SIM swapping has become nearly impossible to do, due to both codes and a text sent your phone BEFORE a swap can take place. While inside moles can still pull it off, by and large it has been stopped by carriers. Yayy!!
My grandpa once got the scam where the scammer calls and pretends to be a family member that got into an accident, got locked up, and needed money for bail. The funny thing is that the scammer chose the ONE grandchild that does not have a car and does not have a driver's license, and that very grandchild was sitting across the table from him LOL.
For well over a decade now, every few months I get this "handwritten" note on what looks like yellow legal paper. It's from this self-described little old lady who is renting a place in a nearby town who wants me to donate my property to her because she's at the very end of her life and just wants "a place of my own to spend my last days on." She urges me to do the "moral" and "Christian" thing and let her have my land... for free. It's all fake tho -- the letter is printed on a web press, the handwriting is a font, and the woman's name doesn't exist -- but the return address does. It's a Realtor. 🙄
@@ss5447-p2q It's something a lot of churches do here in the South. They play on the salvation angle and ask their members to tithe their land to the church when they pass, so the church can sell it and rake in some easy money. It makes zero sense to me, but some folks seem to be pretty gung ho for it -- prolly why this realtor is doing it too.
@@xger21 Oh I have, this one and several others... gave up on that route almost a decade ago tho. It's a low income neighborhood that no one cares about, especially the cops. So reporting it to them is about as effective as the Do Not Call List is at blocking scammer phone calls from India or Malaysia or wherever those 6-10 random calls a day my area code blockers stop are coming from. -_-
"Stop using SMS" - NIST recommended over a decade ago that SMS be discontinued. They gave in to pressure from lazy folks who don't want to upgrade their systems and rescinded that recommendation in 2017, but they now "do not recommend" use of SMS. www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/questionsand-buzz-surrounding-draft-nist-special-publication-800-63-3
The fact that Simon whistler's editor is the of the very few editors in the entirety of youtube that uses DBZA Clips in his style makes Simon's videos so much more funnier. Props to you. my dude.
My brother encountered one of the meaner takes on scam calls recently. The kind where the caller pretends to be law enforcement and tries to terrify the person they are calling into transferring some money they 'owe' or were 'fined,' and if you stay on the phone & don't cooperate they threaten to put our a warrant and send officers to arrest you. Very nasty.
" I ain' gaw leht yew see Jeayzus wit ou' ya gayten yer weash Me-MAw!" - Ulixes Tater Vanhouten Yes his initals are UTV. His dad wanted to get a new Yamaha side X side, but couldnt afford it after this little shit was born. #Allegedly
I got a visit today by an IRL scammer. I'm used to the "we're doing some work in your neighborhood" solar lease scam but this guy's pitch started with an inducement to commit insurance fraud by saying my roof was damaged in a recent storm. I told him it wasn't damaged at all. He said they would take care of getting it approved and I get a free roof. I said no and he should get back on his scooter and off my property.
I will tell you the secret to not getting hooked into a scam. Keep your feelings in check. Yep. Scammers are trolling, EVERYWHERE. And all someone has to do is respond. You know you shouldn't respond. But when you do, for whatever reason, maybe you're tired, maybe you had a fight with your girl, maybe you got a flat tire, whatever, it's got you a little off. You need to cap your feelings, and take them home, and let them out there. And never take care of any kind of business if you are feeling. Just don't do it. Business and feelings do not mix. I call the act of indulging in feelings "emotional compromise". Do not be emotionally compromised. You may as well add that to your life's doctrine, just adopt the saying like you own it. "Do not be emotionally compromised." As long as you are a slave to your feelings, as long as your feelings control you, you are a mark just waiting to happen. Don't be a mark. Your feelings are your own anyway, you shouldn't be sharing them with others, you should be guarding them jealously, and you should be severely punishing those who intrude, or try to.
I get having QR codes to save on printed menus and expedite ordering, we have that a lot where I’m from. BUT at bare minimum they need to have a few printed menus on hand for people to browse through at the entrance, and for people to request if needed. You should also be able to order the old fashioned way if you need to. Digitalisation shouldn’t leave people behind.
@@TheGrinningViking im going to start a trend on that on in melbourne. sick of those QR code menus, and what does my home address and my email has anything to do with my food? and dont even think about getting cute with me with those "preferred name", "what does your friend call you" shit, im here for the food and service (whats left of it these days), not here to make friends.
That being said, she was livelier and more alert in her last few days than she had been in years.🤔 I showed her how to make that really good blue stuff from Breaking Bad.😐
this needs to be required viewing for anyone on the internet, especially those over 50. props to the editor for bringing back some of the classic Simon clips :D
I'm over 50 - and I have worked in Tech for over 30 years. I've spent quite a bit of that time rescuing folks who are younger than I from their own foolishness. This definitely should be required viewing - but perhaps without the ageist bullshit :)
@@The_Nixie I'm nearly 40 myself and also work in tech... but I see far too many older people falling for the scams. A few searches will tell you it's the most common demographic for it. Maybe I could have pushed the age higher in my statement, but individuals being different doesn't change the statistics. I also wasn't saying it in a judgemental way, it's more that certain groups tend to be at higher risk and need to be extra careful.
I am in the PSLF program, and it is awesome. I can tell you from experience that the customer service NEVER calls or contacts you. You get an email saying you have a message, and you have to go login into your student aid account to see it. Just saying! 5 years to go! (Teacher)
Simon I couldn't stop laughing when you messed up the teleprompter! The heavy metal music was an absolute perfect backdrop for your impromptu mash pit fit! Like always Dave you knocked it out of the Ball park my dude. 13:18
My dad, who is normally super careful, fell for a scam recently because it came from his best friends email address, started the way his emails always started, was written how he writes, etc. So it seemed super convincing asking for an Amazon voucher. Then dad realised something wasn't right, called his friend and nope, wasn't him. He luckily got all his money back, and things but it's so easy to fall for when they are so convincing.
