I Shut Down a Crazy Movie Scam

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  • @KitbogaShow
    @KitbogaShow  2 місяці тому +1545

    Imagine seeing "Butterfly Midwife" on the big screen...

    • @fnvfan0145
      @fnvfan0145 2 місяці тому +41

      I'd buy it on Blu-ray 😂

    • @aetheric-r-us
      @aetheric-r-us 2 місяці тому +23

      Seeing Vanessa and Barry and ofcourse Butterman winning an Oscar would be so nice

    • @_aconite_cj_
      @_aconite_cj_ 2 місяці тому +12

      The name sounds so bomb tho

    • @Iamrightyouarewrong
      @Iamrightyouarewrong 2 місяці тому +23

      I'm already working on a fan-fiction prequel.

    • @ADEstes-ip8lu
      @ADEstes-ip8lu 2 місяці тому +17

      Guaranteed there is already two Netflix productions for this idea already. I think you accidentally gave away a gold mine!

  • @demeter-the-great
    @demeter-the-great 2 місяці тому +2308

    3:07 “Are you familiar with Summit Entertainment?”
    “Oh my God, is that the one where they did the movie with the one guy?”
    “Yeah!” 😂

    • @lelandfranklin3487
      @lelandfranklin3487 2 місяці тому +52

      My favorite line!!!😂😂😂

    • @scottNNJ
      @scottNNJ 2 місяці тому +33

      Sounds like a line paraphrased from the movie “Clerks”

    • @billinorlando2887
      @billinorlando2887 2 місяці тому +9

      ". " 😮

    • @some1744
      @some1744 2 місяці тому +10

      Had me too 😭

    • @-danR
      @-danR 2 місяці тому +8

      What if somebody actually made an animation based on this... 'book'...and it became box-office sensation?
      Remember "The Producers" with "Springtime For HitIer"?

  • @Purplesubmariner
    @Purplesubmariner 2 місяці тому +365

    Ridiculousness aside, the concept of lost babies becoming butterflies to find their parents is kind of beautiful.

    • @mattlibby9593
      @mattlibby9593 2 місяці тому +44

      You clearly haven’t read the sequel yet then… not to give away too much but the butterfly baby becomes bitterly jealous of the humans and leads a butterfly rebellion against humanity.

    • @G.of.J.
      @G.of.J. Місяць тому +8

      @@mattlibby9593 Hmm…serves ‘em right.

    • @ickess
      @ickess Місяць тому +5

      This reminds me of chickens with choppers

    • @jaroslavkyprianpolak
      @jaroslavkyprianpolak Місяць тому +4

      I think that so. It is absurd, but beautifully absurd.

    • @jaroslavkyprianpolak
      @jaroslavkyprianpolak Місяць тому +5

      Today I found out that there is a slasher movie about Winnie the Pooh who went mad and homicidal. So the idea about butterflies is actually quite sane.

  • @triggahappi2732
    @triggahappi2732 2 місяці тому +1365

    As SOON as he heard the name Louise, I knew there was a “Geez, Louise” just around the corner

    • @kieranmilner4208
      @kieranmilner4208 2 місяці тому +27

      Hey Louise remember that time when I was a butterfly

    • @capichow
      @capichow 2 місяці тому +2

      😂

    • @chumcalmdown
      @chumcalmdown 2 місяці тому +7

      I love boga but he's very predictable lol

    • @jeremiahbell6129
      @jeremiahbell6129 2 місяці тому +22

      @@chumcalmdown I mean, he's a scam investigator and developer, not necessarily an improv artist (though he's gotten very good at that).

    • @SirNightmareFuel
      @SirNightmareFuel 2 місяці тому +8

      ​@@chumcalmdownthat's part of his charm! 😂❤

  • @DrRipper19
    @DrRipper19 2 місяці тому +436

    it's a rare video where I can see the scammer enjoying the nonsense. This guy's endless patience honestly makes me wonder if he's salaried or something.

    • @Nat-oj2uc
      @Nat-oj2uc 2 місяці тому +34

      Prolly a trainee

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior 2 місяці тому +30

      No, just salivating over a possible ten k plus, or multiple ten k payout.

    • @NightTimeDay
      @NightTimeDay Місяць тому +5

      Struck me as a sociopath or something. Not much emotion to get out of him in the first place.

  • @irradiatedbadger
    @irradiatedbadger 2 місяці тому +688

    My brother has a mental illness and he's been scammed out of so much money by fake publishers like this. A long time ago he wrote a ten page "story" that's mostly rambling. Somehow they found him online and since then they've scammed him out of thousands of dollars. Asking him for money for promotion and marketing, telling him they were going to turn his story into a movie script, that he was going to be rich. Because my brother is so depressed in life he desperately wants to believe them, no matter how many times we tell him to stop sending them money, they manage to trick him. One of the scammers was female and she even pretended to be his girlfriend to take advantage of him.
    These people are evil, he told them he was homeless and living on welfare and they still asked him for money.

    • @irradiatedbadger
      @irradiatedbadger 2 місяці тому +106

      I know the scammers are in the Philippines because they clicked a tracking link I sent them as my brother. They change their company name every so often to restart the scam fresh. I remember one of the names was summit house publishing.

    • @Dennis-xj8nh
      @Dennis-xj8nh 2 місяці тому +51

      That is sickening and evil

    • @heathersmiliekiwi8528
      @heathersmiliekiwi8528 2 місяці тому +27

      So sorry to read this.

    • @ASFAL.AdminMika
      @ASFAL.AdminMika 2 місяці тому +27

      Im from the philippines. I am sorry for that
      I think its the notorious POGO stuff here in the PH that has scammed you. We started to crack on them down 1 by 1 recently this year.
      They are ran by mostly chinese businessman.

    • @kevinz.9785
      @kevinz.9785 2 місяці тому +10

      🤬🤬🤬🤬 these scammers.

  • @bubs83
    @bubs83 2 місяці тому +2133

    First rule of thumb as a writer...NOBODY contacts you first about your book. NOBODY. No publisher,no literary agents, no movie contractors. Nobody comes to you. It takes years of you doing all the hard work yourself, unless you have a legit publisher YOU had to vet and contact.

