Scam Bites: Which one of Us is Me??? (Scambaiting)

[@beeragainsthumanity1420]

You know the baiting is coming to an abrupt end when the scammer is accused of being "a small boy". I chuckle everytime.

[@artistknownaslisa2850]

I love it! Haha

[@pinnipes]

It really is the best part

[@Filbie]

I knew it was coming and it still got a good giggle out of me 😝😝

[@SICresinwrks]

Love how offended they get when they are called a child!

[@MartinParnham]

Responded with a suitably childish “no, you the kid…”

[@bobmcguffin5706]

"Stop texting strangers" texted the stranger to a stranger over text

[@DeaconTaylor]

"are you ready to make money?" "yes" "then send me 50 bucks" "uh... thats the opposite of making money."

[@jcdenton2187]

That second scammer just oozed "how do you do, fellow kids?" energy.

[@AnnDVine]

In Australia, "dack" (a verb, as in "dacking") means to sneak up behind someone and pull their pants down

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, had there been more time, I was going to ask if a dack was like a kek

[@nikkimitchable]

we call it dekegging

[@loisdgilbert8639]

😆😅🤣😂

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@nikkimitchable - That’s interesting, here in the U.K that means emptying beer out of a barrel. (‘Keg’ being another name for a barrel).

[@Julia-uh4li]

@@jonathanr72 For me it's always funny saying "move your fanny" when I need the young adults at work to get out of my way. Always a BIG laugh with them, since in North America it simply means BUTT. "move your butt outta my way" 😆

[@KevinMac96]

I think these Scammers are impersonating Atomic Shrimp because they think your audience loves you and listens to you for your talent, eloquence, charm, and creativity.

[@joshuagraham1800]

I watch him because his somewhat dry sense of talking mixes with mine

[@adolin.kholin]

I often think about how he phrases things and how eloquent and well-formed his sentences are. As a non-native English speaker and a writer, I get quite envious at times but it's also a beautiful craft to see (and I wonder if it's something practiced or it just... kind of happened overtime.) But either way, it does make it really easy to spot a fake Atomic Shrimp :')

[@namewithheldbygoogleforsec673]

They are impersonating many scambaiters, and possibly other channels in other genres. ScammerPayback has had impersonators in his comments.

[@vienna227]

…and also has over 900 thousand subscribers. These scammers are everywhere on the larger channels.

[@neonshadow5005]

Pleasant Green has run into these impersonation guys, too, same script.

[@raraavis7782]

Lol. I gotta say, that second spammer was surprisingly patient. His scam must not be going so well, if he's was willing to go back to chatting with your utterly clueless alter ego repeatedly.

[@analogdistortion]

Maybe he is just too rich for his own good?

[@Getwright-]

He sounds like a young kid who was just scamming people to get whatever he could as opposed to using scams to pay his bills. (The language he used, and the fact that he actually tried reverse psychology to get 50 dollars lol)

[@leffemonette]

@@Getwright- yeah "Ima, ya, gotta, bro"

[@thighmeat6034]

@@Getwright- or maybe the scammer learned their english online or purposefully used internet slangs, so to cater to small boys (likely their target demographics)

[@BladeTheGabite]

Probably because there aren't many victims to begin with. What better place to host your scams other than a known scambaiter's channel am I right?

[@maliciousbloke]

"Could you try again with making sense" is brilliant. I'm going to use that in work emails in future

[@TheShiningEnergy]

But The Talking Heads specifically told me to Stop Making Sense.

[@seereebee]

I love it when scammers that don't know English very well try to use words like "dude" and "bro" but end up just sounding like robots

[@forsetigodofjusticeexcelle7506]

They seemed american, not so much they didn't know english very well. "iz jus tha i'm street pro innit, I got tha bludd of kingz and warriors in me, i deal wiv cash munny cuz i'm gangsta" My little brother often mimics this way of talking, so my guess is this scammer is between 15-18 and has is in the early stages of "Doin bizznuzz" american ghetto style.

[@Mintstar_Oceanpop]

To me it sounded like one of those stereotype older guys trying to seem hip to the younger crowd. Still odd, but amusing.

[@thiccityd9773]

Uhh!!!

[@dusksentry5836]

Its especially amusing when they're pretending to be a well spoken Englishman, sounding like an American teenager from an out of touch infomercial

[@dopesickdog]

@@forsetigodofjusticeexcelle7506 i've found that many of those American "finance" influencers are not American, and try to sound legit by mashing together east coast, west coast, AAVE and British slang in an incoherent mess lol

[@BulbasaurLeaves]

Next time you find one offering ‘clones’ you should ask if they can help you clone infinite basil plants!