Oo! First script idea I've ever had: times AI halucinations ended very badly. It's hilarious when you're playing with a chat bot and it forgets what reality is; but I know there are people who have actually been dumb enough to not proof read.
oh yeah!! the lawyer with hallucinated by AI cases comes to mind immediately, as well as quite a few screenshots I've seen of the "helpful" AI feature in google's search 😆
Scamming is so ubiquitous, the most telling scam was me receiving a number of e-mails from, supposedly, a government agency. Luckily recognizable as fake, but oddly enough the only official e-mail I actually got from them wound up in my spam folder...
My favorite obvious scam was the call i got from "da department of social security administration" threatening to "cancel you social security card account" if i didnt contact them to make a payment. Absolute brilliance, that one.
My elderly mother would have fallen for the “grandson who had been in an accident out of state” phone call if it hadn’t have been for my equally elderly, but highly suspicious father. He told the caller to call back in 5 minutes, called me from his cell and then told the scammer to eff off when they called back. 😂
As a resident of the Southern US for many decades, I have only seen one restaurant that offered a 72oz steak. It's not something that the vast majority of restaurants offer, and it's kind of a novelty.
I'm also a resident of the South and came down to find anyone else who said this. I think that I've seen it a few times, but I've never seen anyone actually order it and it's definitely not common.
Isn’t usually one of those “man vs. food” deals where it’s free if you can eat the whole thing in an hour or so? Honestly, if you are buying a 72 oz steak, it can be a great deal for a party or large family.
We finally got Fact Boy guys. Somewhere around 5:42 he admitted he's been lying to us to shill those wallets. He always says he only has like 3 cards but today he admitted he has in the area of 900 of them. We got him, now to do something about those poor souls in the basement
Thank you Dave, Simon and Julian. I just rang my Mother and told her. Every scam update I get, I tell her about it. Her bank won't even let her have a phone TFA, it has to be a doodad.
We had a new one this week. Someone called claiming to be our internet providers. They said our payment didn't go through and they needed a different payment option. I strung them along while my Mum called the local police to ask advice. Annoyingly there isn't much they could do. They took the phone number and said they would pass it along to the fraud department. However, I did spend nearly 15 minutes wasting the jerks time while I " looked for my card" before I hung up on his arse.
Nah, ANYTIME you get an email that looks legit and lines up with an actual purchase, DONT CLICK THE LINK. You go to the website directly and deal with it. Never deal with it through the email. That said, every single one of those I've ever received is for subs or sites i don't even use, or about packages I've neither sent nor are waiting for so are CLEARLY bs.
My phone was hacked twice. Then I realized that my carrier doesn't care about my name,, age, or gender as long as the bill is paid on time. So now I'm a nonbinary 57 year old Native American. Hack away its a dead end. I also literally make up "ship to: names so my delivery address on the label isn't my actual name. I receive my parcel but the name and address combo don't match. IThe post office and Amazon deliver to the address, not a person. The name is vague enough to look like a typo. Again, dead end.
Simon - I got my grad school loans forgiven through the program. I was an older grad student who changed careers, worked for the state for the required term, and retired maybe a year later. The government doesn't ask you to pay for processing, etc. Being an older person now, I see all kinds of ads warning people not to pay for Social Security info, etc. It's the effing government. They already have your money. They don't need processing fees.
I've had so many scam calls promising to either forgive my student loans, or give me a better deal on repayment. This is odd as I don't have, and have never had any student loans. So far, none have been able to give me a better deal than paying $0 a month, although I still live in hope that they'll be able to fill their promise and pay me each month. Thankfully, my program had an excellent co-op program where I was able to effectively pay for school while going to school part time, so that and a going to community college the first 2 years on scholarship saved me from the god awful terms on student loans (I did look into these and the terms were so awful, I never looked again, immediate non-starter)
There’s a Facebook scam going on right now about a craft store where the scams lead to the wrong website claiming to have huge sales. I thought it was kinda obviously a scam but I’ve heard of a lot of people falling for it lately. They use the stores name in the url of the site that’s different from the actual site but it looks close and most people don’t notice them.
I've seen ads similar to that too. Its hilarious. I'll see one that says it's from a big store like Wal-Mart that shows the most unhinged products for sale. EGGO buttermilk waffle flavored Sprite anyone? 😂
All a SSL certificate can prove is your website is secure. So basically traffic is secure between yourself and the scammer, ensuring your data isn't stolen by a 3rd party scammer.
One of the latest scams that have been getting really bad is scam job postings on sites like indeed. I have had to learn to really look at the details of the company that posted the job because they are really sneaky. They will copy and paste an actual job post change the name of their "company" to match the one that actually posted it, loosen the hiring conditions a bit or advertise a job as remote that was never intended to be remote and then post it on the job board.
No, you can't get a 72 oz steak in just about any restaurant. The standard is anywhere from 8 to 12 oz, with 14 being around the high end of what you can typically expect to find. (That's 225g, 340g, and 400g respectively, with the kind of rounding you're supposed to use in situations like this.) 16 oz (1 lb or 455g) is considered very large. Black Angus, a large steakhouse chain, offers steaks as small as 6 oz (170g) and as large as 18 oz (510g) and slices of prime rib as large as 24 oz (680g) and it's really, really rare to find anything larger than that. Honestly, even your typical American would find it impossible to finish a 72 oz steak.
