I find it funny that you are a scam-baiter but you promote VPNs which do not actually protect your information or your privacy. Websites have lots of other ways to track you and know exactly where in the world you are. They are useful for certain things like tricking streaming services but not protecting you.
For missing persons posts in general, ONLY share posts that are official from police departments! Sometimes abusers or stalkers will create missing person posts to find someone that successfully got away from them
Wanna comment to keep this near the top, most of the time kids are kidnapped by someone they know. Abusers absolutely do this to find information, all it takes is one well meaning person who doesnt realize who thier giving information to. If you want to help find missing people theres tons of organizations that work with law enforcement to get information out there and send tips over. The FBI even has a website with photo evidence from CSAM videos to help locate the creators of said videos (and dont worry none of it is graphic content, when the FBI puts that out its files they can track to find people looking for this stuff)
@@suzybearheart530 no 1 of these is a joke, 1 is an offence that really directly hurts people emotionally and financially and leaves them worrying in some cases for years if it will happen again. Comparing these 2 is respectless for people that really had to deal with scammers
That autistic child happens to be my friend’s son. He was never lost. A friend shared that picture in a group on Facebook. It’s sad that people are doing this. 🤦♀️
Someone blocked me on facebook yesterday because I tried to warn them. It’s not your friends son I’m referring to but the fb scamming interacting with the lack of security. It’s enabled by fb users lashing out at anyone that tries to stop it
It’s crazy that anyone would need to worry about this sort of thing happening to begin with, let alone what to do about it. I wish there was some recourse - some direct consequence to this behavior.
@@Code7Unltd yes I said someone was a twat after they said i was one and now I'm banned for 28 days,it happens alot I get banned all the time for swearing but scams are fine...
I've also seen comments disabled for some of the stupid "I'm giving this guitar of my son's because he died in a car accident :( :( :( :( it hurts me to see this videogame system, please contact me" posts. ... (Yes, I really did see one that was about that blatantly obvious. I forget how the individual post went, but it did say "console system" when the item it was advertising *WASN'T* a videogame system.)
@barbarachambers7974 The problem with your suggestion of “doing research” , is that people have their own interpretation of doing research. I have seen many conspiracy theorists who say “I know that X is true, because I’ve done my own research.”
When a person tries to mention scams they are accused of being a killjoy, antisocial and a hacker. It’s tough to tell people and try to help. Thanks so much for raising awareness because nobody believes that any scams are happening.
Decent people never mind being warned, they know you're trying to help. If people say you're a killjoy, antisocial, whatever, when you're only trying to warn them, then just leave them to it. People who refuse to learn from the experience of others are doomed to learn only from their own.
I have always wondered what people get out of sharing fake missing kids and grandparents, found pets who won’t eat, etc. Thanks for clarifying this! My fb friends share these kinds of posts every day.
@@TryinaD It is a bot, most likely but I really don't know what it is trying to achieve by copying comments. Maybe that's the topic for another video 😂
When people directly ask me to share a post, I never do. Just as if 'I want to know how many of my friends will care enough to repost' this (insert some sob story or other), the answer is, not this one.
I keep reporting these posts, and Facebooks response is they aren't breaking community guidelines. But make one post with a swear word in it, and it's off to Facebook jail. Make it make sense!
A toxic environment with toxic people who wouldve guessed? As long as they dont do anything wrong they can just keep doing it. Be a grown up and leave that toxic bullshit behind
Agreed. I have reported photos with extreme adult nudity, blatant racism, prostitution, and organized selling of stolen goods to Facebook. I always get the same response as well. Or they make it that their long list of reporting categories doesn’t include the critical ones. Facebook’s community guidelines are a joke.
Facebook has horrible moderation, I don't use it but from stories it's insane They never took down a Livestream with a dead man with his face blown off
This would be so easy for Facebook to clamp down if they had a filter to say flag edits where 50% of the post changes and require review before making public or something, especially if it had a shared over a couple of times, but facebook doesn't care.
A simple Alert that the post you forwarded has been edited is simple now I don't know how simple due to Facebook being so huge and using their own priority codes which may make it harder. Coding it in most majority programming languages is generally not that hard.
These scammers literally have every method to scam someone. I was looking to buy a part for my car as soon as I showed up to the house a couple opened the door and said they weren’t selling anything. Later on the scammer said I had to pay the “deposit” before buying. What an inconvenience. Lucky I didn’t lose money. Just my time. I actually was going to pay ahead of time because I really needed the part. These scammers know exactly where to fish.
You’re lucky it wasn’t worse. A young lady in my area saw a FB ad for baby clothes years ago and went to the house to get it for her baby that was due. The mother and daughter at the house ended her life.
@@HopefulEmpath Was that in the US? There's been at least 3 occasions over the handful of years that this has happened to. Especially 2 of them took the moms life and cut the baby out to try and pass it off as their own. I watch a few True Crime channels on here, so that's how I heard about those. Everyone needs to be diligent when meeting with strangers. As in, meet up at a very public spot/restaurant or police station 🤷♀️
@@Julia-uh4li Yes, southwest side of Chicago, in 2019. I didn’t want to get into graphic details here but it’s easy to find the story if you do a search. I grew up in a suburb close to the location so it just haunts me how people can do these things. I could never imagine going to someone’s home but the lady was 19, and 9 months pregnant so she needed some of the things offered.