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

🤣

[@Stardust420]

Perhaps a cloning of saffron, I hear it’s some kind of red string? Should be easy to clone. Even a small boy can do it.

[@annasanchez5877]

As a young, hip American Gen Z kid, "it real and hitting up fam!" is something I say all the time. 🙂

[@1kwerty7]

uh!!

[@DanDart]

Could you translate for us millennials, please?

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

Wrong, you didn't say no cap fr in yhere

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@thatitalianlameguy2235 they just fell off, pretty sus

[@SineN0mine3]

Gon cash out big fam 💪💪💯🍀🙏🙏🙏

[@iexist8293]

Very Interesting that the identity of a anti-Scammer is now an instrument of Scamming.

[@llewelynshingler2173]

One assumes they do not watch the videos they impersonate

[@nolongerhuman1939]

How do you comment 10 days ago?

[@llewelynshingler2173]

@@nolongerhuman1939 Channel member

[@President_Starscream]

Atomic Shrimp would make an excellent Decepticon!

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

i used the scambaiter to destroy to scambaiter

[@sapphicfreckle]

So glad to finally see the salt question addressed. I have to say the taste board in the cooking videos is always so distressing to me, and it was a relief to see it finally spoken about. Even if it will not be corrected.

[@joefization]

My sentiment exactly. He uses the wrong amount!

[@AtomicShrimp]

Why do people do exactly the things they do? Why don't they think to do all the things they didn't do? It's an important question.

[@artistknownaslisa2850]

😂

[@StefanyDjuba]

@@AtomicShrimp you're such a funny dude man I love the way you things talk think you know?

[@BeheadedKamikaze]

@@StefanyDjuba None of that made any sense. Could you try that again, but with more making sense?

[@EvilCoffeeInc]

I cannot believe that guy unironically tried to get you to send him cash for no reason. And using slang like "fam" without the grammar to back it up is a hilarious tonal break for me.

[@runswithcows]

I wish someone would pretend to be me. Not all the time; just when I'm really busy, maybe three or four days days during the week.

[@fridaynightspreadsheetfun]

same tbh

[@lidbass]

Right now I have a cold coming on. Anybody want to be me for a couple of days? Just send me €50 bro

[@ArcanineBr]

That second scammer gave me secondhand embarrassment, the horrible attempts to talk "hip" were painful

[@dans8158]

You would be amazing narrating kids programs. Listening to that was like a flashback to magic roundabout. "Why would I do that?" Said Dougal, "F*** off" said Zebedee".

[@NotsoSoso]

Something something funny, something something my head just fell off 🤣

[@dopesickdog]

Doogal reboot with Atomic Shrimp when?

[@DanDart]

The Magic Scamabout should be the title of the next video.

[@peterfoster1466]

A collaboration with Rude Boy, maybe?

[@TakeWalker]

"You have a way with words." The true face of comedy.

[@emilee4268]

Remembered you said in a comment positivity video that you rather liked people who made first comments - and somehow I'm early enough to make it! So, it is my pleasure to say... first!

[@pawel8365]

How did you comment on this 10 days ago? 😳

[@emilee4268]

@@pawel8365 He posts early access videos in the discord server! He posted this video 10 days ago in the Discord, so I commented then when I saw it.

[@africa_everyday]

Nothing staisfies like seeing scammer in anguish

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

🤣 Yes, primal satisfaction.

[@infiniteplanes5775]

I love your videos!

[@thecatherd]

The second spammer is definitely something. I do really enjoy that they tried to act all Tough and American with the slang.

[@thisisacharacternobodylike7958]

The “are you a small boy” is always hilarious to me

[@Marenthyu]

You know, the kind of data you should never share with a stranger on the internet!

[@Mintstar_Oceanpop]

That's actually one of my favorite lines from the scambaiting sessions.

[@mrjerrio1]

Hurray! I've learned a new way to communicate with my favorite content creators from this! Ey yo Shrimpy liked the video where you cracked them nuts fam. 💯💪

[@stechuskaktus8318]

If only he had used the correct amount of salt. This would have been awesome!

[@freddy5016]

One hundred, strong arm

[@brianlam1663]

I love de Norf London youfs accent, fam!!!

[@skullchimes]

the scammers trying to use hip language and slang to seem cool LMAO

[@koolerstream921]

Uh!!!

