Played a trick on a similar situation. Involved making him call me chocadooby, convincing him I was legally entitled to make him write all his emails to me in Welsh, trying to set him up with my hot single daughter (sent a picture of Mama June, Honey Boo-Boo's mother), faking my death, being my own granddaughter who admitted to killing my grandfather to gain access to his emails, and then writing as said hot daughter who forces him to answer trauma assessment questions due to contact with the insane granddaughter. That is when I never heard from him again.
Best part about that is, the scammer was still sending the emails, didn't realize that his "victim" was just being silly... the guy must have actually thought that his mark traveled to Hong Kong to try and meet him.
I mean, if they're like Japan they probably have 40 different flavors. I've always thought of trying Melon flavor, that sounds like it would go well with chocolate.
2 people I know got scam emails. Both believed the emails whole-heartedly. Told anyone advising them that they were jealous. First one was getting 16.8 million Dollars from some dying prince, the other was getting a consignment box with I don't remember how much money. But both stopped when the scammers wanted money.
@@cr3237 Greed, or sometimes desperation. A lottery can be viewed as a tax on those bad at math, or as a service providing a glimmer of hope to those in dire need. Of course, given the odds of actually winning the sodding thing, that just makes it seem all the crueller to me... Also, may any and all scammers be visited by the almighty Veitch, and have _their_ time and energy wasted.
As long as you don't give them any money, personal info, access to your devices, etc., the worst case is that you and them both waste time and effort. Best case, you somehow get something out of it.
I work in Cyber Security, and I'm now beginning to believe that a service could be built to crowd source these kinds of responses. No, I don't want to create any bots for this; that wouldn't be any fun. I would just be so cool to have armies of white hats making scammers miserable.
@@jamesveitch I'm actually going to let this stew in my brain for a while. I've pondered such things before, but mostly as a pipe dream. You're actually making me think this could be fun for people. Yeah, I follow the white-hat hackers who actually hack into the fake support call centers--which is really fun to watch. But, my thoughts on crowd sourcing that stuff is that those with the talent and the drive are too few and far between. Anyway, in case I fail to come up with anything meaningful, I'll go ahead and declare this idea open to anyone willing to further pursue it with you (something like creative commons but treating "Virtual Veitch as imminently worth of trademark). And, so the pipe dream begins--with a Friday toast. I'll be back if I think I've got anything worthy of KickStarter or such.
O.K. I haven't been working hard enough on this, but here's a super brief listing of key components. 1) Reverse bots (non-aggressive, white-hat decoys, anonymized to protect the crowd sourced participants who are the James Veitch style white hats) to receive solicitations from malicious bots and spammer/scammer/phishers. 2) Mediation service (like social media services) to offer up each scam/spam/phishing attempt to the community of James Veitch style white hats... 3) Tough choice at this point, should the mediation service lock in one James Veitch style white-hat respondent (whoever responds first or something involving community points) or open it up to a free for all. Sorry, my choice is to lock it into one respondent for continuity, but maybe keep a back channel of community participants to guide the respondent into a true James Veitch experience. 4) Allow the thread to play to it's natural end, and then automatically publish for general public entertainment. I hereby turn this proposal over to the community for comments.
@@howdoipickaname9815 You have inspired me to get off my ass. Go back to the original thread if you don't get my longer comment. Thank you Sir or Madam.
I'm also in I.T. .... I actually have a ton of virtual machines setup on my own over powered high end server, I use them all the time to trick scammers into trying to lock down and encrypt the machine for blackmail into getting funds to unlock it. I will trace their IP traffic, and then send them a map with their likely call centre circled in red, saying the US Navy has missiles locked onto it and will be firing shortly. Some of them take the bait and order everyone in the centre to leave, others just disconnect, and one cocky scammer actually replied "So, you have my location, what can you do? Nothing! You can do nothing to me!". He is correct though, I even gave the location and IP details and occasionally the internal camera pictures to indian authorities, and they literally ignore it. Apparently there is 2 problems with these scam centres: 1. The locals all know it's there and actually support what they do because they think westerners deserve to lose money. 2. Many of the police are actually on the payroll of the scam centres. So I'm thinking, perhaps sending real missiles there would send a stronger message. 🤗
Mr Veitch, love the clip. Almost as much as I loved it few years ago, when I first saw it. "Please, Sir, can we have some new... I mean, more?" ;-) Feel The Love;)
If you love Kit Kats you definitely should come to Hong Kong! You can get them in a 7-11, even at 3am at night. What's more you will find many of the crazy Japanese flavours including green tea, cheesecake, strawberry and even sake. Come to Hong Kong and bring your friends. BTW there is no Dah Song bank in HK.
