I Caught This Youtuber Scamming for $12,000,000
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2022
- Never trust a crypto influencer...
Ben Phillips is a UK influencer who led the Safemoon crypto team in marketing. Publicly he was bullish, saying that he had "diamond hands" and that people should "buy the dip". However privately he was dumping for millions of dollars, which we found out after a whistleblower tipped us off.
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This video is an opinion and in no way should be construed as statements of fact. Scams, bad business opportunities, and fake gurus are subjective terms that mean different things to different people. I think someone who promises $100K/month for an upfront fee of $2K is a scam. Others would call it a Napoleon Hill pitch. - Zábava
Original investigations like this take a LONG time! Thank you for always supporting.
You always put out good content, and news that can change the YT landscape. Of course we support you.
Congratulations on 1 million subs 🌴🤙🎉
Why does Coffeezillas wife Teazilla not ever oust the con artists hiding in the cut ?
You're an absolute godsend exposing these scammers 🙏
“Timmy needs chemo” with a gofundme bar on the outro. Either a grim reflection on the state of healthcare or hope all is good coffee
The end of video now left me wanting a full 3 to 5 seasons series about Coffee being a internet detective with his good old friend that's a robot bartender. The robot being the fella that reminds Coffee the good of the world while being a robot, something deprived of emotions
really felt like "Salad Mug" by Ian Hubert
This account Is a bot
Report it before it steals your comments and hijacks your CZcams channel
Pretty sure that's the youtuber technicald
Netflix would greenlight it
Yes, yes, yes. Old Time Radio at its finest here.
I’m really glad you’re catching these scummy “influencers” red handed, you’re a true hero!
I’m 30 and retired. I haven’t sold a program and never will lol.
Is SEC informed yet?
omg omg this is just like in the avengers
That means a lot coming from you @Trash :p
I don't like how the title is "I caught", but the video shows someone else did
That ending was cool as hell
Fart
Yes
You must be 5 years old
With that comment sounds like you're the 5 year old. @@deebo865
A good rule of thumb: The harsher and more over the top someone is in declaring how much they hate something, the more suspicious you should be they're insecure about their own connections to it.
Fair, but I hate Nazis and I sure as hell ain’t a nazi lol
@@voiceinyourhead8284 except i bet you follow a lot of their creedo's, just directed at someone else
@@frosty9392 no definitely not. I certainly don't follow anything Nazi like lol
I think a better wording would be the more obsessive someone is about how much they hate something, the more likely they are to be connected to it.
The legit, well edited, neo-noir-esque ending was actually fun and cool as fuck. Banger as always Coffee!
OH YEAH I loved !
Very well said!
Mans got talent and class in spades
Agreed
@Crypto Channels thanks to people like coffezilla, the OP streamer whose name escapes me and people like you I hope so!!
7:27
"Oh you lost all your life savings? Whoops! It's just a prank bro"
That segment is golden
You actually got a checkmark from comments alone, wow.
the classic "its just a prank bro"
@@illol3755 He most likely bought the account around 200k subs and rebranded it.
We meet again
Dude you're everywhere 😳
That last part of this video really was...eye opening to say the least. Thank you very much coffee.
On regulated markets such as stock exchanges, a misconduct like this qualifies as market manipulation and is sanctioned by fines and prison sentence.
well that must be why he does it with crypto then
@@geoffgoldplum1231 If it has monetary value then it can still be considered fraud.
@@c_n_b you’re right.. it’s still fraud, and prosecutable. Wire fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, etc
"Lmao imagine regulations"
-crypto
Thats the best part of crypto, being decentralized means it stands on no juristriction to regulate them and being deregulated means its nigh wild west
“Influencers”? More like Manipulators. Doing amazing work my man
The production value on these videos is always so goddam amazing, would be so easy to just put the facts up on screen but I really appreciate the extra effort you go into to make the videos great.
The outro is sick. The amount of work Coffee puts into the animation is honestly incredible. Crypto projects will never be truly viable unless the creators use a transparency-first model.
take a look at safe affinity great project man :)
Crypto projects will never be truly viable. Period.
