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My mother, who is 77, got a phone call like this with someone claiming to be their grandchild. I’m an only child and don’t have kids. Her response was great. “Cats can talk!?!? Nice try, shithead.” And then she hung up the phone.
Hilarious! Good for her.
The best answer xD
I appreciate that she knows your cat is her grandchild
I think I have solutions to these problems if something like this happens just asks question only they would know because ai won’t be able to answer because it’s pre recorded
Rare cat lady W
Scamming people with their loved ones voices is so totally fucked up.
i thought we could catch a scammer by his accent...
Also really fucking cool though.
If you think this is scary, you can't even imagine what's next.
@@jeffbrownstain ohno
Yeah that's fking wild and extremely evil. Omg....I just realized...evil scumbags are going to use a victims dead relative, their voice, to scam them and get their money...that's just so fking vile and evil. Omg, my heart..😨😔😡💔
Not only fucked up its pure evil
I love that the general reaction to the first lady is not "oh he's so lucky" but rather "dear lord, that poor man".
Anyolne with actual sexual experience knows the truth.
I honestly thought the first story was funny.
I thought the first story was someone being hilariously ironic
Yeah seriously. Many guys couldn’t even “nut” that many times in one day, sounds more for her benefit than his.
Anyone else remember reading the Hunger Games when it came out all those years ago, and being horrified at the concept of the Jabberjay? Birds that could mimic human words and voices, and could even torture people by putting on the voice of their loved ones and screaming in pain
I remember thinking “wow, what a crazy sci-fi concept; where evil people can use the exact sound of your loved ones in distress to trick you! So glad that doesn’t exist IRL” 😳
I like hoe The Panem Gov't genetically breeded them specifically to be able to do that. So petty lol.
I dated a girl like her for a while. After about a week I had to have a serious conversation with her about recovery time and energy to do other things. She truly believed that if I left the house without it that I was going to cheat. Not that it was more likely or possible but that it was a fact that I was going to. Comes from pure insecurity
Yeah I'd imagine thats why most Pick Mes are like that. They see an audience that they can cultivate that hardly anyone else wants (or can take from them) and do whatever they need to in order to keep it. Really sad honestly
Ugh. Ya definitely
Damn she a real one 🤞🏾☝🏾
@@mischievousjr.9299 What's real about that?
Humble brag lol
It's kinda crazy to me that a company can pollute so freely with no legal consequence (like being shut down) but people burning trash (still not good but exponentially less damaging) can be arrested.
Because capitalism
@@mki441 yea ok. Nice try.
@@lordgarth1 pls tell me why these companies released these carcinogens into the air? They did it to make profits and capitalism promotes greed and people being selfish and making as much money as possible with little regard to any life.
@@lordgarth1 wait or are you gonna deny they released carcinogens into the air so that you can continue defending capitalism.
@@lordgarth1 😂🤡
My dad got one of those calls a few years ago, telling him that his daughter had been in an accident. He freaked out, but he asked which one x or y, and they couldn't even repeat my sister's name properly lol. So my dad decided to hang up and call me, and I told him were both sleeping at home. He doesn't answer unknown numbers anymore, unless he's selling something.
Story about cancer alley reminds me of where I grew up in La Mirada, CA. Used to have a bunch of oil refineries everywhere. Eventually those got decommissioned and replaced with warehouses and office buildings. I didn't know this when I was younger but I eventually came to find out that almost every single household in La Mirada had an individual or multiple cases of cancer that they were dealing with, a majority of which were thyroid, breast and colon cancer.
Let's call it what it is: corporations that deal with toxic chemicals, byproducts, and runoff historically know that they can get away with business as usual in minority and poorer communities bc no one holds them accountable or lights a fire under their asses to stop
In other words, it's America being _[good ole]_ America
@@yinkaoyekunle9533 and that anything being produced in the US is more expensive because US have higher standards in safety and environment protection is all a myth as well.
This AI cloned voice situation is truly terrible but I kind of chuckled to myself cuz the way my family dynamic is my parents would be like "tough shit" and hang up
Yep, mine would be like, welp, she needs to figure it out! 😅
Same 🫤
yep mine too lol
Another scam they do is they clone a loved one's number and pretend they kidnapped them. I'm like keep them. hang up
Same
Damn that woman is so scared of losing him she revolves her life around his balls. That’s wild. 😂
Ya love to see it!
After this episode, I called my grandparents and set up safe words with them. AI is going to ruin so much
be in person
Even that is possibly insufficient. They could make use of cold reading techniques to get them to "remind you" of the agreed upon safe word(s). Even something as simple as conveying that it's so stressful of a situation you can't think straight, but vaguely remembering something, and then further refining that with them in conversation until they get it correctly.
Now that's unlikely, but it is a non zero chance. Given enough exposure, eventually all of us are susceptible to being scammed. Just as all of us are flawed, none of us are immune to being exploited. The best thing to do is collectively alter the environments that create the motives to do things like scam others. It's just statistics.
People abusing AI is going to ruin so much. People ruin everything. Lol
My grandma actually almost fell victim to a similar situation a few years ago. A guy called posing as my cousin who said he was in jail and needed money. Thankfully, she called my dad and my dad was able to talk her out of sending the money. Scary stuff though.