What I think is different is there has been a certain compression and quickening of pace due to the slick editing. As they say, timing is everything. Also, the on-stage shows had the advantage of a live audience which naturally provided longer gaps as the jokes soaked in. In addition, there was an authentic “laugh track” which provided nice contrast to James’ necessarily Sahara-dry delivery.
I can't believe there are people who put a dislike on the videos! Don't they realize that you are simply giving scammers a run for their money --pun intended. These people are trying to scam unknowing victims out of their money! If it weren't for people like James, they would have even more free time!
most of the time they speak broken english on purpose, so smart people are like “obviously this is a scam” and don’t y’know, report it or anything, and dumb people think they’re smart for being able to understand it either that or they are just bad at english
they do it to single out the kinds of people who won't catch on to their game so they get people who don't speak English well enough to catch the subtext for themselves, or who're trying to use technology they don't understand, or who're just drunk... basically someone who doesn't have enough knowledge or ability to make their own judgement call they're not trying to have your greed win out against your common sense so much as they're trying to remove common sense from the equation entirely as has been pointed out already, it probably also helps them to go longer without getting reported and blocked, 'cause many people won't bother to go to the trouble of doing that if they think this is so obvious that *anyone* could see it... failing to factor in people who don't come from the same type of world they do
When he's so convincing you were actually thinking for two whole seconds that he found an internet café in Hong Kong to continue his e-mail correspondence.
…am I the only one who thinks he’d be a fantastic person to act as The Doctor for Doctor Who??? I mean to be the next regeneration of the Doctor! He could be a good addition!
@James Veitch, How apropos that right after I watched this video I got an ad from BMO Harris Bank asking me to open an account, lol! Hilarious - you can't make this stuff up! 😜😝🤣😂😉😎
James, here in Northern California, we have Ghirardelli chocolate, which is in all ways superior to kit-kat bars. Should you visit the Silicon Valley, I'd be happy to show you around Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.
I played a little with a guy attempting to scam me. Told me he was a general in the US army and lived in Washington DC. Asked him how it felt to live in a city without a state. He replied with a description of where it's located. Told him I knew where it was because I'd been there. Then asked if they had senatorial and congressional representation or just congressional. He sent me more information about DC's location including it being on the Potomac river. Before I blocked him I said if he was going to pretend to be from somewhere he really should know something about it. Wasn't as good as James's play but still satisfying. My sister was scammed out of her entire life's savings and continued to send them most of her money every month. She wouldn't listen to anyone about it being a scam. She caught covid and it kicked her over the edge into full dementia. She's in a nursing home now and all the information we could find was turned over to the FBI fraud unit.
James can we please get a video discussing all this? It seems truly interesting, and I'd love to see further stuff if you have it, since it seems that your stuff with that miserable channel is over.
Not your best. But, still worth the watch.
What is his best?
HE PINNED THIS COMMENT OMG he is so self deprecacting sometimes
Well, the bar is too high
Hahaha!!!
"Bit rubbish.... But I've got nothing better to watch" - what a storming review.
Ah, I see the internet ducks are making their way into James Veitch’s comments
"go away"
*SOLD*
When scammers are so fed up that *they* tell *you* to bugger off, you know you won
It's always glorious to see when he's truly, fully broken them.
@@hazukichanx408 YUP!! The "via a giant gummy lizard" one is probably one of my favs.
I'm honestly kind of surprised he isn't on some kind of universal blacklist for scammers
@@owntmpsn I'm pretty sure he gets payed in KitKats
@@zoeymccann124 fun fact "payed" is actually a word, but you should have used "paid".
@@Blackspidy619 spelling isn't my cup of tea
@@zoeymccann124 then you should get the lovely Yorkshire Tea Gold. Which totally does not sponsor this video or the Legendary Spiffing Brit.
@@stevendrake3155 spiff fans? Here?
I still can’t believe he’s actually 40, he has the energy of a 20 year old!
really? this man got good genes
He’s 40?!
He must be one of those that just looks young till they're about 50.😅
"Intimate Away"
"He was, apparently, dead"
Played a trick on a similar situation. Involved making him call me chocadooby, convincing him I was legally entitled to make him write all his emails to me in Welsh, trying to set him up with my hot single daughter (sent a picture of Mama June, Honey Boo-Boo's mother), faking my death, being my own granddaughter who admitted to killing my grandfather to gain access to his emails, and then writing as said hot daughter who forces him to answer trauma assessment questions due to contact with the insane granddaughter. That is when I never heard from him again.
