6 BEST CONS and SCAMS (Don't Fall For These!!)
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Here are 6 of the best, most classic, short cons and scams. Learn them here so you don't fall for them out there!
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Wes Barker is a Canadian magician and comedian doing funny tricks, and telling great stories. You may know me from my TV show Big Trick Energy (truTV, Hulu, Netflix). Watch here for hilarious, ridiculous, and unfiltered ideas with magic, stunts, and pranks. Either I'm the funniest magician who is also a stand-up comic, or maybe I'm the comic who is the best at magic? Either way you get the idea. I tour all over doing colleges, comedy clubs, and corporate events. Catch the adventures and tricks right here. With this magician / comedian from Vancouver, based out of Toronto, Canada. I make funny stuff. That’s my only rule. Everything has to be funny, from street magic to stage illusions, as long as there is a joke to be made. I do magic tricks, sketches, stand-up comedy, card tricks, mind reading, and tricks with naked people. I’ve been on America’s Got Talent, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, MTV Greatest Party Stories Ever, and Wizard Wars. You can find me pulling pranks on friends, gags on strangers, or just general sleight of hand, magic, illusions, and the occasional bar bet. Wes Barker also hosts a podcast with Chris Ramsay called Bottom Of The Barrel. Go check it out!
0:00 Introduction
0:50 THE RING REWARD
3:58 THE MELON DROP
6:54 THE FALSE GOOD SAMARITAN
9:19 THE WALLET DROP
13:03 THE FAKE WORKMAN CON
16:10 PIG IN A POKE - Zábava
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Respect! You're providing a valuable public service, bringing awareness to these cons. Stay vigilant.
Bro you will never fall for the pig in a poke now.
This was seriously fascinating! I loved it, Wes! While all of them were interesting, I have to say I was most happy to learn the origin of "let the cat out of the bag". I'll never look at that phrase quite the same way again.
Picturing Wes running through Paris after being told CANADA GIVE ME MONEY! 😂
Man! Few reactions:
1) Love it. Very interesting and so on. Excited for the next part of this.
2) Feeling bad and paranoid now.
3) Here's a scam I recently heard of. Find an online shop were you can offer your own stuff for sale. (In Germany eBay has this feature.) Find someone elses offer in the shop and copy it. Same pictures, same description, same everything. Send a message to the owner of the original offer, claiming that you are interested and asking for payment information. Wait until someone wants to buy your fake offer and forward the original payment information to the buyer. Send another message to the owner of the original offer, that you are about to send the money. The buyer will pay the original owner, who will think, that you payed him and send the stuff to you. Just don't give your address but a post box or something like that.
This was seriously interesting! I also like the other con in Zombie Land where they disarm woody by convincing him she should kill her sister to rob him. Obviously not likey without the zombie thing. Big stakes, high reward.
The whole cat out of the bag concept had me laughing especially when I learned where it came from haha but this also made me have a good story point to just drop into any D&D session I may run. Thank you for the information, inspiration and the laughs
I will definitely want part 2 !!
Wes, I’ve been watching u for sooooo long. I’m so glad you are stepping up your CZcams game! Love u brother!!!
Great video Wes! I haven't put as much research into cons, but I like learning about scams and this is in a similar vein.
I got conned once in Memphis Tennessee on Beale Street. I really needed to use a restroom and didn't know where to find one (otherwise I don't think I would have responded) when a guy came up and said hi (and asked where I'm from like one other commenter mentioned). I asked him if he knew where a bathroom was and he said he did and walked with me. He told me that Beale Street charges for people to go onto the street at night (which used to be true, but wasn't anymore at the time). I didn't have any cash on me and he said I needed cash and there was an ATM on the way to the bathroom. He also said he was raising money for veterans and asked for a donation since I was pulling out money anyway. So, I gave him some money and I'm very confident it didn't go to any veterans. He did show me where a free bathroom was though, so I just consider it a payment for much needed directions. I also had a little bit of cash after that since I didn't need it to get on Beale Street.
