What Happens When You Contact the Scammers of YouTube? | Free Guitar Scam

[@jackengels5077]

It's always good to teach something about digital literacy, scams only lives for as long as people falls for them. Being skeptical and doing cross research is always a good practice

[@davegallagher7428]

That was hilarious Trogly, The people who do it for real are the worst kind of scum. I’ve been contacted at least twice if not more and I do watch your show every day. What always gets me is if they put that much effort into something legitimate they could make a living.

[@chocolatecookie8571]

According to the scammers I have wonned 100 prizes in total 😂

[@MainPrism]

For real though... They could be making a decent living if they channeled all that effort into something worthwhile. I thought I was the only one who ever noticed the irony of scammers lol

[@LDN76]

What the fun in that? Its not only about the money, its the thrill of scamming someone. Just like its fun to scam the scammers. For them, its all just a game

[@OGbrundle]

I get contacted all the time, I just immediately report and block

[@johnnymoles318]

Thanks for exposing these awful people. May God bless you and yours

[@SnappyJCM800]

I enjoy watching your show but I will be honest I skip the sound demo most of the time just because the sound depends on the person playing and all the gear they use so it would sound different through my rig. I do enjoy all the knowledge you share and that’s what I’m here for. I love deep diving into brands and their models like early Ibanez

[@arazos9394]

True, his tone isn't the set up I'd pick, but it's a good baseline at least

[@SnappyJCM800]

@@arazos9394 yeah I’m not saying it’s bad. It is a good base line. It’s just a part of the video that I noticed I tended to zone out more on. I’d pay attention to the history and the parts and specs but not with the sound demo. Still watch every vid. I’d love to see him branch to other brands….. well maybe not, the prices for everything are already high lol

[@premiumgas69]

First it’s the 3 calls a day telling me my car warranty has expired, and the ‘apology’ from my electric utility company, and now another ‘you have already won’ scam…Stop the insanity!!

[@john564holloway]

Very entertaining, Austin! So glad you brught this to light for us. Honestly, I almost fell for these scams so it's frustrating. They all should serve at least 10 years in prison.

[@billyjordan2633]

I can't believe people actually fall for it.

[@mark.guitar]

Nice one! One point is that this scammer is trying to use high level social engineering. This is harassment, not just "spam" and should be reported to KZbin as such.

[@enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

I’ve impressed a lot of dudes at the guitar store just repeating Trogly-isms like, “Now that’s fancy, check out the bindings on those f-holes, you don’t see that everyday.” 😄

[@enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

“If only they’d have put a stinger on it …” 🫡

[@TheRealMerenat]

"I really like the movement of that top" 🤣

[@rickycompton2610]

I’ve had these scammers try to get me to contact them constantly.On your channel 3 times what scum bags

[@caphenning]

I’ve watched daily for a few years and I don’t even play guitar. I like guitars, and some are works of wooden art, but also you provide really good content about them, and it’s been in interesting seeing your playing improve.

[@stinkychickentitty]

That's interesting 🤔. Ever thought about giving it a shot? It's really fun and good for coordination, many benefits for your brain as well. If you like guitars, try playing one! Cheers 🍻

[@caphenning]

@@stinkychickentitty Yeah, but by the time I had time to learn and practice a new instrument, I had enough arthritis in my hands to make it painful.

[@stinkychickentitty]

@@caphenning ahh fair enough. It can be pretty hard on the mitts at first but eventually becomes bearable. Sorry to hear about your arthritis mate

[@markcampbell7554]

I have been contacted multiple time's by scammers claiming to be you, Darrell Braun, Guitar Max and other's. I only wish it was that easy to win a guitar. I always report this to youtube but it don't seem to help. Anyway, I love your show.

[@metalmayhem4]

"What's your name and where are you located?" as their first question should be a red flag.

[@davidreed3246]

If there is not a degree is suspicion about anything on the internet then people will sadly fall for any scam. This is useful information.

[@thaynes1963]

Thanks for taking the time to expose this scam...Always wondered what these were about!

[@modergav]

Dude what make me FURIOUS is the fact that YT has been doing NOTHING about this.