    • @Snow-Willow
      @Snow-Willow 2 місяці тому +128

      As someone whose best friend is an author and has been published (as opposed to self published) can confirm. He's good at what he does and it still took him years of trying to even make it into an anthology.

    • @bubs83
      @bubs83 2 місяці тому +39

      @Snow-Willow I myself couldn't find anyone who wasn't trying to take THOUSANDS from me before even doing any work on my book. So I just self published.

    • @happycows
      @happycows 2 місяці тому

      Some people who contact you are legitimate. They’re called scouts, and they go to Washington, DC to scour through all newly submitted copyrights. You won’t contact them-they contact you. That said, it’s always best to do your research.
      I know this from experience. You don’t have to tell anyone you wrote a book-they’ll find you. Some scouts will hunt you down like a hawk, trying to get you to sign a deal. Some are scammers, but others are the real deal.

    • @jamesmcfarland6754
      @jamesmcfarland6754 2 місяці тому +8

      Yep, I’ve written 10

    • @Snow-Willow
      @Snow-Willow 2 місяці тому +24

      @@bubs83 Yeah, After watching my friend go through that rat race, I am more and more convinced that self-publishing is the way to go if you want to be actually successful. But unfortunately my friend is very stubborn and a little stuck in the past when it comes to self-publishing, he thinks that self-publishing will never really amount to anything, and the only way to be a real author is to get in with a publishing house.
      It's a real shame too, because I know he had just self-published. By now, he would have at least one or two real successes. Some of the things he has come up with some years for NaNo have been so good, I wish he would have fleshed them out and published them independently.
      Good for you for self-publishing, though. I wish you good luck and great success. ^^

  • @rayrous8229
    @rayrous8229 2 місяці тому +797

    I've never heard of this scam. Your warning to authors might save some people. Keep it up.

    • @DoxxyLover57
      @DoxxyLover57 2 місяці тому +33

      Everyone should listen to scam baiters, learn the new scam and not to fall for them.

    • @GoliathFish75
      @GoliathFish75 2 місяці тому +13

      Book scams are really pervasive, varied, and quite easy. Facebook is full of them.

    • @Guevon_Pajaro
      @Guevon_Pajaro 2 місяці тому +4

      Kitboga is the watchdog we didn't deserve but the hero we needed

    • @agalerex
      @agalerex 2 місяці тому +5

      The essence of this scam isn't new, as it follows the old age method of promising to offer goods or services* to be delivered, but only after some sort of fee is first paid. With that said, what's new, at least to me, is that the scam is specifically targeting authors, *by offering to turn their book into a movie.

    • @HaveanOreshnik
      @HaveanOreshnik 2 місяці тому

      Turns out this scam isn't new, there are some reddit posts regarding these book publication scams

  • @SrslyTony
    @SrslyTony 2 місяці тому +676

    Us loyal Crow Pro fans have been fighting for scraps, yet Butterfly Midwife, an IP sprung out of NOWHERE gets a theatrical release?? We feel betrayed... We wouldn't even have to pirate the movies/TV shows if you simply put them on modern streaming services! 😭

    • @JustEnjoyThisShii
      @JustEnjoyThisShii 2 місяці тому +44

      Justice for Crow Pro 😢

    • @clescell6587
      @clescell6587 2 місяці тому +15

      Crow Pro!!!!

    • @axemanarbor
      @axemanarbor 2 місяці тому +11

      Crow Pro Power !!!

    • @emair8385
      @emair8385 2 місяці тому +11

      Yeah man wheres the crow pro adapted novel??

    • @NFITC1
      @NFITC1 2 місяці тому +12

      I subscribed to Crow Pro and haven't gotten the promised daily wideos!

  • @Ironraven001
    @Ironraven001 2 місяці тому +988

    I've written books. Tried to get them published. My first red flag would be a literary agent who actually contacted me 😢😂😢😂😅

    • @whisperienced
      @whisperienced 2 місяці тому +39

      yeah but you didn't write THIS book.

    • @Justadonkey
      @Justadonkey 2 місяці тому +51

      oh yeah! I read your stuff! It was about the one guy who did the thing but the other guy didnt like it?

    • @maskedman1337
      @maskedman1337 2 місяці тому +16

      ​@@JustadonkeyWas my favorite book of the year!

    • @willyberrington
      @willyberrington 2 місяці тому +8

      @@Justadonkey Yeah!

    • @dannydaw59
      @dannydaw59 2 місяці тому +6

      Is there a website that you submit your story? How do the scammers find your story?

  • @themidnightlibrary5045
    @themidnightlibrary5045 2 місяці тому +400

    That "Binangkal Recipe" reply by the female scammer associate is a usual meme reply in FB comments in the Philippines

    • @Jaminux
      @Jaminux 2 місяці тому +52

      thank you for the context! leaving a comment to hopefully boost this higher

    • @Tasoq
      @Tasoq 2 місяці тому +11

      Looking that up, it looks really nice lol

    • @jaybugg3r225
      @jaybugg3r225 2 місяці тому +7

      Seems like a good recipe

    • @takatotakasui8307
      @takatotakasui8307 2 місяці тому +25

      It's funny that she was trying to troll him but just ended up spreading a tasty recipe. I'm curious if there's a pun or something going on

    • @SomeTomfoolery
      @SomeTomfoolery 2 місяці тому +8

      Is there some kind of pun in it that I don't understand?

  • @crawlingthroughyourwalls
    @crawlingthroughyourwalls 2 місяці тому +537

    It feels like these scams are getting more and more abhorrent 💀. Please keep scamming scammers and raising awarness, it really makes a difference

    • @Hugsloth
      @Hugsloth 2 місяці тому +25

      The moment a telemarketer is cold calling you with an Indian accent, your first instinct should be extreme caution, I'm amazed there are still so many people susceptible to these scammers. Literally just put a sticker on your home phone saying "Indian man promising you money and fame is NOT a real person, hang up"

    • @GoliathFish75
      @GoliathFish75 2 місяці тому +4

      @@Hugsloth A scammer called a storm chaser (while setting up for Hurricane Helene), so the storm chaser said: "OH NO! HELP! There's an alligator in my living room!" lol

    • @MultiChrisjb
      @MultiChrisjb 2 місяці тому +8

      @@Hugsloth I would have thought the Indian accent would be a game ender for most of those scammers, but I guess people are so afraid of appearing racist that they fall for it, just in case.

