something that I've wanted to do for a long time. Yesterday I registered a new email address and threw some bait out there and am now wasting the time of 3 scammers. It's a lot of fun.

[@GaussianEntity]

So based on the videos we've seen so far, replying "OK" to scammers is a test of endurance. Replying "What??" is a scammer speedrun any%.

[@GaussianEntity]

@@TheRatsintheWalls I think this one was even faster, which is pretty impressive lol

[@Rubiastraify]

Thanks for another informative and entertaining video. Thought the UPS memes "To Hell With You" were hilarious, for some reason. Maybe because it reminds me of a hilarious and light-hearted movie called "Crazy People" with Dudley Moore (1990). People in an insane asylum are hired for ads that tell the truth, or are "honest" - like "Volvos, Yes they are boxy, but they're safe". Anyway, this just confirms that famous saying, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!" A little skepticism is healthy at any age!

[@GiuseppeDongo]

Your videos just keep getting better and better somehow. Keep going, you seriously have something very special in an already incredible scambaiting community. Thanks for all your hard work!

[@WhenTheManComesAround]

Loved the "Information" bit in the middle! Also, I work with people from around the world and the only region I've encountered that says "Do the needful" is out of India. But that doesn't mean they couldn't have immigrated to the United States. Great vid as always my friend 👍

[@NHarts3]

The most frequently scammed being young people makes sense. Right after school, just getting your first paycheck and bank account, wanting to spend that money but still very naive. Also, your: "The delay and no stop, stop and no delay" sequence reminded me of those Dr Suess books😂😂😂 now I'm wondering what would happen if you just replied like a Dr Suess rhyme

[@alainpbat3903]

Omg the hotel sequence is the best thing I've seen in days. Hilarious work :)

[@mairi2693]

I have just had a difficult and stressful day at work, but watching this made me laugh... I now feel 100% better! Thanks!! 👍

[@JaredtheRabbit]

I love how Yan claimed you’re going to run off with the money when she/he is REALLY the one that’ll be running off with the money.

[@joyciejd9673]

Your communications with the scammers always make me laugh. Your responses are gold. What? Okay

[@EnderCorePL]

I always cringe so hard when they bring religion into this, you know some more religious people will fall for it

[@GwenPidgeon]

Religion is for the weak and uneducated.

[@MostafaAli-hu7pv]

@@RenTheWren I don't mean any offense to you, but why do you think that religion is manipulative?

[@MostafaAli-hu7pv]

@@RenTheWren And by stunted growth, do you mean that it affect critical thinking, and other things that go along with it?

[@TheBlueBaron]

@@RenTheWren I got to my current religious beliefs by critical thinking and asking questions, so I think you're making a sweeping generalization.

[@JimmyBoy9878]

@@TheBlueBaron What sort of questions?

[@richretrotech9426]

Just love the variety on your channel. Always fun. Also tried the Richmond fake bacon 🥓 recently. Quite liked it.

[@jakepullman4914]

Love that last email. "Do they sent the arrest like an attachment?"

[@andymodeller965]

Sir - your content is the most interesting (all of it) on KZbin that is our there. I found your chanel due to the scambaiting - but started watching your back catalogue. Brilliant.

[@sandrino5]

To go even further that anyone can be scammed, not only old people or "stupid" people, recently great scammer hunter Jim Browning almost got scammed. It was just down to some coincidences and right circumstances.

[@JoeKurr5]

If you get scammed, you are most likely either stupid or old, or maybe even both.

[@myfamilyiscrazy]

@@JoeKurr5 Or they could be under a lot of stress or fatigued, like Jim was. Your statement is just blatantly untrue.

[@Stettafire]

@@JoeKurr5 Old enough to be on youtube, kiddo?

[@JoeKurr5]

@@Stettafire not only is that entirely irrelevant to my comment, it also has a clear and obvious answer, clearly you’re only saying that because you dislike my opinion and that’s the only insult you could come up with, it’s sad really, it’s hardly an insult.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@JoeKurr5 Congratulations on being very smart.

[@spyscy]

The hurdle slaughter segment actually scared me 💀💀💀💀 happy Halloween I guess

[@starlight4649]

I love that these scammers turn into trolls the second they get frustrated. It really shows a lot what kind of character it takes to scam people

[@treubuchet]

"...which means only a few day only one day that's the 24hrs about not about anything..." "yeah, clear as mud" I've not laughed for much for ages, thank you.

[@ExplodingDarth]

I get way too giddy hearing the outro song. It's a work of genius.

[@sandmansleeps]

Yes! It's out! We have been waiting.

[@want-diversecontent3887]

What?

[@TheShiningEnergy]

@@want-diversecontent3887 What?

[@terraustralis]

​@@TheShiningEnergyWHAT'S?

[@kbjerke]

Well, that was *painfully* entertaining and amusing. Good for you, for wasting their time and (hopefully) frustrating their nefarious efforts!

[@Rexlaninetales]

Baiting is much better than trolling. I've even got a gold shiny username at the forum. Dang it Jumbo Shrimp, You've got me addicted to Baiting and now I don't have enough time to play Minecraft anymore. Jumbo Shrimp ought to come with a warning: Baiting is highly addictive: Be prepared to leave all of your mundane and vain activities behind. At any rate, I love your videos. Keep up the great work.

[@Belshazzaresque]

untraceable diamonds as a payment to get their address does seem a pretty good idea, costs less postage than a box of unstamped gold bars at least

[@Rexlaninetales]

@@Belshazzaresque - I'm sorry, we no longer accept diamonds and gold as payment. Netherite Ingots are the only form of payment that we are currently accepting.

[@Belshazzaresque]

@@Rexlaninetales oops, my bad mr. rebart netherits

[@Rexlaninetales]

@@Belshazzaresque Hmm, that undoubtedly implies a burning in one's secret parts.

[@joegee2815]

Anything that informs people about scammers is fantastic in my book. I often share these and other scammer reveal videos with my family and friends. Thanks again.

[@carlosedwardos]

I'm just hoping and praying that the funds have been glarded!

[@gary24fan]

The one with the scammer purporting to be from UPS is probably your best one yet.

[@crowmigration8245]

I am going to start every conversation with "What's the is the today" from now on

[@xanianjamfalcon]

This is one of the few channels that regularly make me laugh out loud.

[@greghill00]

In the same way that, to quote Arya Stark, anyone can be killed, anyone can get scammed. No better example of this exists than Jim Browning.

[@frank327]

Very humane and kind way to view scam victims, that also inhibits against the type of arrogant overconfidence that might make one actually vulnerable to some types of scammers for different reasons.

[@sonofagun4125]

Ironically this video ended for me with an ad read in text-to-speech that felt very much like a scam itself.

[@jd_the_cat]

See why CEOs are trying to take this(object) off the market. This (object) has destroyed the million dollar (object) industry.

[@kaidorade1317]

Great video! But the land of Hurdle Slaughter intrigues me greatly! What are the people like? What types of cuisine do they make? Etc

[@2lefThumbs]

Loved the Hurdle Slaughter vignette😄

[@Fuzzy_Spork]

I started laughing so hard my daughter had to come see what was so funny. She didn't really get it. HAHA!

[@icuddlecats1]

Thank you very much for your clearing up that misconception, I have been saying that for years, but I have no voice. Again thank you for using the platform you have (earned) to help so many.