[@Westie_NZ]

Well done, Trogly. This will at least give some poor souls a chance to avoid trouble, hopefully.

[@peehandshihtzu]

Nope the people who will fall for this will fall for it even quicker if empowered by the info on this video, they are hopeless, LOL. :)

[@enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

I *do* watch your channel everyday and have 10 guitars like all your other fans - we don’t need anything more than your already fabulous production and Gibson lessons!!

[@misterghee1]

ZackLee sir😁👍

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

I’ve had this happen through your comments a couple of times.

[@brettaussie]

Nice presentation. I have seen other channels do a PSA that belittle and degrade their supporters for informing them their identity has be stolen and is being used to scam. This gave me a chuckle - well done.

[@Subropontes]

Not just I watch your show everyday but your show is part of my after dinner routine with my wife! One time she saw me re-watching an old episode in the afternoon and got upset thinking I was watching the new one without her! Haha

[@marions.120]

Just received one today. Thanks Trogly!

[@KeeperOfPoops]

If I ever become a Gibson artist, i'm gonna get a signature model and call it the "Dark Tiger" perfect to play Black Tiger by Y&T

[@brentklein6143]

Thats so funny...I live in Branson Mo and I can confirm we have no scams like that...unless you consider timeshare a scam....😆

[@phobson70]

Thanks for walking us through to show what they do. Hopefully it will help someone.

[@KlonCentaur8]

Thanks! I’ve seen these guys, this is Phil btw. The WYRON guy lol. Great video!

[@arcadiohernandez4906]

Thank you! That was a great way to clarify the scam.

[@hkguitar1984]

Happy Friday Troglodytes

[@DutchVai]

Happy Friday mate..... have a wicked fantastic weekend !!

[@stop736]

Happy Friday my friend!! I was late to the ball today. LMAO. Enjoy your weekend!!!!

[@hkguitar1984]

@@DutchVai Indeed I will, and you have a fantastic weekend too. I've a date with an R4 Goldtop and a '59 Bassman clone amp, I'm pretty excited right now!

[@hkguitar1984]

@@stop736 Late doesn't matter, that fact that we are here is what's important. Greetings Cynthia, I hope your weekend goes well. 🙂

[@DutchVai]

@@hkguitar1984 That's a sweet duo..... I have three holes of oil to drain/fill in my Milwaukee vibrator lol

[@foxunitone]

One of those literally tried this on me a few days ago on your video with the Gibson demo shop. Its gone now, but I knew better than to reply to that.

[@chrisdunn2176]

This is the same scam they tried to get me with on Spectre Sound Studio's.

[@laytonyonaka6259]

Just had one of those Sweetwater scammers mess with me for there new pedalboard contest I reported them and kinda messed with the scammer a bit before blocking and reported them I’m kinda bummed “I’m don’t really win much and if I won the board I’d give it to my lead singer”

[@bimodalhealer8286]

Funnily enough I actually watch every day when I get home from work. But I’ve been so busy I had like 3 episodes I missed this week

[@frankhughes5493]

I have been looking after my mother-in-law at her place for over a week. I am doing a Trogly catch up. I usually watch daily. I get episode at 8.30 each morning. this episode is awesome. love your work.

[@shanethackeray1988]

Funny as, I’m sick of the scammers. They try quite regularly on several different channels.

[@russellstarkey8965]

Apparently the new thing is stealing your phone number. They can now screw you over by knowing your number.

[@NoUploadJustComment]

This is like something comedian James Veitch would do. Good work.

[@GunslingerFW]

Got scammed last week. Everything was normal until it came to ship. Of course already had paid. The dude just kept the money.

[@jacobwing406]

I’m embarrassed to admit, I was one of the original buyers of a dusk tiger straight out of the Gibson factory. I really thought I was making a great investment and getting a once in a lifetime guitar. That was a very tough life lesson 😓

[@bigmikeyz0071]

That is a hard pill to swallow lol. I remember when they came out I was smh. The whole firebird x and robo tuner era was just strange. But I love 80’s shredder guitars and most don’t. My fluorescent yellow Jem with green and pink accents hanging next to my cherry es335 and my blonde tele definitely doesn’t bring the room together quite like the dudes carpet did in the in Big Lebowski but I love my Jem so I’ll live with it.

