Pleasant Green I would love for you to call out Facebook and the social media sites that allow this garbage to continue happening. They need to be held accountable. People are being scammed out of so much money. There are so many fake ads. It’s ridiculous I can’t even scroll one swipe without finding a scam item now.
These detail scammers are ruining business for actual detailers in the community. Now whenever someone sees a detailing ad in a community group even if it’s a legit business people will think it’s a scam.
Not necessarily. The company contracts with a lot of legitimate outsourcing companies in India for answering basic tickets, stuff like that. One thing I immediately noticed is these guys say "kindly" all the time, despite doing real non-scam work. It's just how people speak English in that part of the world, and unfortunately there are a lot of scammers there too.
@@reflectionslidethe way scammers overuse the word "kindly" is vastly differrent from how a legitimately profesional customer service representative would use it, and if you can't spot it's a scammer by the way they speak, you are the mark
I was going to say, I was waiting for the moment where he breaks down and says his technician just died, but he needs rent for their building and if he could please just pay him anyway.
These scams on FB are out of control. Thanks for showing how the scammers use other unsuspecting individuals. The actual detail guy probably receives a fraction of what the actual 55% equates to. Scamming everyone involved. Sad.
They're a problem everywhere. Here in Bulgarian facebook groups we get Nigerian scammers promising work that requires no experience, half a work day and a salary equating to double that of a normal job. Then they invite you to a telegram group and god knows what extortion happens in there. They use google translate and sadly some people seem to fall for it because there's always a bunch of interested commenters under their posts.
Your tenacity in getting to the bottom of these scams is amazing. I live in a small town so we only have one dedicated car detailer but if he can't help you right away he will send a buddy over to get things started. Neighbors & friends helping each other; just like it should be.
I am struggling to find a job here in brooklyn, and the other day in a Facebook post, somebody offered me a job... Everything went down for me when he said "kindly"
I work for a professional auto detailing shop and you wouldn't believe how many people contact us every day asking if we need "10-15 new customers per month guaranteed" so i can only assume that shops agree with those people and then they find brokers that make these scam posts on facebook.
It's sometimes worth wasting their time a little, I've actually had a few of those calls turn out to be legitimate businesses with fleets that we now service, but it's often the grammar mistakes which gives away the obvious scams.
I detailed my car once, just once and it took me hours, all day. Never again. I’ll gladly pay $200 for someone else to do it. If they do as thorough a job as I did myself.
@@Puddycat00 $200 only gets you a vacuum and wash if it's not even dirty though. Like if you do it every month. A real detail on a real dirty car where they have to polish the paint and shampoo the carpet, etc would be $500-1000.
I was about to comment this, I run my own detailing business literally only on Facebook marketplace. I get these exact messages all the time for “10-15 new customers each month” it’s really out of hand. They act like normal people then want a part of your business that they bring you from using preditory tactics
@@Mr-pn2eh The deal was to pay Cory but he ghosted. So, give it to the Guy and close the deal. You were honest, paid the Guy for his work, and didn't feed the "Cory" scammer in Pakistan.
Unbelievably complicated scam going on here. It's alarming to see how deep these overseas operations can get into our local communities. Let's be more cautious and verify the identities of those we do business with.
This one could have been just over the border. He was replying in Spanish and the way he said ¿porque? Just convinced me he was probably in Mexico or a Spanish speaking American.
Man these are the same scumbags that run duct cleaning scams. It’s ridiculous what these criminals are doing to innocent people out there. Thanks for all the awareness you spread Sir
As an admin for our local facebook group, I see about 5 to 15 new member requests per day. More usually at the beginning of the month. We have them answer three simple questions. Which the scammers cant even answer. Some times they get in. We are not perfect. But if any post says anything about car detailing or duct cleaning they are banned. It is a private group. That is what you should really join is a private group. With admins who care!
I admin our neighborhood group. It's a community of about 50 townhomes, so we know most of each other. One of our questions is address, and I've had them claim to be next door neighbors, or even my own address! Come now, I'm not THAT stupid!
Legit work would mean vetting the people you hire to determine if they can actual do the work. That’s tough to do when you’re halfway around the world. Easier to just bait customer and hook them up with Craigslist dayworkers and a long as you get paid, good to go. If you don’t get paid bc the work was done terribly, then you don’t pay the dayworker. The scammer has no skin in the game.
@@stephen3164It's kind of hilarious too if you think about it. This service should be pretty prospective in Pakistan as well. Some people need jobs, some people need jobs done... They can be an actual Domestic Job Broker/Mediator But no they do this instead. Because it's not about giving the service, it's about the cash they get instead of doing the same, more easily manageable job in Pakistan.
My neighborhood Facebook group has been filled with these lately and every time I try and point out it is a scam i get hate so i just stopped. So frustrating because I live in an elderly community and am just trying to protect my neighbors.