Absolutely loved this, makes a great addition to your magic vids! Such fantastic content!
Great video Wes - really cool seeing you back 🤟.
Wishing you and yours a fantastic 2022 🎉
I really enjoy your videos and your channel Wes! Lots of variety and everything you do is done really well. Keep it up!
“I can run faster scared than he can run angry” 🤣👍
Do the "my boss received too many speakers but they aren't on the invoice - wanna buy them?" White van scam. Great vid!
So I fell for a con that was a blend of fake construction worker and pig in a poke. Had a guy approach me in a parking lot. He had a logo shirt with something like Alpine Pro Audio and he's spinning a story about how he just finished an install at a local club, and there was an extra pair of "high end" speakers that weren't on his invoice, so the club didn't want them and his company didn't know he had them. They cost "thousands of dollars," but he will sell them for what ever I could come up with. He had sales brochures, etc. to back up how "valuable" these speakers were. When I realized I'd been taken, my dad (doing the dad job) reminded me that even if it hadn't been a con, that guy was asking me to do something that wasn't right. So many of these cons play on our greed and the fact we don't know the "victim". Good vid, Wes.
Do more of these! Great topic!
Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag on those cons :D
That was really good and surprisingly informative. Do it again please!
Fascinating stuff! Keep it up - I love these interesting stories! 💚
Great stuff Wes! Thanks man. 👍👍
VERY cool video. Thanks for sharing 😊
The cat is out of the bag, that's so GOOD!! Thank you for putting times on videos for us.
Mad luv bruh u r bringing so much awareness luv your channel and plz upload more simultaneously❤❤........
and plz make a youtube channel of your podcast Original Heists....
Thank you for showing these different kind of scams. Learned allot of helpful info now from this video.
If you like cons and heists so much, you should check out a british show from the 2000's I believe, maybe 2010's, called Hustle. It was basically a bunch of con artists, with a kind of code that kept them only conning a-holes who could afford it. Excellent show and the cons were all so very clever. I'm pretty sure they showed variations to every one of the cons you talked about here.
I get so excited when I see a new Wes notificatiion.
This will help a lot of people. Great idea Wes!
Great video sir! Congrats on the Original Heists success! Wallet drop would never work on me because I'd never accept to split someone else's money. I found 3 dollars on the floor in a store the other day and spent 5 minutes trying to find it's owner.
loved this... I want more! Please, let the cat out of the bag! lol
I love this vid . Thanks for sharing it with us
Glad you enjoyed it!
electrical company DECKLES? haha great video dude
I once lost a tourist‘s engagement ring 💍. I was about to give her my car keys in exchange and guess what - her ring turned out to be hanging from my key chain. 😉
You the best Wes!
Great video as usual! Man, I cannot even count how many times I fell for the cat in place of a pig! Oh boy, if it's hard to buy a pig without being scammed. 🙂
Legend!! 🤙✌️
In Finnish there is actually a saying that translates directly to "Never buy a pig in a bag" lol :D. The original saying is "Älä ikinä osta sikaa säkissä"
More content like this please
The watermelon con is still really common in New York City (and presumably other touristy areas), but the items dropped are usually eyeglasses or food of some kind. It's easier to scam 100 tourists out of $10-$20 for "dropped" take-out than 1 or 2 marks out of hundreds of dollars for a new laptop. If it happens to you, don't stop. Hell, don't even acknowledge them, just keep on walking. They're usually not looking to mug or harm you and they don't want to draw attention to their grift. They'll just pick up their bag/box of food and try again with the next tourist.
I fell for a variation of Pig in a Poke while leaving a concert when I was about 25. (God, this is embarrassing . . .) Some dude out on the sidewalk offered me weed. I was like, "Hey, I like weed!" so I went to an ATM for 20 bucks. The transaction was made and from a quick glance---obviously I couldn't closely inspect it, hold it up to a light, give it a big ol' sniff---it looked like three nugs wrapped up in cigarette cellophane. When I got home I discovered my "nugs" were wadded up pages torn from a yellow phone book. I was mad for a few seconds, then my roommate and I started cracking up. Serves me right for buying drugs from a sketchy dude on the street. Now I just go to a dispensary like a grown-up.
