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Scammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All

Kitboga · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Privacy, surveillance & cybercrimeSecurity & hacking

What it is

Kitboga baits tech-support scammers into believing they will get $3,000, wasting hours of their time while he plays along and screen-shares. The scammers become frustrated as it becomes clear the money will not reach them.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to Kitboga as an entertaining, righteous example of wasting scammers' time.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “One of my favourite videos so far involved “driving to a store” to get google play codes”

    Scammer baited with fake Google Play store while screen-sharing

    jackweirdy, 2020-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What are some channels that make you glad YouTube exists?”

  2. “Kitboga is a youtuber who winds scammers up and wastes their time, and is pretty righteous”

    Youtuber who wastes scammers' time

    matthewmorgan, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Americans lost $10B; caused by illegal Indian call centres in 2022”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: kitboga, scams, tech support scam, gift cards, improv

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