It’s odd, but ultimately for the customer it’s not really a scam. They agree to a price and a Detailer comes out. You pay once he’s done if you’re satisfied so who is getting screwed over?
I actually responded to one of these ads on fb. I asked how much and she was slow to respond to questions. When she finally did, I said I lost interest. Thanks for the video.
There is a tow scam that is very similar to this. Go online, schedule a tow and they farm it out to a local company and pay them half of what they charged you.
@@willydmankal Because they make it seem like they are local to you complete with a fake address on their website and you end up paying twice as much for a tow.
One of their tactics is changing phone numbers on google business to their own and requesting credit card over the phone before they will send a truck.
Makes sense a few months ago I needed a tow in the middle of nowhere got some random Indian dude talking wanted to change me like $400 to literally tow it half a mile. There was a few weird things about it I can't remember it's been a while
Good to know. These are probably similar to the lead services that contact me on a regular basis asking if we need help with our detailing business. They're also probably using our brand to achieve this since we've gotten some strange phone calls from people who we've never talked to before but insist they've booked an appointment with us. It's unfortunate these scammers are out there. Thanks for the video!
The scary part is that these types of scams aren’t isolated to the car detailing industry. There are scam companies for just about every professional service now. I’ve literally had people walk into my locksmith shop with the intent of using violence against me because someone else scammed them posing as me. There’s plumbing scammers, electrician scammers, even landscaping scammers just to name a few, it’s absolutely absurd.
Facebook is unbelievably overrun with scammers. I changed my profile picture to one of my dog just because any time I posted a comment somewhere, I'd get bombarded by scam messages wanting me to send them a friend request. Kitboga has been delving into the FB scammer world recently too. Also saw a different YTer showing all the numerous copies of his name out there. It's nuts!
Hey Ben , I speak spanish and I have seen this ads contracting people on Facebook groups. So what they do is because they know a lot of people are coming to the US looking for work the scammers are posting on facebook groups known to hispanics and they contract them.
Thank you for Making these up to date videos on all of these scams!! I have been watching for a long time now and try to share the information with my family members.
You’re finally back! I’ve been able to trick the car detail scammers and duct cleaning scammers to go across the street from my work and I love watching them waste their time as they blow up my burner # lol
@@Wendy_O._Koopa scamers around the world have been using VPNs for a while now, they are getting more tech savy, but they tend to only use the VPN and not change their browser date time settings and that gives them away when you trace their ip, even the free tracking services now automatically check for the browser settings of the machine and let's you know the machine likely is using a vpn, some of the paid VPN services have features to work around this but scammers tend to use the free ones
Here’s a trick I learned: copy and paste the text from the FB post and you’ll find the exact text in many other posts…by different people. That’s how I learned that someone selling furniture in a group I follow is a scammer. (Besides the fact that all the furniture he/she posted were stolen pictures.)
I just searched the first sentence of the post..”I know self promotion is bad, but…" and got so many hits! Some with vent cleaning, others with carpet cleaning. 😂😂
Finally! I’ve been waiting on this! I was going to suggest this to you but didn’t get around to it. I have a detail shop and these absolutely get on my nerves!
Thank you for this video, I just never understood what these losers got from the lies. As a legit detailing company, these scammers have really hurt us. It’s really challenging to gain new clients from social media. Our loyal clients are awesome!
I definitely agree. Instead of pretending to be someone else or a "business" it would have been nice if they were honest and make a recruitment company that sends people to do jobs. Which would be way more trustworthy than needing to lie.
If they called or messaged you and said ‘hi we are calling from Pakistan’ you’d shut the phone off. I do agree the approach is wrong but I don’t see this as a scam as such, they do send someone to come do the job
I run my neighborhood FB page. The duct cleaning scmas are almost every week. The accounts all look the same. Some generic family picture. Reminds me of the photos inside of picture frames when you buy one.
Wow….I left Facebook several years ago…..due to family issues…..but your video is so interesting….plus I love social catfish! I watch the scammer Wednesday videos! Love em! ❤
If you have a neighborhood FB group make sure it's set to private. Also have entry questions only residents can ask like: "What's your car's make and color?"
What is crazy is that these people do not need to lie if they are actually providing a service and not stealing. There are referral companies, and that is all they would have to call themselves. Just be honest and tell people that you can help them find people that will do the job you want done.
Without any of the lies nobody would trust a random post in your community group coming from somebody on a different continent representing a referral firm. Even if the firm itself isn't predatory ( which in this case, 45% cut for the upcharge quota seems predatory to me ) a lot less people would trust it, if any. Pretending to be a local person down on their luck definitely makes a lot more people want to help out, especially if they need that service anyways so might as well help out a neighbor while having it done.
I saw an ad like this and was about to fall for this, but thank goodness someone posted a scam warning. They also referred me to this very helpful video.