@captain scentsible39 Hahaha! TRUTH. I still can't believe the trash we used to smoke when I was in high school (the mid-'90s). Brown, mildewy shwag with giant stems and tons of seeds, often crushed because they were smashed into bricks. Or, just like you said, bags of shake and stems, hahaha. It was so long ago that I actually *forgot* that we'd have to de-seed our bags. I can't even remember the last time I saw a seed! My how things have changed.
Haha, Christy really nailed the Japanese tourist.
But us regular people can't make the criminal vanish into thin air like you magicians can. But you do you, Mr. Wes.
Whole thing reminds me of Leverage. Ahhhh. :x
Pig and a poke? Look I have been scammed by Burger King to many times to not check the bag. Where are my chicken fries, Burger fraud‽‽ Awesome info! Keep slaying it with these facts!!
I don't think it is a scam it is just poor service.
@@adventureswithfrodo2721 I agree that it isn'tVenus. Size shoe fits all. I use the interrobang ‽ to show sarcasm. I have the utmost respect for retail and fast food/ cashiers workers... they can get busy and make mistakes. They are also people so they can be great at what they do or not so great depending on the day, the phase of the moon, or hot gas off of venus. Anywho I hope to see you again on our interweb travels.
I think someone tried your Paris scam on me in Paris once. As soon as he "picked up" the ring from the ground in front of me I knew something was off, but didn't know what the scam was going to be (I was worried it was going to be slight of hand to take something of mine). So I brought my hands up and said, "Don't come any closer." in English. He apologised and walked away.
(Before you read on I had all my belongings with me so I couldn't help tho I want to say something).
I was in Barcelona at some park relaxing before I had to catch a bus that day.
I saw two nicely dressed tourists walking quickly towards the exit of the park.
A man came up from behind and sprayed them with some kind of liquid without them noticing and then ran away.
Shortly after a woman came up to the tourists and said there is something on their backs. She helped them clean them up a bit and then the guy came back and offered to help too.
The two thieves then walked the two tourists over to a water fountain nearby. And once the two tourists put down their bags the two thieves grabbed them and ran away.
PS:
In Spain, I saw lots of pickpockets and whatnot.
I love learning where popular sayings originated from👍
after being scammed several times in a much more sophisticated scams, I notice the "nice guy" in me and shut it off brutally.
I am so annoyed and fed up for that that I absolutely have no mercy saying no or turning away and walking away. I understand just how horrible even genuine people really are and how little in reality they care...
I will have no problem not letting them into my house and shutting the door in their face. I became that brutal.
Unfortunately this world doesn't deserve nice people...
I love that this educates people about cons to help bring awareness and so people know what to look out for, but at the same time, it also teaches people HOW to con people.😕
I'm definitely going to sell someone a "pig" in a bag after watching this video. I will bank. Watch me.
It's very good to hear about these things. We were in the parking lot of a Dennys in the states. A guy comes up and says his car has broken down and has to take a cab to get his wife who's stranded.
He had barely said it, my other half was thinking about it...
But I had heard about a similar scam.
So before I think, I blurt out. Oh no I've heard this one it's a trick. No way we are going and take my hubs arm and we walk away quick.
Hub is saying no wait what do you mean? We got inside I explained and we told the Manger who called the cops. (Who did show up this was a few years ago.)
I may add that the parking lot was awkwardly located so you had to walk around to the front of the Dennys. So that did make my hub nervous he could have turned mugger too! But good to know about these things thanks
In Sweden we have a saying: _Köpa grisen i säcken_ (Buying the pig in the poke/sack)
It basicly means that you buying something by pure chance (often before you even seen it) cause you trust the guy selling it.