Ben, you are such an angel for exposing all this. And thank you for having enough courage to go after fb. They are a disgrace. Much love from Puerto Vallarta, MX. 🥰
I see these daily and have been telling mom not to share that crap for months. My aunt keeps shareing and now has teacup chihuahuas for sale every few days.
Occupy a space on the Internet and it won't take long before you are on every scammer's sucker list. I've been using an email address of some kind since the 1980's, and even though I avoid the worst sites like X, Telegram, or Facebook, I still get deluged by this stuff.
I expose this all the time on Facebook. Every time I see a house for rent or for sale with a weird link, 9/10 times if you view post edit history you'll see it was a missing person. Absolutely sick, and it should be illegal.
I got a legit product that use kindly. I think it's a translation thing all non-native speakers will use instead of using please. The instructions were poorly written. Actually, the review comments gave me a hint on how to properly use the damn product correctly (I haven't had time, but if that doesn't work, I'm returning it)
Not all scammers use that word, many people I work with occasionally use that word. It should just be a red flag, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s 100% a scam.
Nono! That one Site was actualy real! I paid $383,167 and a monthly subscription and am now living in that container in front of the house. This is obvious sarcasm. Dont fall for these
... i may be assuming too much, but as a Filipino, the agent on the phone had a Filipino accent. Hays. Its such a sad thing our citizens are being employed in scam companies...
If this is actually what it's sounds like that's just absolutely deranged and disgusting and the worst of humans Scamming people in itself is disgusting enough but those sort of acts as well as catfishing, romantic scams and just the idea of scamming miserable people is honestly a worthy of capital punishment and I'm sorry to say this Thank you Ben for your work, I've been watching your channel for years now since the early days of it and the amount of scam patterns i learned and took notes of saved so many people literally last month someone was talking to a "girl" pretending to be from hong Kong and wanting to visit the country and all the rest of the script you know damn well about...scammers are just the lowest of lowest in fraud it's like stealing and not having the balls for doing it
Absolutely. There is a certain breed of scam that is just disgusting. Like sextortion scams, "payback" scams (like those posts with ppl claiming that they can get your money back from scammers, but are really looking for vulnerable ppl that are naive enough to fall for a scam in the first place), and scams involving children.
Yes. I’ve seen these posts and yes, I warn all my friends who post them that it’s a scam. Specifically, if there’s no phone number in "missing kid" ad, then it’s a big red flag.
WHEN is FB going to take the scams seriously? Never. Hate to break it to you, those paying scammers are the customers. We're the product. Never, ever, ever, is when.
As soon as somebody buys an ad on Facebook, the ad buyer's protected from bans. Most of the ad-supported sites work in that fashion. Why do you think account hackers try to run an ad campaign as their first course of action?
Dude, the whole thing is a scam. The ads, the websites, running your credit. It's all to steal information or get a hold of credit card information to try and charge you money. That's why the person you talked to also sounded like a scammer and refused to volunteer any information. There are no victims here, just criminals.
Thanks for doing one on this scam, I’ve been seeing it for years and people still share these things! One thing you’ll notice about all of these posts is that comments are turned off
The scammers are vile hyenas with human bodies and they are extremely dangerous. Keep safe and always be very vigilant when dealing with strangers. Trust no one.
I had reported posts on multiple occasions that literally just clipped a rape scene from movies, women being SA’d, full nudity, selling sex sites by using women in compromising positions. None of these had “met the standards. We see nothing wrong with the post. It was not taken down.” Facebook needs to be better like you guys said.
I have been seeing posts like this about dogs too, they make a post like this saying "stray dog needing medical treatment" or something like that and they usually don't follow up about the dogs at all, not even if you ask. Or they just get the donations and go silent. Their profiles usually look like a nonprofit animal sanctuary or shelter or something. Thats usually how you can tell it's a scam. Be careful!
Ok..really happened to ME! I own a rental property in Oregon. Two day minimum, 14 day max. Its in a VERY CONTROLLED tiny home park and is nice. Poking around on Air BNB..here's MY house for $59.00 a night. (Fat chance cupcake. Two bedroom 1/4 walk to the beach NO WAY) So I call the park and ask them to go check my house. Cut to the chase..the house empty. Everything is gone. Tried to call my last guest..number disconnected. The problem with my place place, its in a cluster of like homes that are primarily rentals. No one saw them moving thing out. It's insured so it could be worse
Don't you require that renters have to have a certain number of legitimate rentals before they can rent your place? Not sure if AirBNB has that. I know eBay used to and it weeded out fakes or the nubes that didn't know how auctions went.