These are all over Craigslist too. I scheduled a handyman to come out and do a drywall repair and they sent out two random guys that obviously had no clue how to fix drywall. I don't know how you can filter these out anymore. It's hard to tell who's a legit business and who's an appointment farmer overseas.
At least with this scam, you actually walk away with a clean car, not 20k taken out of your bank account. Not much different than a sketchy version of Angie’s list.
In Baltimore, they have this scam where they make an entire clone website for popular restaurants (to go or delivery part). But they jack the price up by 15-20%. When you order from them, they just forward the order to the real website keeping the inflated difference. You pick up your food or your food is delivered, you are none the wiser you just paid for an unnecessary "service".
Great video. I don't know that I would call it a scam per-se. My main reasoning is because you are actually getting something of value at the end of it. Maybe it's not worth the price you pay but you are getting something out of it. However, the practice is shady AF. The scammers here are essentially acting as brokers. They find small businesses and say "hey, for $XX I can give you a bunch of leads" and then they infiltrate social media and use deceitful methods. It is an interesting "business" and it is super dishonest.
Yeah, it seems pretty sketchy that they're banking on others feeling sorry for them and pretending to be a different company with better ratings and more history
@@Gandingas maybe. I usually describe a scam as getting something of no value back. You are getting a car detailing service, just the way i which it occurs is incredibly sketch
When the advertisement is lying about the situation and is using a fake name and is orchestrating it from another country and has like a 900% mark up rather than just 20-30% this is absolutely a scam.
Read today in the daily mail news paper about a guy selling his car on fb market place somebody really keen rang up asking for details address etc and made an appointment to view it. He did not show up but the car was stolen the next day. Apparently its become common practice in the UK most are mid price cars mostly broken for spare parts and sold on ebay etc
Wow, I thought this was a FL thing in my area, this scam has been HORRABLE to my small detailing business, almost NO leads from FB. Most FB groups are now just getting that these posts are scams. hopefully this changes soon! Thank you for showing this off because this has been ROUGH in central FL area.
The lesson I learned from watching this is, if some random guy in Pakistan can solicit a cleaning job in Utah to be completed by an "employee" that he doesn't even know and essentially earn $95 for just typing a few messages, then there is absolutely ZERO EXCUSE for anyone claiming they can't make money. Just, amazing!!
Near where I live there is a big hospital with lots of doctor's consulting rooms too. Some young adults have set up a business offering car washing for a very reasonable fee while you go to your appointment. They do a great job and I always get my car washed when I see my doc even if it isn't needed, because I love supporting honest small businesses.
What's really going on here is that Facebook knows that it's the preferred medium for scammers of all types, and it will do anything it can to facilitate that.
Over the past couple of years, I've found this sort of issue with appliance repair and locksmiths. I've had to really do my digging to find a reputable person. Sometimes I just go to a local hardware store and ask them if they know/ used someone.
I had the same thing in the UK. Needed someone to install a tv. Kept making and canceling appointments. After a few days I figured it out. There are listings for flowers too. They take the booking, take your money, then look for a local florist who will do the job for the tiny amount they are offering, either you get terrible flowers or none at all.
I think it may be as simple as people who have no idea how to run an honest business learning their marketing and management skills from scammers. Like a grocery store run by an ex armed robber who thinks it's normal to demand payment for your produce at gunpoint.
Ever hear the expression "Always good to know a guy?" Yeah, I like to know a guy for most everything I need. This way I'm not surfing FB or CL or other stupid sites that the scammers own. Nicely done Ben! You're on my list of "knowing a guy". Haha.
So interesting. I’ve owned a detailing company for 11 years here in Utah. I’ve just started to see these types of fb posts. I thought they were strange
Would love to get in touch with this guy. I got a random message from a Facebook scammer claiming that I have a health and human service grant for $1000, which I’m most certain is a scam
I regularly get bombarded with fake Friend requests, supposedly from people I am already friends with. Trouble is, I check up with the real people to see if the request was genuine or not (and most of the time, it isn't.) I then proceed to tell the bar stewards responsible exactly what I thought of them. And Facebook had the cheek to reprimand me for my content - just because I'm doing what they SHOULD be doing.
Unfortunately this happens. I've had pretty well the same thing happen but with house cleaners. The call centre is in india and they pretend to be local. They have a person in Australia (where I am) for the ABN (Australian business number) . They promise the world but always seem to fail. They've got plenty of fake reviews (1 gets posted every 10 or so bad reviews). They get you to agree to a contract (very wordy one at that) and then hire someone else who does a half assed job (do about 1 hours cleaning and charge you for 5 hours cleaning for 3 - 4 hours of work). The clean ended up costing me about 150% of the price the real estate recommended cleaner would have charged (paying the bad cleaners, cleaning some up myself afterwards and then hiring the real estate recommended ones to finish the job)
Small world! I was thinking you look familiar. Then you mentioned Kolby. I was like I know a Kolby who sells car. And then you show his shop!!! Thanks for your videos!!!!