Crypto solves no problems already solved while being much more problematic
@@tomlxyz they’re not meant to solve problems. They’re only meant to create new ecosystems. It’s up to the people that develop them to use their ecosystem in order to solve a problem.
@@tomlxyz deleting middlemen.
If there's no tangible product, it's a scam.
Ben: *sells*
Ben: "Who would do such a thing?"
“Why would irresponsible whales do this?”
I've only just recently found out about your channel, but you are absolutely crushing it -- on the original reporting, the editing, the art direction -- truly on every front
I'm still trying to figure out why these people are "influencers".
Just goes to show that the Internet is making global cons too easy.
@Arkeves - Totally agree. I did not know of these "influencers". I had to look them up. Really I'm shocked they have any followers at all. The drivel that they often spew is just pedantic. To have influence you should have a quantifiable value you bring to the table - not just an attitude. It's global though. You'll see these posts in front of a Lambo from every corner of the planet. Bullshit artists are nothing new. The presentation has just gotten much more polished. Just an opinion; your mileage may vary.
Because they manage to "influence" (convince) people to put their hard earned money into worthless pump-and-dump crypto coins. 😉
cuz they influence hard working people to give them money
The internet isnt making global cons easy, its making them visible.
loved the ending... starting to feel like a netflix crime show with this quality
This guy has been a scammer before safemoon. He was scamming people when Dogecoin was big in early 2021.
Yeah he even did one of his staged prank videos as a way of hyping up Dogecoin.
I Tried to Message you about this guy. He Flat Out Stole 1.2 M from Facebook Influencers years ago (myself included). He had a FB MCN Network and just took off with everyone's money one month.
I have all the documents, and interviews with people who were involved.
He even sent me a Cease and Desist and threatened to have my YT Channel Deleted if I didn't stop.
Got dang salad!
He prank u
YEP! Ben stole £2500 from me the same way
i love u salads
@@rsk5288 its a social experiment haahahha
thank you again coffee. i know it sux when the authorities cant or wont do anything. but you are doing invaluable work.
Absolutely love the outro, Cofee you’ve outdone yourself 👏🏻 great work exposing these shady scammers too.
Can you imagine being rich and then asking your fans to buy your starbucks with crypto?
he got rich with that mentality you loser /s
Man literally plays the role of a sociopath, but isn’t smart enough to get away with it unnoticed.
He's not saying it literally, it's just a donation address
@@milesdusty1607 enabler
@@milesdusty1607 Go donate then
That was a trippy ending scene
Thank you Coffee. Absolutely fantastic content. and shout out to the whistleblower. They can be invaluable.
What a world we live in where this is the most wholesome content on the whole internet man, you are really doing a good job and as someone who really wanted to make content that makes people happy, just saying keep up the great work and im happy your out there doing your thing man.
Psysin! Holy shit lol It’s been a while Lewlew Edit: That ending is top notch! Good video Coffee!
iPhone Lewis here
Wow that surprised me too LOL
hello bigfry
Hey Bigfry, I heard about you from SidAlpha!
The GOAT has entered the chat
Him saying that irresponsible whales should get hit by a bus while he's an irresponsible whale (both figuratively and literally) is possibly the most indirect suicide note I've ever seen 😂
lol
Stop fat shaming
@@iceyreelz3228 k.
Someone from the UK please track his location down and SWAT Him
@@iceyreelz3228 No i dont think i will
So sad, I used to like this guy’s videos back when he was just starting out 6-7 years ago. What a monumental spiral downwards. Sick!
We should petition to get Coffee his own full length original series. I mean he's like 9/10ths of the way there by himself.
I love how relatable the ending is. Like dude is finishing his work, getting depressed because nothing substantive will come of it. Upbeat friend takes him to the roof to show him how beautiful the world is. The world is nothing but ads, scams, and little “Timmy Needs Chemo” go fund me’s. Hang in there coffee!
