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The Perfect Scam

YouTube Star Kitboga Fights Fraud With Humor

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5980 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

YouTube star Kitboga has turned scam baiting into performance art, delighting his 3.3 million followers with his many characters and laughs at the expense of online criminals. It started out as pure curiosity, and a way to avenge his grandparents who'd been victims of scams, but along the way, he's helped return money and hijacked accounts to victims, and he's taught a lot of viewers how online scams work. Bob sits down with Kitboga for a humorous and enlightening conversation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week on The Perfect Scamp.

0:05.0

I try to just change my voice and do different accents and things just to sort of switch it up or you know it started out of almost necessity because if I called the same place a few times with my voice they would know who I was and they just hang up right well if I called back and I try to talk with a little bit different accent or whatever,

0:27.3

now they might put up with me. And then I realized, oh, well, I can, if I can make my voice sound old, maybe I could pitch shifted a little bit higher,

0:39.0

and now I, you know, now I sound like a different character.

0:43.7

Welcome back to the perfect scam.

0:49.2

I'm your host Bob Sullivan. It started out as pure curiosity and a way to avenge his

0:58.1

grandparents who'd both been victims of scamps. It turned into a YouTube channel with 3.3 million subscribers and

1:07.8

tens of millions of laughs all at the expense of online criminals trying to steal from vulnerable people.

1:15.4

He's turned scambating into performance art, but along the way, a man who calls himself,

1:21.8

Kit Boga, has become much more than a viral celebrity.

1:26.8

He's wasted years worth of criminal's time.

1:29.8

He's helped return money and hijacked accounts to victims, and he's taught a lot of viewers how online

1:36.0

scams really work. So, let's meet him, let's laugh with him a bit, and then let's learn what he has to teach us.

1:45.0

My name is Kit Boga and I spend a lot of my time investigating

1:51.0

scammers and I try to play the perfect victim so I can waste their time and

1:58.0

collect information about what they're doing.

2:00.9

In this clip from his show, Gifoga has a criminal on the edge of his seat thinking he's only a click or two away from transferring all the money out of a victim's bank account.

2:10.0

But, one of those frustrating password reset screens stands in the way.

2:16.0

Three different scammers at my bank with millions of dollars in it and see if they'll put up with a password game. These guys will

2:23.7

usually do just about anything to rip someone off. So it'll be good to get a

2:27.0

little revenge while we waste their time and collect some other information.

2:30.8

Make sure you put the correct online password which you use to log into your bank, okay?

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