They use that same opening line for the duct cleaning posts too. Another one are the t shirt posts they put in appreciation groups. My Hunter Thompson groups are full of scam “Buy The Ticket Take The Ride” t shirt ads.
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Pleasant Green I would love for you to call out Facebook and the social media sites that allow this garbage to continue happening. They need to be held accountable. People are being scammed out of so much money. There are so many fake ads. It’s ridiculous I can’t even scroll one swipe without finding a scam item now.
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@@MarkMcGovern2012it's just an advertisement
Companies like this can only request that the original collectors of your data delete it. Once it's sold it doesn't matter
I'm too busy to dig any further but your sponsor sucks.
I hate it when I drop hot oil from frier while making breakfast and I cannot service my customers
The worst
@@PleasantGreencan I have a respond please your my favourite scam baiter and would love a response I have been watching for a long time
Same… I’m normally like “ahhhhh not again”.
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These detail scammers are ruining business for actual detailers in the community. Now whenever someone sees a detailing ad in a community group even if it’s a legit business people will think it’s a scam.
Yes I also in loss from a month because some stupid guys scam others and and people all detailers are scam I get 10$ from one sale😢
I block every detailer ad I see on Facebook almost everything is a scam now. Losers that have no morals
Yeah they’re everywhere
If an email contains the word “Kindly” is it always a scam do you think?😂😂
Kindly explain your hypothesis.
Not necessarily. The company contracts with a lot of legitimate outsourcing companies in India for answering basic tickets, stuff like that. One thing I immediately noticed is these guys say "kindly" all the time, despite doing real non-scam work. It's just how people speak English in that part of the world, and unfortunately there are a lot of scammers there too.
@@stupot_64 Kindly do one thing first. Please do the needful.
@@reflectionslidethe way scammers overuse the word "kindly" is vastly differrent from how a legitimately profesional customer service representative would use it, and if you can't spot it's a scammer by the way they speak, you are the mark
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I'm surprised they actually sent someone to do the job. I was expecting them to try and get an early payment and ghost.
I was going to say, I was waiting for the moment where he breaks down and says his technician just died, but he needs rent for their building and if he could please just pay him anyway.
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When they asked for make & model, I thought they'd come at night and steal the car (if it's deemed high value).
@@joshm3342Something was up bc it seems like a scam for sure. Maybe if it wasn't at a dealership. This was a weird one.
@khieff soon? Lmao don't hold your breath!
These scams on FB are out of control. Thanks for showing how the scammers use other unsuspecting individuals. The actual detail guy probably receives a fraction of what the actual 55% equates to. Scamming everyone involved. Sad.
I wonder if any of these cleaners/techs know how deep it goes!
And they still don’t give up
@@PleasantGreen It's hard to find an actual real one unless they post a business card with a proper ph# and street address.
@@PleasantGreen I doubt it. I have the exact same ad, word for word, in several of my local groups as well.
They're a problem everywhere. Here in Bulgarian facebook groups we get Nigerian scammers promising work that requires no experience, half a work day and a salary equating to double that of a normal job. Then they invite you to a telegram group and god knows what extortion happens in there. They use google translate and sadly some people seem to fall for it because there's always a bunch of interested commenters under their posts.
Your tenacity in getting to the bottom of these scams is amazing. I live in a small town so we only have one dedicated car detailer but if he can't help you right away he will send a buddy over to get things started. Neighbors & friends helping each other; just like it should be.
Never trust anyone that says “ kindly “ 😀
I am struggling to find a job here in brooklyn, and the other day in a Facebook post, somebody offered me a job... Everything went down for me when he said "kindly"
Your first mistake was to believe that someone from FB would actually offer you a legitimate job.
I say kindly so often. 🙃
@VaanChoco Ayyeew Bioshock fan!?
I contacted real microsoft support and some technicians say kindly, too from african countries or india, etc.
I work for a professional auto detailing shop and you wouldn't believe how many people contact us every day asking if we need "10-15 new customers per month guaranteed" so i can only assume that shops agree with those people and then they find brokers that make these scam posts on facebook.
It's sometimes worth wasting their time a little, I've actually had a few of those calls turn out to be legitimate businesses with fleets that we now service, but it's often the grammar mistakes which gives away the obvious scams.
I detailed my car once, just once and it took me hours, all day. Never again. I’ll gladly pay $200 for someone else to do it. If they do as thorough a job as I did myself.
@@MissMaserati "grammar mistakes which GIVE away" details, dear!
@@Puddycat00 $200 only gets you a vacuum and wash if it's not even dirty though. Like if you do it every month. A real detail on a real dirty car where they have to polish the paint and shampoo the carpet, etc would be $500-1000.
