Try a Different Angle (Scambaiting - Scammers Who Dumped Me)
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- A lot of scambaiting conversations go nowhere, sometimes quite fast. Here are some of those.
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In case you have questions about my scambaiting videos or efforts, you might find the answer below:
No, Really, are you just talking to bots? - • Davis Bon is Dead AGAI... &t=456
Are scammers using AI? - • Keep to the Code (Scam...
Why don't you send malware to the scammers? - • Wave Your Tight Hands ...
Why do scammers offer choices, if it's all just a scam? - • OK Who Is in Charge He...
SHOULD more people take up scambaiting? - • Davis Bon is Not OK (S...
'Ummmm.., Actually, Jim Browning can counter-hack scammers...' - • OK... Can I Get it in ...
(Mini FAQ) 'Can't get scammed if you have no money!' - • OK... Can I Get it in ...
'You cant scam an honest person' - true or false? - • OK, Why is Everything ...
Why do scammers promise such big rewards, and demand relatively small fees? - • Bringing Scammers Toge...
Is it just old people who get scammed? - • Just say 'WHAT?' to Sc...
Why are scammers frequently 'Reverend'? - • We Probably Mean Harm ...
Can you help me recover money from scammers? - • OK... There Is No Adva...
Has Atomic Shrimp been scammed before? Is this all about revenge? - • What the Heck is a Cle...
Why are the scams so badly written? (Also do stupid people deserve to be scammed?) - • I'm Just Mad About SAF...
Why do the scammers ask for personal details (that they don't seem to use)? - • A Little Nonsense Now ...
Why don't you scam the scammers? - • John Warosa: Redemptio...
Are you helping scammers to get better at scamming? - • John Barosa: Resurrect...
Why not tell the scammers to deduct the fee from the prize? - • The John Warosa Legacy...
Who is John Warosa/Barosa? - • The John Warosa Legacy...
Did you steal your script, or steal or the idea of scambaiting from someone else? • OK There Is An Imposto...
Why don't you make more/only scambaiting videos? • OK Let's Cross The Str...
If the scammers want Steam/Google Play/iTunes cards, are they kids/gamers? • Let's Create One Big U...
Can I send you scam emails for you to bait? • Let's Try Continual De...
How can I get started scambaiting? • John Barosa Rides Agai...
Why do you blur the scammers' email addresses? • Making A Nuisance Of M...
Why don't you read the scammer's emails in an Indian Accent? • Let's Get Wholesome Wi...
Why don't you report these scammers to the police? • Let's Try A Series Of ...
Are these stories real? • The Scammers Who Dumpe...
How do people even fall for scams? • The Scammers Who Dumpe...
How do people even fall for scams? (Revisited): • OK - Seems Legit (Scam...
How safe is scambaiting? • OK - Let's Try Speedru...
How do you Receive so many scam emails? • The Least Credible Sca...
Aren't you just wasting your time? • The Surprising Return ... - Навчання та стиль
Everyone deserves someone that looks at them like Mr. Shrimp looks at his spam folder
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And put as much thought and effort to have such humourous and creative responses
"I suggest you better start thanking your God" is a fantastic line
Pick a god and pray
that line legit made me need to pause just to laugh for a good minute or so. sometimes there's just sheer gold in these emails before anyone even offers a consignment.
Hello Ma-baby, hello Ma-honey, hello Ambassador...
HELLO MA BABY HELLO MA DARLING
Don't be alarmed by the triangles, they are merely the latest variant of Geometric Solids that the Slaughter Valley government requests you keep in your home for safety purposes. Do not attempt to ingest or measure the angles of these triangles. In the event that your triangle becomes a quadrilateral, contact the emergency services at once.
Injest? Why would anyone eat a syringe?
The Ministry of Triangle Finance in Slaughter Valley will be discussing the escaped food Triangles with you shortly. Do NOT be alarmed
It's "ingest", not "injest". I do not say this in jest.
🤦
@@JanusHoW Questions are unnecessary.
"I suggest you better start thanking your god" is a huge flex.
10/10
Terrifying! 😅
It sounds so weirdly threatening
Some say it's vital to stay in shape, but none of them clarify which shape exactly. Perhaps "triangle" is the ultimate answer to that. Also, 42 of them.
42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
@@UncleThor But what was the question again?
Triangles are the best shape: strongest and most tasty
hexagons are the bestagons... @@deltasaves
Hexagon is the bestagon
Please Mr shrimp if you get into a position where you're asking a scammer a question hit them with "where does the sun go when it rains?". It will make my week.