Same happened to my grandma who is hard of hearing.
They got my gma few years ago for $7500. Called and said your grandson is in jail and needs to be bailed out. She went right to the bank and wired the money. My mom only found out about it after she got sick and had to take care of her affairs and such.
The same thing that's happening in Louisiana is happening here in Houston and it's suburbs when it comes to EPA regulations and cancer trends. The way theses companies treat people abhorrent!
Is the EPA involved in your area? This is unacceptable!
this is what deregulation gets you folks
wait till the lawsuits....the company will hold those up for years and years.....then claim bankruptcy not long after they finally get it ruled in favor of the victims....then the company will shut down and then pop back up under a new name..
This “grandma” scam just happened to my grandmother a few weeks ago. Most of her savings are now gone.
Some guy called her pretending to be me. Told her I’d been in a crash and had to pay for the other persons medical bills or go to jail. We just wish she would’ve checked in with any of us before following through. :(
Wow - hope she can get her money back somehow.
@@silververnallbells191 all you can do is submit a report and statement to the police, which we did, but there’s really no way to track it and it was all cash so poof.
Damn the scammer story is terrifying. I got taped confessions in 2018 of my abuser admitting to abusing me, and I remember at the time feeling like "yup! I did it! I have concrete evidence and will never ever have to "prove" that I'm telling the truth!"
Now - with this new stuff, I'm terrified that things like taped confessions, voice recordings and videos will no longer be reliable sources of information and my tapes will be useless because "you could've easily just made that using AI".
True, I suppose if it's a digital recording, it would have a timestamp at the very least within its files somewhere. But yeah it's very scary this technology I hope law makers can change laws that benefit everyone and more so victims.
@@brianeno608ai generated would also have a time stamp and you can just edit timestamps they don’t prove anything.
Phil ending the show with "And I'll see you-" is somehow really ominous
Came here to comment this. Like what're you doing Phil 😳
He’s gonna see you before you see him
Tomorrow is not guaranteed, especially these days with how eff'd the world is.
Nuke war could come any second and I'm all for it, imma be a fkin mutant!!
it caught me off guard haha
Holy Crap! Phil, we need you to make that Ai voice scam story into a short so it’s easier to share with others! Some ppl may not want to send their family a video mentioning only fans content. Please and thank you! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank you for all of the hair tuts over the years, hope this reply finds you well!
seconded!
Absolutely, a short would be great to send to family with short attention spans
Yes, please make it into a short so I can send it to my family members without them having to hear about this chick's husband nutting a lot 😅
Yes !!! Please!!
My grandmother got a call like that regarding me actually. She had a stroke a few years ago and couldn't really speak, so the entire time on the phone she was barely getting words out while someone who sounded like me told her that I was in the hospital and I needed money for the treatment. She did the right thing though, and called my parents who called me to check up. Thank god I had those talks with her prior to this call, because as a cybersecurity major this stuff is exactly what we are worried about for the future of cybersecurity
Phil the Louisiana story hits me close to home because I live in st bernard parish and my house is right outside a refinery and its just crazy to see how far these companies are willing to go to pollute the air and harm others while doing so. Recently there has been 3 people who I know who got diagnosed with cancer and who have been living in the parish forever, and just recently found out the connection between big refinery companies and residents health. It's extremely concerning growing up in this environment, I hope things will change but lord knows that won't happen anytime soon.
It hits hard. About 80% of my family has lived in Louisiana in "cancer valley", and then died from cancer. Now barely any of us are left, just lost another person to it. They were half an hour from Baton Rouge. It's horrible what these companies are doing, knowing they're pumping cancer causing carcinogens into the air, water, and food we need to survive.
This is horrible!!! The government needs to do something!! The residents in those areas need to be given free housing in a different state altogether. Just awful.
Get out of there!
@Shonen Jump Magneto I can't tho I still have to finish highschool and my family definitely doesn't have the money for a big move 😭
The solution for the cloned voices is to setup "safe words" like what was suggested for when non-family members pickup kids from school or whatever.
Password protecting humans sounds like something an AI would suggest to another AI.
@@SCP.343 But can AI pass the "I am not a Robot" test 🤔
@@GummyDinosaursify SCP 079 could.
The other way is to try and call the person. My grandparents nearly got tricked by a pre-AI version of this, where I was in prison for a DWI. They were ready to pay up to. Luckily, my mom realized that the whole thing sounded off, and gave me a call. Cleared the whole thing right up.
People who try this often don't remember to use it when they need to. All you really need to do is ask them something that only they would know. If you don't know something like about them or aren't that close with them, ask them a trick question, like "Oh, sorry man, I'm a bit low on funds right now because of that skydiving trip we just went on. Remember? The one from last week?".
In Perú TEN YEARS AGO we had the same scam problem. I was like 11 and i stayed home from school because I was sick. I answered a call to our house phone. A girl's voice on the other end was crying, saying "Mamá, it's me, Ana. I have been kidnapped from school. They're asking for money" blah blah blah.
And I'm standing there feeling like I'm having an out of body experience because?? *I'm* Ana??