I was about to comment this, I run my own detailing business literally only on Facebook marketplace. I get these exact messages all the time for “10-15 new customers each month” it’s really out of hand. They act like normal people then want a part of your business that they bring you from using preditory tactics
You should have just given all the money to the Guy who actually showed up and did the Job.
It's possible that most of the money would have went to the scammer regardless
That's what I thought. Give the Guy $50 or $75 for the work, you don't intend to pay "Cory" anyway ...
@@Mr-pn2eh The deal was to pay Cory but he ghosted. So, give it to the Guy and close the deal. You were honest, paid the Guy for his work, and didn't feed the "Cory" scammer in Pakistan.
@@Mr-pn2eh*Gone, not went.
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Unbelievably complicated scam going on here. It's alarming to see how deep these overseas operations can get into our local communities. Let's be more cautious and verify the identities of those we do business with.
They must loose 90% of of their potential customers by using these stupid delaying techniques.
This one could have been just over the border. He was replying in Spanish and the way he said ¿porque? Just convinced me he was probably in Mexico or a Spanish speaking American.
@@HotShot-JoshThat was the actual person that detailed the car, not the person located in Pakistan.
@@TheSlayer.lol he didn’t understand what was going on
Same word for word post in a couple of my groups. We got them banned but they always find a way. It's either these type posts or DUCT cleaning.
And AC cleaning
Turn on post approval. That should help.
Man these are the same scumbags that run duct cleaning scams. It’s ridiculous what these criminals are doing to innocent people out there. Thanks for all the awareness you spread Sir
Where is the scam though? All They are doing is generating leads and send people to do the work, it’s not actually a scam is it
i have been calling these people out for months now on facebook...THANK YOU for shedding light on this
As an admin for our local facebook group, I see about 5 to 15 new member requests per day. More usually at the beginning of the month. We have them answer three simple questions. Which the scammers cant even answer. Some times they get in. We are not perfect. But if any post says anything about car detailing or duct cleaning they are banned. It is a private group. That is what you should really join is a private group. With admins who care!
Makes it harder for the legitimate businesses in Brisbane
I admin our neighborhood group. It's a community of about 50 townhomes, so we know most of each other. One of our questions is address, and I've had them claim to be next door neighbors, or even my own address! Come now, I'm not THAT stupid!
@@davidbarnes452 good to hear you have those measures in place.
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@@khieff ?
Any time they mention that "I am in the hospital" or a hospital in anyway as the reason why they can't provide you the service, it is always a scam!
You have to love it when your cleaner asks if they can get in a crash with your permission
This is really weird .. it's like you said before .. why don't they just do a legitimate job? There's absolutely no need to do any of this lying.
They don't do a legitimate job because they people initiating the scams are trying to make money off of other oblivious people doing work :/
Legit work would mean vetting the people you hire to determine if they can actual do the work. That’s tough to do when you’re halfway around the world. Easier to just bait customer and hook them up with Craigslist dayworkers and a long as you get paid, good to go. If you don’t get paid bc the work was done terribly, then you don’t pay the dayworker. The scammer has no skin in the game.
@@stephen3164It's kind of hilarious too if you think about it. This service should be pretty prospective in Pakistan as well. Some people need jobs, some people need jobs done... They can be an actual Domestic Job Broker/Mediator
But no they do this instead. Because it's not about giving the service, it's about the cash they get instead of doing the same, more easily manageable job in Pakistan.
Fast money Mindset. The humorous part is that they expend as much effort as they would doing legitimate work though
$70 USD, which is their cut, is a lot in Pakistan. If they do 1 or 2 a month, they are better than working a labor job in Pakistan.
My neighborhood Facebook group has been filled with these lately and every time I try and point out it is a scam i get hate so i just stopped. So frustrating because I live in an elderly community and am just trying to protect my neighbors.
Why let the ignorant win? Just block those who are too moronic to listen to you.
Share this video. Usually shuts them up
The negative comments are probably also from scammers
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It’s odd, but ultimately for the customer it’s not really a scam. They agree to a price and a Detailer comes out. You pay once he’s done if you’re satisfied so who is getting screwed over?
I saw this in my New Hampshire Facebook group and almost reached out. Thank you for your video.
I actually responded to one of these ads on fb. I asked how much and she was slow to respond to questions. When she finally did, I said I lost interest. Thanks for the video.
The Wilhelm scream describing the guy burnt by oil had me LOLing. I love a well placed yet unexpected sound effect. +1!
There is a tow scam that is very similar to this. Go online, schedule a tow and they farm it out to a local company and pay them half of what they charged you.
How's that a scam tho? Sounds like sub contracting to me. As long as you actually get someone to tow ur car like u wanted I don't see how it's a scam
@@willydmankal Because they make it seem like they are local to you complete with a fake address on their website and you end up paying twice as much for a tow.