Thank you so much for sharing! I absolutely had to watch when I saw your video title to see how they did that. Really is low 😞 those lowly scammers will pay the price at some point, don’t you worry…
It constantly amazes me the depths of depravity that scammers will sink to get your money. I personally enjoy the pathetic attempts to baboozle me on the phone about my "new" Medicare card, student loan debt forgiveness etc. I love to play along wasting their time & drinking my coffee. Pleasant Green provides a needed community service with his videos. I recommend them to my fellow senior citizens for the information and hilarity they provide. Thank you for all the good work and may God bless you in all your endeavors.
This could be prevented by simply having a post editing policy on Facebook. Even the old forum software I run has an option to limit the time a poster can edit their post (to prevent exactly this kind of editing...), so why doesn't Facebook have this?
I saw one of these in a local Facebook group near me, people weren't falling for it, they were saying that you should call the police instead of asking Facebook, none of it made sense.
You are so good at explaining your process and what you find out. I always feel better informed after watching your videos. Thanks for doing what you do so well.
Probably not new, but be aware of marketplace.. I put my ‘64 Impala up for sale a couple years ago and got FLOODED with questions and replies. The more I followed along, I slowly began people were trying to scam me to steal my car. Happy to say I did find an honest buyer. Be careful out there!
I don't remember any realtor I've worked with in the past requiring me to hand over anything to browse the catalogue of houses they have for rent or to buy. I've got to the point these days that if a site requires me to login, or even pay something upfront, without showing me what is available, I immediately switch off. Not worth the risk of handing over that much personal information for something that can't even let me see what it is I'm buying.
My grandma had been posting houses for rent all over the country and I had no idea why. Just looked and found the one demo'd in the video, shared just a week ago.
I can no longer use the word, kindly. 😢 what a horrible scam to use missing children in their scam. I hope Facebook can do better. Thanks pleasant green.
Some support does use “Kindly” though. I had some customer support from legitimately support when I needed help from mobile games I play. I usually message them first
Brits tend only to use 'kindly' when seriously furious. As in 'kindly get your chair off my foot', or 'kindly stand aside' . Usually means 'do this and do it Now or there will be Trouble'.
These posts make me sick and I’m even more disturbed by the fact Facebook won’t take them down, cause apparently it doesn’t go against their community standards. It’s awful.
Why does the foreclosurehomes rep sound Filipino? I know my people's accent well when it comes to English. In any case, it's either the company hires BPOs for their customer service-which would mean they have sizeable income to hire that plus outsourced marketing-or the entire business is a scam op managed by a small group and their marketing is in-house. That or they just happened to have a Filipina as a CSR.
Thanks for posting this. I been trying to tell my friends about this. The only thing I would have done different is that they are using missing adults and missing pets too. Not just children. I shared this video hoping my friends will watch it. Thanks again!!!
I was very much hoping for an exchange between you and the scammer that involved grabify or embarrrasing the scammer. But regardless - great informational video and educating us how these scammers operate and how this specific type of scam works.
Whenever I see these posts I always go through the people who shared them, comment on their post saying it’s a scam and explaining how. The amount of people who don’t believe me is insane!
I've explained to some friends who did take it on board. It's always worth tying to explain, so good for you for trying. Not all seed falls on stony ground.
I’ve been waiting for a video on this scam to come out. Now I can send all the old people on my fb this video in hopes they quit sharing these scams. Any info on the “work from home for Pepsi or Aldi” scams on facebook?
Scammers will stop at nothing these days including exploiting stories related to missing children. There has to be a mean place in hell for these people.
The appeal to find missing children is simply another ploy to get names. It falls in the glurge category. If you can use people's compassion for an apparently useful, charitable, humanitarian gesture, you easily bypass objections and suspicions.
Our HOA has a private neighborhood Facebook page for residents only -- amazing how many requests we receive each week asking to join from non-resident Facebook accounts who lie about where they supposedly live and/or the date they moved in -- and some of these accounts probably have fake family pictures.
I feel the same about Facebook. And reporting these dishonest pages is useless, as Facebook's response is always: “We haven't removed the page because blah blah blah”. The only two times I've managed to get pages removed was by going directly to the real owners of the items being sold (thanks to the hijacked photo).
Facebook won't do anything about this because these posts have high engagement, and that keeps you on the platform longer so they can serve you more ads.
Funny thing is the only thing Facebook cares about is when people tell off a known scammer, where the message history makes it dead clear. The scammer reports the person telling them off and they get banned.
Thank you. I had seen a missing autistic boy post from a friend and looking into the account that posted it was a scam. I couldn’t figure out the purpose of the scam at all it wracked my head but this makes all to much sense
Years ago I was looking for a rent to own house in my area. I thought I found one so I called the person to set up a day to tour the house. She proceeds to tell me she's out of state but I can go look through the windows. Huh?? I got suspicious and did some snooping. Turns out she didn't own the house, a man's name was on the deed and it wasn't for sale!
Go to surfshark.com/pleasantgreen for 4 extra months of Surfshark
They do the same with imaginary found and lost jewellery etc
I find it funny that you are a scam-baiter but you promote VPNs which do not actually protect your information or your privacy. Websites have lots of other ways to track you and know exactly where in the world you are. They are useful for certain things like tricking streaming services but not protecting you.
I tried to get a “SCAMMER “ to quit being a scammer and have a real loving, caring relationship with me. She’s refused to do it.