[@PapaWheelie1]

Just be glad you didn’t get the dark tiger.

[@nine9whitepony526]

I've talked to these scammers on a personal level and had a video chat with one of them. They are kids who live in Abuja Nigeria and they do it from their houses. They guy i was talking to on video chat lived in a shit hole, and he showed me what it looked like outside his house. He totally lived on the shit end of town. This guy was 17 years old.

[@autoazure]

Well done Trog for annoying a scammer! I have received such as well!

[@lennywright5655]

Damn Jimmy, missed out on the One of a kind, limited edition Gibson Les Paul “Dark Tiger”, only one scammer has it.

[@Gene_Cali]

I'm glad President Jimmy didn't fall for it. Good to have a humorous episode even though it's on a serious topic. Thanks Austin for adding that beautiful SG too..Wow!

[@tyrssen1]

Loved this! Well done as always, Trogly -- thanks for some extremely helpful info!

[@kylew9382]

Always here for a good lesson Trogly!

[@elamon51]

Woot woot Trogly's 🙌

[@WilliamHaisch]

Studies have shown that getting the mark to complete simple tasks will build rapport and trust with the scammer and increases the likelihood of a successful scam. Or it could be used as content in other scams or for blackmail… the possibilities are endless!

[@ScaryJerry7]

I follow a KZbin channel from Pleasant Green, its about scammers, and he basically does what you did, and calls out these scammers.

[@joeschey8836]

To bust scams back in the day I'd get them to tell me what city they are in and I would amazingly have a brother in law who lives near by who could bring the money over right away. That throws them right off the rails.

[@nickyd9361]

Should've asked for a Les Paul Model Jazzmaster Vintage Modified Stratocaster....

[@RockabillyRagsdale]

This is great! I love people getting back at the shithead scammers!

[@jasonvaralta5221]

Always educational! Thank you!

[@cromBumny]

I just talked to one on Facebook market place, offered a "free les paul epiphone" all you had todo was congratulate her on her new born baby and send her 30 bucks for shipping....totally Legit!

[@georgecaplan11]

A Trogly - Kitboga crossover would be cool.

[@bertrandmajorik6589]

BASS player here, thanks !!! I'm getting hungry for scammers afther you shared your experience with us.

[@samiam5557]

Good one Troggy! Damn them Scammers. 🤬🚔

[@hkguitar1984]

Parkour UPS Driver ! .....................talk about an active imagination...........sheesh Between seeing animals in wood grain and color combination product(s) associations, I'm very impressed. You should author a book Austin.

[@eghii]

I've gotten a number of those and it drives me nuts.

[@TranceMasterJack]

I was wondering what they were up to exactly.

[@ATARIBOY2]

I fear for the future of humanity when online crimes like this are out of reach of the law.

[@johnro6659]

This is becoming the new "THING" on KZbin. I report every single one of the replies and go to thier channel and report them as impersonators/scumbag scammers and KZbin does nothing about them. I bookmark their pages to see when KZbin shuts them down and so far not a single one gets shut down. I recently started sending links to the FTC hoping they will go after these scammers. I am going to contact the guy on KZbin who gets these low life scammers and see what he can do to scam the scammers!

[@georgeprice4212]

I’ve actually been reporting every single one I see, as I usually notice if there’s a give away going on

[@GearGasms]

The “kindly” tell means India. I’m in IT. It’s one of their things. There or the Phillipines

[@eddiejr540]

Great vid Trogly…you are a funny dude…I was laughing the entire time!!!!!

[@eric_in_florida]

Funny video. Would have liked to see you give him more of a hard time, questioning the things that didn't make sense like international shipping. These people deserve it.

[@mburtondavis]

Thank you for this. What’s weird is I got a reply saying I won a guitar on a comment I left on a mr Ballen video. He’s not even a guitar KZbinr.

[@ALANRMOREY]

Selling OVERPRICED guitars is a scam to!

[@zeusapollo8688]

That weekend idea is pretty good

[@vincepuryearpuryear6913]

When are you going to talk about the Gibson Howard Roberts fusion?