I once gooit an email that I had to pay a fine because I had been driven to fast somewhere. I was very confused, because I don’t have a car. It turned out to be a scam.
I had scammers coincidentally start spoofing my phone number on their calls (they use VOIP and can add whatever information they want to appear as "Caller ID"). It sucked. I was getting bombarded with calls from people saying they had a missed call from my number. I didn't know what was going on, and neither did the tech support at my phone company. I only turned my phone on to make calls, otherwise it never stopped. The only reason the cause was discovered was one of the people who called me back had actually spoken to the callers, and he told me they sounded like foreign scammers. I told my phone company, and their response was to suggest I get a new number. When I said I didn't want that they reluctantly offered to "put in an anti-spoofing request", which apparently is a thing. It seems to have worked, which makes me think it should be applied by default to all locally issued numbers.
When Simon was describing how a QR code scam would work I pictured that infamous scene from “The Wire”. Are you taking notes on a criminal f**king conspiracy”? 😂
1:32 One of our biggest mail-order companies has that problem though. I regularly order clothes from them, in fact I think almost all my clothes are from them. But while I do my orders online instead of over the phone or mail, I am choosing the items from a physical old-fashioned catalogue, because their online store is just the absolute worst to navigate through and barely functional most of the time. And it's been that way for the past, I don't know, 20 years or however long it was ago that they decided to also create an online store.
SIM swapping has gotten tougher in the USA. Major carriers have been using methods requiring extra validation to unlock a number for a short time before it can be ported to another carrier. So knowing the PIN to a cell phone account is no longer enough.
My phone service provider doesn't allow for SIM swapping. If you want your phone number transferred to a new SIM card, they will mail you a new SIM card with that number to your billing address unless it has recently changed. I switched phones a few years ago and ran into this issue on accident.
I'm no expert on cell phones, but why would you need to switch to a new SIM card when you get a new phone? I just got a new phone last week and I swapped the SIM card from the old phone into the new phone, which is the whole point of having a SIM card. Obviously if you lose your phone or it gets crushed by a bulldozer or something, you'll need a new card, but to upgrade phones? Also, will they not let you go into one of their stores and identify yourself to switch cards? I like the idea of them requiring a bit more than just a phone call to help prevent scams, but I wouldn't be happy if I had to go several days without a phone instead of driving to the nearest store.
@@NotMeButAnother Ah, I didn't know they came in different sizes. I think I've only had two phones that use SIM cards and they both use the same size. (I don't switch phones often. I really liked my last phone and only switched because things weren't being supported anymore.)
QR menus are so they can change the price on any single item without having to go through and reprint all the menus again. Just like how you can’t find prices for food online anymore unless you’re placing an order, and even then the “ordered” price might not even be the same price in the restaurant!
In relation to the Amazon phishing scam there is the failed delivery phish. Though with Amazon there are two branches of scam...the invoice scam and those free giftcard ones that lead you to a sometimes hours long survey which scams users of time.
Yeah, my "cable company" called me up one day to let me know that the plan I had chosen years ago was really outdated, and that I could upgrade to a better one. So far, so good. They discussed possible alternatives and how much they would save me. Fine. Then they asked me to verify my account information. I was severely sleep deprived that day, and had actually looked it up to give to them before realizing what I was doing. I then refused flatly to do so, which confused the heck out of the guy on the phone. He didn't sound disappointed, just confused. So I'm guessing he didn't know that he was working for a scammer.
I had something like that happen when I called what looked like the customer support for my printer. Long story short, everything was going well until the guy told me he could help with my computer issues, with the fee varying depending on what was done. 1) They always mess up by asking for money and 2) why would Canon want to help me with my Dell computer, huh?
12:46 i had the exact same thing happen with a bank calling me. I told the person this is exactly how scam calls work and they seemed oblivious to what I was talking about. In the end the call was legitimate but I had to verify.
Unfortunately, Simon never knows beforehand who is going to edit these. There are 3 of us on this channel now, and it’s a toss up of who gets which video, which is why we slot our credits in at the end. That being said, thanks, my dude.
I've worked in the same industry for almost 10 years. The first half of that I worked for private companies, analyzing samples from governments and utilities. That didn't count towards my forgiveness period because those private companies were not eligible employers. The only qualifying places of employment are governments and non-profits. I did the same exact work for the same exact "clients" in government labs with people who had occupied those very limited positions for 15-40 years. There are only three positions total. Four if you count the supervisor. It's extremely difficult to get a government job.
I got a call from my bank one time too. Right away, the guy wants me to prove my identity by answering my "security questions." I told him, "No, you called me. You have to prove your identity first." Was he surprised!!
I had a college instructor who would go around the school before open house day and put up posters with just a QR code on it near all the displays... it led to the web page of the cybersecurity program.
Into NFTs, you mean. The blockchain stuff was legitimately interesting, involving even programming languages in some cases, and has resulted in cases like Cash App's ability to offer purchasing of micro-stocks without needing to buy whole numbers of stocks. Banks have also been using it in their backends, though not sure how far that had gone. The NFT craze, though, was where anyone who understood tech understood how could just copy/paste the images or how the link to an image could be redirected away from it. The problem was the finance bros smelling money to be made, not those interested in it as a technology. (my qualification for understanding tech: completed bachelor degree in computer science)
@@mormornie Thing is, the ones who have been so dumb regarding the tech are not the ones who actually cared about it as a technology. The blockchain stuff boiled down to being about establishing consensus for something like a transaction. But then came in the finance/business bros smelling money to be made, promoting it as "the next big thing" and creating scams.
Ive always used fake names online. Ive been on the internet since 1996 and even today if you google my full name only one result is me. Its my grandfathers obituary, otherwise im non-existant.