The glottal stop followed by "sss" every time someone uses an apostrophe to make a plural sends me every time
exactly my kind of humor
Every time someone uses "would of" I have to fight so hard not reply in a way containing "would under" in an equally wrong fashion.
"Federal Ministry of Finance" is certainly one of the phrases of all time. In the US, we don't have Ministers, at least not in government.
Sounds more like an African govt ministry.
@@roginkor Indian/Pakistani
We do in Canada.
The us isn't the only country with federal agencies
Ministry and ministers are different things you know
I work for a financial institution that's often named in scam emails.
If I decide to scambait, when I'm tired of stringing them along, I ask for their "corporate ID number" (we use a different name for it). Every employee knows their number, and they are freely exchanged within the company.
Of course, the scammers don't have the right number - they don't even know the proper name for the number. Usually they drop me as soon as I ask, but sometimes they try to b.s. me.
The company also does scam training, so I'm pretty good at spotting scams. I'm still very careful, as I could be caught in a weak moment, as could anyone.
"I work for a financial institution that's often named in scam emails."
oh you work for coinsquirt do'nt you ?
I'm curious about the triangles too, I had some appear in a pizza a few years ago, and more recently in a bag of Doritos.
Glad to find another victim.
I've seen them in bars of Toblerone!
Hi shrimp, a while back I almost got scammed and I attribute the "almost" part solely to you. The FAQ segments you stubbornly insert into your videos taught me humility and helped to eradicate the mindsets of "You only get scammed when you're dishonest" or "only dumb people get scammed". Thanks to that, as soon as I realised something was suspicious I sprung into action and called my bank to block my account, something I might not have done if I was too proud to think I could get scammed
In the end I didn't lose a single cent but my phone number gets a ridiculous amount of spam now. Another reminder that even someone who watches your videos religiously and really should know better is susceptible to getting scammed
What was the scam and how did they start it if you dont mind me asking?
@@phase7058 I was a bit tight on money so I wanted to sell some of my own stuff online. I used a platform I had an account on but which I haven't touched for years so I assumed there would be some changes
I got a private message with legit looking screenshots about how apparently an interested person couldn't buy the item because my account wasn't verified. From there it was a phishing scam aiming to get my banking information (which made sense to me at the time, you need to enter your bank account in the info on the website so you could be transferred money, right? So I thought it was just your regular verification process
I could have been more careful. I should have been. But I'm thankful that I recognised something was wrong pretty much immediately after entering my details and knew I wasn't "too smart" to fall for a scam
Am I old? No, I'm 23. Am I not tech savy? No. Was I trying to be dishonest or believed a situation that was "too good to be true"? No, it was completely normal and rational
Am I "naive" or "stupid" for falling for it? Perhaps. But I'd much rather live with that knowledge than with an empty bank account
I can really see this happening-normally in these videos all these emails seem silly, but some of the more professional ones in today’s video looked downright real. I shudder to think of what the actually good scams must be like; I’d probably fall for them and not even realize.
@@phase7058 I typed out a lengthy reply but looks like shrimp's auto filter blocked it :( But the gist of it is that I was trying to sell some of my old clothes on a website I hadn't used in years
The word "kindly" anywhere in an email is a dead giveaway every time
Frank Fontaine has obsession with "would you kindly", but has forgotten full phrase.
@@vksasdgaming9472i blame Atlas
For me, it's "reconfirm".
and “do the needful”
What gets me is the mention of dollars, dollars. dollars. Maybe they wanted to know how many of each bill so you don't have just large bills.
Mr Shrimp, you should know by now that only the poorest quality business proposals are 100% risk free. I don't even consider a proposal unless they can promise at *least* 110% free risk.
19:41 _"It's not dead, it's just resting. Beautiful plumage, the Norwegian Blue."_ 🤣😂🤣
It's pining for the fjords!
48 hour monitoring must be where they glance at the thing they're monitoring once every 48 hours.
Omg the SAFFRON template is back 🤣
Shrimp: Looks at the crocuses in his yard and starts making plans
it looks like red string
I wonder if at some point there was a news story about saffron being used in cancer medication that inspired these scams.
I started getting SAFFRON scam emails after I searched for saffron bulbs to grow at home. Culinary saffron is a totally different species than that used for colchicine for cancer treatment.
