Online Scammers Steal Billions per Year

[onawah]

Saving a Victim from a 7 Year Scam
Kitboga
3.32M subscribers
Nov 5, 2023

(This case of yet another senior woman being badly scammed brought tears to Kitboga's eyes, who got started with busting online scammers due to his own grandmother getting scammed. But this case ended well, fortunately.)

"We uncovered a scam that had been going on for 7 years and saved an older woman from the scammers who were destroying her life."

0:00 Laying a Trap
04:36 Scammer falls for our trap!
09:15 Dr David
12:12 Wrong address
14:36 We found a victim
18:05 Explaining the scam
21:04 Confronting her scammer
27:18 Seven years of scamming

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzXRb8PdmJo

[onawah]

Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
9.43M subscribers
Feb 29, 2024

"John Oliver discusses a popular internet scam, why it’s easier to fall for it than you might think"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg

(This humorous approach to a very serious subject is a good way to introduce one's self to a very depressing reality if you are not already aware, that is, just how many scamming crimes are being committed globally today (largely via the Internet), and the alarming rate at which that phenomena is growing.
Scamming has become a part of the business of human slavery as well, as more and more hapless people looking for work are being conscripted into criminal endeavors against their will, and are unable to resist due to threats on their lives.
A large part of the reason that these organized criminal businesses are flourishing is that the victims are too humiliated and ashamed to go public with disclosures about how they were fooled into compliance and/or coerced into becoming active participants.
So the average person is still largely unaware of how serious a situation this is becoming, and how many different forms these various scams can take, which only makes the problem worse. )

[JohanB]

Found it quite entertaining and “relevant” Onawah

This podcaster goes even deeper into the “problem”:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5aM...RUeWrPk0v2JP0g