Hey friends! Made the announcement on stream yesterday but wanted to let you know that ladyboga is pregnant and our family is going to get a little bigger in the next few weeks. Would appreciate your thoughts, prayers, and flexibility as I may suddenly have a strange schedule.
Was going through some old family photos and my dad pointed to: "your great grandma Edna".
I had no clue that was her name, I knew her as "granny".
Crazy that's the name of the grandma voice I do!
(also apparently I liked sunglasses as a kid)
3,000,000 is a big number...
When I started calling scammers I had no clue it would turn into all this, just wanted to try to do SOMETHING.
To anyone who has sent a nice comment, shared a Reddit post, watched a YouTube video, subscribed, donated, or told a friend: THANK YOU 😎
JUST TYPE THE $500 CARD IN NOTEPAD
JUST TYPE THE $500 CARD IN NOTEPAD
JUST TYPE THE $500 CARD IN NOTEPAD
JUST TYPE THE $500 CARD IN NOTEPAD
JUST TYPE THE $500 CARD IN NOTEPAD
JUST TYPE THE $500 CARD IN NOTEPAD
Spent a few hours helping an old lady who was getting scammed last night. Absolutely heart breaking to hear what she's been through.
She has been talking to these guys for SEVEN YEARS!
They've destroyed her life. Hoping we can restore it.
Please warn your family about scams 😥
new goal: scam a scammer into scamming a scammer who connects to the computer to find the script that the scammer is reading thus revealing he was scammed by a scammer who was scammed
Speaking truth is perhaps one of the most valuable things we can offer. Thank you for having the courage to share your experiences.
In response, I'll no longer be represented by
@OP_Group
.
Our David Pogue talks with cybersecurity expert Mike Driscoll about ways to make yourself safer from online and phone scammers; and with Kitboga, an improv artist who has found a new way to fight con artists, by hilariously wasting their time.
Insanely emotional stream today.
Seriously.. a rollercoaster of events.
Thanks for letting me cool down and work through some of my thoughts before moving on to another call.
You matter.
You're significant.
You're loved.
Please don't give content creators a hard time when they take a day off.
Everyone needs time to relax and recharge. It's important.
Plus they're likely working while offline anyways...
We celebrated a moment tonight.
13 hours spent with a group of ~4 scammers.They still think I'm an 87 year old women. This past week they've called over 600 times.
We'll likely hit 13:37:00 tomorrow 🙃
Been reflecting on the past few weeks and wanted to let you all know that I'm honored to spend time with so many of you. These moments full of discovery and laughter have been encouraging me to continue to explore new ways to create an "adventure" on every call.
Howdy! Sorry I have been a bit quiet the past week or so. I had made the announcement about baby coming soon- but never mentioned baby arrived! Some of you probably figured it out though! Everyone is healthy and I hope to get back to a more regular stream schedule next week.
Over 200,000 followers on Twitch. Wow. Thank you all for supporting me on this quest to raise awareness of these scams and have fun while we waste their time. I'm truly blessed to be able to call it my JOB now too. Let's keep making positive changes in this world together!
for the record, i know the world is complicated and there are often unintended consequences but i refuse to believe we are not capable of building something better
Thanks for voting for me on
@NymnNewYear
show!
I tried contacting Abel (the scammer) to let him know we won the best rage moment, but his number has been disconnected for awhile now...
HUGE update on the "Crow Pro Joe" Saga.
@krakenfx
built a custom environment for me to fight against scammers... so Joe thought I had $455K.
We might have made him angry 😅
#krakenpartner
Obviously there is a lot going on right now...
I'm convinced that's precisely why YOU matter.
Who knows what kind of problems we're going to solve together 💪
I told an angry scammer that I bought an olive garden gift card instead of a Target gift card like he wanted so I could celebrate wasting two hours of his time. So last night...
I sort of fell for a phishing scam today...
(hopefully this warns others)
Someone sent me a DM about a server discussing some nasty pictures I was sending. Apparently using my avatar.
Obviously that would have been someone posing as me so I was curious what was said.
Any password with "wait sorry" in it would be so confusing over the phone.
For example: hunter2waitsorryHunter2!
"hunter2, wait... sorry, capital H, hunter2 exclamation point"
I gotta try this...
👏 Finally got to share the project I worked on with
@g4tv
! After years of scam calls, it was so fun to see Baited bring them to life with animation. I'm so excited and I hope you get a chance to laugh!
Full episode:
Been working on a crazy project with the team...
I sent 1 email to a scammer and they've been caught up in our fake website / phone system for over 8 hours.
EIGHT HOURS 🤣
Yo
@PayPal
when are you going to start filtering your invoice and money request system for scams?
It would be incredibly simple to filter, heck I can even write the code for you to run it through an ai model if you want to over engineer it...
In order to join that server, a bot asks you to "verify" and sends a QR code.
Discord then prompts you to scan the code to login. Which in turn gives a 3rd party access to your account.
THANKFULLY I used a throwaway account on an emulator... but that was a close call.
Twitter:
We’re creating the most trusted place on the internet for organizations to reach their followers.
Also Twitter:
We're removing verification check marks in favor of an $8 subscription so anyone can look official. 🤡
In my most recent video (goose virus) the scammers said some pretty offensive things and I left it uncensored. I'm so used to them saying this stuff to me that I hardly even noticed. Took the video down and I will redo the concept in the future. Love you guys :)
Guess who I talked to last night...
Adam & Alex
I thought wasting their time for 24 hours was cool. Now we're at 33 hours.
They think "Daniel" hacked my new computer and are not happy about it.
Since PayPal can't figure out how to stop scammers from exploiting their invoices, help me fix it for them:
Dozens of examples of how to filter these messages...
Honestly, PayPal, you're welcome to use the code for free just fix this problem!
Sorry for all the unexpected schedule changes lately. Going to take a few days off from live streams to handle family/life/work stuff, will be back soon.
Sometimes life throws lemons at you, but they're perfect for iced tea so it's all good 😊
I'm having more and more situations where folks have been banned or timed out for making jokes about things like suicide, drug overdoses, or even terrorism.
I think I'm pretty understanding but "I just have a dark sense of humor" isn't going to cut it. You're wrong.
I have been working on a few projects offline that I am really excited to share with you :)
My heart races when we're talking about them. Reminds me of when I first was inspired to call scammers and I had no clue what to do other than "something". Thankful for all your support😊
Super excited to have the legendary
@pokelawls
join me later today! ~2pm EST
We're going to put scammers through some ridiculous improv scenarios with some of our RP characters (and maybe some random new ones too)
I just spent the past 2 hours investigating why I couldn't download a video file... Thinking the mp4 was corrupted I decided the best solution would be to code a python project to download / re-encode "blob" files.
turns out I just didn't have enough disk space 😅