They were doing that exact same post here in the UK as well.
$67 = R1100 in my country .. someone's weekly salary. VPN is beyond our reach
For missing persons posts in general, ONLY share posts that are official from police departments! Sometimes abusers or stalkers will create missing person posts to find someone that successfully got away from them
Good tip. 👍🏻 And it's always worth a quick search and validation before sharing too.
THIS!
Thank you for making me and others aware of these scams.
Wanna comment to keep this near the top, most of the time kids are kidnapped by someone they know. Abusers absolutely do this to find information, all it takes is one well meaning person who doesnt realize who thier giving information to. If you want to help find missing people theres tons of organizations that work with law enforcement to get information out there and send tips over. The FBI even has a website with photo evidence from CSAM videos to help locate the creators of said videos (and dont worry none of it is graphic content, when the FBI puts that out its files they can track to find people looking for this stuff)
great point
This is one of the most disgusting things I have seen scammers to do. Thank you for investigating that.
Yeah lets forget about the 3lderly demented people that get scammed of 100k+, no this is the worst they are doing.
@@stronglift1873 forget that if you wish, I clearly wrote "one of the"
@@stronglift1873 They're both pretty sleazy.
@@suzybearheart530 no 1 of these is a joke, 1 is an offence that really directly hurts people emotionally and financially and leaves them worrying in some cases for years if it will happen again. Comparing these 2 is respectless for people that really had to deal with scammers
That autistic child happens to be my friend’s son. He was never lost. A friend shared that picture in a group on Facebook. It’s sad that people are doing this. 🤦♀️
Especially if you believe in manifestation.
Someone blocked me on facebook yesterday because I tried to warn them. It’s not your friends son I’m referring to but the fb scamming interacting with the lack of security. It’s enabled by fb users lashing out at anyone that tries to stop it
@@Theunicorn2012 bot
Theunicorn2012 is a bot that just repeats what comments say in their replies.
It’s crazy that anyone would need to worry about this sort of thing happening to begin with, let alone what to do about it. I wish there was some recourse - some direct consequence to this behavior.
You get banned for swearing on Facebook but scams that target vulnerable people don't get taken down even when reported....
>banned for swearing
Welcome to San-Francisco.
@@Code7Unltd yes I said someone was a twat after they said i was one and now I'm banned for 28 days,it happens alot I get banned all the time for swearing but scams are fine...
Same with ads for counterfeit US postage stamps.
I've seen facebook and youtube do nothing regarding hate posts. They both need to do better with these, scams and promoting false information.
I report one a day... Make sure that I don't see them anymore But they're not taking down
Red flag on these "share this" posts: the original has the comments shut off so nobody can say it's scam bait.
Yes and the area is VERY large / vague not just a street.
I've also seen comments disabled for some of the stupid "I'm giving this guitar of my son's because he died in a car accident :( :( :( :( it hurts me to see this videogame system, please contact me" posts.
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(Yes, I really did see one that was about that blatantly obvious. I forget how the individual post went, but it did say "console system" when the item it was advertising *WASN'T* a videogame system.)
@@101Volts
I've seen those types of posts quite frequently on Facebook this last year.
Good call out! 👏👏👏
@@101Volts Yes, he’s made a video on that scam too
Probably one of the most disturbing scams I have heard of. Also it highlights the importance of doing research before doing anything.
And not sharing every single stupid thing that rando's on the Internet send you.
@barbarachambers7974 The problem with your suggestion of “doing research” , is that people have their own interpretation of doing research.
I have seen many conspiracy theorists who say “I know that X is true, because I’ve done my own research.”
@Puggalug if you do research like Pleasant Green then things may be better. I do agree with you because you can find anything to validate your truth.
When a person tries to mention scams they are accused of being a killjoy, antisocial and a hacker. It’s tough to tell people and try to help. Thanks so much for raising awareness because nobody believes that any scams are happening.
Decent people never mind being warned, they know you're trying to help. If people say you're a killjoy, antisocial, whatever, when you're only trying to warn them, then just leave them to it. People who refuse to learn from the experience of others are doomed to learn only from their own.
I have always wondered what people get out of sharing fake missing kids and grandparents, found pets who won’t eat, etc. Thanks for clarifying this! My fb friends share these kinds of posts every day.
@@Theunicorn2012why are you copying everyone’s comments?
Bot
@@TryinaD It is a bot, most likely but I really don't know what it is trying to achieve by copying comments. Maybe that's the topic for another video 😂
When people directly ask me to share a post, I never do. Just as if 'I want to know how many of my friends will care enough to repost' this (insert some sob story or other), the answer is, not this one.
I keep reporting these posts, and Facebooks response is they aren't breaking community guidelines. But make one post with a swear word in it, and it's off to Facebook jail. Make it make sense!
Because FB supports the scammers. And most likely they edit the posts before the algorithm can flag them.
A toxic environment with toxic people who wouldve guessed? As long as they dont do anything wrong they can just keep doing it.