So I just went "um, but I am Ana?" and they hung up.
And I was very proud of myself until I remembered I have a stepsister with the same name
so then I spent all day fully believing I may have gotten Other Ana killed. good times.
That is actually an incredibly simple way to trump the dupe, just say "but I'm right here" and boom, crisis averted.
Yikes
6 🥜s a day is pretty much hormonally castrating him. He won’t cheat, he won’t want to hang with friends, and he’ll only watch soap operas because he can only cry.
With the AI Voice story, I feel it's important to remind people that scammers can also spoof numbers. So, if you put your phone number out there, they can look like they are calling FROM that number. There was a TikTok about a girl who was tricked into sending money to scammers because they "called from her sister's phone" but it was a spoofed number. (poor girl) One of the simplest things to do is to hang up and call the number. They can appear to call FROM the number, but they cannot RECEIVE the call from that number
I live in north Louisiana, grew up in south Louisiana. Everyone knows not to drink the tap water in my parish. They did studies on it a while back and found a link to what was in the water and cancer diagnosis not only in ppl but in pets too. We don't even give our animals tap water. The tap is so full of chemicals it turned stainless steel bowls into this crazy red color, like it ate the coating off or something.
I wish our officials actually cared but they really don't.
That last story is so heartbreaking. Just further proof that you can get away with treating people like shit if you have enough money
The fact that I live in New Orleans and had to hear about it from Phillip DeFranco is truly terrifying.
@@CERTAIND00M this is environmental racism for you. And this story got next to no national coverage. Hell, flint Michigan only just got clean water last year after almost 7 years and all the local politicians responsible got off scotch free. You should look into factory farming and methane gas/pig slaughter pools being left in black neighborhoods with no say from those communities. Or even the construction of roads/highways
America is just 3 corporations in a trench coat. Unless you’re rich you’re better off just saving every nickel & dime for the hope of leaving this joke of a country fam.
yeah u know if ya murder someone its murder....but if you feed them over salty food everyday until they stroke out...thats natural causes.....They dont build those plants near white neighborhoods for a reason...
My husband's grandfather almost fell for a similar situation. The only difference is that the scammer said it was a car accident. He really was really close, but thankfully crisis averted. It is sick how they prey on vulnerable people.
Thanks for covering that AI voice scam, that's really good to be aware of.
Wow my grandma told me she was in a similar situation and I didn’t believe her when she said she heard my brothers voice on the phone holy shit, she almost signed away her HOUSE. I’m going to screen record and send this to her
"Grandma, I need you to sign your house away, I could die otherwise"
My grandmother would never do this
hope he creates a short video of this, this is highly informative video..
@@EddyA1337 xD
@@EddyA1337 I think a lot of older people would take out another mortgage or something similar if it meant getting their kid or grandkid out of jail or out of a dangerous situation. It's not like it gets worded like that. More they know signing over the house or taking out a mortgage is how they can get that money quick enough.
Lol I wanted to send this to my parents but the first story on the woman who makes sure her man “nuts” all day, made me not send it to them. Screen record is a good idea lol
I got a call from someone pretending to be my mom. Little did they know that she was literally right next to me at the time, so I go over to ask her if this scammer was her, and they immediately hung up.
Those scams are getting more and more wild, the exact same thing happened to an older couple in my province in Canada a few weeks ago. We need to get more and more awareness out there so less people can try and avoid this type of thing :(
Someone tried to pull that jail scam on my grandma like 10 years ago. She called me immediately to ask if I was actually in jail and I was like nope, nice job grandma. She'll be 92 in May.
Nice job, grandma!! 😤😤😤
Saw the AI voice scams coming from a mile away. Everyone needs to start ignoring unknown numbers like I do. Then if there’s a voicemail that sounds like a person you know, call their number and get a response from them first. I know, though…lot’s of older people will still not get the message or remember these precautions.
We also saw this coming.
But should jumping through these hoops really be our only option though, as opposed to putting limitations on the unwarranted advancement of unnecessary technology?
This viewpoint is all very good and proper, even clever. But also a little bit paranoid.... So should mass paranoia become the natural state of humanity going into the future?
And for what?
One step further, stop using phones period.
Agreed.
@@Grimmsect it is impossible, and i mean that literally: *impossible* to put any meaningful limitation on the advancement of technology, especially in this case where the tools one needs to improve this technology are available to anyone with internet access.
@@KomoliRihyoh Yeah, I know it is. We've already gone over that point of no return.
It's one of those "In Hindsight" cases.
Is a shame.
The Ai voice scams are concerning. It’s why I don’t ever pick up unless I know I’m expecting a call from someone
Started watching in 2013 for a few years, had a break for about 5+ years. This video came up in my feed, and oh my days, I didn't realise how much i missed your voice and the informative news stories. Love yo face!
My High School English teacher had one of those scams pulled on him, someone called them pretending to be their grandson. They took a moment, called his parents, and found out that, no, said grandson was not in jail in Bolivia, but instead doing yardwork in Alabama.
I feel like this would be 80x funnier if the grandson was like 6 years old 😂😂😂
welp this is why we need to now have safety phrases with everyone we know so you can at least try to tell if it's a robot you're speaking to if you can't get a hold of who they're faking.