4:09 I live in Japan, and I can tell you that time is now.
(Well to be more precise, most watermelons "only" run about $20~$35, but you could probably get a big one for north of $50)
No way!! Wow 😮
Holy S...! That ring thing happened to me in Paris as well 😂😂😂
He's back.
Pig in a poke seems like it happens to me most of the times I go to my local McDonald’s drive through.
Have you ever seen Hustle?
British TV show about short cons, but mostly about long cons. Definitely worth checking out if you can get it in Canada
In Germany we have a saying „die Katze im Sack kaufen“, bying the cat in the bag. Now I know, where that comes from.
I love that movie zombieland
Ever since I saw Ocean's Eleven as a kid I've thought cons were super interesting. Definitely looking forward to part 2.
You left out the Kansas City Shuffle... 🙃
Pretty good ones but I can tell u some that have you rolling on the ground and you don't deal with anyone face to face ...or eat any restaurant meal you want for the cost of of cup coffee I most I used growing up that really work without work
For the flat tyre one, there's no reason for them to sit in your car, they can sit in their own car with the heating on! And if their heating is broken, it's better than standing outside while the good Samaritan changes the tyre.
Great video yet again Wes. Just one question. What the hell is a “deckal”? 😂
Where is the “FU” trophy?
Had a couple scams in cuba, all of the opening lines were “where are you from?”
all this talk about cons and marks reminds me of The Real Hustle tv show 👍
For the Melon Drop, if someone was claiming I'd caused them to damage something expensive, I'd suggest that we both go and speak to the local police so that things "were official". If they're trying to scam you, there's no way they'd go along. Anyone legit shouldn't have a problem with it.
For the fake repairman con, (at least in the UK) we need at least 24 hours notice before they can turn up at our house. We also never let one be in the house on their own because it's good to be paranoid.
Thankfully my partner works from home and I'm at home most days. :) Plus our fuse box is under the stairs right next to the front door, so I'd be able to see them :P
In the show better call Saul the do a cool scam similar with the wallet but with a fake watch I recommend searching for that scene
Most short cons are based on the assumption that MOST people are greedy and will bend any morality when a "sure thing" presents itself. If the girl that "found" the ring looked homeless, I probably would have given her the card with the phone number on it, promising that a woman will give you $3000 for it, OR propose that we share the $3000. And that's how Karma works! Either way -They would be pissed, but astounded at my kindness!
=OP
for the good Samaritan one, you can ask them to start the car, to at least confirm its their car. and they can warm themselves in their own car.
One of my favorite shows is white collar crime. Cause I always thought being a sauce con artist would be fucking awesome.
Here's a good example of a modern day Pig in a Poke: my brother has done some business in India and so his local colleagues warned him about shady souvenir shops. When you buy something breakable they will take it in the back to wrap it up for you to take home. But they wrap something else of similar size and weight but lesser value. You don't know until you get home...which for him, was very far away.
Woah!!! That’s exactly a modern version! Thanks for sharing
Last time I went to Paris random people would find rings just in front of me multiple times per day. I think it is just tourist entertainment at this point.
I want to know how the false good Samaritanis supposed to actually work, cause a flat tire doesn't stop them from being able to start the car if it's really their car they could simply sit in it and warm up while you change the tire...
Modern day pig in a poke is done with laptops or flat screen TV's being sold as surplus stock or something to justify selling an expensive items from the back of a van. They have a genuine display item but what you walk away with is brick packaged up in a box.
whats a "deckal"? new Canadian word learned, Im sure u meant decal. great video
“Deck-Als” ?
Is that a Canada pronunciation?
;-)
Great video by the way…
When you buy a pig, are they not alive at the time? Surely a cat scratching and struggling inside a bag would be different than a pig squealing, plus, wouldn't they need to breath, so you'd have to open the bag?
Who let the cat out of the bag? Wes did that's who. Who let the cat out! Meow meow. Who let the cat out meow meow
Some women tried the ring drop on me in Paris.