    • @americanclassic553
      @americanclassic553 2 місяці тому +3

      These guys keep getting more and more evil

    • @Hugsloth
      @Hugsloth 2 місяці тому

      @@MultiChrisjb Based on what Kit's said in some of these videos, like a single scammer calling him every few minutes hundreds of times in a row, maybe the relentlessness is a big part of it. Like you hang up but they just keep calling and insisting "no this is real". Some might go along with it just to make the calls stop.

  • @lelandfranklin3487
    @lelandfranklin3487 2 місяці тому +214

    "You mean the studio that did that movie with that one guy?" "Yes" LOL😂

    • @Don-Oh
      @Don-Oh 2 місяці тому +18

      LoL....I caught that too. I like how Kit DIDN'T say a name. Perfectly played.

    • @KevFrost
      @KevFrost 2 місяці тому +18

      It's a good thing it wasnt the studio that did that movie with that other guy. Never deal with them

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior 2 місяці тому +1

      That, and "GEEZ Louise". How did I not see that coming, embarrassing?

  • @guesswho22peekaboo
    @guesswho22peekaboo 2 місяці тому +306

    My dad wrote a book and gets at least 4 of these calls a month. Thankfully he's aware enough to know they're scams, but idk if he realizes just how vicious these people are. Thanks for the video, man. Passing this along to him.

    • @borisstojanovic6646
      @borisstojanovic6646 2 місяці тому +22

      Meanwhile in Hollywood major studios are going crazy why this guy won't sign after they called him mutiple times 😂

    • @dannydaw59
      @dannydaw59 2 місяці тому +9

      Is there a website that authors submit thier work to review by publishers? How are the scammers seeing the story?

    • @JustEnjoyThisShii
      @JustEnjoyThisShii 2 місяці тому

      @@dannydaw59that’s what I’m wondering too. I’m sure they can scour amazon or something for people who have published books there, but as far as anything else im curious how they even find the authors & correct contact info in the first place… 🤔…

    • @NickMaovich
      @NickMaovich 2 місяці тому +4

      W dad

    • @guesswho22peekaboo
      @guesswho22peekaboo 2 місяці тому +1

      @@borisstojanovic6646 lol right?!

  • @KartenonYT
    @KartenonYT 2 місяці тому +297

    If these scammers had invested their time into adapting Butterfly Midwife instead trying to scam Thomas, they'd be rich enough they wouldn't need to be scammers.

  • @giantswingallday7001
    @giantswingallday7001 2 місяці тому +293

    I lost it when Kit started singing about butterflies 🦋!!

    • @jayrx12
      @jayrx12 2 місяці тому +14

      was actually fire🔥🔥🔥

    • @JustEnjoyThisShii
      @JustEnjoyThisShii 2 місяці тому +4

      I was cleaning & stepped away from my phone for a second to go grab my sweeper & came back & thought I got an ad with Mickey Mouse on it & went to skip the ad not realizing it was Kit, I couldn’t help but rewind a few times & laugh 😂😂😂

  • @Banaziir
    @Banaziir 2 місяці тому +337

    Kitboga: "I am not an author".
    Also Kitboga:
    "It was four score and 4 years ago. Midnight. The curtains in my living room were fluttering with spectral movement. I could tell something was thirsty for blood. I couldn't sleep because I knew something (or someone)was here in my house. I did what anyone would do in that situation. I cooked. I cooked like my life depended on it. First I got 3 cups of flour. Then I got ½ cup of sugar. Followed by ¼ TSP of salt. This is how you make Binangkal. I think. Ghosts are known to love it. I forgot the water. Oh god. The ghosts draw near. I can tell they won't like my bingangkal. I'm sweating. I'm crying. Tears of … joy? Maybe? Is that my huband. My dead ghost husband richard? Out of his urn? To see me? Oh how could I have forgotten.... it was our wedding anniversary. I can't beleive after all these years HE remember and not me. He was the one who always forgot. And now lookat me. Thats exactly what Richard was doing... looking right at my eyes. Well.. that is... if ghosts can see. I'm not sure. I'm not ghost. I'm human. That's where our story begins. Chapter 1. The ghosts."

    • @djjoycie27
      @djjoycie27 2 місяці тому +23

      And then what happened? 😮🍿🥤

    • @itsfionaur
      @itsfionaur 2 місяці тому +19

      Oh god 😨. The ghosts 👻 draw near 🏃. I can tell 🤓 they won’t like my binangkal 🤮 . I forgot

    • @Banaziir
      @Banaziir 2 місяці тому +18

      @@djjoycie27 Chapter 2. The Binangkal. I stood there, flour on my hands, the air thick with something I couldn’t name. It wasn’t just fear-it was expectation, like something more was about to happen. The ghosts didn’t come for the binangkal, that much I knew now. They didn’t care about the sugar or the salt or the flour. No, they wanted something else. Richard. My dead husband Richard. He was there, or at least… something that was him once. I felt it. His presence lingered like a whisper, a voice just out of reach, and I couldn’t help but think of our last argument, right before he died. I had forgotten the binangkal that day too. He hated when I forgot things, always rolling his eyes and shaking his head, muttering something sarcastic about “typical.” But tonight, it wasn’t about forgotten recipes. Tonight, it was about remembering him. The kitchen was cold now, colder than it had any right to be, and I felt a breeze sweep through the room, though the windows were closed. The binangkal sat untouched on the counter, but my eyes were glued to the urn, sitting silently on the shelf. “Richard,” I whispered, my voice shaking. “Is that you? Are you here?”
      (this part is from ChatGPT, generated during last stream by LeptonQuark)

    • @Clover_Tea
      @Clover_Tea 2 місяці тому +1

      I forgot
      (I'd love to see more of the form story xD)

    • @222o-u3t
      @222o-u3t 2 місяці тому +2

      what is this lmaooo

  • @rohini8084
    @rohini8084 2 місяці тому +113

    so many people hold some type of dream of being published, it's so crushing to think that those who are brave enough to write their books and want to share it, only to be preyed upon by someone.

