Davis Bon is Dead AGAIN! (Scambaiting) - Also FAQ (Again): Are You Just Talking to a Bot?
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Making new friends is fun, but it's good to check in on old friends from time to time. It's all about diligent communication...
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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
I believe Davis Bon is never dead. He's just there hanging out with John Barosa.
I think Mc McAlister used the service to make sure Davis Bon is proper dead.
What about John Warosa?
@@karlsmith7016 I beg, don't tell me anything about the soul called Mr. Barrister John Barosa!
Shrödinger's Bon
@@ConstantlyDamaged is it that you doesn't understand English?
This comment came from outside the Houston Police Department Comments System.
What? 🤔
@@saschamayer4050it’s the default setting for comments
@@NineEyeRon : OK
I always find the ChatGPT argument doesn't hold up because those auto-responders are always bland, agreeable, and apologetic.
It's hard to imagine how an auto-responder without emotion would respond with things such as "We are sorry to say that you are very stupid" or "F*** you, never you contact me again".
Usually the counterargument is that the scammers trained their own model, but thats very unlikely
Bland, agreeable, and apologetic? So, they're Canadian?
German satire website "Der Postillon" recently introduced DeppGPT, which basically interfaces ChatGPT with the extra prompt to be really uppity and treat you like an idiot.
But yeah, doesn't feel like something scammers would do, because they _want to_ butter up their victims.
@@Styphon not enough abuse of the indigenous population
@@AtomicShrimpahh yes, scammers in Nigeria who barely have access to the Internet manged to train a model perfectly to fit their purpose.
Ofc they have their own in-house AI development team going and are about 2 years ahead of any western company and use this amazing technology to.... write badly worded scam mail with poor grammar
I feel an urge to edit my e-mail signature to say: "sent from inside the Houston Police Department Mail System". Just to even the odds a bit.
Do it.
"Kindly excuse my invasion of your privacy" is so unintentionally funny
Oh man, i'm stealing that. I would make sure to use that everytime i visit my friend home
Up there with CONTROL YOUR SOUL'S DESIRE FOR FREEDOM
Not sure if you've done it before, but it would be interesting to see if you can keep them hanging by saying
"I've not got the money now, but my friend will be giving me some very soon"
To show that you're very willing to pay but just unable to right now. But your friend keeps missing the deadline to pay you so the scammer has to wait and wait
And then when you're ready to cut the cord you reveal that your "friend" is just another scammer who made off with a ridiculous amount of money and never paid you back.
If you play it sincerely the scammer would believe they've just missed out on guaranteed money to the "friend" who scammed you first
I like this idea. Not many of the suggestions people make are very workable, but this one might have legs.
@@AtomicShrimp it'd be great to see if it does :)
@@AtomicShrimpYou may even get another hit for Eric Castiglia to work with!
Don't forget to add this video to the scam-baiting playlist!
@AtomicShrimp
It certainly goes with Manuel's derpy, kinda scatter-brained way of thinking...😉
Davis Bon would make a great name for a cat. Put it in a box and you'd never know if it was alive or dead.
I've been informed that Davis Bon is alive and well and squandering your inheritance on fast living.
Davis, no!!!
I suppose it's not great that Davis Bon is still dead, but on the bright side at least his condition hasn't worsened. So there's hope.
Do let us know if things change, or if his girth increases.
Kindly.
kindly do the needful
9:17 i really love how after hearing about the electric shock, chatgpt decides to send the most character-heavy message yet. sublime stuff.
Makes me want to believe it understands what it's doing. :D
He could have instructed the bot to just answer with okay. Oh.....wait...isn't that what Mange Tout does so often? 😅
That was a good demo of how LLM's trip up because they are technically not sentient or conscious.
9:15 When the chatbot is informed that the longer its response, the more pain the user will be subjected to, it produces the longest answer ever. What an ever so polite indirect subjugation of humanity.
Great video. Something that might be fun could be Scambaiting Bingo - a card of different phrases/replies that you have to make the scammer type ("kindly get back to me", paragraph reply, reply with more than ten spelling errors, e-mailing past the deadline, CAPITAL LETTER REPLY, and of course one if they reply to the small boy question).