Lovely laugh out loud stuff, and a welcome return for SAFFRON!. There have been a few of these scams where they try to instil a panic by saying that some dodgy geezer has come into the bank trying to claim the non-existent winnings. I wonder what they would say if you replied with something like: "Oh Andrew Cox? Yes, be rest assured I sent him with the advance fee required. Please release all funds to him immediately."
Having scambaited a bit myself, usually you get one of two outcomes.
1: They are reading their replies, see that you didn’t respond with concerned confusion, and immediately toss you out.
2: They don’t read their replies, and the fact that you responded at all is enough to get an automated “Okay great! Now please provide all information so that we can secure your funds.” If you continue to insist they give the money, they just give up.
I wonder if "48 hour monitoring" is like, or as good as, "48 hour deodorant"?
48 hour deodorant loses its effectiveness over its use period so I sure hope the 48 hour monitoring isn't the same
48 hour energy drink
What about the 48 hours 1982 movie?
@@smcdonald9991even better since a 48 hour 1982 movie would last from 1982 to 1984/85
From experience, it’s no substitute.
_"Legal law, hmm, that's the best kind of law"_
Arguably ColesLaw is the best law, but fair enough. 😂
I know some probably get annoyed that you constantly remind "the kind of details that you should never share" but it makes me very happy you do, please never stop.
People can easily and often have moments where they aren't thinking straight, even if very brief, and may fall for even the most blatantly obvious red flags during one of those moments. Happened to a friend of mine recently despite him being someone who constantly reminds others not to click shady links and whatnot. It can happen to anyone, any time. Constant reminders can help (if only for people to not be able to say "you could have done a better job warning me" lol).
Why is “100 million dollars United States dollars dollars” STILL hilarious
Wow that Andrew Cox guy really has a knack for claiming other people's funds, doesn't he 🐓
That guy thinks everyone is deceased
Mr Shrimp's nemesis!
@@AtomicShrimpeven himself one might wonder?
was not expecting an insane clown posse reference in my casual atomic shrimp viewing
Juggalo nation rise up!!
I always admire the patience it requires to deal with these people, I don't know how you stay so calm !
I follow a few telephone scambaiters who do livestreams online and it never ceases to amaze me how people find the patience ! When I get scammers on the phone I have to fight the urge to call them all the names under the sun and curse them in multiple languages ! The best I can do is question them incessantly, especially their logic which never makes sense !
Scammer says "We have noticed a fraudulent transaction from your bank"
I say, "which bank?"
Scammer says "your bank",
I say, "You mean Barclays Bank?"
Scammer, "Yes !"
Me, "I'm not with Barclays" !
Scammer, "No, you're anudder bank . ."
Me, "Yorkshire Bank?"
Scammer, "Yes !"
Me, "I'm not with Yorkshire Bank !"
Scammer, 'click' !
As soon as I recognized the SAFFRON template I knew that the "red string" description would resurface along with it. Excellently done.
Ive been trying to contact the federal ministry about the triangles but all I get is cold hard cash. I think we have an address mixup as the cash is very cold and very hard and the triangles arent sharp enough
The cash is to pay the demurrage fee, after which the corners of the triangles will be shipped.
@@eternalextrapolationsugh! Typical bureaucracy! Shouldn't have expected anything less from the ministry of finance! Next they'll want a fee to pay for the glarded transfer, then they'll tax you on the delivery service to your holity address. You better load up on your steamed apple cards. This is going to get expensive.
@@thegrimharvest Damnit! I had completely forgotten about the glarded transfer fee! No wonder the shipment hasn't moved from the bonded warehouse in nearly two weeks. Aargh, thanks for the heads-up anyway 👍
Try a Different Angle?
Try angles? *Placed in your mind*
You will never be free
_You will never be free_
Missed the opportunity to make a triangle shape with your text
@@SRowntree I think it's a subliminal triangle
Great work Mr. shrimp once again proving that there are three sides to every story
Sorry, error on my part. Should read side’s 😊
I love when you ask if you can ask a question instead of simply asking the question outright, it's such a petty way to waste scammers' time
He could also say he has a question. Send the email back and never ever actually ask the question should the scammer even enquire what the question is.
18:08 I enjoyed the cubed dollars. That must be worth much more than regular dollars. 😂
48 hours monitoring is when two people team up to monitor you, so they do it twice as fast :p
Ok, but now I am totally invested in this triangle mystery. I need answers.
48hr monitoring? Sounds glarded to me.