That's an intricate one. Sounds like fun
@@seagecko It was a blast
@@bristolboi9759 Could we see screenshots?
Gods-damnit, why couldn't you have recorded this? LMFAO!!!! :D
@@LordNumbnutsthe1st the emails are still there, haha
YOU DO NOT NEED TO COME TO HONG KONG. But there are kit kats.
Best part about that is, the scammer was still sending the emails, didn't realize that his "victim" was just being silly... the guy must have actually thought that his mark traveled to Hong Kong to try and meet him.
I buy all my chocolate bars in Hong Kong.
I mean, if they're like Japan they probably have 40 different flavors. I've always thought of trying Melon flavor, that sounds like it would go well with chocolate.
@@sarahcoleman5269 In Hong Kong, sadly no. I've only ever seen two alternative flavors, tangerine and green tea.
I live in HK but haven't really found Kit Kats in convenience stores
2 people I know got scam emails. Both believed the emails whole-heartedly. Told anyone advising them that they were jealous. First one was getting 16.8 million Dollars from some dying prince, the other was getting a consignment box with I don't remember how much money. But both stopped when the scammers wanted money.
Cool story, Hansel.
At least they had a little bit of sense left in them.
We let our greed cloud our judgement at times.
@@cr3237 Greed, or sometimes desperation. A lottery can be viewed as a tax on those bad at math, or as a service providing a glimmer of hope to those in dire need. Of course, given the odds of actually winning the sodding thing, that just makes it seem all the crueller to me...
Also, may any and all scammers be visited by the almighty Veitch, and have _their_ time and energy wasted.
As long as you don't give them any money, personal info, access to your devices, etc., the worst case is that you and them both waste time and effort. Best case, you somehow get something out of it.
I like how he always changes his moustache
same
Sometimes it's two moustaches
You didn't ask about the toaster. That was your first mistake. Hope you have a great 2021!
Or the hummus, it’s going places
@@olsirmonkey or giant gummy lizards
I work in Cyber Security, and I'm now beginning to believe that a service could be built to crowd source these kinds of responses. No, I don't want to create any bots for this; that wouldn't be any fun. I would just be so cool to have armies of white hats making scammers miserable.
I’m down for Virtual Veitch if you are
@@jamesveitch I'm actually going to let this stew in my brain for a while. I've pondered such things before, but mostly as a pipe dream. You're actually making me think this could be fun for people. Yeah, I follow the white-hat hackers who actually hack into the fake support call centers--which is really fun to watch. But, my thoughts on crowd sourcing that stuff is that those with the talent and the drive are too few and far between. Anyway, in case I fail to come up with anything meaningful, I'll go ahead and declare this idea open to anyone willing to further pursue it with you (something like creative commons but treating "Virtual Veitch as imminently worth of trademark). And, so the pipe dream begins--with a Friday toast. I'll be back if I think I've got anything worthy of KickStarter or such.
O.K. I haven't been working hard enough on this, but here's a super brief listing of key components.
1) Reverse bots (non-aggressive, white-hat decoys, anonymized to protect the crowd sourced participants who are the James Veitch style white hats) to receive solicitations from malicious bots and spammer/scammer/phishers.
2) Mediation service (like social media services) to offer up each scam/spam/phishing attempt to the community of James Veitch style white hats...
3) Tough choice at this point, should the mediation service lock in one James Veitch style white-hat respondent (whoever responds first or something involving community points) or open it up to a free for all. Sorry, my choice is to lock it into one respondent for continuity, but maybe keep a back channel of community participants to guide the respondent into a true James Veitch experience.
4) Allow the thread to play to it's natural end, and then automatically publish for general public entertainment.
I hereby turn this proposal over to the community for comments.
@@howdoipickaname9815 You have inspired me to get off my ass. Go back to the original thread if you don't get my longer comment. Thank you Sir or Madam.
I'm also in I.T. .... I actually have a ton of virtual machines setup on my own over powered high end server, I use them all the time to trick scammers into trying to lock down and encrypt the machine for blackmail into getting funds to unlock it.
I will trace their IP traffic, and then send them a map with their likely call centre circled in red, saying the US Navy has missiles locked onto it and will be firing shortly.
Some of them take the bait and order everyone in the centre to leave, others just disconnect, and one cocky scammer actually replied "So, you have my location, what can you do? Nothing! You can do nothing to me!".
He is correct though, I even gave the location and IP details and occasionally the internal camera pictures to indian authorities, and they literally ignore it.