One of their tactics is changing phone numbers on google business to their own and requesting credit card over the phone before they will send a truck.
@drakesavory2019 thats still not a scam tho
Makes sense a few months ago I needed a tow in the middle of nowhere got some random Indian dude talking wanted to change me like $400 to literally tow it half a mile. There was a few weird things about it I can't remember it's been a while
This is such a bummer. Scams like this make me hesitant to help anyone out, which is such a shame.
You have inspired me to continue my pursuit against scammers ben! Great work and video! 🎉
Good to know. These are probably similar to the lead services that contact me on a regular basis asking if we need help with our detailing business. They're also probably using our brand to achieve this since we've gotten some strange phone calls from people who we've never talked to before but insist they've booked an appointment with us. It's unfortunate these scammers are out there. Thanks for the video!
I love watching the Catfished channel and was so surprised when you included them in this video. They are awesome! You are awesome too BTW.
the narration kept me hooked through the whole video! well done man. subscribed
The scary part is that these types of scams aren’t isolated to the car detailing industry. There are scam companies for just about every professional service now. I’ve literally had people walk into my locksmith shop with the intent of using violence against me because someone else scammed them posing as me. There’s plumbing scammers, electrician scammers, even landscaping scammers just to name a few, it’s absolutely absurd.
It's like you're trying hard to get scammed and they just can't do it.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a better drama series than this channel on any streaming service.:) Love it!
You're the man when it comes to exposing these scams.
Facebook is unbelievably overrun with scammers. I changed my profile picture to one of my dog just because any time I posted a comment somewhere, I'd get bombarded by scam messages wanting me to send them a friend request. Kitboga has been delving into the FB scammer world recently too. Also saw a different YTer showing all the numerous copies of his name out there. It's nuts!
Hey Ben , I speak spanish and I have seen this ads contracting people on Facebook groups. So what they do is because they know a lot of people are coming to the US looking for work the scammers are posting on facebook groups known to hispanics and they contract them.
This is what I thought-take advantage of border crossers who can't get work here otherwise.
@@fouresterofthetrees287 Most of them Venezuelans and thanks to Donald Trump they get Temporal Protection Status(TPS)
Thank you for Making these up to date videos on all of these scams!! I have been watching for a long time now and try to share the information with my family members.
Wow they have more excuses than someone going to jail 🥴thankyou so much Ben for uploading this video and making everyone aware of it you’re the best 😘
You’re finally back! I’ve been able to trick the car detail scammers and duct cleaning scammers to go across the street from my work and I love watching them waste their time as they blow up my burner # lol
As an auto detailer I could say this was a very good break down of some of the scams taking taking place
"So... he's from Izrael."
"Oh.. okay, that's far from the Texas."
*A LITTLE BIT*
Probably not in Israel either. He is using a VPN
Pakistan is probably where they're from
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@@Gandingas Imagine using a VPN in Pakistan to make it look like your computer is in Israel.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa scamers around the world have been using VPNs for a while now, they are getting more tech savy, but they tend to only use the VPN and not change their browser date time settings and that gives them away when you trace their ip, even the free tracking services now automatically check for the browser settings of the machine and let's you know the machine likely is using a vpn, some of the paid VPN services have features to work around this but scammers tend to use the free ones
two of my favorite channels collabing!! love you guys pleasant green and social catfish
Here’s a trick I learned: copy and paste the text from the FB post and you’ll find the exact text in many other posts…by different people. That’s how I learned that someone selling furniture in a group I follow is a scammer. (Besides the fact that all the furniture he/she posted were stolen pictures.)
Great idea
I just searched the first sentence of the post..”I know self promotion is bad, but…" and got so many hits! Some with vent cleaning, others with carpet cleaning. 😂😂
Finally! I’ve been waiting on this! I was going to suggest this to you but didn’t get around to it. I have a detail shop and these absolutely get on my nerves!
I would actually consider $190 for an exterior and interior detailing a pretty good deal. A lot of them are $300+.
I've been waiting for a video from you on this exact topic for weeks!! I got so happy when I opened up UA-cam this morning. Thanks Pleasant Green!
I appreciate the fact that you do this so we don't have to...
It's my job
The scrubbing bubbles of online scams
The Scrubbing Bubbles of online scams
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One more time...? Haha
@@Julia-uh4li I posted it once. It didn't show so I posted again lol
Had a bad day today. I started watching this and realized I was smiling! Thank you!.
Always happy to see your posts. Keep up the good work and the positivity!
Thank you for this video, I just never understood what these losers got from the lies. As a legit detailing company, these scammers have really hurt us. It’s really challenging to gain new clients from social media. Our loyal clients are awesome!
I definitely agree. Instead of pretending to be someone else or a "business" it would have been nice if they were honest and make a recruitment company that sends people to do jobs. Which would be way more trustworthy than needing to lie.
