THE VIDEO SHELF · scambaiting
Scammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
Kitboga baits tech-support scammers into believing they will get $3,000, wasting hours of their time while he plays along and screen-shares. The scammers become frustrated as it becomes clear the money will not reach them.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters point to Kitboga as an entertaining, righteous example of wasting scammers' time.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Kitboga
- Topic
- scambaiting
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I have sunk many hours this year into watching Scott Brown Carpentry - a New Zealand Carpenter who is incredibly talented at video editing as well as carpentry [LINK] I’ve also enjoyed watching Kitboga - a twitch / YouTube personality who wastes phone scammers time …
jackweirdy on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Ask HN: What are some channels that make you glad YouTube exists?My grandfather stopped answering his landline telephone because of these scumbags. Kitboga is a youtuber who winds scammers up and wastes their time, and is pretty righteous [VIDEO]
matthewmorgan on Hacker News · 2022-12
In Americans lost $10B; caused by illegal Indian call centres in 2022
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.