Apparently there is 2 problems with these scam centres:
1. The locals all know it's there and actually support what they do because they think westerners deserve to lose money.
2. Many of the police are actually on the payroll of the scam centres.
So I'm thinking, perhaps sending real missiles there would send a stronger message. 🤗
No “Cho mama” jokes, which proves James has class.
He's a serious business man.
"grumble..." yep that is 2020 appropriate. Got it in just under the wire too.
How could Cho pass up the chance to enjoy a KitKat with you in Hong Kong? You can always break off a piece of a Kit Kat bar. Why not share one?
"PLEEEEEEAAASE DO NOT COME TO HONG KONG!"
"I'M HERE!!! IN HONG KONG!!!"
...but we have KitKats
i had not seen one of these in ages i am happy
WHERE DID THE MOUSTACHE GO
To Hong Kong.
@@bavettesAstartes ha
It wasn't a moustache; it was a chocolate smudge from a kitkat bar.
I'm sure that people in Hong Kong will be happy of a little good laugh with all that they are enduring right now. Love your humour, happy new year!
Love your humour. I can’t stop laughing from beginning to end. I’ve found your videos brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity.
Mr Veitch, love the clip. Almost as much as I loved it few years ago, when I first saw it.
"Please, Sir, can we have some new... I mean, more?" ;-)
Feel The Love;)
Thx for re-up loading these
Bruh you small brain it’s
re-uploading
@@ilovecairns5181 in this case re:uploading seems more appropriate 😆
Mark Jacobs what
@@ilovecairns5181 re: as in e-mail reply 😆
Real Grian energy. I can’t explain it. The sense of humour just fits
"Go away."
"SOLD! :D"
If you love Kit Kats you definitely should come to Hong Kong! You can get them in a 7-11, even at 3am at night. What's more you will find many of the crazy Japanese flavours including green tea, cheesecake, strawberry and even sake. Come to Hong Kong and bring your friends. BTW there is no Dah Song bank in HK.
Ur Awesome and very funny I always enjoy your content
*u'r
@@Foca-ot7pf u'rer'e
I love these videos and im so happy theyre being reuploaded. Thank you james
Thank you so much for reuploading this!
First video I've watched in the new year - a good start to 2021
Ayy!! This is my favorite of scamalot. Happy to see it again! :) I swear, I know it word for word.
Why is only the advantage gold reserve account in dollars with the rest of them in pounds lmao
I was also wondering about that. Nice how the text in the background remained consistent with the words, though.
Well, you can't expect a professional banking organization to keep track of every little detail like that! =D
What I think is different is there has been a certain compression and quickening of pace due to the slick editing. As they say, timing is everything. Also, the on-stage shows had the advantage of a live audience which naturally provided longer gaps as the jokes soaked in. In addition, there was an authentic “laugh track” which provided nice contrast to James’ necessarily Sahara-dry delivery.
I'm so glad this is back, 2021 is already getting better
Mustache = hong kong next of kin
I don't think I've ever grinned so consistently throughout a video.
return of the king
I can't believe there are people who put a dislike on the videos! Don't they realize that you are simply giving scammers a run for their money --pun intended. These people are trying to scam unknowing victims out of their money! If it weren't for people like James, they would have even more free time!
i love these :DD
Yaaaay im so happy there is a new vid! Thank u!
I love it how these scammers are big brains and can speak 'fleunt' English 🤣
Indid indid!
most of the time they speak broken english on purpose, so smart people are like “obviously this is a scam” and don’t y’know, report it or anything, and dumb people think they’re smart for being able to understand it
either that or they are just bad at english
@@kaiserinjacky that's too much effort 🤣
they do it to single out the kinds of people who won't catch on to their game
so they get people who don't speak English well enough to catch the subtext for themselves, or who're trying to use technology they don't understand, or who're just drunk... basically someone who doesn't have enough knowledge or ability to make their own judgement call
they're not trying to have your greed win out against your common sense so much as they're trying to remove common sense from the equation entirely
as has been pointed out already, it probably also helps them to go longer without getting reported and blocked, 'cause many people won't bother to go to the trouble of doing that if they think this is so obvious that *anyone* could see it... failing to factor in people who don't come from the same type of world they do
I believe phrase to being "florid Angleesh"
2:50 "You know what, if we're doing this lets go big"
When he's so convincing you were actually thinking for two whole seconds that he found an internet café in Hong Kong to continue his e-mail correspondence.
1:40 stands in Hong Kong,
cries in Japanese *"SAYONARA"*
Sayounara, if we're being picky. And yet spellcheck identifies _this_ as incorrect spelling? Oh, how the mighty have brainfarted.
I love these. Thank you!
Happy New Year, you witty man, you.