    • @zama1861
      @zama1861 2 місяці тому +2

      What up brian griffin

    • @amberhernandez
      @amberhernandez 2 місяці тому +3

      Someone got me to talk for almost an hour about a story I'd written, and it left me rather bitter when I realised it was someone trying to scam me. I just sat there silent for about ten seconds, hung up, and stood in the shower until my skin was all prunelike. Haven't picked up an unrecognised number without prior notice since. :(

  • @TaterAvila
    @TaterAvila 2 місяці тому +253

    Kitboga is without question the GOAT of scambaiters

    • @djstanley1300
      @djstanley1300 2 місяці тому +13

      By far the most entertaining at least

    • @EightBillionplusOne
      @EightBillionplusOne 2 місяці тому +7

      He has the best goats

    • @bugcatcher8989
      @bugcatcher8989 2 місяці тому +1

      Nah these are fake you really think the scammers don’t know who he is by this point? They admitted in the last video they watch him live. FAKE.

    • @AuntBee42
      @AuntBee42 2 місяці тому +2

      he certainly, almost always, has the patience of a saint

    • @wellingnoton
      @wellingnoton 2 місяці тому

      @@bugcatcher8989these certainly aren’t fake, I promise you. My best friend from college works on Kitboga’s team. I’ve seen the behind the scenes work they do through him and whatnot, these are all 100% real interactions between scammers and Kitboga/his team

  • @avianna7738
    @avianna7738 2 місяці тому +61

    Kit… please do one for all the rental scams next. I’m so sick of getting run around in circles by their fake properties. ☹️

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior 2 місяці тому +5

      Some of them do it with REAL properties, using bait and switch tactics, where they show you a reasonable home, and then present you with a shiitehole, when you've already put down your deposit, which is more pain and likely cost than it is worth to try to retrieve. I have seen many of these stories on video.

    • @Noway-hu3wo
      @Noway-hu3wo 2 місяці тому

      this!! Kitboga do this!

    • @avianna7738
      @avianna7738 2 місяці тому +1

      I’ve encountered several with fake properties or someone telling me they can’t give me address but they’ll meet me somewhere and pick me up for a tour of the property, like 🤨🤦‍♀️
      But the one that has me so annoyed is massive-they find properties that are for sale online, have you sign up and remotely take a tour of these vacant properties to see “if you like it”, and then collect your deposit.
      Or demand that you sign up for some website to get a code to get access to the property using a shady link that mines your data and login info to various accounts you have.
      I’m homeless, unemployed and broke and what little I have left I wanted to use to pay rent in some decent home so I can set up and get back on my feet; but these scumbags are preying on ppl like me who don’t even have the “luxury” of applying for sky-high rent with mandatory 12-month contracts through the standard rental agencies because of a lack off one or more of the qualifying requirements they all have. So yeah. Vultures.

    • @RC.41
      @RC.41 2 місяці тому +1

      Yeah do slumlords!

    • @floriaxonasaphroxilanthopo4904
      @floriaxonasaphroxilanthopo4904 4 дні тому

      Oh yeah. Some even have legit offices staff doing this work. At least in Rome when I was lookig. For a house

  • @bendybruce
    @bendybruce 2 місяці тому +36

    This is incredibly timely. I've just spent the last four years of my life writing my first novel and um about to start looking for an agent. I now realize I will have to be very careful And make sure I end up dealing with someone legit. Thanks.

    • @toniremer1594
      @toniremer1594 2 місяці тому +5

      @bendybruce The same with me. I want to wish you the very, very, very best of luck! May your novel gets published soon!!

    • @bendybruce
      @bendybruce 2 місяці тому

      @@toniremer1594 You too. btw I love this channel so much. Listning to Kitboga f!k with scammers never gets old.

  • @eph2vv89only1way
    @eph2vv89only1way 2 місяці тому +25

    I'm glad you are warning people. I recently survived cancer and am keeping a journal. I still have to have reconstruction surgery, but once I am finished with that I hope to publish my journal to help other people going through this. It is good to be aware that someone may try to scam me like this if I can successfully publish the journal

  • @andjkh
    @andjkh 2 місяці тому +74

    Whenever I hear Kit's character say "Hold on, let me get my wife/husband." I know it's gonna be great.

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior 2 місяці тому +5

      Especially good when he has THREE of them going, with recordings of previous comments, played back over top of his current comments, in a fake shouting match. How he keeps track of all that stuff, while furthering an entertaining narrative 'on the side' is beyond me. It is a honed talent. And he has to keep the verbal flow going, without breaking up.

  • @mahdesian
    @mahdesian 2 місяці тому +71

    "I don't think this book is going anywhere." Louise was a real downer. lol

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior 2 місяці тому +7

      YEAH, GEEZ Louise!

  • @Youthfullegend
    @Youthfullegend 2 місяці тому +89

    "Vanessa pulls out a magic wand blinking with lights... Then techno music starts to play!" 😂

    • @KoDoG06
      @KoDoG06 2 місяці тому +1

      better yet, party boy music starts to play 😂

  • @pauljcohen2007
    @pauljcohen2007 2 місяці тому +82

    "Geez Lousie" I almost fell out of my chair.

    • @JustEnjoyThisShii
      @JustEnjoyThisShii 2 місяці тому +2

      Same af 😂😂😂

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior 2 місяці тому +3

      You're lucky, I almost spit my coffee across the room. The worst part is that I didn't see it coming. Too obvious to miss. I should know better by now. ;-)

    • @pauljcohen2007
      @pauljcohen2007 2 місяці тому +1

      @@MrJdsenior I was dying. It was a well needed laugh though.

    • @panutalus
      @panutalus 2 місяці тому

      what is that reference I miss?

    • @pauljcohen2007
      @pauljcohen2007 2 місяці тому

      @@panutalus it’s just an expression you did didn’t really miss anything

  • @AnimalisMD
    @AnimalisMD 2 місяці тому +37

    "Butterflies oh yes oh yes" 🎶🎶 OMG I nearly fell off my chair especially when the scammer started singing along.🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @StackACat
    @StackACat 2 місяці тому +13

    Hey Kit, just wanna say, YOU'RE valuable, and I hope you know that. Always makes me so mad when they curse you out as if they're not the ones doing wrong

  • @LeapYeargirl
    @LeapYeargirl 2 місяці тому +224

    Kit you and your team are awesome, thanks for making people aware of this

    • @DoxxyLover57
      @DoxxyLover57 2 місяці тому +7

      My sentiments exactly. Everyone should listen to scam baiters.