Just a set of plans "A, B, and C" in case of "the bad sh*t happening"...
Like a call from Jail? You can call the local courthouse offices or jailhouse directly and get sent to records for a role call check, to find out if someone specific is in custody... OR the Sheriff's office usually gets that kind of information... SO even if you can't get to your loved one on the spot, you don't have to trust fake police showing up at your door, which police don't do for bail anyway...
When you wish to post bail (in most states), you meet with a Bail Bondsman, and you sign off for 10% "collateral" and fill out a bunch of forms, listing friends, acquaintances, business contacts, addresses, and other information about how to find the "arrested person" in case they "skip bail"... Thereafter, so long as you (and they) make SURE to get to court on time, you get that collateral BACK. Court doesn't have to cost much of anything, especially for the innocent. Obviously, that comes with the caveat of "Keep your nose clean"... and relies somewhat on EVERYONE following the rule of law... BUT this is largely how it works to bail someone out of jail (in case it's real)...
SO when cop offers to come pick up the cash? It's BULLSHIT!!! AND now you can know that up front...
Okay... I know not everyone gets intimate enough with their State and Federal Laws and Judicial Branches to know they only risk about $200 and a 3-day stint in the county-clink for punching the SH*T out of someone who needs it... I can understand how mine is not the only way to grow up... It STILL PAYS DIVIDENDS to go find out HOW things work, so insidious f*cking people don't bullsh*t you into something stupid...
AND you can put the "safety phrase" or "password" into a Plan B or C if you think it's wise... Even a specific "Third Party Contact" can be an option... That's someone either of you can call to "check in" so you don't necessarily have to share all the most intimate (and sometimes icky) details of life with each other, just to avoid a scammer... I've had friends who could tell my mom the "code"... If I was busy knocking boots with a girl, they'd tell her I was "on a plumbing job" or "walking the neighbor lady's dog"... Different friends had different sets of code, and that also told ME where and how frequently my mom called around JUST to find or follow me...
Yes... My mother was occasionally a ROYAL pain in the ass... but I digress. ;o)
Gotta code in like a CIA agent
My family has never had to use it, but we have a specific phrase. Mostly I'm worried we won't remember to use it when it's time because we haven't ever needed to use it. Had it since I was old enough to talk and not really understand the silly word.
We do the same highly recommend no days sadly.
Or simply ask them about something that only that person would know. If the person is close enough to you for a scammer to try to imitate them, then there must be something private that you know about them. It could be something as simple as their favorite color.
Or, if you want to be even more clever, ask them a trick question, like "Oh, sorry man, I'm a bit low on funds right now because of that skydiving trip we just went on. Remember? The one from last week?", and see how they react.
thank you for spreading the word on the scammers, was able to pass the info on to my loved ones 🙏
Phil, through all the years and changes, I really hope you never stop saying "My name is Philip DeFranco. You've just been filled in and I'll see you" I say it with you each time, and it fills me with a silly joy
I do this too!!! 😂😂😂
Imagine getting calls from dead loved ones and knowing it's a scammer but playing along just to talk to them again
Bruh, delete this if you don't want it stolen lol
This is some "baby shoes for sale, never worn" type shit.
I mean, bonus is that that scammers line is clogged up for longer so they can't actually scam someone else with it.
I mean, scambaiters can only do so much with the refund scams.
They do try targeting the US based scammers but they tend to be a bit more savvy with their methods. I mean, they report US money mules to the authorities whenever they can.
Usually it's Thai accounts used now as quite a few of the US based ones get nuked on the regular.
@@greaterthanharrowk1679 There's already a company working on duplicating deceased relatives voices and even trying to duplicate their personality (or as much as you can from writing/videos alone).
@@prettyevil6662000 It's literally like that Black Mirror episode "Be RIght Back".
First story makes me think of that scene in old South Park where Chef said
"Damn, woman! I just gave you sweet loving five minutes ago. What are you trying to do, kill me? "
Thanks for the heads up with that scam. Just notified my parents and siblings about it. It just sucks that the way computer security works is that there's always a series of attacks first before any solution is found. Only way to really counter it at the moment is redundant checking. Stay safe everyone.
My dad fell for one of those scams last year. A guy called saying one of his kids was in an accident, and my dad automatically said my and my sister's names (big mistake). Then it turned from concerned citizen to "Well your daughter saw something she shouldn't have and now she's in trouble," which was also plausible because she and I worked - at the time - in two different cities not known for their safety. Dad said he could hear "a girl crying in the background." The scammer proceeded to threaten harm if my dad didn't send several thousand dollars via money orders from various stores around the city, all of which the scammer threatened anytime my dad wasn't talking or couldn't hear anything, which made it almost impossible for him to check to see if one of us was ok - even staying on the phone while he drove to different stores. My dad has that money, so he did it. It breaks my heart imagining how frightened he must have been running around for HOURS believing either of us were in harm's way. I was with my mom and my sister was working and had talked to us that day, so we were all ok. He never filed a police report because he felt ashamed that he fell for it.