I stopped blocking spam numbers (cause they're almost always spoofed, so it's pointless) and just block the entire area code now. They usually spoof a number that should be local to you, so it cuts the scammer spammage down nicely ^_^
The 72oz steak in not the Heart Attack Grill, but The Big Texan Steak House in Amarillo, TX. I never tried the challenge, but they do make a damn good steak.
The closest I came to getting scammed was when I received a call from my "energy supplier" about an overdue bill...the day after I'd spoken to my energy supplier about a payment plan for an overdue bill. (I confirmed with the supplier that it was not in fact them) The timing was just so absolutely perfect that it very nearly got me. Unfortunately for them I'm just paranoid.
At least one local pizza restaurant ONLY takes online orders (and doesn't have in restaurant computers so you have to have an internet enabled phone) and payment by card not cash. I found this out when I wanted a pizza. I went to the local KFC instead.
I'm from the United states and just wanted to verify that no, you can't find a 72oz steak at " any " restaurant LOL. You'd have to go to a steak house for that. We do have a major weight problem in this country though, but it's more from to much sugar intake than from massive steaks.
I work in a utility customer service center. We get calls checking for account balances all the time, and half of them yell at us for calling them and telling them that they owe something when they don't or owe more than they do... blame the scammers, people... not the customer service rep that had nothing to do with any of it...
Oh wow ! Dave , i never thought of it being such a huge issue. I simply figured they were self checkout stupidly inconvenient. But being blind , wowza , thats a nightmare . In fact here in the US , that should be very easy ADA ( Americans with Disabilities Act ) claim .
I'm confused by the two factor authentication thing. My financial institutions and insurance company and retirement management company all have the option of either just logging in with my username and password or that combined with a code that expires 30 seconds after I receive it via text. I opt for the more layered approach because I assumed it was more secure than just the username and password
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the editing ion this one is a little overboard. im at 8:15 and due to all the fking memes ive lost track of what your actualy talking about.
@@brainblaze6526 Wow. Right into the ad. Not even addressing what we're all saying. Nice bot guys. You may be losing me.
SIM swapping has become nearly impossible to do, due to both codes and a text sent your phone BEFORE a swap can take place. While inside moles can still pull it off, by and large it has been stopped by carriers. Yayy!!
My grandpa once got the scam where the scammer calls and pretends to be a family member that got into an accident, got locked up, and needed money for bail. The funny thing is that the scammer chose the ONE grandchild that does not have a car and does not have a driver's license, and that very grandchild was sitting across the table from him LOL.
For well over a decade now, every few months I get this "handwritten" note on what looks like yellow legal paper. It's from this self-described little old lady who is renting a place in a nearby town who wants me to donate my property to her because she's at the very end of her life and just wants "a place of my own to spend my last days on." She urges me to do the "moral" and "Christian" thing and let her have my land... for free. It's all fake tho -- the letter is printed on a web press, the handwriting is a font, and the woman's name doesn't exist -- but the return address does. It's a Realtor. 🙄
Even if it was a little old lady who would just give away their land?
@@ss5447-p2q It's something a lot of churches do here in the South. They play on the salvation angle and ask their members to tithe their land to the church when they pass, so the church can sell it and rake in some easy money. It makes zero sense to me, but some folks seem to be pretty gung ho for it -- prolly why this realtor is doing it too.
That's just wrong.
Honestly, I'd report that to police, realtor licensing board, or similar. Seems highly likely to be illegal.
@@xger21 Oh I have, this one and several others... gave up on that route almost a decade ago tho. It's a low income neighborhood that no one cares about, especially the cops. So reporting it to them is about as effective as the Do Not Call List is at blocking scammer phone calls from India or Malaysia or wherever those 6-10 random calls a day my area code blockers stop are coming from. -_-
1:55 - Mid roll ads
3:15 - Back to the video
3:25 - Chapter 1 - QR Code scam
9:05 - Chapter 2 - AI
13:55 - Chapter 3 - Student loan forgiveness
18:35 - Chapter 4 - SIM swapping
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@@jbeattie02 Noki 2
"Stop using SMS" - NIST recommended over a decade ago that SMS be discontinued. They gave in to pressure from lazy folks who don't want to upgrade their systems and rescinded that recommendation in 2017, but they now "do not recommend" use of SMS.
www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/questionsand-buzz-surrounding-draft-nist-special-publication-800-63-3
Doing good work! Shame the video doesn’t have these in it 😒
Missed a trick to say Al instead of AI
The fact that Simon whistler's editor is the of the very few editors in the entirety of youtube that uses DBZA Clips in his style makes Simon's videos so much more funnier. Props to you. my dude.
Not just DBZA, at about 1:50 or so, that was Hellsing Abridged if I'm not mistaken!
@@captainspaulding5963Yes, yes it was. 😂
@geodkyt I thought so!! 😂😂
If you watch closely, you’ll catch some Attack on Titan Abridged too. Not that I’d personally know or anything.
And cracked clips as well. Honestly whoever dose the editing is fantastic. Thought it was a her thou
My brother encountered one of the meaner takes on scam calls recently. The kind where the caller pretends to be law enforcement and tries to terrify the person they are calling into transferring some money they 'owe' or were 'fined,' and if you stay on the phone & don't cooperate they threaten to put our a warrant and send officers to arrest you. Very nasty.
I've told them come get me.
I ask them if they know my address or what the bill/fine is for and usually they just try and make shit up
I just clicked and the first thing I hear is "my grandma is dying and her last wish is to make crystal meth" WHAT
Who are you to deny her her wish?
