Posted on 08/20/2022 10:24:02 AM PDT by DoodleBob
AUSTIN, Texas - A former cybersecurity professional, who goes by the name "Pierogi" is terrorizing scammers.
Complaints of suspected internet crime soared almost 70% from 2019-2020, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. In 2020, Americans lost more than $4.2 billion to cyber-criminals.
Pierogi says he became inspired to fight back after watching YouTube videos. Now his own channel, " Scammer Payback," has nearly 3.4 million subscribers.
"When people watch my videos they want that sense of fulfillment," he explained.
Pierogi says the channel started out with prank calls to waste scammers time.
"And while we think that's really valuable, it's gone to so many levels," he said.
Through the channel, he has been able to give money back to scam victims and stop scams in progress.
"When you finally get that [scam victim] on the line, and they listen to you, and they understand, and you save them, that is one of the most exhilarating experiences," he said.
His latest project is called the "People’s Call Center."
"The idea around this was I've been calling in just by myself calling into these scam call centers for a number of years. And there are others that are like me that do the same," he said.
Pierogi is working with scam baiters from around the world on the "People’s Call Center." A scam baiter is someone who calls internet scammers pretending to be a victim to waste their time.
"And it was kind of good versus evil, the anti-scam call center versus the scam call center," he added. "There's going to be evil in this world. And... I think that for every kind of evil thing that's going on, there's a positive as well."
His vids are great. Kitboga is another good troller.
Kitboga is hilarious!
Vivian Rogers is one of my favorite characters he plays. “I’m just so tired.”
Great stuff.
Love it when they start swearing in those thick Hindi accents. “You are the m___er f___er!”
I have seen a few people do this, one guy put on a grey wig and glasses while pretending to be an old grandmother.
He so pissed off the scammer.
Unfortunately most of these are really long so i wontcwatch more.
I wish gtoger made more videos, those tow videos are pretty funny
Been seeing these pop up.
I love those videos.
Yes, both of them are fun to watch. Wish they would do a collaboration.
Looks like nothing but an advertisement for Aura 24 hour dark web protection. If people are stupid enough to respond to those ridiculous emails pretending to be from Best Buy maybe they need an expensive lesson in common sense.
All she had to do if she was in doubt was to pull up her bank account and see if a recent transaction is pending . . . any one with any sense at all can see a scam. I’ve very little pity for really stupid people.
bookmark
I love the videos, but hes got to get the card services and spectrum scammers
Bookmarking. Gonna have to watch these on my next days off.
No Kitboga here, but this is a cool all-star jam. Pierogi joins forces with Karl Rock, Jim Browning, and Trilogy Media. They are all good scam baiters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QX1B69z34A
Yep this is the guy.
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