    • @cherbenmoussa314
      @cherbenmoussa314 2 місяці тому +4

      Friend you are so supportive and loved by the community!! 💜💜💜

    • @LeapYeargirl
      @LeapYeargirl 2 місяці тому +1

      @cherbenmoussa314 you are wayyyyy more supportive than me my friend

    • @introusas
      @introusas 2 місяці тому +2

      Are those pecan sandies

  • @MaliceTheGrey
    @MaliceTheGrey 2 місяці тому +104

    this breaks my heart, man. imagine working so hard on your dream, just for someone to rob you of not only that dream, but tens of thousands of dollars.
    Thank you for stepping in and saving those people, Kit!!

    • @zekrom6537
      @zekrom6537 2 місяці тому +3

      i hate these scummy scammers too but come on how are humans this stupid? why some people think that they are the center of the universe? why they think that magically people wanna publish their book out of thousands of writers and books why they think that they are SOOOO special.... like i dont understand how is it possible for someone to fall for this scam??? like you have to be out of your mind to assume/think that any publisher would ever care about YOU when you just an unknown person, i feel like too many people have this disorder of main character syndrome where they think they sooooo lucky to be chosen by the Gods or something and become rich overnight... regardless if its a book if its art if its whatever... nobody and i mean literally nobody gonna call you to give you riches for your skill.... every person who try become rich or famous through similar means takes years of hard work and lot of risk involved its hard to become successful because the competition in book writing is just too big... everyone wanna write books nowadays cause everyone thinking omg i can just think of a random story and publish it and be rich but reality doesnt work that way maybe 1 out of 1000 or 10k become successful the rest either barely make any money or they go in the negatives and give up

    • @Red-jl1qr
      @Red-jl1qr 2 місяці тому +1

      ​@zekrom6537 wow. Textbook victim blaming.

    • @Giantkiller130-t
      @Giantkiller130-t 2 місяці тому +1

      @@zekrom6537the thing is they target vulnerable people. Older people with dementia tend to fall for these because of mental decline. Your comment reads like someone who also feels they are the main character. You assume everyone is equally as smart as you are and don’t consider that there are many factors that go into why this happens.

    • @MaliceTheGrey
      @MaliceTheGrey 2 місяці тому

      @@zekrom6537 i feel like that’s one of the easiest things for scammers to take advantage of! finding someone with a god/superiority delusion, feed the delusion with praise and attention, BOOM ezpz target.

    • @bugcatcher8989
      @bugcatcher8989 2 місяці тому

      These bait videos are FAKED.

  • @CoolScratcher
    @CoolScratcher 2 місяці тому +92

    As a teenager who eventually wants to become a filmmaker and author, hearing that poor older lady recount her experience of getting scammed and wanting to get her books back broke my heart. The worst thing you can do to an artist is take away their medium. It's soul crushing in a way nothing else really is. Thank you for your services, and I hope I never go through this in my creative journey. I really don't know how I'd feel.

  • @Perfect_Pizza
    @Perfect_Pizza 2 місяці тому +21

    My friend fell for a similar scam. He was a small time rapper that got called out to miami to “fill a open slot” at a festival called rolling loud. They made him fly out. Impressed him with a yacht, alcohol, contracts, etc. told him he just had to pay 5k to cover some kind of legal stuff.
    … lets say after his entire crew flew out and showed up at the gates the ticket / guard people told him “if you were in this show, you would know where to go and this isnt it…
    They send him fake “passes” i think too.

    • @hectorg5809
      @hectorg5809 2 місяці тому +2

      That's terrible

    • @Sonworshipper
      @Sonworshipper 2 місяці тому

      Rolling Loud is HUUUUUGGGEEEE

    • @saggygnaw
      @saggygnaw 2 місяці тому +3

      I was thinking about how this happens in the music promotion scene all the time.

    • @debmccafferty1007
      @debmccafferty1007 2 місяці тому

      😮😢​@@saggygnaw

  • @tanasketch9755
    @tanasketch9755 2 місяці тому +31

    I love you Kit!! Keep on educating people and keep on giving these scammers nightmares!

  • @lorielovesbooks7315
    @lorielovesbooks7315 2 місяці тому +50

    As a lover of literature and a person with a dream to write my own book this makes me so sad for those poor victims. People are just trying to share their books to the world and to be targeted for that is dispicable.

    • @LaCommentaire
      @LaCommentaire 2 місяці тому +5

      These days it's easy to self-publish on Amazon. Anyone can do it. I think this scam is more predicated on the idea that someone wants to take your book and make it into a movie.

    • @liamisresponsible
      @liamisresponsible 2 місяці тому +3

      @@UA-camPremiumMemif you were a stillborn nothing in my life would change

    • @atomdecay
      @atomdecay 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@UA-camPremiumMem found Mike's burner account. Aww poor sad Mike, being made a fool of in front of the whole world. 😂

    • @snickerdoodle8776
      @snickerdoodle8776 2 місяці тому +2

      @loriellovesbooks7315
      Ignore that person below you, I hope your book gets published and im sure its really good writting where everyone wants to read it.
      I believe in you dude! :)

  • @opethheimer
    @opethheimer 2 місяці тому +10

    I have spend over a decade trying to get a book published and, not gonna lie, I would be willing to oversee red flags like that out of sheer desperation. It's like scammers know literary industry often makes writers insane...

    • @schwingedeshaehers
      @schwingedeshaehers 2 місяці тому +1

      depending on what you want, you can self publish it.

    • @opethheimer
      @opethheimer 2 місяці тому

      @schwingedeshaehers I know, but that also takes a lot of money, and also connections to have the book displayed in booktstores. Simply put, it comes with its own set of unsurmountable problems.

    • @schwingedeshaehers
      @schwingedeshaehers 2 місяці тому +1

      @@opethheimer it depends on what you mean with a lot of money. we self published a preprint? of an book from my grandpa, and probably will also do the full release ourselves.
      and yeah, to get it sold on bookstores/... is difficult.