Be a grown up and leave that toxic bullshit behind
Agreed. I have reported photos with extreme adult nudity, blatant racism, prostitution, and organized selling of stolen goods to Facebook. I always get the same response as well. Or they make it that their long list of reporting categories doesn’t include the critical ones. Facebook’s community guidelines are a joke.
Facebook has horrible moderation, I don't use it but from stories it's insane
They never took down a Livestream with a dead man with his face blown off
Same here. They always say it isn't in breach of community guidelines, blah, blah, blah... They only care about clicks, engagement and money.
I've stopped using kindly in all communications after watching your videos 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Are you a scammer 😮
Sincerely
It’s great that you “do the needful” 😅
Same lol 😂
Do the needful and not scam.
Ben, this was great coverage of a scam that is a bit hard to spot at first glance! I wish Facebook would do something about this!!
This would be so easy for Facebook to clamp down if they had a filter to say flag edits where 50% of the post changes and require review before making public or something, especially if it had a shared over a couple of times, but facebook doesn't care.
Yes. Facebook doesn't care. I have reported so many scams and they claim it doesn't go against community policy, sigh.
And even if facebook would implement this. It will go through no matter what, since facebook is ran by robots anyway.
you can get triggered for spaming, ive triggered it over something silly
A simple Alert that the post you forwarded has been edited is simple now I don't know how simple due to Facebook being so huge and using their own priority codes which may make it harder. Coding it in most majority programming languages is generally not that hard.
@scheitinjebroek AI actually would be perfect for such implementation.
It's like a scam, on top of a scam, on top of a scam! So in other words, if it's on Facebook, it's probably fake!
I stopped going to Facebook altogether. Shame as when it started it was a blast. But now it’s just a cesspool of this shit and stupid memes.
@@bernielomax4702 it's all scam and clickbait shit on facebook now. And there are more bots than actual people it seems
Yep.
I left fb a long time ago - and I have an app that blocks sites I don't want to see, so I can't go there - and, supposedly, they can't track me.
it's a a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
@@bernielomax4702 Don't forget those Russian pages with AI pictures of Jesus in many forms, usually some crustacean. You know, the "amen" bots?
These scammers literally have every method to scam someone. I was looking to buy a part for my car as soon as I showed up to the house a couple opened the door and said they weren’t selling anything. Later on the scammer said I had to pay the “deposit” before buying. What an inconvenience. Lucky I didn’t lose money. Just my time. I actually was going to pay ahead of time because I really needed the part. These scammers know exactly where to fish.
Fortunately they live in a country where fishing with a stick and string is high tech.
You shouldn't fall for any of this
You’re lucky it wasn’t worse. A young lady in my area saw a FB ad for baby clothes years ago and went to the house to get it for her baby that was due. The mother and daughter at the house ended her life.
Oh god 😮@@HopefulEmpath
@@HopefulEmpath
Was that in the US? There's been at least 3 occasions over the handful of years that this has happened to. Especially 2 of them took the moms life and cut the baby out to try and pass it off as their own. I watch a few True Crime channels on here, so that's how I heard about those. Everyone needs to be diligent when meeting with strangers. As in, meet up at a very public spot/restaurant or police station 🤷♀️
@@Julia-uh4li Yes, southwest side of Chicago, in 2019. I didn’t want to get into graphic details here but it’s easy to find the story if you do a search. I grew up in a suburb close to the location so it just haunts me how people can do these things. I could never imagine going to someone’s home but the lady was 19, and 9 months pregnant so she needed some of the things offered.
Ben, you are such an angel for exposing all this. And thank you for having enough courage to go after fb. They are a disgrace. Much love from Puerto Vallarta, MX. 🥰
Pleasant Green, Kitboga, Triology Media,Scam Baiter, and Jim Browning y’all are my justice league of scam baiters ❤❤ a true service.
Thank you, I shared this video on Facebook because I have SO many friends falling for the missing kid/dog posts.
Wow Ben how do you find all of these different scams??? You are the best and I thank you so much for what you do because this is very interesting ❤
I have a great community that tips me off 😉
They're literally all over Facebook
I see these daily and have been telling mom not to share that crap for months. My aunt keeps shareing and now has teacup chihuahuas for sale every few days.
How do you miss them? If you've been on Facebook ever, these are in every community group ever
Occupy a space on the Internet and it won't take long before you are on every scammer's sucker list. I've been using an email address of some kind since the 1980's, and even though I avoid the worst sites like X, Telegram, or Facebook, I still get deluged by this stuff.
I expose this all the time on Facebook. Every time I see a house for rent or for sale with a weird link, 9/10 times if you view post edit history you'll see it was a missing person. Absolutely sick, and it should be illegal.
_Kindly_ is the word every foreign scammwr uses.
OneMoreTime: Kindly, is a word that is frequently used in the UK and some of her former Colonies, such as Nigeria and India.
@@StevenKeerynah fam. Just scammers
@bhambholeare we seriously suppose to sympathize with scammers??
I got a legit product that use kindly. I think it's a translation thing all non-native speakers will use instead of using please. The instructions were poorly written. Actually, the review comments gave me a hint on how to properly use the damn product correctly (I haven't had time, but if that doesn't work, I'm returning it)
Not all scammers use that word, many people I work with occasionally use that word. It should just be a red flag, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s 100% a scam.