The "family member in trouble scam" happened to my grandparents(who were 85 and 86 at the time) 4 years ago. The story was my cousin got arrested in Georgia and needed money for bail and a lawyer who oddly was in Florida. They sent money twice and we never found out about it till the second time.
The other day I literally got called for a survey that sounded completely fake. So that's what they were trying to do. Steal my voice.... wow.
I am HOLLERING about Cancer Alley right now. How awful to do this to people? The state knows the risks, they need to move these people and make them safe.
Hey Phil,
Your coverage of the fraud/scams hit some solid notes. As a pastor in a small town Ohio setting, I am thankful that I had a background in IT before I entered this line of work. Weekly, if not almost daily, I am engaging with older members of our community in identifying and avoiding these kinds of calls. Around our area, the calls are actually second to email scams, but they are coming more and more often. Educating people is the best option, but it only works until they change their methods again. Then it is up to those of us who are more able to learn and adapt to figure out what they're doing and reconfigure the education to match. It is a state of almost pure reaction. Thanks for giving some coverage to the issue. I might have to clip out your piece on solutions to show to some folks.
I have been scammed once, one time. It sucked and still hurts when I think about it.
The family angle pisses me off to no end!
That last story had me in tears. I have no understanding of how these governments and companies aren’t being held accountable! When lives are at stake, you shut that shit down and help the people, all of the people!
I’ve received one of these AI calls before. Luckily it was from my sister; she’s such a goody-two-shoes. I didn’t believe it but was scared out of my mind when she started crying. I hung up out of fear and called my mom. She and my sister were together, and that's when it hit me. Grateful I didn't fall for that scam call. Only sick people would take advantage of you and your loved ones in such a manner.
I’ve come up with a phrase with my mom to make sure that no one would do that sort of scam to my mom. It infuriates that people can be so disgusting and heartless to scam people like that.
Imagine needing money in an emergency so you called up a loved one and they're like "Nah you scamming" and hang up on you
Phil I'm gonna be honest: I laughed so hard at the opening segment that I had to share with the wife. She laughed until she teared up. With everything you cover and how serious some of it can get its great to remember how truly fucking funny you can be. Good luck with the 7th nut man.
@WiredCurrent
I too thought it was funny. That's one hell of a woman.
a wave of chills ran over my body when you said they made an AI voice copy of that kid
I live in SoCal but my dad and his side of the family is from Reserve, LA. After hearing you say Reserve I immediately called my dad to ask if he knows at least two people with cancer and he said he does. I remember when I visited we had to drive near the power plants to get to my grandparents house and the sky was so gray. My dad just told me he and many of his friends worked there when he was 17 and some of them has passed from cancer. This angers me so much and I am so sad knowing that this could have been stopped forever ago. This should be talked about more and I’m afraid for my family.
Edit: My mom just told me that at 19 my dad visited family out here in California during his vacation time in the summer and meet her and decided to stay. If he had left he could very well still be working there and have cancer as well.
Whelp, I'm terrified. Scared for my parents! I still remember the panicked phone call from my mum when she got the "mum, I lost my phone" scam. There are some real garbage people out there
I get that scam all the time! I don't have kids, though. Some real dick heads targeting people in the world.
In one of my classes, someone said we need a Geneva convention for the internet. Couldn’t agree more.
In theory, that's a good idea, but in practice it still requires individual countries to recognise it and enforce it. How many times alone has the US broken articles of the Geneva convention and how often are those people held accountable.
@@davidlittler8512 I mean those are the most glaring issues with this, and I do get that this idea will likely be flawed. However, I would argue at the very least quite a few nations would be interested in actually talking things out. The internet is the Wild West that is also somehow full of power abuses. Also I mean we have nothing and even if things may get broken I dare say it’s still better
@@Y0ungContrarian that’s the issue with all this, right? I mean I won’t deny you have a lot of validity as Geneva has been broken. However, as I stated before, I think the smallest conversation on the international level wouldn’t kill us. Because if there’s anything that’s really fucked us over in recent times, it’s that we don’t have the conversations we really need to have
So you want a list of unenforceable suggestions for how to act on the internet.. 😂
criminals don't care about conventions and rules, sadly
´would be nice if they did
My husband’s grandad got one of those calls saying he needed bail money. Not that he’d done anything super bad, but that he was in the passenger seat, his friend ran a stop sign, and then the car was searched and drugs were found. They were persistent too, and called back again later that morning after grandad had already called me at work to verify. Crazy world we live in.
1:23 The use of his the title of King Henry really is why I enjoy these so much. He stays informed!
The comments in the 'Empty nuts lady' video took me on the most hilarious twitter trip of the year
There was a woman on TT who shared about a scam call she got. Someone claimed to have KIDNAPPED her sister and that she should send them money. She even heard a muffled female voice in the background. The only reason she was able to find out it was fake was because her mom was with her, and her mom called her sister. Absolutely terrifying.
My dad was in hospice, he called me worried and said he got a phone call from me crying and in a lot of distress, saying I was in jail and my lawyer will contact him, I needed around 2k to make bail. I was so disgusted they used a girl(or ai) to call crying and beg my dad for money. Terrible people scamming others.