The people who lost their money are going to be pissed at this guy. He better be looking over his shoulder.
Doubt it. They just blindly support them even though they've been exposed as total cunts. Just look at faze Kay, back to normal as if nothing ever happened with no reprocussions
Investing 101: You only “lose” if you sell.
Nah, their fans get over it and do it again. Watch more of these videos and you'll see - people are choosing to be scammed.
Glad i didnt lose money on safemoon made some profit could been 10k profit on the ath :D
Im in the UK and I want to bump into Ben SO fucking bad.
Insane VFX towards the end! Keep it up
I'm glad someone else was able to eloquently articulate just how amazing that outro was. So amazing
nice vid man
This is a crossover I did not expect lmao good shit
right?? seeing lewlew in a coffeezilla video would never come to mind
holy f
Lewlew clapping cheeks as investigator
I remember watching your dayz epoch videos man, made my early teens
You need a podcast on these, or to be the new host of American Greed. Great work as always
Yes just keep the narrator
"Work" lmao
*RIP the Drip*
5:41 sucks that he thought it was anonymous
You know you’re tuned into a great channel when you start watching repeats while waiting on Zilla to upload another banger! Coffee, you’re absolutely crushing CZcams with your production quality and I’m sure a lot of that has to do with spending $10 million on a studio and conversations with a droid. Who does that on CZcams? Just Coffee! Love it all!
thatswhat im doing right now haha
Does coffee know that Ben Phillips’s girlfriend is one of the “developers” of safemoon’s sister? Jack Haines was COO of safemoon and ran Ben’s social media accounts and was 100% in on this shit.
Interesting.. 😳
Jack Haines wasn’t a “developer”, he was fired months ago also.
Leave the investigating to... well, anyone else. Just, anyone else can do better.
@@bigchopper6229 but he was on the team as COO and handled all the AMAs after Thomas’s Miami debacle. Your defense is really “Jack wasn’t a developer”? Fine then- The COO of safemoon(at the time) was in charge of Ben Phillips’s social media accounts. Ben Phillips was also dating the COO’s (at the time) sister. There is no way that Karony or Haines did not know what Ben was doing. We’re talking about guys who went from living like average joes to being millionaires due to their evolutionary copy pasted BSC token. You’re not that dumb
Yep
1M - congrats! Keep up the good work!
damn, i used to watch ben years ago when he was first starting out.. such a shame to see greed taking so many people so easily
Nice ending scene! I appreciate the extra work you put in your videos. Would love to see more stuff like this in future videos.
Coffee you’re the only good thing that has come out of us getting scammed.
Stay safe.
Stay UNSCAMMED !
Maybe don’t be an idiot and invest blindly. Crypto is good just gotta use your head.
🧢
The sad thing is Ben is a mere grain of sand on the beach of scammers.
Coffezilla is doing the lord's work again. You love to see it.
amazing work, storytelling, research, presentation..and the guts to take a stance. you will influence public view long term with this. just keep going
I always find it disgusting how these scammers speak about themselves, acting like they're this and that talking about how they've earned this and they're so proud of themselves...
These pump and dumpers need to get prosecuted to the moon. They won't though because they can hire some good lawyers with the money they stole from their loyal and trusting fans.
Similarly with Quadriga, it's all unregulated. Unless wealthy, influential people get ripped off, the authorities aren't encouraged to lift a finger.
*stupid fans, that’s literally what a fan is. You lose all sense of reality and common sense
If someone is loyal and trusting to an online influencer, they've got bigger problems than getting taken.
I doubt this is a winnable case in court lol. Like there is proof everywhere, it’s the internet
Eh. They doin' god's work. The investors are the real pranksters.
It’s sad actually. I remember I used to watch Ben’s pranks when I was still in middle school. Long time passed, lost interest in his videos then the next thing I hear about him is him scamming… How times change :(
Same man. I reckon his girlfriends been a bad influence but that’s just my thought
man i miss the old ben phillips :(
Still confused how I believed his pranks were real, no surprise that a guy who faked pranks is now crypto scamming lmao
@@FF-mb7ql true I was spending the longest time trying to figure out how elliot didn’t see the next prank coming -.-
@@FieldZy A grown man is capable of making his own decisions. He did these things willingly.