Nono! That one Site was actualy real!
I paid $383,167 and a monthly subscription and am now living in that container in front of the house.
This is obvious sarcasm. Dont fall for these
😂
Sounds like you got a great deal! A real steal...dripping sarcasm!
In this real estate market, it sounds like you got a steal!
😳😅🤣😂😅🤣😂
You got the front? Lucky, I only got the small portion of the back.
... i may be assuming too much, but as a Filipino, the agent on the phone had a Filipino accent. Hays. Its such a sad thing our citizens are being employed in scam companies...
Probably in scam houses in Dubai, or in Myanmar.
I noticed it too
stupid is as stupid does, no sympathy
She did..
If this is actually what it's sounds like that's just absolutely deranged and disgusting and the worst of humans
Scamming people in itself is disgusting enough but those sort of acts as well as catfishing, romantic scams and just the idea of scamming miserable people is honestly a worthy of capital punishment and I'm sorry to say this
Thank you Ben for your work, I've been watching your channel for years now since the early days of it and the amount of scam patterns i learned and took notes of saved so many people literally last month someone was talking to a "girl" pretending to be from hong Kong and wanting to visit the country and all the rest of the script you know damn well about...scammers are just the lowest of lowest in fraud it's like stealing and not having the balls for doing it
Absolutely. There is a certain breed of scam that is just disgusting. Like sextortion scams, "payback" scams (like those posts with ppl claiming that they can get your money back from scammers, but are really looking for vulnerable ppl that are naive enough to fall for a scam in the first place), and scams involving children.
@@amyzappa1436exactly, like there is low, and then there is this stuff
I stopped using Facebook a long time ago because they allow scammers to run free because......money. This latest scam is the most disgusting.
I think scammers are getting jobs at Meta...
@@Theunicorn2012 why are you copying everyone?
@@jostockton.Maybe that person is a scammer and a stalker? I told Ben about that, too.
@@TheGuardian996maynardpeter996 possibly but if so, what on earth if there endgame? 😂
My first clue was, "Tampa County". There is no such county. Tampa is in Hillsborough County.
Yes. I’ve seen these posts and yes, I warn all my friends who post them that it’s a scam. Specifically, if there’s no phone number in "missing kid" ad, then it’s a big red flag.
WHEN is FB going to take the scams seriously?
Never. Hate to break it to you, those paying scammers are the customers. We're the product.
Never, ever, ever, is when.
never, they make too much money off them
As soon as somebody buys an ad on Facebook, the ad buyer's protected from bans. Most of the ad-supported sites work in that fashion.
Why do you think account hackers try to run an ad campaign as their first course of action?
There's absolutely nothing they can do short of going back to college kids only days
Dude, the whole thing is a scam. The ads, the websites, running your credit. It's all to steal information or get a hold of credit card information to try and charge you money. That's why the person you talked to also sounded like a scammer and refused to volunteer any information. There are no victims here, just criminals.
That last one certainly didn’t sound eager to get to the bottom of it.
Yep. That's kind of the point of the video.
and your point?
Yeah, the guy knows it's a scam but he makes it sound like it may be a scam but he's unsure.
You haven’t seen too many pleasant green videos have you?
Thanks for doing one on this scam, I’ve been seeing it for years and people still share these things! One thing you’ll notice about all of these posts is that comments are turned off
Wow, that's a pretty clever scam. Evil, but clever. Thanks for keeping us safe from these scammers!
The scammers are vile hyenas with human bodies and they are extremely dangerous. Keep safe and always be very vigilant when dealing with strangers. Trust no one.
The rent sign though 😂 it really look fake. Facebook doesnt care about the scammers on their flatform 🙃
flatform 😂
Honestly, the amount of BS I report on FB and none of it has "met their standards" like Kid Rock selling more tickets than Swift. Get better FB.
I do the same with similar results... :( Keep fighting the good fight.
FG doesn't care. I stopped giving shit.
I had reported posts on multiple occasions that literally just clipped a rape scene from movies, women being SA’d, full nudity, selling sex sites by using women in compromising positions. None of these had “met the standards. We see nothing wrong with the post. It was not taken down.” Facebook needs to be better like you guys said.
Don’t hold your breath because it ain’t never gonna happen.
@@bdflatlander Zuck needs a new bigger yacht.
The fact these scumbags are using every parent's worst nightmare for vile reasons, I am sorry, but I feel ZERO sympathy for these scammers.
I already know that this is bogus because there is NO “Tampa County” in FL.
Remember, scammers have no morals.
Thank you for posting these videos because I end up showing them to my elderly father who tends to believe everything he sees on Facebook
Thank you for finally making a video about these scams!!! I always have friends sharing these stupid scams, now I can show them this!
My employer: "do not click on any suspicious links..."
Pleasant Green: " Let me click on these!"
@@cropperson5583 he's a professional.
I have been seeing posts like this about dogs too, they make a post like this saying "stray dog needing medical treatment" or something like that and they usually don't follow up about the dogs at all, not even if you ask. Or they just get the donations and go silent. Their profiles usually look like a nonprofit animal sanctuary or shelter or something. Thats usually how you can tell it's a scam. Be careful!
