John Oliver discusses a popular internet scam, why it’s easier to fall for it than you might think, and, of course, boner alerts.
John Oliver discusses a popular internet scam, why it’s easier to fall for it than you might think, and, of course, boner alerts.
I was wondering when he was going to mention people on YouTube fighting the scammers and then he started to say the scammers are victims too. Not once have I seen any of the youtubers mention that this is a thing. Now I wonder if they will treat the scammers differently.
ReplyOnly John Oliver can take a 24 minute scam video and just at the last moment still waste HBO’s money
ReplyExcellent piece, John and the Last Week Tonight Team!
ReplyI work for a credit union in the electronic funds department, so wires, ACH’s, certain check reviews, and I take dispute calls. While I haven’t seen Pig Butchering yet, I do see numerous cases of members being scammed either by gift cards or by wire transfers. And its absolutely heartbreaking.
And what sucks too and isn’t talked about as often is how fraud is defined, at least by card comapnies. If you willing give out your card information, even under less than truthful circumstances, it’s considered Non-fraud because you made the transaction. I hate that with every fiber of my being, but I also get that a few bad apples would exploit that.
It’s not always doom and gloom in my department. There have been times we’ve caught wires before they’ve gone out. I stopped one where a woman was sending funds to a person in Texas for “moving costs”. I reported it to the fraud department, and it came back she thought she was in a relationship with the singer Michael McDonald and was sending money to a friend of his. Our wire system also refuses to accept any wires where the address is a PO Box.
Like John said, education is the best way to combat these scams. Tell your friends and relatives. Send them news articles. My mom always sends me articles about scams, and it keeps both of us in the loop.
Never heard of this type of scam or seen something like it, but if it does ever happen to me, I’ll treat the person on the other end a bit nicer before I block them.
ReplyI know this isn’t the point but I’m disappointed that they weren’t called Ham Scams
ReplyWhoops, the banks empty! Next tattoo
ReplyScott…. Had his neck scammed from him
ReplyHappy Leap Day, fellow pigs!:)
ReplyEasily avoidable for me, since I think crypto is a scam to begin with. 🤷
ReplyMan I sure wish I could share this useful information with my parents and friends without them having to imagine John Oliver nutting.
ReplyHow are people that stupid obtaining so much money?!?
ReplyWhat’s up with the fake laughs. It’s very obvious.
ReplyMy homie lost 6 grand to this, the scammer shows him a fake screen showing his ‘investment’ is worth $12k. I had to let him know ie even if he wanted to he couldnt withdraw any of it
Replyphone companies could probably do a lot about phones and text by having a system auto ping if the ping doesnt go to real phone holding the number then the calls and text wont go through that would end a lot of scam calls internet could do something similar
ReplyWe all think we’re too smart to get scammed. We all think that other people are stupid and gullible, but not us.
ReplyJust remember that these people do this for a living. They are VERY convincing. Their average victim is people just like you.
Thanks for helping to spread awareness 😃❤🖖 … hope you can do more updates on scams
ReplyHuh. Have to admit… fell for one too..
I refused to put more than my initial ammount in. So 1.5k€
Something that is obviously a lot, but i could live with. It was a ton of fun for half a year or so and to be frank…
I took it as educational entertainment.
Yes they wanted to lure more out of me, but i wasn’t dumb enough for THAT.
How they found me: Tinder
ReplySeriously…tinder is full of these people, so beware
Still anti crypto John? People behind some crypto are scammers. The technology itself isn’t a scam.
P.s. look at BTC’s chart. Boner alert! ❤
ReplyMan, these are some stupid pigs. My real pigs would not fall for these obvious scams.
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