[@T-minus-infinite]

The "send money or youre broke" sounds like the classic online game "I bet your password is stupid. Oh yea? tell me then"

[@xxCrazyIzzyxx]

That second guy gave off heavy "hello fellow kids" vibes. Uh!!

[@BobbySacamano]

Your editing is so simple, yet so effective. I really enjoy this channel.

[@jaegrant6441]

I've started writing on every scam bot conversation that they broke my grandma's leg and stole her dog.

[@Mintstar_Oceanpop]

How's that been going?

[@thakyou5005]

"Ya home" "YE BRO" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Very cool narration, I have to say. It really highlights the scammer's pathetic attempt at sounding like a genuine native english speaker.

[@huggablecat9456]

Everytime you ask them if they’re a small boy I cackle like a mad man. Please keep doing it, it’s so funny.

[@DragoNate]

3:44 omg the way you read these with the "uhh!", "fam", "dude" just so dryly is hilarious :D

[@alt7488]

these scammers always offer me a massage, but never a happy ending

[@ShellyS2060]

You must be glarded to get the happy ending. You are out if the tax clode...

[@likebot.]

Of course. You have to get your clodes off for the massage

[@Mintstar_Oceanpop]

He can be unglarded as long as he has certificate of inoppolity.

[@Julia-uh4li]

@@ShellyS2060 🤣

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

A sad state of affairs

[@bigbird4481]

I laughed when the second scammer said "you heard about cashapp flips uhh" And the way you said "uhh" made it even better.

[@Mintstar_Oceanpop]

Remember, don't let anyone tell you it's the wrong amount of salt. Just go by your taste board ok.

[@KnugenMooMoo]

A scambating episode without the "are you a small boy" isn't a scambating episode

[@kdaveson]

This is the first video of yours I've seen after seeing your name mentioned over on Kitboga's channel, and I'm kinda cranky I hadn't come across you sooner. Instant subscribe, and now LET THE BINGE BEGIN...at least until the sun goes down and it gets too dack.

[@LordEgilYGO]

The "Thefty Jesus" sounds like a skateboard trick

[@falllenshadow]

I always forgot youre not just the "foraging and other weird food related bits", that you actually do a very big variety of things.

[@glass.hammer]

Despite all of the brilliant wordplay and insane names and the hilariously unintelligible English, the funniest part of all scam baits is the irony that flies over scammers’ heads. I’m sorry, shrimp, but they’ve got you beat there.

[@ammagee]

As a subscriber and viewer of both Atomic Shrimp and Alex on Autos, this first scammer's crossover was unexpected!

[@CDeuce152]

Alex's car reviews helped out when I was shopping for a new car.

[@Ztormrageheero]

Where can I find this Alex on Autos fellow?

[@davidk8380]

Sometimes I find myself randomly singing the words ‘the soul called Mr. Barrister John Warosaaaaa’

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

It is a tasty sticky tune

[@JanusHoW]

I beg you don't tell me anything about the soul called Mr Barrister John Warosa

[@maiyannah]

This variety of scammer is ABSOLUTELY VIRULENT on KZbin right now, which is to say they're all over the place. From police footage channels like Donut Operator to relatively-small 1k gaming channels, KZbin is absolutely lousy with them. I expect Google is taking no action against them and expects each and every channel to do so for them.

[@ciarangale4738]

see, the scammers probably make the numbers look better and probably dont hurt the site much or at all

[@maiyannah]

@@ciarangale4738 It looks like "engagement" which is a metric they use in determining the price of adverts run on the service, so absolutely.

[@pawel8365]

Dear Mike, I'm worried you might lose braincells reading these messages out aloud 😂

[@MrButtonpresser]

“Are you a small boy?” Kryptonite to scammers. 😂

[@Getwright-]

That second one really does sound like a kid (a small boy) its a shame there no way to scare him straight before he starts down a career of scams.

[@Mashamazzi]

Mutahar from the channel Some Ordinary Gamers actually made a video talking to one of his doppelscammers and scared his pants off lol

[@ArtSMRdianne]

We have a reporter that is finding scammers by scamming them back, fly out to their destination and confront them face to face. The looks on their faces. Thinking they are untouchable

[@CGR89]

Glad to see a small boy accusation right at the end

[@Mintstar_Oceanpop]

Always a winner in my book!