If they called or messaged you and said ‘hi we are calling from Pakistan’ you’d shut the phone off. I do agree the approach is wrong but I don’t see this as a scam as such, they do send someone to come do the job
I run my neighborhood FB page. The duct cleaning scmas are almost every week. The accounts all look the same. Some generic family picture. Reminds me of the photos inside of picture frames when you buy one.
Wow….I left Facebook several years ago…..due to family issues…..but your video is so interesting….plus I love social catfish! I watch the scammer Wednesday videos! Love em! ❤
Their videos are so addictive!
Hope the person who did the job got paid poor man stuck in the middle trying to earn money
Great vid as always.
And yes, being in Australia I can confirm this is every 3rd or 4th post in most neighbourhood Facebook groups.
If you have a neighborhood FB group make sure it's set to private. Also have entry questions only residents can ask like: "What's your car's make and color?"
I temember when you had 40k subs and knew you would blow up. I feel that you're one of the best scammer channels out there. Thank you for what you do.
Scammers like leave us alone. we trying to have a healthy living with other people money
What else is new if these people aren’t trying to scam people, smh, great video Ben
“Kindly” 😂
That's like the #1 key word for scammers.
Be bless is one of my favourites lol
Thank you for this! I had no idea it was a scam, just removed one from my local group, turns out we had a couple of them with matching words!
So did you pay the guy that came out to clean the full amount?
Omg that’s so cool you collabed with social catfish! I love their videos!
What is crazy is that these people do not need to lie if they are actually providing a service and not stealing. There are referral companies, and that is all they would have to call themselves. Just be honest and tell people that you can help them find people that will do the job you want done.
But they play on sympathy with those FB posts, pretending to be local AND down on their luck, Increases the odds someone will contact them,.
@@davidfrench5407 And it probably increases the likelyhood of someone paying the overpriced amount of money they ask for.
Without any of the lies nobody would trust a random post in your community group coming from somebody on a different continent representing a referral firm. Even if the firm itself isn't predatory ( which in this case, 45% cut for the upcharge quota seems predatory to me ) a lot less people would trust it, if any. Pretending to be a local person down on their luck definitely makes a lot more people want to help out, especially if they need that service anyways so might as well help out a neighbor while having it done.
@@KillahEU 45% cut does seem low, but if you shop at any (inter)national chain, they do the same thing.
They could just do the business of matching up customers and companies and take a cut. 🤷🏽♀️
$190 for complete detailing is actually a really good price. Just for a car where I work is about $240 and large trucks can be upwards of $350
Wish we could give out extra bonus likes for the use of the Wilhelm Scream
I saw an ad like this and was about to fall for this, but thank goodness someone posted a scam warning. They also referred me to this very helpful video.
These are all over Craigslist too. I scheduled a handyman to come out and do a drywall repair and they sent out two random guys that obviously had no clue how to fix drywall. I don't know how you can filter these out anymore. It's hard to tell who's a legit business and who's an appointment farmer overseas.
At least with this scam, you actually walk away with a clean car, not 20k taken out of your bank account. Not much different than a sketchy version of Angie’s list.
You're not so bright lol. Nobody is coming to clean your car lol 😆
@@AnitaSolerDid you even watch the video
In Baltimore, they have this scam where they make an entire clone website for popular restaurants (to go or delivery part). But they jack the price up by 15-20%. When you order from them, they just forward the order to the real website keeping the inflated difference. You pick up your food or your food is delivered, you are none the wiser you just paid for an unnecessary "service".
People need to be more careful on the internet. Thanks friend for all you do.
Had the same ad pop up for the small town in NC I live in, word for word. Had the same excuses given, mother died, he’s in the hospital….
Great video. I don't know that I would call it a scam per-se. My main reasoning is because you are actually getting something of value at the end of it. Maybe it's not worth the price you pay but you are getting something out of it. However, the practice is shady AF. The scammers here are essentially acting as brokers. They find small businesses and say "hey, for $XX I can give you a bunch of leads" and then they infiltrate social media and use deceitful methods.
It is an interesting "business" and it is super dishonest.
Yeah, it seems pretty sketchy that they're banking on others feeling sorry for them and pretending to be a different company with better ratings and more history
Yeah, you just described a scam
@@Gandingas maybe. I usually describe a scam as getting something of no value back. You are getting a car detailing service, just the way i which it occurs is incredibly sketch
I have said exactly the same. Not a scam perse, but very immoral and dishonest.
When the advertisement is lying about the situation and is using a fake name and is orchestrating it from another country and has like a 900% mark up rather than just 20-30% this is absolutely a scam.
Social catfish is an amazing channel. Glad to see you working together 🎉
We love Ben. Been a fan of his channel for years!