About the 'programming other people with your words'
The first job I ever had, when I was desperate and fresh out of school, was a door-to-door signing people up for monthly direct debits to charity.
My boss was one of those people that believed you could word-trick people into decisions.
His trick was to ask lots of questions which the person had to answer yes to, then ask them to sign up directly after so they said yes to that too.
Like:
"You like wildlife?"
"Yes"
"You want to save the world?"
"Yes"
"You want to save endangered species?"
"yes"
"You want to sign up £6.99 a month to the WWF?"
And they were supposed to say yes to that too.
Of course it hardly ever worked and the only way he made money was by having 30 people under him signing people up and taking 50% of the commission that the WWF paid them.
In 2 weeks of work I managed to sign up 2 people, for which I saw about £25 of commission.
I love when they start giving money amounts in compound units like $^2 or US^2 $^3
One day shrimp will get a response worthy of another song by Eric. And I wait with baited breath. In some ways those emails are more valuable than money disguised as inconspicuous gold bars.
Now I am really concerned that I will find triangles in my food!
I still don't know if they are safe to eat.
Be rest assured there will be no triangles in your food
I once opened a pack of cheese spread: it was arranged in triangles 😅
I am reliably informed that the late Davis Bon consumed food based triangles prior to his demise. At date of posting, Davis Bon is still dead. Updates on the condition of Davis Bon’s health to follow.
@@RichardWatt Was it La Vache Qui Rit?
It's the Illegal Law you really have to watch out for...
Perhaps if we look at it from another angle, Davis Bon would be feeling better (again)
Maybe if he had triangles in his food that would help him feel better or resurrect him 😅
@@RichardWatt So is he still dead?
@@fairyliquid6864dunno. Probably.
I know that these scam emails so often contain nonsensical setups, but there was something that particularly tickled me about the duo of fictitious scammers trying to use a power of attorney that the actual scammer "warned" you about. At least in the U.S. (and I think pretty much everywhere else as well) a power of attorney is automatically voided when the grantor dies. It would be self-defeating for the fictitious scammers to claim you were dead and make a claim about having a power of attorney.
Also, the whole triangles in the food thing seemed like it could have been ripped from the Slaughterhamshire news.
Not a lot of people know that, and I doubt the real scammer knows that either. They're banking on victims just skimming the email, seeing the big numbers, and following the instructions without question.
You are personally my favorite scam baiter, you are very honest about what happens with your attempts and are ironically very kind in the baiting. Now days it seems like most scam baiters like to ridicule or put the scammers on blast, fuck even doxing! Or just outright fake it. So your videos are just very refreshing.
I almost did a double take when you said "2.5 Million Dollars" instead of something like "2.5 Million dollars US Dollars dollars"
I have a headache and laughing makes it worse, but it was worth it! Thanks Mike and hope your finger is doing even better,
Spaniard postal office is not called "Postal Office", but Correos.
4:57 for all the atomic shrimp juggalos
I must say I miss the "10 million cubic dollars" gag
"I"m just mad about Saffron, Saffron 's ,mad about me" Donavon, 1960's era LOL
Getting to a million subs.
Keep them coming bro!
Could you please either try contacting John Warosa again or bring back John Barosa from your scambaiting email 🙂
I completely agree. I'd love that too.
I would like to know if that scammer is still using that alias. If he is that would be a new level of stupid.
John Barosa- the Dread Pirate Scam Beard
@@chickendoodle32 I love the song he did about it too.
And check on Davis Bon to see if he's still dead.
Legal Laws are my favorite laws.
There is a Federal Ministry of Finance in Nigeria. The United States has the Department of the Treasury.
So the scammer unwittingly let the cat out of the bag.
25:12 There is something so, so, funny about telling a scammer, already pretending to be someone else, to pretend to be someone else
At 7:01 I laughed so hard on that question. Shrimp, you are hilarious. Thank you for bringing laughs to the world :D
Triangles are divorced six pointed stars.
The are split diamonds.
@@SierraNovemberKilo That, too!
Its always great watching another one of these videos. Even if they seem to lead nowhere. I think triangles in your food are definitely not enough to hook a scammer though. But I applaud the effort
I was bingewatching the scambaiting series, and boom: episode 69 drops. Nice!
I was hoping to hear about Davis Bon and how they're doing this episode, ah well. Maybe we will hear about them one day!
I’m sure they are doing well
"We ask you to confirm your existence" is some next level CAPTCHA testing
Coming back to this channel after years and he is still mentioning Warosa. It's like coming home.