[@Bored_Barbarian]

“Congratulations you have been selected among the lucky winner”… “Well, sounds just like me doesn’t it”….I mean not far off from some of your characters 🤪

[@xxPenjoxx]

I loved hearing you read aloud the cash out fam section, made me chuckle hearing it in your accent!

[@MarkonaBike]

I mean how do we know there aren't multiple atomic shrimps? There's a forager one, a retro tech one, one who does food challenges, one who must know what's in cans, the tinkering one, the upcycling one, there's a chance that there's infinity many different shrimps all constucting and anhilating at different rates so possibly a chance that two mirror shrimps could interact even if only briefly

[@calvinscarvings.66]

Why is the video unlisted but still on the Just The Scambaiting playlist? Btw great video!

[@AtomicShrimp]

Ohhh. That's because I used the 'reuse details(metadata)' function to set it up. Not supposed to be published yet!

[@Chrisilch]

The censor is the exact sound my headphones make when they run out of battery. It gets me every time

[@videogamebookreviews]

When you said the disappointed "oh" at the prize, I was hoping you were then going to tell him you were wanting a huge bag of salt. 1:59

[@DedicatedCaffeineUser]

That thefty Jesus line got me ngl

[@JLF201]

My favorite phrase of the video!

[@Brunosky_Inc]

I don't know what's more painful to read: small boy scammers trying way too hard to sound old and serious ("My brother, I am an elderly", "I am happy to be an elderly man like you") or this second scammer with that whole "how do you do, fellow kids" schtick

[@realainsmcf]

I was beginning to worry that there would be no accusation of small boyhood... then it appeared. Great video as always!

[@Boogie_the_cat]

You can tell the scammer is desperate when he is polite enough to say "bye" and when he says he's blocking you, but doesn't block you yet. Good fun, and I think you are doing the public a service, because the more people that know this is going on, the less successful the scammers will be. For a few weeks, I kept getting these "congratulation, you won prize" comments to comments I had made on Techrax's channel (he apparently doesn't filter for spam) and my initial tactic was just replying back that I wasn't an idiot, and it was an obvious scam. KZbin was real slow (or motionless, hard to tell) with acting on the "report abuse" buttons that I clicked (the last scammer had posted 925 spam scam comments). So I changed my tactic to insulting the scammer, and poking fun at their poor english. I haven't gotten one in weeks now. So hopefully KZbin took some action. It's got to be hard for KZbin though because it's super easy just to make a new account and start over.

[@ian-c.01]

"Something, something strangers, something something internet" That's good advice I'll remember that !

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

🤣

[@KyleRDent]

We live in a Universe where Atomic Shrimp drags his own self for the amount of salt he uses. Legend.

[@ln5321]

Nobody would have seriously been scammed by these. As soon as they DM'd "you" and got a response that didn't start with "OK," they'd know it wasn't really you.

[@Dr.Livingdark]

Seeing Atomic Shrimp reacting to slang is truly a gift.

[@DragonUltraMaster]

Gotta love that you pronounce ALL the words they write xD UHH??

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

... and the punctuation...

[@amandadavies..]

"You have a way with words"......that one killed me 😂

[@mr.foxasmg]

I enjoy your scambaiting vids! Theres just something that makes me feel comforted when listening to any of your Videos while doing assignments or playing games. Also I get to learn more what these scammers do and how do they work.

[@strider_hiryu850]

have you considered doing a live stream? often, spammers and scammers show up in live chats. this could potentially lead to a live scambaiting. which sounds especially interesting edit: forgot to mention: i completely understand if you don't want to

[@Mashamazzi]

It wouldn’t work because those spams are just for external links and won’t have someone waiting for a response to scam you

[@YTStoleMyUsername]

It would be cool kinda like the phone call scambaiters, but with electronic communication he has a lot of editing involved. And some don't turn out to be funny or entertaining etc. He mentioned it in an older video about how much work is involved and long it takes him just to put these short videos together. Definitely would be cool to have an AtomicShrimp livestream though!

[@strider_hiryu850]

@@YTStoleMyUsername interesting

[@pthelo]

"Are you a small boy?" is a classic!

[@neonshadow5005]

Pleasant Green has run afoul of these impersonation guys, too. That second scammer .. sounds really weird.

[@MsAnpassad]

You are far more calm with them than I am, I would make a sailor blush when they try to scam me. Just the other day, one contacted me as I have an add online where I'm looking for my new service dog (will train it myself) as I'm autistic. Scammers read that as "she is slow... she will be an easy picking", but I'm far from it. Let's just say that I probably broke a few laws in my country when writing my final reply where I was pretty upset over that they are targeting groups like the poorest, sick, old and weak. My inner viking went berserk.