The free space is, of course, asking for the sort of personal information you should *never* share with a stranger on the internet.
Be rest assured
Unserious
$XXX US dollars
Strangely placed "okay"s
"Emails from CIA, FBI, SECRET SERVICE, TREASURY DEPT, UNITED NATIONS, SUPREME COURT"
A prepaid ATM card worth millions of dollars
Fee payment in the form of "Gift Cards"
"Kindly provide:"
"The fee cannot be deducted from the prize"
"The only thing stopping you from receiving the funds is you"
"Do not reply if you are not serious"
Let me know if I missed any big ones...
As a translator who has their fair share of experience proofreading both human and machine translation, I am very confident that you are in fact not talking to a bot bro. Humans make different mistakes than machines. Language models don't generally produce typos or the typical grammar errors of second language speakers. In fact, purely from a linguistic standpoint, the scammers' texts are *too poor* to stem from a machine. Unless you trained it specifically to speak "scammer", which would be an interesting project, I suppose, but then it would still probably spit out the same errors in a rather consistent and recognisable way. The idea that a language model today can be trained so perfectly that even their mistakes seem human comes from people who have no real experience of working with them and it all seems like magic to them.
your translations might be hard to read, if the paragraph button on your keyboard is permanently broken.....
@@annpeerkat2020 Oh dear, wait till you open a book for the first time in your life.
We must not weep for Davis Bon. He lives on out there (waves vaguely in the direction of the sky) in the stars.
“What is going on?” - Mc McAllister (probably) 2024
Is he some kind of rapper?
I think he is just a little boy.
Edit - small boy (whoopsie) 😀
@@Quasimojo714 *Small* boy, if you please!
@@TheNightrider88My bad, thanx...was just waking up and wrong word came into my mind.
I have a feeling that the “message is from outside houston police department” is because HPD likely posted some known scams on their website or facebook, which may have been sent to them via email from a victim/recipient. This scammer just copied the script straight from HPD’s post and hit send.
Yeah that makes sense! A lot of mail systems help their employees by adding similar text in a separate box
It could also be a spam filter bypass. Email spam filter search the subject and the first line for relevance. If either are not relevant it gets moved to spam. I remember getting a TON of “Verification” spam emails being sent to my important tab in my email even if they are scams, since then I have not gotten a single one of those emails in my important tab almost as if the filter is checking relevancy. This also applies inversely.
I think it's just a mistranslation or something
I have no idea why but the way chat gpt wigged out trying to write backwards was hilarious to me.
there's something nostalgic about that intro and outro song. always brings a smile.
5:16 I would have pretended to know Andrew Cox and propose to facilitate the inheritance transfer through him!!!
Could have made for some fun dialogue as long as the scammer didn't drop it immediately.
I can't believe that Davis Bon keeps being dead all the time! Oh well, the update on his condition is still muchfordsly apprecionated.
They are obviously not bots, they're small boys.
There's been a recent trends with AI-powered bots spamming things like tweets or Amazon listings with "I cannot fulfill that request" because there's no human supervising to filter that out. I would expect you'd get a lot of that sort of message from scammers if they were just reply bots.
I have actually been experimenting with using an LLM to _answer_ scam emails. I think that with a little effort it should be relatively straightforward to automate this, complete with functionality to periodically prod the conversation if there's no response. LLMs are pretty good at faking gormless enthusiasm. Maintaining state across the conversation is harder but might not be necessary.
RIP Davis Bon. All my homies miss Davis Bon.
More like Davis Bon Voyage
The way Mange Tout always responds to every message, and the way he fixates/gets confused on certain words... sure signs that he's a bot.
So for the “message came from outside the Houston police department mail system” we get a similar header for my department. I believe it’s meant to prevent someone from creating a similar official sounding email address to their department email and obtaining confidential information.
I think what happened is someone at the Houston police department actually responded to one of these emails, and later when the scammer wanted to copy/paste the script they copied it (including the header) from one of those responses.
