Kitboga is a vigilante. The hero the Internet needs. The master scambaiter. He poses as a potential victim to waste the time and resources of online scammers. A few times a week, Kitboga goes live on Twitch, where thousands of viewers watch him troll the sort of people who tell old ladies in nursing homes that they owe the IRS thousands of dollars trying to get their MasterCard number. Kitboga also uploads these conversations to YouTube. There, he has amassed a 1.5-million following.
Recently, he uploaded a video called The World’s Angriest Scammers – 10/10 Rage. “A lot of crazy things have happened to me over the past couple of years as I’ve been calling scammers, and 2020 did not disappoint in the angry department,” Kitboga said in the introduction. “I’ve learned a lot about how to make scammers uncomfortable, how to put them in situations that they definitely don’t want to be in, and as a result, there’s usually some level of anger exhibited.”
Inviting people on a tour of the angriest of angry, the troll picked some of the most emotional scammers he has encountered during the past year, and it’s so satisfying to watch them get a taste of their own medicine.
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Kitboga is a scambaiter—someone who poses as a potential victim to waste the time and resources of online scammers
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He has been calling scammers for a couple of years now, and 2020 did not disappoint him
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So to recap, he made a highlight reel of the funniest conversations he has had with individuals who prey on older people or someone who’s clueless about computers
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Kitboga and his team usually get the numbers of the scammers either from his community or via clicking on various sketchy ads, searching for things online, and misspelling popular websites. Most of the time he alters his voice in some way and has multiple personas including Grandma Edna, Viktor, an easily confused person with an incredibly unbelievable fake Russian accent, and Neveah, a Valley girl who rarely understands what’s going on. Kitboga often uses a Roland VT-3 voice transformer.
In one video, Kitboga pretends to cut apart the gift cards he had promised to the scammer
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“Even though what they’re doing is illegal, unjust, and extremely aggravating to all of us, we’re choosing not to fight back with other illegal means,” Kitboga writes. “For now, we hope to raise awareness of these scams and educate folks about them. If we stop calling, that’ll change things too.”
In another, he made the scammer watch him cash out hundreds of dollars that they thought they were getting for themselves
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Using his background in software engineering, Kitboga has created the perfect virtual machine for trolling scammers. But he has made a few simple additions as well. Like the file labeled ‘nudes’ that contains images not of lewd acts but of naked mole rats.
Kitboga said the tactics he uses often provide insight into how scammers treat people. “They’re not afraid to pull up your camera or lock your computer and start looking through your pictures to see if they can find something.”
Kitboga also included the climax of a 36-hour saga he has had with a team of particularly emotional scammers
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The first place went to a scammer who exhibited “extreme levels of volume”, something Kitboga has never experienced
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Watch the entire video below
Here’s what people said about Kitboga and his highlight reel
I was wondering if he needed prescription glasses, I expect he would look pretty nerdy if he was wearing regular glasses. They wouldn't do a great job (in my understanding) to protect his identity because we can still see the rest of his face. https://youtu.be/lP8EYYjPEmc?t=60 (I know everybody else including the actors hate Green Lantern, but here is a link illustrating my point)
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Was looking forward to hearing the actual call :( There is a channel on YouTube called the Hoax Hotel, and this guy does the same thing, he has me n tears sometimes listening to the calls. He this once call with a Dude named Josh, that goes over several days, buy the end of it Josh sounds so defeated, it is probably one of the best scam channels out there!
Jason of All Out Bikes had two guys for two days dancing around. Said they would turn off electricity if we didn't pay with a certain card we had to go get at Speedway.
Load More Replies... I kept a scammer going for quite a while as he tried to tell me how to fix my fathers computer. My father didn't own a computer. But my husband on the other trained most of the people this guy was claiming to work with. This was after weeks of several calls from different people claiming exactly the same thing. Most just hung up when I said that my father didn't own a computer but this guy was very persistent.
Forget Thor your my new super hero. Torture has a new level with this pond scum Thank you. Don't forget to remind them about Karma that puts them over the top.
That's right! Karma is part of their religion, right? I never thought of that!
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I appreciate that he's actually trolling true scammers: meaning people who are trying to literally steal your money and do something illegal. On the flipside... I wish people would stop calling surveys "scams". If it's a survey, and it's... I don't know... being held by the local government about the condition of the roads or something... and they are not asking for any sort of purchase or bank transfer.. in fact NOTHING about money at all... - no... it's not funny or amusing or intelligent to start yelling at or jerking around the person on the phone... and THEN later on "Why doesn't the city/government ever show an interest in what its residents want??" -
I think you're missing the mark here - nobody is hassling surveyors. Listen to some of these calls and you'll understand how that couldn't even happen. It depends on the scammer's scripts.
Load More Replies... I was wondering if he needed prescription glasses, I expect he would look pretty nerdy if he was wearing regular glasses. They wouldn't do a great job (in my understanding) to protect his identity because we can still see the rest of his face. https://youtu.be/lP8EYYjPEmc?t=60 (I know everybody else including the actors hate Green Lantern, but here is a link illustrating my point)
Load More Replies... Was looking forward to hearing the actual call :( There is a channel on YouTube called the Hoax Hotel, and this guy does the same thing, he has me n tears sometimes listening to the calls. He this once call with a Dude named Josh, that goes over several days, buy the end of it Josh sounds so defeated, it is probably one of the best scam channels out there!
Jason of All Out Bikes had two guys for two days dancing around. Said they would turn off electricity if we didn't pay with a certain card we had to go get at Speedway.
Load More Replies... I kept a scammer going for quite a while as he tried to tell me how to fix my fathers computer. My father didn't own a computer. But my husband on the other trained most of the people this guy was claiming to work with. This was after weeks of several calls from different people claiming exactly the same thing. Most just hung up when I said that my father didn't own a computer but this guy was very persistent.
Forget Thor your my new super hero. Torture has a new level with this pond scum Thank you. Don't forget to remind them about Karma that puts them over the top.
That's right! Karma is part of their religion, right? I never thought of that!
Load More Replies... I appreciate that he's actually trolling true scammers: meaning people who are trying to literally steal your money and do something illegal. On the flipside... I wish people would stop calling surveys "scams". If it's a survey, and it's... I don't know... being held by the local government about the condition of the roads or something... and they are not asking for any sort of purchase or bank transfer.. in fact NOTHING about money at all... - no... it's not funny or amusing or intelligent to start yelling at or jerking around the person on the phone... and THEN later on "Why doesn't the city/government ever show an interest in what its residents want??" -
I think you're missing the mark here - nobody is hassling surveyors. Listen to some of these calls and you'll understand how that couldn't even happen. It depends on the scammer's scripts.
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