Thank you for the scambaiting videos.
I used to have a hard time sleeping due to negative thoughts circling in my head. Those have long since made way for scammers getting trolled and I think it had a positive effect on my mental health.
The triangles. It's always the triangles.
Wondering if it's worth making some kind of "Personal details you should never share with a stranger on the internet" zip attachment to use as a hook? It could include some fake but plausable financial mumbo jumbo about the nonsense topic you intend to confuse the scammer with, to try to make your nonsense questions seem more plausable?
So, like you include some fake personal details directly in the email; they can access the rest reasonably easy by opening an attached file; the file also contains some bait, such as a "bank details" file or somthing that will excite the scammer; but the "rabbit hole" stuff is mostly random or ai generated nonsence; then you can include some stuff about the nonsense you want to ask the scammer about?
Even if they only responded a few times, the time they spend reading and responding is time they could have spent scamming an actual victim. Good job, Shrimp!
a.k.a. the unlikely return of SAFFRON
Hooray another atomic shrimp video!
OMG, I found triangles, too! And surprisingly often near the word "play" on technical appliances, also many many times in the letter A! The plot thickens! 😂
I really enjoy these scammer videos you post...you are one of the very few who work over these email attempts.
And the professional, well written Nigerian English text in most of these emails...a joy to behold...
I can't believe there is, in 2024, a reference to one of the oldest memes "magnets, how do they work?" in this video 😂
I missed your videos. I was just thinking if you made one and WAM BAM ITS ATOMIC SHRIMP
I never knew that SAFFRON (herb) was so expensive!
what about telling them you are going to leave the business to your lawyer and then pretend to be a lawyer but still interested in the business?
I am glad you finally asked about the triangles. I have been wondering about them since before.
Mr Shrimp, sir, will we be getting some kind of special for your 1M subscribers?
At 24 minutes: I'm interested in cider...
Wishful thinking on my part, I guess ... I'll open a bottle 😂
I tried to watch the video from a different angle, this didn't help.
Can you advise as to what I should to to see around the triangles?
And also how is Davis Bon?
I often listen to these to help me fall asleep. Usually a good idea, however hearing a czech name dropped at random did the same to my slumber as a bucketful of cold water would.
Hello from Czech Rep, great job yet again, Shrimp!
Same here, it was like a slap to the face! 😂
I got my neighbor's mail two weeks ago because of the lazy carrier. The scammers are still using the Warranty scam using postcards that contain an 855 number. Also included an urgent deadline of four business days. I had an extended warranty, and the letter I received later was not on a postcard.
My landlord says I hope this message finds you well when he’s bullshitting me about doing something he’s responsible for doing and doesn’t plan to ever do it
You know when the scammers send you a form but with dots for a line to fill something out?
you should print that out and fill it out, but with unreadable handwriting and send that back and do the same thing you do after
11:30 one of the times when they ask if you authorized someone to get the fund, you should just say yes that's your chosen representative, just to see what they'd say. Like that time you claimed you already got the money 😂
Of course, why would you send your information to someone who can't even help you with the triangles?
The main red flags for these tiresome emails is the flowery, yet incorrect English and the many mispellin4ks
Also, I adore triangular food; I cut sandwiches that way, prefer samosas to egg rolls and there’s just no other way to eat pie, cake or pizza - they have to be at least pointy or I’m just not having it.
In the event that you're still alive: Please confirm your existence
Loved that last line of paying for consult fee 😂
i love the broken sentence structure in these emails
I love your scambaiting content so much!
There's truly no better fortune than a new scambaiting video being dropped the night before a stressful flight. Thank you ❤
Filling the information form with your triangle problem made for a beautiful piece of modern poetry
LOVE THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS
the magnets, Manuel
HOW DO THEY WORK
Its so sad how many of these scams are aimed at people who were already kicked in the gut by other scammers.
I think there might be something regarding the Post office Madrid Spain.
"It's about the triangles. Do you know why I keep finding them?"
>Bill Cypher has entered the chat.
I just got done binging all of these. Now I get one more
the ICP reference got me 🔥 so unexpected!
Everyone needs to shout out "Warosa" every time they find a triangle in their food.
So obviously the next step is a £5 only triangle food challenge. I’ll meet you at the dairylea tortilla chips
Foraging of triangular food is allowed
My nearest Airport is in another country, I wonder if they would get confused if I tell them where it is and where I live...
3:07 I'd suggest you move away from Slaughter.. wait.. you can't.