    • @opethheimer
      @opethheimer 2 місяці тому

      @@schwingedeshaehers What I meant by expensive are the fees to get from a manuscript to an actual book. I'm not sure if ISBN also requires money, but printing and binding does. Also, if we put bookstores out of the equation, then there has to be some form of promotion and expedition of the book as a product, and I'm sure that is not going to be free...
      Long story short: it's a mess to be a writer nowadays.

  • @Skimmer88
    @Skimmer88 2 місяці тому +16

    lol "i would buy puts on this, I'm bearish." Loved this little bit of stock option knowledge just nonchalantly tossed in

  • @georgeadams6254
    @georgeadams6254 2 місяці тому +45

    10:26 - Jeeez, Louise!! that's so good.

  • @Ezio999Auditore
    @Ezio999Auditore 2 місяці тому +10

    “Butterfly Midwife is the Citizen Kane of the Bee Movie/Shrek era.” - Roger Ebert’s phylactery.

  • @atomdecay
    @atomdecay 2 місяці тому +4

    Wow, didnt expect to be crying while watching one of these, especially moments after laughing my butt off at Mike's foolish singing. That was absolutely heartbreaking to hear people's dreams be crushed like this. I know it was tough for you to deliver that news, Kit, but you did the right thing. You are a superhero, no matter how much the truth may hurt them, you absolutely did the right thing. Man, this was so, so emotional & I feel so much for these poor victims. I know you know this, but you are doing amazing work, definitely what you were born to do. From all of us watching, from all of the victims you helped, sincerely, thank you so much.

  • @Awesomeplayer98
    @Awesomeplayer98 2 місяці тому +40

    Finally!
    You’ve been streaming this scam for months

    • @poochiew.9302
      @poochiew.9302 2 місяці тому +11

      It's really cool to see videos come out what I experienced live! I try looking for my name when he has the chat on screen, kinda like a where's Waldo lol.

    • @candyparent2483
      @candyparent2483 2 місяці тому

      Me too! Saw mine a couple of times,candyspoppin69!

  • @Yayo-pf4dq
    @Yayo-pf4dq 2 місяці тому +15

    I've been waiting for this saga and finally it's here!! It's wild and I loved it. Thank you raising awareness about this scam.

  • @EsteemedReptile
    @EsteemedReptile 2 місяці тому +26

    Oh man, I've been dealing with this shit for YEARS! I wrote a kids book back in 2017 and they've been nipping at my heels ever since. Never fell for it luckily.

    • @MrVovansim
      @MrVovansim 2 місяці тому

      Interesting. A friend of mine published a children's book, and it got printed maybe a month ago. Going to ask her if she's getting these calls.

    • @EsteemedReptile
      @EsteemedReptile 2 місяці тому +1

      @MrVovansim If she went the self publishing rout, it's entirely possible. They will prey on new, inexperienced authors and make all these grand claims of radio interviews and movie scripts and cheap advertising. They'll also pretend to be from high profile publishing houses (like Penguin). If she gets any "offers" that sound like that, she needs to tell them to go kick rocks.

  • @that-mccormick-guy
    @that-mccormick-guy 2 місяці тому +30

    the thing that's most sad is the scam looks absurd to us because who the hell would make "Butterfly Midwife" a movie... however when someone who truly has a book that they put their heart and soul into and they get contacted they immediately go "this is my break, this is my once in a lifetime chance" and it doesn't look or feel so absurd to them, but if it was real they would be making a lot of money too and would be willing to spend money to get that contract so another film studio doesn't

    • @zekrom6537
      @zekrom6537 2 місяці тому +1

      thats the issue, for anyone with a brain it would instantly sound absurd and unrealistic... but some of these so called "writers" are so delusional that they fall for any scam its really sad..... they are delusional because they think they are the main character they think they soooo "lucky" that anyone care about them and their bad writing lol, everyone wanna be a book writer lately cause everyone just want an easy way to make money its sad what world we live in... every single one of them just looking at how to cut corners... if you truly talented and truly serious about becoming a writer then you would know that its lot of hard work and that nobody gonna call YOU specifically to make a deal, you aint important to them

    • @CErra310
      @CErra310 2 місяці тому +23

      @@zekrom6537 imagine missing the point this hard and having the balls to think you can punch down on any other person in this world. subhuman

    • @TheHolySemiColon
      @TheHolySemiColon 2 місяці тому +6

      The plot of "Butterfly Midwife" is honestly no more ridiculous than the plot of "Boss Baby" and look how that turned out.

    • @liamisresponsible
      @liamisresponsible 2 місяці тому +3

      @@zekrom6537who broke your heart, man. Something hurts in there, doesn’t it? You try to teach others a lesson by metaphorically breaking their finger, but it breaks your heart- and so now every time you see someone with the same dream as the younger you, your soul is torn apart.

    • @flup1303
      @flup1303 2 місяці тому

      @@CErra310 Calling someone subhuman for pointing out a harsh truth? And now... that other guy is making weird assumptions about dreams?
      It is true. Scammers prey on shortcuts. Anyone who gets tunnel vision or sees a "get rich quick scheme" is prime target. Whether it is their desire to inherit millions, or get random 'set for life' royalties off a book they wrote. They are right. If one puts in EFFORT to write a book, yet lacks due diligence when it comes to publishing... greed has overtaken them and gullible is written on every page. Is it delusion? Yeah. Yeah it is. Agents don't go to people! People go to agents!
      (That is, without any mitigating circumstance... disability or otherwise)

  • @christiangonzales7429
    @christiangonzales7429 2 місяці тому +6

    This was so heartbreaking to hear about!! God Bless you Kit and your team for all your hard work to save the world from scams!!

  • @rallandtariv2139
    @rallandtariv2139 2 місяці тому +7

    6:00 instead of going to purgatory, it seems unbaptized babies become butterflies in order to find their parents and enter heaven

  • @austinwayne62
    @austinwayne62 2 місяці тому +7

    30:49 "B I N A.... Go f*** yourself." Might be the greatest line ever uttered by not Kitboga on this channel 😂

  • @thehopelesspragmatic6701
    @thehopelesspragmatic6701 2 місяці тому +19

    NOT THE BUTTERFLYS AGAIN, the continuity and returning gags are priceless.