" I ain' gaw leht yew see Jeayzus wit ou' ya gayten yer weash Me-MAw!" - Ulixes Tater Vanhouten
Yes his initals are UTV. His dad wanted to get a new Yamaha side X side, but couldnt afford it after this little shit was born.
#Allegedly
Made me think I was on a Bruce Rivers video 😂
My Grandma once said: "If you aren't cooking your own meth, you ain't tweaking son."
I see you've never watched CLR Bruce Rivers and the escapades of his grandma
I got a visit today by an IRL scammer. I'm used to the "we're doing some work in your neighborhood" solar lease scam but this guy's pitch started with an inducement to commit insurance fraud by saying my roof was damaged in a recent storm. I told him it wasn't damaged at all. He said they would take care of getting it approved and I get a free roof. I said no and he should get back on his scooter and off my property.
Make sure to set up surveillance because they were likely scoping to be able to come back later
I will tell you the secret to not getting hooked into a scam. Keep your feelings in check. Yep. Scammers are trolling, EVERYWHERE. And all someone has to do is respond. You know you shouldn't respond. But when you do, for whatever reason, maybe you're tired, maybe you had a fight with your girl, maybe you got a flat tire, whatever, it's got you a little off. You need to cap your feelings, and take them home, and let them out there. And never take care of any kind of business if you are feeling. Just don't do it. Business and feelings do not mix. I call the act of indulging in feelings "emotional compromise". Do not be emotionally compromised. You may as well add that to your life's doctrine, just adopt the saying like you own it. "Do not be emotionally compromised." As long as you are a slave to your feelings, as long as your feelings control you, you are a mark just waiting to happen. Don't be a mark. Your feelings are your own anyway, you shouldn't be sharing them with others, you should be guarding them jealously, and you should be severely punishing those who intrude, or try to.
The editor in here having fun with Simon's frustration and I'm here for it.
i'm honestly with the boomers on this one, if your restaraunt or bar tries to make me scan a damn qr code i'm leaving
I might leave, but I'll return with my fancy label maker and replace it with a rickroll
Yeah I've been to two restaurants with digital QR code menus and neither one has worked properly.
I get having QR codes to save on printed menus and expedite ordering, we have that a lot where I’m from. BUT at bare minimum they need to have a few printed menus on hand for people to browse through at the entrance, and for people to request if needed. You should also be able to order the old fashioned way if you need to. Digitalisation shouldn’t leave people behind.
@@TheGrinningViking im going to start a trend on that on in melbourne. sick of those QR code menus, and what does my home address and my email has anything to do with my food? and dont even think about getting cute with me with those "preferred name", "what does your friend call you" shit, im here for the food and service (whats left of it these days), not here to make friends.
old person here and I often use scan qr codes in restaurants because convenience.......
Ha! Not even I know the answers to my security questions.
That was grandmother's last wish too. What a beautiful bonding experience.
That being said, she was livelier and more alert in her last few days than she had been in years.🤔
I showed her how to make that really good blue stuff from Breaking Bad.😐
this needs to be required viewing for anyone on the internet, especially those over 50.
props to the editor for bringing back some of the classic Simon clips :D
I'm over 50 - and I have worked in Tech for over 30 years. I've spent quite a bit of that time rescuing folks who are younger than I from their own foolishness.
This definitely should be required viewing - but perhaps without the ageist bullshit :)
@@The_Nixie I'm nearly 40 myself and also work in tech... but I see far too many older people falling for the scams. A few searches will tell you it's the most common demographic for it. Maybe I could have pushed the age higher in my statement, but individuals being different doesn't change the statistics. I also wasn't saying it in a judgemental way, it's more that certain groups tend to be at higher risk and need to be extra careful.
If the QR code in the thumbnail is a link to Rick Astley, I swear to God...
😂 yes it is
It is, I've cross stitched it before
Am I the only one that always finds that funny?!
I've got bad news ya... 😅
😂😂😂😂
I am in the PSLF program, and it is awesome. I can tell you from experience that the customer service NEVER calls or contacts you. You get an email saying you have a message, and you have to go login into your student aid account to see it. Just saying! 5 years to go! (Teacher)
Dispatcher. Same deal. I’ve had the calls about someone wanting to help me get on it for a fee. I’m like, nope. Already halfway there, bud.
I have 2.5 years left 😃🤞🏼
Simon I couldn't stop laughing when you messed up the teleprompter! The heavy metal music was an absolute perfect backdrop for your impromptu mash pit fit! Like always Dave you knocked it out of the Ball park my dude. 13:18
My dad, who is normally super careful, fell for a scam recently because it came from his best friends email address, started the way his emails always started, was written how he writes, etc. So it seemed super convincing asking for an Amazon voucher. Then dad realised something wasn't right, called his friend and nope, wasn't him. He luckily got all his money back, and things but it's so easy to fall for when they are so convincing.
Oo! First script idea I've ever had: times AI halucinations ended very badly. It's hilarious when you're playing with a chat bot and it forgets what reality is; but I know there are people who have actually been dumb enough to not proof read.
oh yeah!! the lawyer with hallucinated by AI cases comes to mind immediately, as well as quite a few screenshots I've seen of the "helpful" AI feature in google's search 😆
Scamming is so ubiquitous, the most telling scam was me receiving a number of e-mails from, supposedly, a government agency. Luckily recognizable as fake, but oddly enough the only official e-mail I actually got from them wound up in my spam folder...
My favorite obvious scam was the call i got from "da department of social security administration" threatening to "cancel you social security card account" if i didnt contact them to make a payment.
Absolute brilliance, that one.