[@rockhead69]

Dude, they've tried to hook me passing as Norman's Rare Guitars...it's just great you've exposed these pieces of crap...

[@daisydedication2890]

Really really enjoyed this episode,you need to do more of these episodes where you just annoy the scammer

[@thestrum71]

Funny, happened to me from watching a Rhett Shull video. Had them on a leech for about 3 days....

[@chriscutress1702]

My family and I use What's App whenever we travel abroad to keep in touch. As long as there is wifi we can contact each other without needing to pay extra for long distance phone services.

[@wadeguidry6675]

A lot of the contact phone numbers they give have an 814 area code. That's Erie, Pa where my mother lives. Mom!!!!quit scamming people!

[@leifjarlebark9539]

I got one of those emails. Almost thought I had won a guitar for a minute or so... Thanks Trogly for your quick response, and for this educational and funny video!

[@thepeetjournal4469]

You're still interested in Gibson 1954 Les Paul Custom M2M by Jan Akkerman - Ebony VOS?

[@GuitarAnthony]

I've gotten a few fake Sweetwater prize notifications lately. I just report and move on.

[@poasful]

the "emojis + purposefully wrong punctuation" made me like Trogly even more.

[@j.frankparnell.radiation]

Jimmy Carter, yes.

[@av.punk.801]

I've been pinged by these guys before. Love that you used Jimmy Carter. I usually use Tim Drake or Damian Wayne on account of being a comic nerd named Robyn lol. Greetings and well wishes from Utah!

[@svartfrasr9755]

This is why I'm glad I subbed to you. Not only did I see sick reviews of a guitar I would come to own but found about Sweetwater and bought it through there because of you too. That guitar is a Brenden Small Snow Falcon and I love it to pieces.

[@IDGAF_PLUS]

That was straight up awesome!

[@JeyP667]

Happened to me this week on the StevieT channel. Of course I didn’t fall for it

[@ZakTimeTraveler]

They use the selfie in case anything they are using your info for require a photo of you. That way they can upload it for verification.

[@alexanderallegra432]

I love trolling scammers

[@waltergwiazda1803]

Trog I need want a 2020 Les Paul custom l hand Ed! Can you help me out?

[@charlesbranch4120]

You could always ask for an Esteban...

[@Wilco1972]

Quite literally today a comment of mine was replied to by one of these scammers. Looked suspiciously like one of the examples you showed. 🤣🤣

[@blodpudding]

I watch every video... well almost, I think I skipped some of those cheapo reviews because I am not going to buy or fantasize about those... and since the videos get posted 1AM here, I have my morning coffee with Trogly!

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

I see these messages all the. I just report it as misinformation and hopefully You Tube does something about it.

[@Jzap44]

Loved this episode, Jimmy Carter

[@Godflash2]

Well, i learned about model that never heard before Tiger something

[@advntr_tme]

I've been seeing this guy comment a lot recenlty. thanks fr calling him out!

[@darrenlivy]

I want a Gibson Dark Tiger now, sounds cool.

[@WilliamHaisch]

You could always use 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. 😂

[@SwanseaTitanFan]

Great info Trog and well edited

[@cavemanzach9475]

man it sure would be cool if trogly did a giveaway for that gawgeous SG he was showing throughout this video

[@SeanDS89]

LOVING this video! reminds me of scam baiting videos (like Scammer Payback and Kitboga)... a series where you make more videos like this would be awesome!

[@ericbgordon1575]

People have been pulling these pranks in the comments section below uploads by Norman's Rare Guitars. They look like promotional gimmicks, spinning yarns about guitar giveaways, but it's clear they're trying to play on the vulnerability of desperate guitar geeks in order to dupe them out of their money or to access their identities. Despite my own addiction to getting and getting rid of guitars, I follow my nose when I see one of those and know that it leads either nowhere or to trouble.

[@robertbrownfield2181]

I watch everyday. I enjoy most daily uploads. Will admit I am not a big fan of the weekly mod and demo one. That's mostly due to the fact I can never afford anything there.

[@suemacias667]

I get these too, and ignore. Funny, but they’re such buggars.