Where is Tampa County? Tampa FL is in Hillsborough County. LoL
lol I noticed that while editing. Makes me wonder if these guys are foreign
Nowhere, nowheresville
@@PleasantGreenI've seen these guys everywhere I've been all over the u.s. from waseca,MN to Columbia, SC
I said that as soon as I saw it lol
@@PleasantGreen Of course they're foreign. "Kindly," "seeking for," "am this" or "am that" = Nigerian.
Saw a sign on a post:
"Have you seen this cat?, call this number"
I called the number and said: "No.:
😅
That’s so finny
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Mitch Hedberg, you're alive!!!
@likebot. I certainly am! Living in sunny England lol 😆
I’m in Australia, and we have had scams like this here too.
Ok..really happened to ME! I own a rental property in Oregon. Two day minimum, 14 day max. Its in a VERY CONTROLLED tiny home park and is nice. Poking around on Air BNB..here's MY house for $59.00 a night. (Fat chance cupcake. Two bedroom 1/4 walk to the beach NO WAY) So I call the park and ask them to go check my house. Cut to the chase..the house empty. Everything is gone. Tried to call my last guest..number disconnected.
The problem with my place place, its in a cluster of like homes that are primarily rentals. No one saw them moving thing out. It's insured so it could be worse
Don't you require that renters have to have a certain number of legitimate rentals before they can rent your place? Not sure if AirBNB has that. I know eBay used to and it weeded out fakes or the nubes that didn't know how auctions went.
Another reason Air BNB is a plague on society.
Thank you so much for sharing! I absolutely had to watch when I saw your video title to see how they did that. Really is low 😞 those lowly scammers will pay the price at some point, don’t you worry…
It constantly amazes me the depths of depravity that scammers will sink to get your money. I personally enjoy the pathetic attempts to baboozle me on the phone about my "new" Medicare card, student loan debt forgiveness etc. I love to play along wasting their time & drinking my coffee. Pleasant Green provides a needed community service with his videos. I recommend them to my fellow senior citizens for the information and hilarity they provide. Thank you for all the good work and may God bless you in all your endeavors.
The scammers didn’t even bother to put a phone number on the rent sign.
When the word "kindly" u know what that means..😅
This could be prevented by simply having a post editing policy on Facebook. Even the old forum software I run has an option to limit the time a poster can edit their post (to prevent exactly this kind of editing...), so why doesn't Facebook have this?
I saw one of these in a local Facebook group near me, people weren't falling for it, they were saying that you should call the police instead of asking Facebook, none of it made sense.
I LOL’d at Tampa county because Tampa is located in… Hillsborough County! Tampa County is not a thing!
You are so good at explaining your process and what you find out. I always feel better informed after watching your videos. Thanks for doing what you do so well.
Unfortunately they never will take scams seriously. But they will put people who make scammers mad in Facebook jail.
Probably not new, but be aware of marketplace.. I put my ‘64 Impala up for sale a couple years ago and got FLOODED with questions and replies. The more I followed along, I slowly began people were trying to scam me to steal my car. Happy to say I did find an honest buyer. Be careful out there!
3:43 You are very brave to use a Magic Mouse
What’s so bad about them? Sure there’s better mice but it does the job I guess
The only thing wrong is the charger
I don't remember any realtor I've worked with in the past requiring me to hand over anything to browse the catalogue of houses they have for rent or to buy. I've got to the point these days that if a site requires me to login, or even pay something upfront, without showing me what is available, I immediately switch off. Not worth the risk of handing over that much personal information for something that can't even let me see what it is I'm buying.
8:33 I've reported scams, obvious scams always get "this doesn't violate community standards"
Elon’s twitter
My grandma had been posting houses for rent all over the country and I had no idea why. Just looked and found the one demo'd in the video, shared just a week ago.
I can no longer use the word, kindly. 😢 what a horrible scam to use missing children in their scam. I hope Facebook can do better. Thanks pleasant green.
Some support does use “Kindly” though. I had some customer support from legitimately support when I needed help from mobile games I play. I usually message them first
Thank goodness! I’ve always hated “kindly” and found it so condescending and passive aggressive. Glad you’re done using it
@@Nonyah123 I used to you use kindly in my cover letters submitting my resume for a job. Maybe that’s why I never got those jobs.
Brits tend only to use 'kindly' when seriously furious. As in 'kindly get your chair off my foot', or 'kindly stand aside' . Usually means 'do this and do it Now or there will be Trouble'.
@@alisonwilson9749 well that explains why I’m afraid of Brits.
I wondered why old posts i shared were being edited. I had no idea it was for this purpose, thanks for opening my eyes!
These posts make me sick and I’m even more disturbed by the fact Facebook won’t take them down, cause apparently it doesn’t go against their community standards. It’s awful.
Fakebook has extremely low "community standards."😅
I always enjoy seeing new @PleasantGreen videos.
Gullible people on Facebook. I don't even use Facebook and I felt that burn.