My elderly mother would have fallen for the “grandson who had been in an accident out of state” phone call if it hadn’t have been for my equally elderly, but highly suspicious father. He told the caller to call back in 5 minutes, called me from his cell and then told the scammer to eff off when they called back. 😂
As a resident of the Southern US for many decades, I have only seen one restaurant that offered a 72oz steak. It's not something that the vast majority of restaurants offer, and it's kind of a novelty.
I'm also a resident of the South and came down to find anyone else who said this. I think that I've seen it a few times, but I've never seen anyone actually order it and it's definitely not common.
Isn’t usually one of those “man vs. food” deals where it’s free if you can eat the whole thing in an hour or so? Honestly, if you are buying a 72 oz steak, it can be a great deal for a party or large family.
We finally got Fact Boy guys. Somewhere around 5:42 he admitted he's been lying to us to shill those wallets. He always says he only has like 3 cards but today he admitted he has in the area of 900 of them. We got him, now to do something about those poor souls in the basement
The editing is fuckin bonkers today
I love it lol
Bro.., im thinking the same thing. Is it the same editor or what? It's funny asf
Thank you Dave, Simon and Julian. I just rang my Mother and told her. Every scam update I get, I tell her about it. Her bank won't even let her have a phone TFA, it has to be a doodad.
We had a new one this week. Someone called claiming to be our internet providers. They said our payment didn't go through and they needed a different payment option. I strung them along while my Mum called the local police to ask advice. Annoyingly there isn't much they could do. They took the phone number and said they would pass it along to the fraud department. However, I did spend nearly 15 minutes wasting the jerks time while I " looked for my card" before I hung up on his arse.
I got a fake email the other day: "Order turned right successfully" and then a link to download what was supposedly a pdf invoice.
😂
Would you not want to get a PDF about your order being able to take a turn? :)
Cool points sliding in that "Daddy chill" 🤣🤣
Nah, ANYTIME you get an email that looks legit and lines up with an actual purchase, DONT CLICK THE LINK.
You go to the website directly and deal with it. Never deal with it through the email.
That said, every single one of those I've ever received is for subs or sites i don't even use, or about packages I've neither sent nor are waiting for so are CLEARLY bs.
My phone was hacked twice. Then I realized that my carrier doesn't care about my name,, age, or gender as long as the bill is paid on time. So now I'm a nonbinary 57 year old Native American. Hack away its a dead end. I also literally make up "ship to: names so my delivery address on the label isn't my actual name. I receive my parcel but the name and address combo don't match. IThe post office and Amazon deliver to the address, not a person. The name is vague enough to look like a typo. Again, dead end.
The editing lately has been amazing. The Simon music videos😂😂😂
Simon - I got my grad school loans forgiven through the program. I was an older grad student who changed careers, worked for the state for the required term, and retired maybe a year later. The government doesn't ask you to pay for processing, etc. Being an older person now, I see all kinds of ads warning people not to pay for Social Security info, etc. It's the effing government. They already have your money. They don't need processing fees.
I've had so many scam calls promising to either forgive my student loans, or give me a better deal on repayment. This is odd as I don't have, and have never had any student loans. So far, none have been able to give me a better deal than paying $0 a month, although I still live in hope that they'll be able to fill their promise and pay me each month. Thankfully, my program had an excellent co-op program where I was able to effectively pay for school while going to school part time, so that and a going to community college the first 2 years on scholarship saved me from the god awful terms on student loans (I did look into these and the terms were so awful, I never looked again, immediate non-starter)
Thanks!
Love that they brought back the heavy metal Simon meme!!🤘🏼
Simon: "why is that even a feature??!!"
me ( who is a developer): this "feature" might actually be a bug :D
20:13 This is subtle, a lot of people will probably won't get it, and I absolutely love it :D Julian is leveling up, I swear!
There’s a Facebook scam going on right now about a craft store where the scams lead to the wrong website claiming to have huge sales. I thought it was kinda obviously a scam but I’ve heard of a lot of people falling for it lately. They use the stores name in the url of the site that’s different from the actual site but it looks close and most people don’t notice them.
I've seen ads similar to that too. Its hilarious. I'll see one that says it's from a big store like Wal-Mart that shows the most unhinged products for sale. EGGO buttermilk waffle flavored Sprite anyone? 😂
All FB ads are basically scams. Don't buy anything advertised on social, anyways.
All a SSL certificate can prove is your website is secure. So basically traffic is secure between yourself and the scammer, ensuring your data isn't stolen by a 3rd party scammer.
One of the latest scams that have been getting really bad is scam job postings on sites like indeed. I have had to learn to really look at the details of the company that posted the job because they are really sneaky. They will copy and paste an actual job post change the name of their "company" to match the one that actually posted it, loosen the hiring conditions a bit or advertise a job as remote that was never intended to be remote and then post it on the job board.
No, you can't get a 72 oz steak in just about any restaurant. The standard is anywhere from 8 to 12 oz, with 14 being around the high end of what you can typically expect to find. (That's 225g, 340g, and 400g respectively, with the kind of rounding you're supposed to use in situations like this.) 16 oz (1 lb or 455g) is considered very large. Black Angus, a large steakhouse chain, offers steaks as small as 6 oz (170g) and as large as 18 oz (510g) and slices of prime rib as large as 24 oz (680g) and it's really, really rare to find anything larger than that.
Honestly, even your typical American would find it impossible to finish a 72 oz steak.
The disdain with which Whistleboi says “data brokers” is palpable.
So many old edits this episode. I love it!
"United Bank of Lebanon, really?!"
"Uh, yeah! Lebanon, Kansas"
Edit: Seriously? Where are my Wayward Sons & Daughters?!
I once gooit an email that I had to pay a fine because I had been driven to fast somewhere. I was very confused, because I don’t have a car. It turned out to be a scam.