  • @indiedavecomix3882
    @indiedavecomix3882 2 місяці тому +25

    Ok, I'm glad you shut that dude down. Now when is Butterfly Midwife gonna hit Netflix?

  • @jasonsmith6196
    @jasonsmith6196 2 місяці тому +24

    I've been watching your videos for years...for laughs, for your cleverness, but mostly because ultimately you are looking out for good people.
    While the world is falling apart, you are a hero!
    Keep it up!

  • @snowyinferno
    @snowyinferno 2 місяці тому +68

    Filipino here. The Binangcal bit is not a joke, it was just to throw you off. Also, binangcal is sooo yummy! Good bread snack.

    • @AngeloGene
      @AngeloGene 2 місяці тому +3

      Nice! Kapwa pinoy. xD

    • @rh906
      @rh906 2 місяці тому +6

      So the Phillipines have Chinese level of humor. Got it.

    • @goviie
      @goviie 2 місяці тому +10

      This is the first time I encountered a professional Filipino scammer 😮

    • @anemoium1
      @anemoium1 2 місяці тому +1

      Sheeeesh sigaw sigaw mga peenoise, mga fan din pala kayo ni kit

  • @SeabraPaulo
    @SeabraPaulo 2 місяці тому +40

    Didn't a scammer once try to help the old lady publish a book of poems secretly written by her deceased husband Richard who had been the reincarnated William Shakespeare?

    • @DodgyDaveGTX
      @DodgyDaveGTX 2 місяці тому +3

      Oh god the cassette tape. I still hear that song on my dreams

    • @tears-dot825
      @tears-dot825 2 місяці тому +1

      Where can I find this video?😂

  • @Lindrios
    @Lindrios 2 місяці тому +10

    10:29 "Geeze Louise!!
    I laughed way too hard at that 😅

  • @hhin
    @hhin 2 місяці тому +7

    The singing broke me up 😂😂😂. Even the scammer was wetting himself hahaha, just brilliant 😂😂😂

  • @OOnespec
    @OOnespec 2 місяці тому +3

    Man, seriously upped your game since I first started watching. This is hilarious. Lost it at all the images he drew, the singing (both times, the title. Holy sh*t, this was amazing

  • @tinabeenaluvsu
    @tinabeenaluvsu 2 місяці тому +23

    Another Kit video! YESSS!

  • @jeffreysg
    @jeffreysg 2 місяці тому +69

    Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high. Take a look, it’s in this book, butterflies are deceased babies…. Wait, What!!??? I hope Geordie doesn’t read this to the kids. 😂

    • @MrJdsenior
      @MrJdsenior 2 місяці тому +1

      I would pay to see that.

    • @louieberg2942
      @louieberg2942 2 місяці тому +1

      Reading raaainboooow

  • @xliquidflames
    @xliquidflames 2 місяці тому +11

    My first book is with my editor for its final pass. I hope to get it published. I had no idea this was a thing. But I also have a lawyer. So, I would have run this by them before doing anything. But thanks for bringing awareness to this kind of thing. I had no idea scammers were targeting authors.

    • @xliquidflames
      @xliquidflames 2 місяці тому

      @@UA-camPremiumMem What do you mean? All kids in the US that ride the bus ride a yellow one.

    • @impkiller5932
      @impkiller5932 2 місяці тому

      ​@@xliquidflamesbut why? Should we ever found an answer to this?

  • @Jedi_Paragon
    @Jedi_Paragon 2 місяці тому +4

    Okay but lowkey a story about how babies that have tragically passed away being reincarnated into butterflies is kind of beautiful

    • @lesapurkey5966
      @lesapurkey5966 2 місяці тому

      Yes! I agree. I think that could be a beautiful book.

  • @deadslash736
    @deadslash736 2 місяці тому +5

    @12:29 "Return of the King" killed me. idk why, it's all funny, but that just made me laugh so hard.

  • @timdene
    @timdene Місяць тому +2

    Your duet was one of the best moments of UA-cam I've seen, absolutely hilarious!

  • @LunaticKD1991
    @LunaticKD1991 2 місяці тому +20

    😱 Kitboga is going to be a movie star!
    The John Wick of scam baiters!

  • @kiii9403
    @kiii9403 2 місяці тому +2

    Dude I love this internet stranger so much! Kit you and your team are just incredible!

  • @NDJunction
    @NDJunction 2 місяці тому +28

    im so proud of you, KIT. sometimes i worry scammers get so mad they take things out on friends or family and their mental health literally dies, but as you say in your videos most times, its so wrong to scam, you should do something you are proud of, and no matter what we should help our nations, our world with positive progression and do what we actually love. thank u, dude

  • @GoliathFish75
    @GoliathFish75 2 місяці тому +27

    Scamming writers are very pervasive and easy, especially on facebook...pretending to be beta readers, editors, publishers, agents. Either scammers directly try to steal money and/or they steal a writer's work and publish it themselves for the royalties. If anyone here is a writer: Never pay anyone to publish your book or turn your book into a film. No one takes unsolicited scripts/books for film. The Filming industry never comes to you. Realistically, it takes years of networking and making people like you to get a toe in the filming industry.

    • @Elliot226
      @Elliot226 2 місяці тому

      I guess I'm a bit confused on that front. Like George RR Martin didn't want Game of Thrones adapted for movies or TV, but Dan and Dave got the okay to approach him, as well as many other companies before them. Obviously that isn't the same as these scammers going after MUCH smaller authors, but just as an example. And Peter Jackson worked his entire life to get the rights to adapt Lord of the Rings. They were the ones going out of their way to get it, not the authors/estates. So how does that work?

    • @jampine8268
      @jampine8268 2 місяці тому

      ​@Elliot226 all those people are known in the industry. And the works they're adapting are already titans.
      They're not random people who crawled out an alleyway and promised infinite wealth to random passerbys.