James Veitch Happy New Year from Canada
2021, James, bored from quarantine, tries internet scamming instead of scamming scammers.
Love the vids! Keep up the good work
Besides the good humour the editing & the effects alone are worth seeing
Weird that this didnt show up in my subscription feed but it did show up on my recommended feed.
I KNOW RIGHT?? APPARENTLY HE'S BEEN POSTING SCAMALOT EPISODES FOR WEEKS BUT NONE OF THEM EVER SHOWED UP IN MY SUB FEED I'M FUMING
Honestly glad to see you back regardless of the rumours innocent until proven guilty post more James!
You are one of my modern heroes, dude.
I also have kit kats. Are you planning on coming?
This was wonderful. Keep it up
I could have sworn these were up long before last year... I watched them in highschool which was 4 years ago
Love the evolution of the moustache!
there should be criminal charges for these scammers who attempt to launder money thru scam emails
You're the hero we need James, but I'm not sure we deserve you.
Incredible
the older format, the one before, it pleased me more, sometimes Les, may I call you Les, sometimes Les, less is more
…am I the only one who thinks he’d be a fantastic person to act as The Doctor for Doctor Who??? I mean to be the next regeneration of the Doctor! He could be a good addition!
More of these videos please!!
These are still just too good
You need to collaborate with James Acaster! Your humours would mesh insanely well
Every time he says "I get LOADS of scam emails..." I'm like, "That's because you REPLY TO THEM ALL!" XD XD XD
I love UA-cam ads. Got an ad for kit kats at the end of this.
Why does it feel like I've seen this before yet I haven't seen his content in years
He’s back!!!
I love how it goes from £ to $ and then back to £ again.
You've got mad skating skilz! Yeahhhhh
They way he delivered these jokes early (slowly) was way too funny.
Yes, they way was definitely funny.
These videos make me wish I got scam emails
ikr? 😂
I thought I've watched this before, and it's a reupload.
Anyways, it's still gold to me cuz I'm from Hong Kong lmao 🤣
NAH I SAW THIS YEARS AGO VIECH NAHMAH I SEE WHAT UR DOIN XD
I wish you made more
Sayonara is Japanese. But I suppose he must be saying intentionally. lol
It's fun to watch your videos, James ;)
100 scammers did not like this video James... lmao... gold
I had a kitkat ad before this video.
Why were these deleted and then reuploaded?
They were part of mashed and not his Personal Account
You sound alot like the guy who has the atomic shrimp account, on youtube, love the content.
When do we get new scam e-mails? lol maybe the scammers have finally learnt their lesson. XD
*and when the world needed him most, he returned*
my word... its max fosh!!!
When will we see something new, o brilliant specimen of the human species.
Great stuff
@James Veitch,
How apropos that right after I watched this video I got an ad from BMO Harris Bank asking me to open an account, lol! Hilarious - you can't make this stuff up! 😜😝🤣😂😉😎
Hey there’s another one of these now cool
this is just too much, i liked the "old" delivery way more!
Agreed! This is too rapid-fire and condensed. I guess it's for the newer generation, who watch UA-cam at double speed.
James, here in Northern California, we have Ghirardelli chocolate, which is in all ways superior to kit-kat bars. Should you visit the Silicon Valley, I'd be happy to show you around Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.
I played a little with a guy attempting to scam me.
Told me he was a general in the US army and lived in Washington DC. Asked him how it felt to live in a city without a state. He replied with a description of where it's located. Told him I knew where it was because I'd been there. Then asked if they had senatorial and congressional representation or just congressional. He sent me more information about DC's location including it being on the Potomac river. Before I blocked him I said if he was going to pretend to be from somewhere he really should know something about it.
Wasn't as good as James's play but still satisfying. My sister was scammed out of her entire life's savings and continued to send them most of her money every month. She wouldn't listen to anyone about it being a scam. She caught covid and it kicked her over the edge into full dementia. She's in a nursing home now and all the information we could find was turned over to the FBI fraud unit.
Next “Doctor” please.
James Veitch just reshuffles his old bits. No new material.
don't forget to ask for your toaster when before you open your account
Yay
Definitely enjoy doing similar things to Facebook individuals who are, "In love with me"😂
James can we please get a video discussing all this? It seems truly interesting, and I'd love to see further stuff if you have it, since it seems that your stuff with that miserable channel is over.
seriously SCREW THE BELL, I haven't gotten a single message about new videos from your channel in months :T
The false mustache was a nice touch.
So 1, 2, and 4 were all in pounds but advantage gold account was in dollars?
I'm going to try to grow one anyway. (Grows 5 mustache)