Perfect timing. I needed a getting ready for work track.
I never liked QR codes because I can’t see where they are going. Seem like something ripe for a scam… same thing as a redirect url.
DBZA AND A PORTAL REFERENCE!!!!!! Idk who edited but you the G
No, u
What a lovely rendition of Never Gonna Give You Up. Very classy.
I had scammers coincidentally start spoofing my phone number on their calls (they use VOIP and can add whatever information they want to appear as "Caller ID"). It sucked. I was getting bombarded with calls from people saying they had a missed call from my number. I didn't know what was going on, and neither did the tech support at my phone company. I only turned my phone on to make calls, otherwise it never stopped. The only reason the cause was discovered was one of the people who called me back had actually spoken to the callers, and he told me they sounded like foreign scammers. I told my phone company, and their response was to suggest I get a new number. When I said I didn't want that they reluctantly offered to "put in an anti-spoofing request", which apparently is a thing. It seems to have worked, which makes me think it should be applied by default to all locally issued numbers.
Pretty sure the restaurant in Houston, TX called "Taste of Texas" will DEFINITELY have a steak that size on menu, *everyday*. 🤣
There's just so many scams out there that unless you're a Lizard Overlord, like Simon, it's going to be tough.
Never scan a QR code at a "Black Hat" conference or you will become a statistic 😉
There are hacker conventions in which the attendants are dumb enough to let someone hack them?
Those are the best ones to scan.
How else do you begin the game?
When Simon was describing how a QR code scam would work I pictured that infamous scene from “The Wire”. Are you taking notes on a criminal f**king conspiracy”? 😂
All in the game yo
1:32 One of our biggest mail-order companies has that problem though. I regularly order clothes from them, in fact I think almost all my clothes are from them. But while I do my orders online instead of over the phone or mail, I am choosing the items from a physical old-fashioned catalogue, because their online store is just the absolute worst to navigate through and barely functional most of the time. And it's been that way for the past, I don't know, 20 years or however long it was ago that they decided to also create an online store.
The editing on this has me laughing harder than I have in weeks! 😂 Love it
SIM swapping has gotten tougher in the USA. Major carriers have been using methods requiring extra validation to unlock a number for a short time before it can be ported to another carrier. So knowing the PIN to a cell phone account is no longer enough.
Can't get enough of these Hellsing: Abridged clips.
My phone service provider doesn't allow for SIM swapping. If you want your phone number transferred to a new SIM card, they will mail you a new SIM card with that number to your billing address unless it has recently changed. I switched phones a few years ago and ran into this issue on accident.
Time to switch providers….
I'm no expert on cell phones, but why would you need to switch to a new SIM card when you get a new phone? I just got a new phone last week and I swapped the SIM card from the old phone into the new phone, which is the whole point of having a SIM card. Obviously if you lose your phone or it gets crushed by a bulldozer or something, you'll need a new card, but to upgrade phones?
Also, will they not let you go into one of their stores and identify yourself to switch cards? I like the idea of them requiring a bit more than just a phone call to help prevent scams, but I wouldn't be happy if I had to go several days without a phone instead of driving to the nearest store.
@@chitlitlah Sometimes people had an older model and go from a micro to a nano or something like that.
@@NotMeButAnother Ah, I didn't know they came in different sizes. I think I've only had two phones that use SIM cards and they both use the same size. (I don't switch phones often. I really liked my last phone and only switched because things weren't being supported anymore.)
@@chitlitlah sim cards go faulty sometimes too.
QR menus are so they can change the price on any single item without having to go through and reprint all the menus again. Just like how you can’t find prices for food online anymore unless you’re placing an order, and even then the “ordered” price might not even be the same price in the restaurant!
OMG I love the blazey montage of Simon fixing the teleprompter. 😂😂😂 Please, use that in the future. Perfect editing!
I can't stop laughing at the "scammer race" gourmet race remix. It's living rent free in my head now. 🎵Scam scam scamscamscam...🎵
In relation to the Amazon phishing scam there is the failed delivery phish. Though with Amazon there are two branches of scam...the invoice scam and those free giftcard ones that lead you to a sometimes hours long survey which scams users of time.
Some of those airport menu QRs at restaurants who refuse to offer an actual menu may have been replaced with a Rick Roll.
Yeah, my "cable company" called me up one day to let me know that the plan I had chosen years ago was really outdated, and that I could upgrade to a better one. So far, so good. They discussed possible alternatives and how much they would save me. Fine. Then they asked me to verify my account information. I was severely sleep deprived that day, and had actually looked it up to give to them before realizing what I was doing. I then refused flatly to do so, which confused the heck out of the guy on the phone. He didn't sound disappointed, just confused. So I'm guessing he didn't know that he was working for a scammer.
I had something like that happen when I called what looked like the customer support for my printer. Long story short, everything was going well until the guy told me he could help with my computer issues, with the fee varying depending on what was done. 1) They always mess up by asking for money and 2) why would Canon want to help me with my Dell computer, huh?
Great story today, Dave was fantastic and the editing was superb.
12:46 i had the exact same thing happen with a bank calling me. I told the person this is exactly how scam calls work and they seemed oblivious to what I was talking about. In the end the call was legitimate but I had to verify.
Posted 1 minute ago? last time I came this quickly I lost a gf...
😂😂😂
Last time I came that quickly I got another kid😂
Was it worth it though, ya big brain?
She's still in bed man, stop watching Simon! You got hands.
Yeah, you cost me my cameraman job.
For Brain Blaze specifically, I think not only the writer should be called out, but the editor too. Quality work.