[@IMBlakeley]

Excellent. I was extremely sweary to a phone scammer once, he got really shocked and said 'you can't talk to me like that' to which my reply was 'I think you'll find I just have'

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Don't get mad, get even! It's a... sport, of sorts. Emotions are hard to control.

[@TheSpaceKiwi]

A worthy addition to the Atomic Shrimp Cinematic Universe...however they'd be far more believable if the offered prize were a bunch of weird stuff in cans

[@Dilligaf666]

Love all your content mate cheers from Australia

[@InkayWeiss]

I love how a scammer decided to pretend to be a scammer, just to get baited by a scambaiting persona that is used by the person they are pretending to be

[@Turbovolver]

"I've forgotten what Dack means" Perfect stinger, made the video for me

[@joefization]

I suspect that this time the scammer actually was a small boy... or just a complete and total goose. It's rather hard to tell the difference.

[@hallamhal]

I'm not sure if either of the second messengers is the real Atomic Shrimp, one called an ATM an ATM machine, and the other didn't try to correct it

[@MrDrexan]

Yu ain reahy fam bro fam Keep up the great work love watching your videos!

[@SkeletonSyskey]

Atomic Shrimp - Chairman of the Taste Board

[@uninspiredgaming9963]

I'd actually gotten a couple of these comments after learning about them from you. It was an incredible honor and I of course reported them straight away. Thank you for your service sir.

[@BillcooperHicks]

Golly he told you it was "BIG FAM"

[@kinn1647]

Nice to see a good sense of humour. Thanks and good morning, Bro lol’s.

[@leftinregret]

the second conversation made my day. the informality being used at the most random time took me out 😭

[@NicolasSequeira]

These videos just keep getting better and better, again and again

[@corvididaecorax2991]

A channel I follow is doing a giveaway, and sadly the scam bots have decended on it. They use the channel's profile picture, and are claiming people have won the giveaway and need to call/contact on Telegram/etc. The channel owner has been trying to combat them, but I really just hope nobody ends up scammed.

[@timbervalleyproductions]

Let us appreciate that Shrimp was up until 23:49 making content for us! Thanks Shrimp, it's great! :)

[@slightlyoffensivedadjokes]

i haven't laughed to myself in a good minute but 7:34 made me burst out laughing in the middle of the night. just the scammer saying "you see, you broke" just has me dying. like, just imagine a scammer calling you broke that's the funniest shit ever

[@justinhamilton8647]

“‘I asked what is the prize’ i said” made me laugh so hard

[@MuchWhittering]

To be fair Mike, you read scam messages out loud so often that yes, it does sound just like you.

[@gafrers]

So i haven't won the wonderful Eva, all the pottery, all the pickles, the spoon walking-stick and the Helium BBQ? 🤣🤣 Great video as always AS 👍

[@iannonhebel677]

I went to Etchingham station - Sussex for the first time when i was carted off to a boarding school near there./ on a steam train from Chairing Cross - back in 1956 aged 8 brought back the memory of disorientation and fear as I waved goodbye to my parents.

[@kets4443]

One hoodies!

[@roxanne533]

I love this series, and the ending music

[@jamestatsumi7095]

that was a very direct scammer. Shameless to the core.

[@RM-mb4hc]

This amused me so much. Thank you! Your content always brings a smile to my face.

[@TheStormer20]

It really is amazing that they are trying to scam an audience that is very well aware of scams… Since are all watching scam baiting videos.

[@williamk9490]

Thanks fo this video, I almost fell for this scam this evening, just avoided paying out any money. I only realised it when they asked for shipping the "prize"

[@bettyunicorn6132]

I am so glad I never see any scam bots on your channel❤

[@laurenloertscher1319]

Here we have a man named shrimp pretending to be a spatula so he can mess with someone pretending to be him. He's my hero

[@bobmcguffin5706]

0:52 I like how the implication here is that only one of the selected few would be able to... screenshot a KZbin reply?

[@lukathecatlover1216]

I love your videos :3 they bring me joy

[@aiaikawa4012]

The small boy bit always gets me rkmgkr you always see it coming and its always funny. I think its the way he says it 😭

[@Jackalgirl]

Wonderful stuff -- thank you for this!

[@bot34mfcr]

Something something strangers. Something something internet. Really good advice indeed.