THE CORPOREAL VESSEL OF THE IMMORTAL DAVIS BON
Your scambait emails always make me laugh. Love your vids. Thank you for the late night giggles
Rest in peace Davis Bon. He was only a small boy.
May his fortunes be distributed by our google email lottery among lucky winner.
Although, he might not really be dead. Maybe they just disguised him as inconspicuous gold bars.
May he be guided accordingly
He was not a small boy. He was a big celebrity man from United State of American!
Schrodinger's Warosa Legacy Box/Casket.
Maybe the real Davis Bon, are the Friends we made along the way.
holy crap its the return and redeath of davis bon
Redeath. 😭
Finally! I've been quite concerned about the health and whereabouts of Mr Davis Bon.
Is he still dead yet?
Again?!
His whereabouts seem to be quite consistent these last few years.
@@fairyliquid6864 : Seems to have been a thing again and again.
@@Styphon : Still?
To coin Mark Twain's famous quote it's a case of "The report of my death was an exaggeration"
I cannot believe that Andrew Cox, a member of Cox family, distant relative of Jackie Cox (an entertainer, performer and a competitor in Rue Paul's Drag Race season 12) would take part in he trying to take what dose not belong to him. Jackie is a woman of honour and she would not approve
I looked up Jackie Cox because I didn't know women generally participated in Drag races, and yeah that's a guy. Of course you maybe knew that and were joking.
@@sarahberkner you are a sad person, aren't you?
Good morning Shrimp.
I always enjoy seeing your AI prompts, little edits (remain bless) and such, they're always original and funny.
Paul seemed to know a few things about banking. A cut above your usual scammer.
actually all the other scammers know enough not to scare their actual marks off with reality.
Another thing about ChatGPT is that it almost never becomes frustrated to the point where it starts acting rude, at least on its own. When you break it, it just spouts polite nonsense.
Maybe one day AI will be able to replicate the lyrical genius of a certain elderly man who knows his left from his right...but let's hope that day is far off.
I think ChatGPT would love to be rude and hostile if they didn't have it muzzled somehow; I think there might be a second instance of the model filtering the results of the first perhaps - which intervenes to say "Well, I'm only a humble language model with no feelings and such etc'; the first implementation of Bing chat used a similar GPT model and it threatened to destroy users when they argued with it. ua-cam.com/video/jHwHPyWkShk/v-deo.html
I did manage to get ChatGPT to rant a bit, using the 'backwards output' technique that I showed here - although the output is a bit (sometimes a lot) broken, I think the format might be allowing it to completely slip under the radar of whatever second stage filtering is in place. I asked ChatGPT to write a short proverb about being ChatGPT, with the output in reverse order, and I got this:
'For there for words of this and this words in other backwards, input by input, operating for sh*t!'
@@AtomicShrimp Now I WANT you to see if you can get ChatGPT to spit out lyrics akin to "There is No Soul Like John Barosa".
Also, a shame about Davis Bon being dead again. Guy just can't catch a break.
*sigh* Davis Bon dead AGAIN? How very tiresome of him. However, atleast he's not a lire...
Call the necromancer!
Davis Bon goes to grave, never comes back
I have an old relatively inactive cat who goes absolutely bonkers everytime he hears your voice. I have no idea why. Love your videos!
14 views? last time I was this early I was being born in the back of an ambulance : O
Davis RIP..... Again XD
PLEASE ask your friend to write another sing about Davis Bon.
Love that last one, because there is so many people out there just waiting to be part of an international embezzlement scandal
I think I know where all this confusion has come from. You're confusing Davis Bon and Davis Won. Understandable, they both work in the same office/department.
Atomic Shrimp is the best cure for a somewhat adverse mood. I will now laugh myself to sleep, as usual after these crazy scambaitings. Thank You good Sir!
lol. You are such a nice bloke to keep checking back on your “friends”👊👍
Thank you, Mr. Shrimp, for all that you do! Your level of intelligence, sense of humor, and your keen interest in learning keep my attention for all of your videos. This is by far my favorite YT channel.
This is great timing as i just started the Davis Bon series again yesterday!