Read today in the daily mail news paper about a guy selling his car on fb market place somebody really keen rang up asking for details address etc and made an appointment to view it. He did not show up but the car was stolen
the next day. Apparently its become common practice in the UK most are mid price cars mostly broken for spare parts and sold on ebay etc
Hell ya we need a social catfish collab video! Great work again Ben 🎉
Wait doesn't sites like that to search for people...?
I really like how niche you get in your research of cyber scams!
So did you just hand the money to the guy who came and cleaned the car in the end?
Wow, I thought this was a FL thing in my area, this scam has been HORRABLE to my small detailing business, almost NO leads from FB. Most FB groups are now just getting that these posts are scams. hopefully this changes soon!
Thank you for showing this off because this has been ROUGH in central FL area.
The lesson I learned from watching this is, if some random guy in Pakistan can solicit a cleaning job in Utah to be completed by an "employee" that he doesn't even know and essentially earn $95 for just typing a few messages, then there is absolutely ZERO EXCUSE for anyone claiming they can't make money. Just, amazing!!
Near where I live there is a big hospital with lots of doctor's consulting rooms too. Some young adults have set up a business offering car washing for a very reasonable fee while you go to your appointment. They do a great job and I always get my car washed when I see my doc even if it isn't needed, because I love supporting honest small businesses.
What's really going on here is that Facebook knows that it's the preferred medium for scammers of all types, and it will do anything it can to facilitate that.
You know that and I know that, but does anybody else know that FB has a vested interest in scmming you???🤣🤣🤣
Facebook can’t boast about how many new members they have if they ban them all
I’ve seen this and the Air Duct scam you posted awhile ago many times in my town FB group. I report and also have shared your earlier video.
“I know pronouns are tricky in 2024” 😂😂😂
Pleasant Green is in Utah right? Most likely Mormon, so he doesn’t play that LGTV game
Over the past couple of years, I've found this sort of issue with appliance repair and locksmiths. I've had to really do my digging to find a reputable person. Sometimes I just go to a local hardware store and ask them if they know/ used someone.
Nice use 0f a Wilhelm scream !!
classic
I had the same thing in the UK. Needed someone to install a tv. Kept making and canceling appointments. After a few days I figured it out. There are listings for flowers too. They take the booking, take your money, then look for a local florist who will do the job for the tiny amount they are offering, either you get terrible flowers or none at all.
I think it may be as simple as people who have no idea how to run an honest business learning their marketing and management skills from scammers. Like a grocery store run by an ex armed robber who thinks it's normal to demand payment for your produce at gunpoint.
Ever hear the expression "Always good to know a guy?" Yeah, I like to know a guy for most everything I need. This way I'm not surfing FB or CL or other stupid sites that the scammers own. Nicely done Ben! You're on my list of "knowing a guy". Haha.
Funny enough, I've never run into a scammer on Craigslist.
Her wife lol 😂
So interesting. I’ve owned a detailing company for 11 years here in Utah. I’ve just started to see these types of fb posts. I thought they were strange
190 is actually pretty good for detailing, my mom usually paid about 200 just for a deep clean of her car’s interior including tip
I laughed hysterically at your picture of the guy burning himself making breakfast! Does that make me a bad person? Keep up the good work.
Great to see social catfish in the video. Two amazing youtubers collabing 😊
Would love to get in touch with this guy. I got a random message from a Facebook scammer claiming that I have a health and human service grant for $1000, which I’m most certain is a scam
I regularly get bombarded with fake Friend requests, supposedly from people I am already friends with. Trouble is, I check up with the real people to see if the request was genuine or not (and most of the time, it isn't.) I then proceed to tell the bar stewards responsible exactly what I thought of them. And Facebook had the cheek to reprimand me for my content - just because I'm doing what they SHOULD be doing.
Unfortunately this happens. I've had pretty well the same thing happen but with house cleaners. The call centre is in india and they pretend to be local. They have a person in Australia (where I am) for the ABN (Australian business number) .
They promise the world but always seem to fail. They've got plenty of fake reviews (1 gets posted every 10 or so bad reviews). They get you to agree to a contract (very wordy one at that) and then hire someone else who does a half assed job (do about 1 hours cleaning and charge you for 5 hours cleaning for 3 - 4 hours of work). The clean ended up costing me about 150% of the price the real estate recommended cleaner would have charged (paying the bad cleaners, cleaning some up myself afterwards and then hiring the real estate recommended ones to finish the job)
Small world! I was thinking you look familiar. Then you mentioned Kolby. I was like I know a Kolby who sells car. And then you show his shop!!! Thanks for your videos!!!!
omg these keep on popping up in the groups im in, thanks for covering this!
"If I crash my car can we do everything tomorrow?" - No.1 Smartest quote of 2024.
They use that same opening line for the duct cleaning posts too. Another one are the t shirt posts they put in appreciation groups. My Hunter Thompson groups are full of scam “Buy The Ticket Take The Ride” t shirt ads.