My grandmother, 74, was scammed by someone about a month ago. She is losing her memory and had been in financial trouble before, so when she received a phone call about a warrant for her arrest, she was terrified. They instructed her to send them money orders and even coached her through her bank information where they stole thousands of dollars. She never leaves the house without a family member anymore, but whatever they said terrified her. Quite terrifying
That scammer story, I worked with a guy who almost fell for one. People called him and one pretended to be his adult son just long enough to get the son's name from my coworker before switching to another caller saying they kidnapped his son because his son's friend owed them money and if they didn't get it, they would kill his son. They didn't want him to get off the call with them but he convinced them that he needed to in order to get the money. He called his own dad and told him everything and his dad was actually smart enough to call the son to make sure he was safe and wasn't actually kidnapped.
6-7 times a day? Those last 2 must be like getting that last little bit of drink from the McDonald’s cup after the ice had melted
Everyone needs to share a secret "safe word" with their family members to verify who they are in phone calls like this.
This is such a good idea!!
This is a good idea but it’s so depressing it’s needed
Not really just talk to your family members. Double check phone number when getting called and verify before you send some money. All these stories involve people not doing basic checking after getting called.
Also, like, maybe leave your child sitting in jail for a few days if they were drunk driving? Why scrape together a bond in a hurry for that? He did a super super wrong. Maybe let him face some consequences instead of skipping chemo?
@@NANINani-wg6df Phone number can be spoofed.
My dad had the same scam attempt just a few weeks ago. A hysterically crying woman (who according to him could have been me) saying she had run down a biker and killed them. Then a supposed police woman saying, he would have to pay something. He hung up and called me. Proud of my dad for thinking clearly in a stressful situation.
As much as I love having a Sunday PDS, I was really loving the ‘community show’ where you shared some of our comments and reactions. I watched Zaid’s FTN before watching this so I definitely remembered. I like that you’re supporting his channel that way!
Okay im glad you talked about the scam. Because my grandma received the same type of call and they said a drug dealer was holding her daughter hostage and they needed upwards of 5,000 dollars for them to let her go. She realized and called her daughter to make sure she was okay and she was and didn’t end up falling for the scam but its crazy they're getting creative.
Yeah my mother has received 2 phone calls from 'grandsons' who tried to convince her that they were being imprisoned/in trouble. She hung up on one as he's at a place that cant call freely and the other hung up on her when she figured out it wasn't him and confronted the caller. She said it sounded exactly like them too which is the scary part.
Noooo I need that “…see you tomorrow (or [Sunday, next time])” in my day!!! It’s calming and wonderful and I expect it every time. As if Monday mornings aren’t bad enough 😢
What's happening in Louisiana reminds me of what happened in New York in the 1950's with the Love Canal Superfund Site. Took 30 years before any cleanup work was done. Wonder if this would fall under CERCLA, as well.
I already feel personally offended when ppl call my phone & will only answer it for a handful of ppl. Now I have a great excuse for why I don’t answer and why I won’t set up voice mail.
I like to answer them and go along wasting as much of there time as possible until they cuss me out and hang up.
Yep, if you've got the time and patience, play along for as long as possible.
You'll be preventing that line from actually scamming someone else and you might be able to report the number as fraud, or, if you feel comfortable, tell them they've got a terrible connection and ask for a number to call back.
And, like, report the number they give you and block both?
Idk, I watch a few scambaiters, I usually get called when I'm about to go to sleep (nightshift) so I rarely have the wit to keep them on the line.
Mention Kitboga, or slip in Pierogi, and they will likely blacklist you because they might think you're actually connected to them and don't want their operations nuked.
Pierogi is going hard on the tracking and raiding nowadays in India his patience has been eroded it seems haha.
Kits focus is usually time wasting and getting the money mule accounts to forward to the authorities, he even developed an AI to do it, so there are people out there fighting the good fight.
But if you can help, great, and if you don't want to, that's also fine.
Just keep an eye out for elderly relatives and if need be forward them Jim Brownings channel as he breaks the scams down calmly, and heck, he confessed he himself was scammed, so it can happen to anyone and he's proof of it.
I swear that ai voice scam has had to have been an underground thing for a couple of years now. I remember a few years ago getting a call from my grandma frantically asking if I was ok because she heard from someone with a voice just like mine (different phone number) that I had been in a car accident and asked for her to help pay for the ambulance (luckily she checked in with me and didn’t fall for the scam). I fear for the older folks, even those who are technologically literate, who may be hit with a two-hit combo of being swindled out of cash and terrified that a loved one may be in mortal danger.
Yea it's been a thing, they would call you and record you answering to get your voice then reuse it/make a replica voice
I've had several of those phone call scams. Last one, they told me they had (my grandfather's full name) and that they would kill him if I didn't give them the ransom money. I told them to go ahead and do it because they would be doing me a favor. Then they hung up. They never called again.
For the record, my grandfather had passed away less than a week before that call, so I was able to say what I said without fear that any harm would come to him.
my friend was almost "scammed" in a very similar fashion. someone called her pretending to be her sister, saying she just got into a car accident and needed to be picked up. there was no ask of money, so it felt a lot more like a possible trafficking situation, or worse...they eventually got super mad because because my friend was questioning the person, trying to figure out if it was for sure her sister, and they just started screaming at her and threatening her life, saying they knew where she lived. she reported it, but there was very little the police could do. they were using a random google phone number.