  • @lusimyer
    @lusimyer 2 місяці тому +3

    Omg..the scammer was so into the song he became a back up singer!!! 😂😂😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️

  • @TheEccentricRaven
    @TheEccentricRaven 2 місяці тому +2

    This stream was great to watch live and much appreciated by aspiring writers like me. I fell for a literary scam when I sent a poem to the International Library of Poetry who promised to publish my poems for a price (gladly they don't exist anymore). After going through that heartache, it’s satsfying to see Kit mess with these guys. It's for reasons like this that I tell aspiring writers to not take shortcuts. There are plenty of ways to traditionally publish or self-publish without paying anything. Thank you Kitboga for what you did. I look forward to when the whole call is uploaded 😊

  • @LadyValkyri
    @LadyValkyri 2 місяці тому +6

    Thank you, Kit, Team & Officer Kyle. You matter! Hugs

  • @JohnBastiani-s6r
    @JohnBastiani-s6r 2 місяці тому +2

    Hi kitboga!!!! The stories you tell the scammers is incredible and they follow along. It's amazing what money can do. Thanks mate take care

  • @smokejc
    @smokejc 2 місяці тому +13

    These 'people' have no moral boundaries whatsoever, it's insane.

  • @Hypetrain1999
    @Hypetrain1999 2 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for making internet better place 😊

  • @alanharper23
    @alanharper23 2 місяці тому +22

    Don't let shadow wing build his popcorn machine! 🦇🍿🦋

  • @Despasityo
    @Despasityo 2 місяці тому +15

    Lots of love to you KIT!!!❤❤❤❤

  • @Linzie157
    @Linzie157 2 місяці тому +2

    I had that scam via email in the uk, I didn’t fall for it and they eventually gave up and left me alone. It’s because of you Kit, making me more aware,. Thank you ❤

  • @tiamat_023
    @tiamat_023 2 місяці тому +8

    7:53 nah brah you definitely gotta lock that in 🤣🤣🤣

    • @NBehavior
      @NBehavior 2 місяці тому +1

      HUMAN BABIES

  • @bena461
    @bena461 2 місяці тому +7

    at GEEZ LOUISE I was LAUGHING
    when the scammer started singing, I was DONE 🤣🤣🤣

  • @r.m.4704
    @r.m.4704 2 місяці тому +21

    You have to click when a Kitboga video drops 💯

  • @gumbislice1605
    @gumbislice1605 Місяць тому +1

    I love watching your live streams and then seeing them summed up in your youtube videos. What a journey!

  • @NickMott-pc6kr
    @NickMott-pc6kr 2 місяці тому +4

    This was a rollercoaster of emotions. Keep outing these scammers.

  • @jamestoombs7267
    @jamestoombs7267 2 місяці тому +5

    I’m dying. This is the funniest thing. You got the scammer singing your fake song for your fake book for your fake screenplay. You should take this on the comedy circuit. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Vicki_Benji
    @Vicki_Benji 2 місяці тому +4

    Thank you for everything you do, Kit!

  • @sheilasorby9596
    @sheilasorby9596 2 місяці тому +1

    Thanks

  • @billstill1794
    @billstill1794 2 місяці тому +12

    I ended up publishing Kitboga's wonderful book! It only cost me $37 for mimeographing and stapling the 5 pages together!

    • @LaCommentaire
      @LaCommentaire 2 місяці тому +1

      Bring back 'zines! I miss those days.

  • @ScarTalon
    @ScarTalon 2 місяці тому +1

    Love what you do. You and your team deserve all the praise in the world. I'm glad you were able to help some of the victims. I watch a lot of scam baiting videos and this scam group was one of the worst I've seen

  • @vf1923
    @vf1923 2 місяці тому +9

    "Was that the movie with the one guy?"
    "Yeah!"
    Classic scammerese.

  • @redsnake4300
    @redsnake4300 2 місяці тому

    Thanks!

  • @candyparent2483
    @candyparent2483 2 місяці тому +4

    How very sad Kit! Kudos to Officer Kyle and to you and your team

  • @jimrussell670
    @jimrussell670 2 місяці тому +4

    I would have bet it was going to be "Crow Pro: The book" . Well done all around.

  • @Lozzyjayne
    @Lozzyjayne 2 місяці тому +6

    "Everyone understands!! Don't you understand, Mike??"
    ".....................yeah yeah" 😂

  • @Kurachi84
    @Kurachi84 Місяць тому +1

    23:08 Man, he's so good with technology! He now talks from the other side, too!
    "Mike Reed?" or "my greed"? XD
    30:38 Banana cult?! Imma join!!
    I love watching you get some evildoers, and i hope their victims are doing better by now!

  • @DARIVSARCHITECTVS
    @DARIVSARCHITECTVS 2 місяці тому +3

    You should adapt "Butterfly Midwife" into a Broadway musical and get scammers to sing some of the roles.

  • @jamie-ramone
    @jamie-ramone Місяць тому +2

    Pro tip: literary agents don't charge up front. Instead, they take a percentage of your royalties (usually around 15%, it depends) once your work is actually published. If an 'agent' starts asking you for money, you should immediately be suspicious. Also, yeah, they don't generally reach out to you. You reach out to them. Most agents have more than enough hopefuls' manuscripts piled up to have any need to go around trawling for more.

  • @rap319
    @rap319 2 місяці тому +10

    These scammers are getting out of hand 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

  • @heathersmiliekiwi8528
    @heathersmiliekiwi8528 2 місяці тому +1

    You seriously deserve an Oscar with your skills of switching from one character to another!!
    I can arrange for that …
    You just need to fill in this contract… with your bank details…

  • @DieHardRedemption
    @DieHardRedemption 2 місяці тому +7

    Keep scamming them scammers, dude 😎

  • @Dextronaut1
    @Dextronaut1 2 місяці тому +1

    This is possibly the funniest video Kit has ever made. Hysterical what scammers can fall for 🤣

  • @MikeyMobes
    @MikeyMobes 2 місяці тому +10

    BUTTERFLY MIDWIFE LETS GO

  • @marcelmais6430
    @marcelmais6430 2 місяці тому +1

    7:14 for this alone u deserve a comment and like!
    All jokes asside you doing such a great job in hinderung these scammes and spreading awareness. Rly good vid, kit!

  • @Kdkaren431
    @Kdkaren431 2 місяці тому +3

    As hilarious is this video is the sad part is that people do get scammed I’m glad there’s people like you out there to bring attention to it

  • @akuheish
    @akuheish 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you everyone involved in doing everything you all do.

  • @llchapman1234
    @llchapman1234 2 місяці тому +3

    "There's nothing worse than a daffodil." That reading slayed me. Then the singing started 😂😂😂