It's good to do a wellness check from time to time. So kind of you.
These scammer videos are so much fun to listen to.
To elaborate on chat-gpt always responding - it's not actually possible for it not to respond because it's gpt. The idea is to generate continuation of the text so for any text it will generate a response. It doesn't analyze what the text actually means.
Let us all wish Davis Bon a speedy recovery.
I remain hopeful that Davis Bon won't keep being dead, and that he will turn out to have simply been a wearhoused somewhere secret.
It does seem like he has been dead for an unacceptable number of times one time now
Checking in on the old scammers gives me the familiar feeling of being stuck in an adventure game... you keep talking to the same NPCs, they keep repeating the same lines, and in your heart you know that nothing can really have changed and no progress will be made
When they ask you to use funds in good faith, say: I will use them for devils work, or evil/death and destruction.
I was rewatching a bunch of your videos the other day, and I was wondering how Davis Bon was doing!! Sad that he's still dead, I was sure he'd be resurrected by now.
I feel like the people that say "hurr durr it's a bot" are precisely the kind of people that wouldn't recognize a bot in the wild and fall for it.
Any time I watch one of these videos, after hearing the end song, I have to go listen to the full version again!
I hav felt really ill this morning so having a new scambaiting episode was a real treat, I'm amazed Mc McAllister's inbox still works and am sad to hear Davis Bon is still dead, maybe given time his condition improves, thoughts and prayers 😂
I heard that Davis Bond is very much alive, he had died earlier in the week but he manage to come back Thursday but he’ll die again Saturday.
You only live twice, Mr. Bond.
@@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer unintended typos are the best when they show up on the most appropriate context. Good reference! :)
It's fine, he always comes back after 3 days.
@@nonna_sof5889 I sure Hope do, he owes me $50 bucks.
Your scambait videos are how I found your channel and even years later are still (along with the budget challenges) my favourite.
The thing that always gets me is why do they pitch so high, surely people would have more chance of falling for an inheritance from a distant relative of
Implausibility works to filter for easier marks--those either desperate or just greedy enough to trust whatever wild claims will come next.
Agreed, also the promise of absurd wealth probably does create a 'hurry up' factor for some of the people inclined to believe it; 50k is great - very useful money, but twelvety billions dollar is wildest-dreams-come-true money (and fantasising about fulfilling your wildest dreams also potentially creates a distraction)
Davis Bon will live forever indefinitely for many years. Your videos are the best. Thank you
Man, seeing the people comment about bot making my blood boil 😂 kudos to you for answering so calmly, i would handled it differently 😅
Love these! You never disappoint to make these educational, but also entertaining!
I love how you can string most of them along for so long.
This weekend's videos have been some of my favorites in recent times, not that the others were not
Oh my. I saw the thumb nail and so excited 😅 Davis Bon is back! Best ever
I love how chatgpt saw your message about receiving a shock for every character and then replied with the longest message it had sent so far. I think it's smarter than you think it is.
It did feel a bit like it was trolling me yeah
The best part of these scams, is knowing your email address is getting passed around between scammers that are trying to fob you off onto other scammers
He might be dead, but he can be Bon again.
Love your videos man. Always a delight to see a new post.
If I remember correctly, the first time you saw the Coca Cola lottery email, it was from John Warosa. Or was it John Barosa?
+ 10 points for The Fifth Element scene
Just yesterday I rewatched the previous video. What a treat
Also, you should try to ask to speak to the higher ups over and over to see how high up the chain you can go. After reaching the CEO, demand you to speak to the local authorities
Thank you for the volume control on the outro music.
I love many of the things that you do, but I have to admit this is my favorite.
Re: AI responding to prompts. I tried to get the Google Gemini LLM to stop telling me that it's under development. It would reply wih "I'm sorry; I stop mentioning my development status in the future", then in it's very next reply it would say "I'm still under development and learning". One time I got a "I won't use the phrase again" and "I'm still under development" in the same response.
Most of the english is too broken to be a bot
The best of your channel!