That woman has an addiction she needs to figure out
A story that you should look into is what is going on with Tokitae the orca and Miami Seaquarium right now, they just announced a plan to release her yet the zoological community is almost Universally against the plan to put it lightly. Long story short they basically just signed her death warrant for a PR stunt while getting rid of something they see as a huge liability. While I don’t work with her I do work with marine mammals and definitely think more people need to be aware of what is actually happening and try and put a stop to it.
Wtf, the last time a captive Orca was released it was a disaster.
Isn't that why Seaworld have essentially promised that after their current Orca die that's it for their shows. Dolphins will still be used most likely, but the Orca won't be in tiny enclosures much longer...
Unless they went back on that already.
@@Nolascana and the majority of us in the industry believe this one is going to be so much worse….she is not a good candidate for release, even the pervious curator of the facility she is currently at has said as much in no uncertain terms. But these decisions are being made by the new ownership who doesn’t have the best track record. Killing Keiko is a book the does a decent job at explaining why it failed the first time.
It’s not why SeaWorld ended breeding but it definitely didn’t help the situation, SeaWorld made the decision to stop breeding due to misguided activists pressuring then to end the Orca program but that is a different argument all together.
Ah, fair enough.
It's just a shame that water parks like Sea World aren't, yaknow by the sea.
I know a couple of seal rehab places and whatnot that are essentially a hop skip and a jump away so they can release rehabbed animals somewhat seamlessly, minimal intervention n all that.
It's a shame from a conservation perspective that facilities aren't like... made in open water. I mean, accessibility would be the main issue for such a thing. But, honestly it would make more sense than a tank.
I mean, to some degree. But, having wild animals perform is just cruel, always has been.
I mean sure there's enrichment and training an animal to open their mouth on command for dental checkups, but, outside of that...
I know it's where the funding comes from, n all, but, I wish there was a happy medium.
Some facilities, like Longleat in... South England(?) Do wonders for captive breeding and future release, but, they have ACRES to keep animals like Elephants and Giraffes in. They get traded to affiliated zoos before some get sent on to reserves abroad.
So, not every facility is bad n all. But. Still. Many were built before we understood the actual needs of the captive animals.
Pretty sure I read they are going to place her within song distance of her pod and mother and she will still be kept behind a penned in area and be taken care of not released out into the ocean.
@@lordgarth1 well, that's better than just abandoning the poor creature.
In the past the pods have rejected the released Orca because they're essentially strangers that don't know how to communicate or really hunt.
4:40 as soon as Phil said "the police said they had to collect the money" was the time to call real police, and I recognized it was a scam. Any time one is told to pay any legal related expense to anyone except your lawyer or directly to the court is a red flag. Further, bail is either paid to a court or, if the bail is high, to a licensed bail bondsman, not to alleged police officers or any other third party.
My 93 year old great grandma has gotten scam called multiple times. Fortunately, she’s savvy enough to recognize the scam but anyone could fall for these ai calls. Scary stuff
Oooo, that scam call story makes me so damn mad.
Something similar actually happened to my Grammie about a year ago. I don't think it was AI, but someone called pretending to be my uncle (the one uncle who my Grammie would believe would be in trouble) saying that he robbed a drug dealer and she needed to pay his debt or they would kill him.
Fortunately, my Grammie lives with my other uncle and his wife, and my aunt was home and with her when the call came in. She was able to convince my Grammie to not act rashly, she was able to get law enforcement on the phone, and eventually they got in touch with my uncle (while my Grammie was still on the phone and extremely upset as the scammers were screaming and pretending to be my uncle crying and begging her to do something) and he was fine and had been at work. My Grammie even started driving to go get the money, but my aunt insisted on going with her while she was contacting law enforcement and my uncle, and my Grammie was so upset she took a wrong turn and eventually pulled over because she was too worked up to drive. They kept telling her to hang up, but she wouldn't, just in case it was real.
My Grammie is seriously the nicest, sweetest, most loving and giving and supportive person on earth. Yes, I'm biased, but it's 100% true. If I ever found the people who scammed her, I genuinely don't know what I would do, but it would almost certainly end in jail time.
Adding AI to the mix is genuinely terrifying. These scams were already really convincing and upsetting, so between caller ID cloning and AI, there are going to be so many more people falling for this garbage. Especially since the people who are most likely to fall for it are the ones who are the most loving and trusting and giving people. My Grammie was really the perfect mark, but fortunately the rest of my family aren't so trusting. They didn't get any money from her, but they broke her heart and that's unforgivable.
I'm not religious at all, but stuff like this makes me wish that there was a hell, because people who do these scams deserve to suffer for eternity.
Phil PLEASE make a short of the 2nd story so it can be more easily shared with those who might fall for such scams.
I'd also say that Kitboga, Jim Browning, and Scammer Payback need to be shared as resources to avoid the common scams (earlier Scammer Payback were more scam identifying based, now they're more scammer identifying based)
Very insightful. Thanks for this, Gaijin.