I’ve been binging your content the past week glad I found you coffee, don’t ever stop you the best Internet detective
I knew his name reminded me of something. This guys got famous on Facebook pranking his brother back in 2014-2015. Of course his pranks were fake but they were entertaining. Now, he is the main villain in a coffeezilla video. Amazing how life comes full circle.
You’re so good at investigating and calling out these fraudsters. No wonder they’re desperate to avoid regulation
Why the hell doesn’t the FTC go after this scammers? 🤔
In this guys case, probably because he's British and the FTC is the Federal Trade Commission which is American. In the UK it would be the FCA that gets them
@𝙉𝙀𝙀𝙆 What's that supposed to mean? Just so you know, I'm Welsh
Because the FTC is full of old people who don't know how to access those damn tube box thingies.
@@GregReavis Part of it. The other is that people with power/money/influence are getting/have gotten into crypto like Mr. Musk, Mr. Cuban, Mr. Gaetz, etc.. The same reason why MLMs are an obvious scam, but no legislation passes against them. Citizens can intervene. Even if a lot of work produces very little, we can take little chips out. Like a stalactite forming over time we, people without a lot of power, can get laws against scams applied.
This guy isn't American... Why the hell would the FTC be involved?
Damn, this video felt like a whole ass movie with that ending! Shoutout to the editors and animators. Keep up the great work Coffee!!
Awesome video as always! I am really glad someone is taking the time to expose these scammers. Keep up the great work my dude!
It's great that these scammers keep getting caught, but when is there going to be real consequences?
Never
@@donm2067 sadly, you're probably right. They'd have to piss off the "right" people. They seem to be successful just scamming all of those that aren't "movers and shakers" in the world, those without the financial means to fight back through the legal system.
joke government doesn't go after real criminals anymore.
I figure until the government decides to come in and regulate it so that they can make money off crypto. It'll be a double edged sword.
When they end up scamming a politician
This is a masterpiece!!! Enjoyed the clip at the end, looking forward to see more of them
Would be a real shame to see someone get away with such a greedy and malicious scam. The worst thing is, he likely won't be the last.
Well accidents do happen.
Ur a saint Coffee. Send everything to the FBI. These people needs to go to jail and discourage more scams
Your generation should be called generation “s”
@@cassandrahenry What do you mean? You think gen Z is the only one watching Coffe? Quit assuming
@@cassandrahenry the people getting sucked into crypto scams are typically in Gen Y: closing on 45-50 and getting desperate to finally "make it". Gen Z barely has any savings to lose.
LOL the guy lives in the uk genius
@@ninjaepic2095 the FBI isn’t just in the US they have offices all over the world
Calling a crypto scheme "SafeMoon" should have been a dead giveaway.
I’m 30 and retired. I haven’t sold a program and never will lol.
SafeMoon isn’t a scam
@@kokomokandle6636 😆
@@kokomokandle6636 surrrreee it isn’t 🙄
@@reese5545 made 60k from it and still holding so whatever lol
You're doing great work, and exposing a despicable scammer was a great video in and of itself. However, that last bit where you brought in a fictional narrative was a stroke of genius. If you pursue this approach of doing real work and exposing real scammers along with a fictional narrative, that is something truly compelling and unique that hasn't been done before. You can be a watchdog AND an artist, brother. Keep doing what you're doing!
Good old Ben Phillips😂
Innit 😂😂
oh that tosser with the fake videos and brother with bad teeth
Louis Is literally an arma3 CZcamsr lol
@@remmujone bro I knew I knew him couldn’t remember tho
@@Anthony_-ud3jt he's still going man
hey man congrats on 1 mil subscribers! wholly deserved! I needed that last bit of the video. People often just really suck. trust no one.