Yeah. FB Is gullible central. SO many fools there falling for scams or AI. Its pathetic. Learn some damn skepticism people!
Thanks for covering this. I used to remove tons of these a day. Now its only a few here and there due to AA and implementing participant approval.
My mom: "well what's the harm in sharing the post?" That's why people do it anyway even if it's questionable.
What's wrong with polluting the Internet with falsehoods?!! :facepalm:
This is what I always tell people when they respond "Well even if it's fake, it's better to share and be wrong" except it's not best to share
Ballina is in New South Wales Australia, why they trying to get people to share despite 'the missing person' being half way around the globe
tbf, scammers aren't the smartest bunch...
Honestly this warrants jail time and harsher repercussions. What a sleazy thing to do. This is even a new low for a scammer.
Why does the foreclosurehomes rep sound Filipino? I know my people's accent well when it comes to English. In any case, it's either the company hires BPOs for their customer service-which would mean they have sizeable income to hire that plus outsourced marketing-or the entire business is a scam op managed by a small group and their marketing is in-house. That or they just happened to have a Filipina as a CSR.
👀👀👀👀👀 I wonder if it's a Informational group, that is also a National Corp...
Thanks for posting this. I been trying to tell my friends about this. The only thing I would have done different is that they are using missing adults and missing pets too. Not just children. I shared this video hoping my friends will watch it. Thanks again!!!
I came across the pets thing before the human one. But Brits tend to be pet mad.
FB will do nothing. We are the product on fb that they sell to advisors so any interaction, even scamming is profitable for Meta.
same thing with google
Ben. I've seen this same ad. My friends and I run the Common Scams group on Facebook and Reddit. This one we get all the time.
At 6:01 you can see the @2022 Google watermark on the image, it's 100% automated with google apis
I was very much hoping for an exchange between you and the scammer that involved grabify or embarrrasing the scammer. But regardless - great informational video and educating us how these scammers operate and how this specific type of scam works.
Progress Leroy😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
(4:44).."HUD/Rent to Own Homes in You Ar.." IN YOUR AREA, maybe? It's incredibly helpful to be a former English teacher.
Just when I can’t hate scammers any more than I already do...
Whenever I see these posts I always go through the people who shared them, comment on their post saying it’s a scam and explaining how. The amount of people who don’t believe me is insane!
I've explained to some friends who did take it on board. It's always worth tying to explain, so good for you for trying. Not all seed falls on stony ground.
I’ve been waiting for a video on this scam to come out. Now I can send all the old people on my fb this video in hopes they quit sharing these scams. Any info on the “work from home for Pepsi or Aldi” scams on facebook?
bro ur great and
you dont blame a country for its criminals
Scammers will stop at nothing these days including exploiting stories related to missing children. There has to be a mean place in hell for these people.
Scammers watching this and learning what not to do lol
The appeal to find missing children is simply another ploy to get names. It falls in the glurge category. If you can use people's compassion for an apparently useful, charitable, humanitarian gesture, you easily bypass objections and suspicions.
It's disgusting how some scams weaponise human decency.
5:57 What if they're asking $383,167 for the trailer? lol. You could live in that. Sort of. lol
Our HOA has a private neighborhood Facebook page for residents only -- amazing how many requests we receive each week asking to join from non-resident Facebook accounts who lie about where they supposedly live and/or the date they moved in -- and some of these accounts probably have fake family pictures.
Happening here in Australia too
I feel the same about Facebook.
And reporting these dishonest pages is useless, as Facebook's response is always: “We haven't removed the page because blah blah blah”. The only two times I've managed to get pages removed was by going directly to the real owners of the items being sold (thanks to the hijacked photo).
8:03 this sounds like a filipino accent. Seems like in my own country there is a scam company somewhere here. Which is disgusting.
Yeah. That's definitely a call center representative from the Philippines.
Yep, from Cebu..
Facebook won't do anything about this because these posts have high engagement, and that keeps you on the platform longer so they can serve you more ads.
they are over facebook pages and facebook doesn't seem to care...
Funny thing is the only thing Facebook cares about is when people tell off a known scammer, where the message history makes it dead clear. The scammer reports the person telling them off and they get banned.
Thank you. I had seen a missing autistic boy post from a friend and looking into the account that posted it was a scam. I couldn’t figure out the purpose of the scam at all it wracked my head but this makes all to much sense
please post more chicken sandwich content
Years ago I was looking for a rent to own house in my area. I thought I found one so I called the person to set up a day to tour the house. She proceeds to tell me she's out of state but I can go look through the windows. Huh?? I got suspicious and did some snooping. Turns out she didn't own the house, a man's name was on the deed and it wasn't for sale!
Facebook needs to be held accountable for scams.
I’m so glad you posted this so instead of explaining I can post the link when my idiot Facebook friends post this crap
I can only imagine the guilt the real Misty would feel if she knew that people were using her identity to scam others through no fault of her own.
Plot twist, she is a scammer.
@@faithlessberserker5921 tf
Ben, I keep seeing these on facebook! So glad you covered them. I knew they looked phishy.
7:55 thats the thing they arent a business theyre a theft organization.
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