So I have a bit of a scammer story. It happened to my best friend a few weeks ago. Hes on the SO registry, been on it since his teens and hes been a model citizen as far as I know, tells me hes never missed an appointment with the sheriffs office. He gets a call from someone claming to be from the federal branch in charge of the states SO registry saying hes missed an appointment to provide a DNA sample. Apparently they guy told him it was totally different from his regular check ins and he would be allowed to go to the sheriffs department to give DNA as long as he FIRST pay $2,500 to lift the warrant they had to put out since he missed a scheduled visit. He got scared and paid. Said he fell for it because he missed a residency check which is normal since they arent scheduled, they just show up, but he assumed that visit was also the one to schedule the DNA thing.
Wonder if the first story is one of those situation where she is stupid and neither of them are actually happy but she is "fulfilling her women roles" and keeping them both miserable but neither says anything because they care for the others feelings
im pretty sure she's lying. She's just one of those pick me's with no self respect who makes siIIy videos like this for misogynists and fir clout, so she can get fame and money. They say all types of crazy things because it gets them social media attention that they can profit from. They dont believe or do 90% of the things they say. Another one is just pearIy things
I genuinely could not keep up with that woman. That sounds like addiction to me.
She needs to be in an open relationship not just for her sake but especially her husbands sake she's gonna kill him at that rate😂
@@agayweirdo5404 Not a bad way to go though lol
I went straight to various Discords after seeing this and warned people about this AI scam, that's some scary shit and I never even thought of it happening. Spread awareness, everyone!
It was a few years ago, so I’m not sure if it was AI, but my grandfather, in his 80s, got a phone call from who he thought was my brother saying he was in jail and needed money (despite my brother never getting into trouble with the law). He was so convinced, that even after we sorted out the whole scam, he still thought my brother had just lied to him to get money and didn’t trust him for months. My brother was heartbroken.
My grandfather was targeted by one of those scams. It was a grandson in trouble scheme. So he asked which one he was. And when the name didn’t match he told them their parents must be really disappointed in him for doing this to people, and that he wasn’t so old he didn’t know his grandkids before hanging up.
I remember answering phone call when I was younger and it was a collect call from Mexico. It asked if I wanted to accept charges, I said 'no' and it went through to this guy who was like, 'cousin!'. I told him we have no family from Mexico and hung up. My parents were so mad at me and didn't believe I hadn't accepted the call.
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That imposter scam happened to my grandmother! It happened when I was in college and the scammer called her and was crying telling her that I was in the hospital with a broken nose etc and I got in a car accident because I was drunk driving. I needed money so I wouldn't go to jail and to please not tell my parents. She said she'd see what she could do, then they called her again and it's was the "officer" telling her how much money I needed to avoid jail time and a decent lawyer. She said she'd have to talk to her husband, but THANK GOD she called my mom and told her the situation. My mom called me worried and upset and I answered and told her I was totally fine and that's bullshit. So I was able to call my grandma and stop her from sending any money, this was back in 2019.
Sunday show? Yes please! Love ya PD! The AI stuff is freaking terrifying.
So as wild and crazy as this sounds.. my family has a code word to use in any situation while in trouble. Whether on the phone or via text. That scam story makes me feel more validated for being paranoid 😅
We had a code word growing up, in case someone tried to kidnap us saying that they were a friends of our parents. It was "baby huey". We still use it as a code word for certain situations, like scam calls.
Late last year a friends family got a call from someone claiming they had their grand daughter and if they didn’t pay a certain amount they wouldn’t see her again. They had a female child crying in the back and the grandfather got so worked up yelling at the scammer he ended up having a heart attack and passing. The police said it was happening a lot but they probably would never know who the caller was. It’s a horribly scary thing to have witnessed from the outside I can’t imagine for the families it’s happening to.
My dad got scammed exactly like that, they called him saying I was in jail because I was drunk driving and I killed someone, he said he even talked to me and it sounded just like me. One of the worst parts is he called me at the time to see if I was ok but I couldn’t answer my phone because I was really busy at work.
My grandmother also got the same scam. Thankfully they hung up when my grandmother said along the lines of ‘if you’re my son, when is your birthday?’
My grandma got that same scam call like 2 years ago. She’s older and was trying to figure out how to wire the money and asked my mom for help who immediately called me to verify the story. I was sitting in class and had to have my friends talk to her to convince her I wasn’t hiding anything lol
Someone did that to my mom a few years back, but told her the money would clear up a warrant. I've never been arrested or had legal trouble. What rubbed me even worse was my mom was mentally disabled, and some jerk tried to take advantage of her.
I live in Canada and every few months I get a call from a fake Duct cleaning company. It's a long con, they ask if I want my Duct's inspected for free, then set a call back date. A time and day is scheduled. The day before the appointment they call and offer a deal on the cleaning that can be done the same day as the free inspection. I rent so, I don't clean the ducts, but wanted to to play it out to see their approach. I ended up giving them a fake address and when I was asked for a deposit, I told them I knew it was a scam and the guy congratulated me on figuring it out. And said he would never stop calling. Pretty sure it was from India, since all the people who called spoke with an accent. Warn your friends!
We are seeing a terrifying and rapid evolution of AI software.