Unfortunately, Simon never knows beforehand who is going to edit these. There are 3 of us on this channel now, and it’s a toss up of who gets which video, which is why we slot our credits in at the end. That being said, thanks, my dude.
I've worked in the same industry for almost 10 years. The first half of that I worked for private companies, analyzing samples from governments and utilities. That didn't count towards my forgiveness period because those private companies were not eligible employers. The only qualifying places of employment are governments and non-profits. I did the same exact work for the same exact "clients" in government labs with people who had occupied those very limited positions for 15-40 years. There are only three positions total. Four if you count the supervisor. It's extremely difficult to get a government job.
My industry is environmental lab science, btw
I got a call from my bank one time too. Right away, the guy wants me to prove my identity by answering my "security questions."
I told him, "No, you called me. You have to prove your identity first." Was he surprised!!
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I feel the same way, Simon. Unnecessary contrivances that nobody asked for.
The editing was GOLD on this episode 💛
I had a college instructor who would go around the school before open house day and put up posters with just a QR code on it near all the displays... it led to the web page of the cybersecurity program.
Wow, I love the OGBB reference in there when he reset the teleprompter. I remember laughing so hard at that back when the original came out.
I loved the intro. Perhaps you should have your gran watch Breaking Bad. lol
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Now that was a breakdown.
Do an episode on sovereign citizens
What was that opening clip💀
Don't you dare make fun of Whistle Boy's Grandma's dying wish.
More gold for the Simon out of context channel.
My death sentence!!! 🤣💀
Legendary is what it was
@@01oo011for real
Literally nobody who understands technology would ever be into crypto.
Into NFTs, you mean. The blockchain stuff was legitimately interesting, involving even programming languages in some cases, and has resulted in cases like Cash App's ability to offer purchasing of micro-stocks without needing to buy whole numbers of stocks. Banks have also been using it in their backends, though not sure how far that had gone. The NFT craze, though, was where anyone who understood tech understood how could just copy/paste the images or how the link to an image could be redirected away from it. The problem was the finance bros smelling money to be made, not those interested in it as a technology.
(my qualification for understanding tech: completed bachelor degree in computer science)
ye, that definitely made me say into the screen, "I think you are overestimating the crypto-tech-bros' intelligence" 😅
The phrase "blind faith" comes to mind.
It's unsustainable...block chain is simply unsustainable...that's all I understand...that's all I need to understand...
@@mormornie Thing is, the ones who have been so dumb regarding the tech are not the ones who actually cared about it as a technology. The blockchain stuff boiled down to being about establishing consensus for something like a transaction. But then came in the finance/business bros smelling money to be made, promoting it as "the next big thing" and creating scams.
0:16 You are turning into the "Mr. Burns" of UA-cam, and that's not a bad thing.
It's always a good day when Hellsing Ultimate Abridged shows up in a Brain Blaze video.
Ive always used fake names online. Ive been on the internet since 1996 and even today if you google my full name only one result is me. Its my grandfathers obituary, otherwise im non-existant.
All day I’ve been getting calls from scammers trying to sell me fake health insurance.
I stopped blocking spam numbers (cause they're almost always spoofed, so it's pointless) and just block the entire area code now. They usually spoof a number that should be local to you, so it cuts the scammer spammage down nicely ^_^
We got something called "Call Control" on our cells. Robo dialers can't get through it and most scammers use those. Haven't gotten a scam call since.
Use a password manager, if you do click a fake link it will not enter the password for you since the domain will be the wrong url.
lol this. when he said that my first thought was "Simon, you need a password manager"
7:42 ohh how I've missed Simon's metal song
7:13 I was fully expecting gronk asking "why do we even have that lever"
I'm happy to have captions for a video that can understand British people
The 72oz steak in not the Heart Attack Grill, but The Big Texan Steak House in Amarillo, TX. I never tried the challenge, but they do make a damn good steak.
The closest I came to getting scammed was when I received a call from my "energy supplier" about an overdue bill...the day after I'd spoken to my energy supplier about a payment plan for an overdue bill. (I confirmed with the supplier that it was not in fact them)
The timing was just so absolutely perfect that it very nearly got me. Unfortunately for them I'm just paranoid.
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This channel is Simon when he’s had too many “party pills” or he’s had enough of everybody’s SHIT!
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At least one local pizza restaurant ONLY takes online orders (and doesn't have in restaurant computers so you have to have an internet enabled phone) and payment by card not cash. I found this out when I wanted a pizza. I went to the local KFC instead.
Yeah screw that shite. I’ll go to places I can still pay cash.
I'm from the United states and just wanted to verify that no, you can't find a 72oz steak at " any " restaurant LOL. You'd have to go to a steak house for that. We do have a major weight problem in this country though, but it's more from to much sugar intake than from massive steaks.
I work in a utility customer service center. We get calls checking for account balances all the time, and half of them yell at us for calling them and telling them that they owe something when they don't or owe more than they do... blame the scammers, people... not the customer service rep that had nothing to do with any of it...
1:32 perfect transition for: Squarespace!! 😂
Oh wow ! Dave , i never thought of it being such a huge issue. I simply figured they were self checkout stupidly inconvenient. But being blind , wowza , thats a nightmare .
In fact here in the US , that should be very easy ADA ( Americans with Disabilities Act ) claim .
I was not expecting the DBZ abridged Cell clip.
Props to Julian for the frustrated Simon montage. Well done.
I'm confused by the two factor authentication thing. My financial institutions and insurance company and retirement management company all have the option of either just logging in with my username and password or that combined with a code that expires 30 seconds after I receive it via text.
I opt for the more layered approach because I assumed it was more secure than just the username and password
Great job on the teleprompter Simon. It was comical.