How many times have we faced fraudsters online who claim to give us heavy financial benefits with the ulterior motive to rob us? While it is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out who is trying to scam a user, a YouTuber seems to have found a way out to teach them a lesson. This individual, who has a wide reach online exposed scammers on camera after acting as a defenceless grandmother. The owner of the ScamSandwich YouTube channel, known by the moniker “Neld Harris,” has made a career out of exposing online crooks.
The YouTube channel features dozens of scam-the-scammers videos that have received millions of views and likes on the platform. He has also gained tens of thousands of followers since launching his website in January 2023, according to the New York Post. Reportedly, the YouTuber poses as Neld, an 80-year-old widow from Dallas, and plays along with intricate scammers’ attempts to take over her computer, install malware, and persuade her to give them money. The YouTuber told the New York Post, “I make surrealist phone calls to scammers to bait them into ridiculous situations using voice mods [voice-altering software], fake banks, and fake gift card redeems.”
Sharing more about how he manages to fool the scammers, the content creator revealed that he identifies the fraudsters by Googling phrases like “Zelle support” and contacting their 1-800 numbers. There are often times when they themselves contact the creator under the pretext that they are targeting an elderly woman.
The question is how does this YouTuber scam the scammers? According to the various videos on his channel, these fraudsters encourage him to go to CVS or Walmart and buy gift cards that are worth a lot of money. He pretended to complete all of this before sending the details to them. The YouTuber also keeps them online for hours at a time, engaging in their schemes. He drives them insane by reacting slowly and poorly to their demands. A source told the publication that, “He’s worn down some to the point of tears, swearing they will give up their criminality and go straight if he’d only leave them alone.” But by that time, he had hacked their computers and downloaded or destroyed all of their data by installing a very dangerous computer virus. Furthermore, he took control of their webcams and live-streamed videos of them to the world. This not only revealed their criminal acts but also embarrassed them publicly.
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