Who would buy a pig in a bag?
In my experience replacing windows, I think you're more likely to fall for the fake workman scam.
Plenty of places are terrible at actually letting the tenants know when service is to be done. Still never had an issue with being let in.
You know what I bet you’re right. It’s wild. Have you ever seen the videos where a dude carrying a ladder gets let into literally everywhere because people assume he’s working there 😆
@@WesBarker I'm an Internet tech as my day job and in 10 years I've only had three people question me and verify I actually needed to be around before letting me in or allowing me to just wonder around. I am continually amazed at what people allow me to get away with or where they let me go just because I have a blue shirt and a badge on.
@@WesBarker I have. I think Yes Theory tried it at Disney.
I did have neighbors question me once. At that point I had already removed the old window and was cleaning up the broken glass.
Have you ever seen the show Leverage?
In my Country people make out papers and come with little children saying their homes are destroyed by fire or their children are sick and they come to business places asking for donations to support their families and who's going to say no to that story
Pig and a poke wouldn’t work on me. Fast food abs got me paranoid with not getting what I bought cause every time I don’t they fuck it up. Literally last night went to Panda Express got my husband food said hi can I get a bowl of white rice and broccoli beef. They give me the bag and my card I leave i go shopping for Easter basket stuff for our kids get home hand him his food no he’s like where’s the beef? I’m like what? I look they gave me chicken…like how do you fuck up 1 thing? Lol=
I’d never give anyone money just because they demanded that I should I also likely wouldn’t even have much on me I only tend to carry what I need
I am ashamed to admit, that I have been scamed twice... by stupid scams, I should have known better, but anyway ^^. (I'd say it's at the "wallet inspector" level)...
From the last one, here we have a saying "cuidado que no te pasen gato por liebre" literal translation is "beware that they don't give you a cat for a hare"... and it is preatty much the same idea, ask for a hare and they give you a cat. The usage is somewhat obvious, don't let people give you something you don't want or switch what you expected.
Wait I thought you had a house next to Chris?!
I moved!
What do we need do for a Part 2?
Update Video: selling old IPhone on marketplace and being robbed. “So he’s getting the money”?😂😂😂.
Wish this interaction was on video. Wonder if the two that robbed you have their own podcast where they go over how to take advantage of someone and steal their IPhone. #imgonnarobyou
BoB sent me.
Where in the world do you buy live animals in a bag?
Why wouldn't you tell em to sit in their own car? Flat tire shouldnt affect their heat 😜
I didn’t know his girlfriend is a Japanese tourist!?!?
If someone walks up to you and asks if you want to go for a drink away from all the tourist areas for something more traditional, you are a mark.
If someone offers to do a currency exchange on the street, you are a mark.
If someone says, hey you didn’t pay the full amount of foreign currency, you are a mark.
If someone demands you pay exact change in foreign currency, you are a mark.
If someone says, "Canada give me money" you are a mark.
If someone says "Oh hi Mark" you are a Mark (and sick of that reference.)
Do Canadians pronounce decals like "deckals" normally. Never heard it pronounced like that. Here it's "dee-cal"
Why wouldn't they warm up in their own car?
The ring scam...if I saw a rich woman whining about her lost ring I would use my best Monty python accent & just say "hang on to your next one more carefully you stupid tart"
Not the BEST Cons...
No Mention of NFTs.
Spending Millions for... umm.... Unique receipts?
Wes, buy a mic, sound is awful!
I have a rode mic. I'm in a new space... means new settings I guess. I'm working on it.
@@WesBarker is the room bigger? You might want some room treatment. A thick blanket hanging behind the camera could already work. It catches the reverberating sound and reduces the echo without ruining your backdrop.
@@MrKaratefan thanks for the tip!
Fun fact: There is a German saying about the pig in the poke thing. Translated to English it would be: You never buy a cat in a bag.
This was great and very informative. I think I'm a lot safer now on not getting scammed by anyone. Thanks Wes ;)