Damn man. That’s actually insane lmfao. Like wtf man. This is actually shocking to me man. Either way, nice work dude, really happy to hear about this. Always nice to expose horrible stuff like this. Nice work 👍
Please do be less shocked.
Rug pulls and pump n' dumps are as old as the first blockchain.
@@SocialmotionMedia damn
I guess you need to go read up on Enron, this is not a shock to me.
It’s great that Coffee is doing this stuff. It’s beyond annoying knowing that all of these influencers are getting away scott free
Mad props, vid was great and ending was epic. Keep up the good work Coffee n friends
congrats on 1 million u earned every one
Did not see that ending coming 🤯 keep up the incredible (and massively underrated) work my man ❤️
It's quite fitting of the whole "prank-genre" that bluntly scamming people counts as "sick prank"
The quality of your videos.....truly mind blowing. Keep it up.
coffee, ive been watching forever now and i honestly cannot believe you only have 1m subs, congrats btw but damn dude you deserve more. The quality of your editing alone..
Message at the end had me almost crying. You're awesome, Coffee. Never lose sight of that.
I gotta say, i just found out about you and im everything short of addicted. You have such a down to earth personality and your content is so quality that I cant put it down. Fantastic, keep up the great work!
Love this video and the investigative work behind it!
The ending is amazing. Keep up the good work!
The ending was unexpected but really nice to see! Would love to see more skits like that!
We all appreciate the work you do, man. Don't think any of it goes without notice.
Love your videos man keep up the good work
Love the ending brother! Keep up the great work! Love this 🙂
Jail these fraudsters asap, holy crap
Fuckin love you and appreciate you heavily Zilla. Doing the people’s work. Keep your head up
That end hits different
we need lofi-coffee instead of lofi-girl. the aesthetic of this channel has my whole heart
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the fact that you go out of your way to make a sub plot where you decompress. I truly TRULY appreciate that you do that.
Ahh the last sketch kinda hit the spot. Top notch investigation and production man. I wish i can help you in you journey man. Best of luck
Love the editing, very impressive. Got my sub!
Wow. Remember watching Ben on Facebook pranking his brother. Got very easy to read that it was all set up. Such a shame that he scammed people out of money.
same here ,thats a shame .
Coffee clearly reinvesting into his channel (loved that outro), exposing and entertaining in equal measure.
A true CZcams champion!
Loved the ending clip coffee, you’re the best
Pls tell me that at leat one of all these "millionaires" invests money into something else instead of throwing it away on unnecessary luxuries.
But that's their investment. Showing you that they have it, and you don't. Selling "the dream" so you purchase whatever shit scam they're promoting at the time because that 1000% will set you high as where they're
At least then the money is back in the system. It's totally incredible that he's not prosecuted. He may be found not guilty, but that they don't even try.
We are in a golden age of scamming any body with a bit of clout can do it or even no clout
wtf are you on about
@@hedonist2104 what he said
That was a wonderful, beautiful ending. What a fantastic set piece. Your animator deserves great respect. And your succinct script was great, and just a hint emotional. Mixed with the music, the rain, and the iluminating neon lights of the cityscape, filled with promotional high rises, selling the dream that most won't achieve,,, it set a calm, introspective tone. It was just wonderful
The production is amazing keep doing it coffee!
Keep up the great work! Congrats on a milly
Doing the lord work out here, Zilla. Keep exposing these scammers!
Why doesn't some regulatory agency do something. You can literally hand over the tweets and the evidence and they barely have to do anything to further investigate.
glad i stayed to the end. hearing about scammers bums me out big time, but that ending was fire.
Congrats on 1M man. You've earned it.
So sad how the authorities do not confiscate and imprison the scammers 😟
I really can't believe people put money in this sh8t... It's as irritating as the scamming.
Some people deserve to be scammed. I think that level of stupidity might be more wrong than the scamming.
I love that in your actual description it says “these are not facts and just my opinion”
Appreciate the work you do. End of the video is great
Damn! Nice catch Coffee! Doing better investigative reporting than most mainstream media right now.