• 3 days ago
He scams scammers... so they can't scam you.

Meet the scambaiter Kitboga.

Thanks to KitbogaShow.
Transcript
00:00ma'am no no no no no no no no no
00:03do not read him that
00:05do not read him that
00:07if i spend 5 minutes or 10 hours or 40 hours on the phone with some scammers
00:14that's 40 hours that they're not spending with someone's grandma
00:18just wait a moment
00:20just wait a moment
00:22just wait a moment
00:24just wait a moment
00:26just wait a moment
00:28no no no no no
00:30that's not right
00:32it started off as a simple
00:34call up scammers
00:36and see how long i can keep them on the phone
00:38and over time
00:40it's shifted towards
00:42what insane goofy scenarios
00:44could i force them
00:46to deal with
00:48look into my
00:50eyes
00:52you'll see
00:54you're not singing along honey
00:57i don't know the words
00:59but i learn fast
01:01just keep singing
01:09i do think one common misconception
01:11is that oh only old people
01:13are getting scammed
01:15because i know people
01:17from all sorts of age groups
01:19that have fallen for scams
01:21there's people whose lives are
01:23they're devastated
01:25they're embarrassed
01:27so i try to
01:29take a dark situation
01:31and find a way to
01:33make some light of it
01:35with the humor and the jokes
01:37and silly stories
01:39ma'am are you not able to hear me or what?
01:41what is the problem?
01:43yeah i can hear you
01:45i was just telling you that this weekend
01:47is going to be the first time that i ever get to teach at a wedding
01:49and i have been stressing out about it for a while
01:51i spend a lot of time
01:53doing the
01:55microsoft refund scams
01:57i say microsoft but really it's any
01:59tech company
02:01primarily because
02:03that is one of the most popular
02:05scams that involve your computer
02:07right now
02:09we are closing down that's why
02:11we are returning you the payment
02:13which you have done for your computer service a while ago
02:15oh my god
02:17i just won the lottery
02:19or something i have
02:21a thousand dollars in here
02:23mom what have you done?
02:25there's a lot of characters that have developed
02:27over the years
02:29one of the most iconic
02:31is edna
02:33um she's modeled after
02:35my grandparents or my grandma
02:37honey why aren't you thanking me
02:39for saving your job?
02:41you take all
02:43fifty hundred
02:45what are you doing
02:47mom what are you doing
02:49why are you
02:51yelling at me
02:53or an older gentleman who
02:55usually he
02:57tends to have
02:59crazy business ideas
03:01that somebody stole his
03:03idea for microsoft
03:05i would like to send
03:07fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars
03:09to microsoft
03:11okay do you owe them
03:13money or something?
03:15you don't have to send from the bank
03:17i really enjoy the
03:19forcing them into situations
03:21that are absolutely
03:23absurd
03:25it's been a huge misunderstanding
03:27and i want to say sorry
03:29to your husband as well
03:31fine but you have to talk to him like a ghost
03:33poster
03:35i am very sorry
03:37i really
03:39apologize to you
03:41for them it's
03:43there's this split second of
03:45relief thinking i'm about to get
03:47that money and there it is there's the
03:49there's the gift card but
03:51i redeem it and now the card
03:53is worthless and they get very
03:55angry most times
03:57do not redeem
03:59do not redeem the card
04:01do not redeem the card
04:03yes i'm redeeming the card
04:05i'm redeeming the card
04:07no no
04:09no no no
04:11i would never justify
04:13the like
04:15stealing from someone
04:17but there are
04:19i would say on the flip side there have been times
04:21where i have had sort of
04:23heart to heart
04:25conversations with scammers
04:27i know i'm doing wrong but however
04:29there's no option for me to work in covid
04:31that's the reason i've come back
04:33i would have not come back
04:35just about
04:41every scammer that i've talked to
04:43and any scam
04:45focuses on
04:47you acting quickly
04:49and they don't want to give you
04:51any time to stop
04:53and think and i try to tell
04:55people usually if they
04:57can if they can somehow
04:59get in the habit of
05:01remembering it's okay
05:03to hang up on people
05:05and it's okay to
05:07ask for help
05:09this is real tell your parents
05:11tell your family members tell your friends
05:13you don't have to tell them to watch my videos
05:15just tell them that
05:17some of these scammers are out there