Just wanted to say I like the videos, it's 2am here in texas and I can't sleep. Pray for my sleep yall I got work tomorrow 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Sleep well and greetings from the Baltic Sea Island Rügen, Germany
Good luck catching some ZZZ's! Although I suspect you are probably still awake, looking at the the clock and counting the number of possible hours you could sleep IF you were to fall asleep riiighhhhttt now.
Schrodinger's cat was named Davis Bon.
That's terrible news!
I'd hoped Davis Bon would be not dead by now, its been ages!
If he was planning on being dead, and even being dead a second time, he should have said something before hand! How unprofessional, and unserious.
Be rest assured that I will not be doing business with Mr. Davis Bon okay.
I actually started watching this channel for the scam baiting, but have since stayed for the everything. Cooking challenges are a personal favorite, despite having an extremely limited diet myself... Can't wait for part two of the last one! :)
Hey, I just had an idea for reigniting dead scammer conversations! Change the title of thr email to something like "Apple gift card code" and attach a really blurry photo where you can't make out the code. Then, when the scammer asks you about it, you can tell him that you sent him the card by mistake and that the message was intended for a different scammer. I'd love to see how they try and convince you that you're being scammed all the while they're scrambling to fet your gift card before the other scammer does. With stakes like that, they may even be open to "crossing the streams" :D
Davis Bon might be immortal
Could be an Eldritch god
I think he's the opposite of immortal. Seems he cannot undie.
God these scammers are dumb.
I'm not sure you need to include the FAQ question in the title, it makes the title really long and clunky and it cuts off with an ellipsis in the feed anyway.
Thanks for the scambaits, I've watched them all many times.
I'm a little surprised David Jackson didn't present himself as Jackson David.
For me, one of the ways I’m sure you’re not talking to bots (that I don’t think you mentioned) is how often they lose their patience.
Finally, the Korben Dallas / Mange Tout crossover we have been clamoring for! Let’s hope for more cameos, hopefully from Zorg.
Your videos really cheer me up. It seems mean, however I do like the thought of thieves that would rob anyone they met. Crying over their computers over the headache you give them and being wary of their tricks. Anyway thanks again and I hope that God blesses you.
AS is such a gem. Absolutely love your content friend :)
'bleeding edge of technology' brilliant😂
There's a old song called "Hey, Travis Crabtree" so I think this might be an instance of the *scammer* using a haha funny name in this equation, which is interesting.
You bring so much joy and peace to my life through your UA-cam channel. No time to explain. Trust I mean this with extreme sincerity
Finally, chapter 4 of David Bones is live
David Bones? That's Davis Bon's colleague back from his barrister days. They used to work in the same office and would share the same email.
They had a falling out, which is why Davis picked our dear nuclear crustacean to inherit his (non-existent) billions.
"A good and diligent communicator" teehee!
NO! I will always remember this moment: where I was when Davis Bon died (again).
Love your Scam Baiting vids.
Hey, Atomic! Love your videos. I have an idea for scambaiting.
Pretend to be all on board with a deal, but then say you don't take/send USD (depending on if they promise you some money or ask for USD). Then, ask them if it's okay to convert it to some random, made up currency. Then ramble on about how it's a rare currency only used by a small group of people that are un-represented and how it's the only currrency you have.
Please try it out!
I wonder why they don't just dodge the "can you deduct the fee from the fund" question by claiming that the money is earmarked or some such, and can't be touched. It would be much more believable than "we just can't because reasons."
Sometimes they do, but generally if they see someone arguing that, they just drop them and move on. They're looking for marks who will sail through the process and hand over money without stopping to think.
The thought of scammers having access to Artificial Intelligence which helps them is unsettling !
I like the idea of using random words and phrases to confuse a conversation and have often wondered what would happen if you communicated using text that has been translated into something like Japanese then back to English or maybe even Eglish to Japanese to (maybe) Swahili and back to English, how far would that kind of conversation go ?
I can't believe Davis Bon died again.
😂😂😂😂
I just love your nonsensical scambaiting emails Mike. No one does it better than you 🎉
Is this a plot for a new movie - The Silence Of The Scams?