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Pierogi was born on July 16th, 1986, [3] he previously worked as a cybersecurity professional. [4] He launched his YouTube channel "Scammer Payback" on May 15, 2019, focusing on high-production scam-baiting content in which he pretends to be a scam victim by portraying a variety of characters with the use of a voice changer to waste the scammers' time and distract them.
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
In its effort to remain family-friendly and woo advertisers, YouTube has often struggled to please its vast, diverse community of creators. It seems that the brand's first-ever "Made on YouTube ...
He started his YouTube channel to upload footage to send to authorities as evidence against scammers. [4] He has since carried out investigations into various scams, in which he infiltrates computer networks run by scammers who claim to be technical support experts [1] or pose as US IRS agents and use remote desktop software or social engineering.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lapre moved to Phoenix, Arizona, with his family when he was a child.He married Sally Redondo in 1988. [3] A high-school dropout, [4] Lapre, together with his wife, started a credit repair business called Unknown Concepts in 1990.
In mid-2017, Kitboga found out that his grandmother had fallen victim to many scams designed to prey on the elderly, both online and in person. [4] He then discovered "Lenny", a loop of vague pre-recorded messages that scam baiters play during calls to convince the scammer that there is a real person on the phone without providing any useful information to the scammer.
Stephen Findeisen (born 1993 or 1994), [2] [3] better known as Coffeezilla, is an American YouTuber and cryptocurrency journalist who is known primarily for his channel in which he investigates and discusses online scams, usually surrounding cryptocurrency, decentralized finance and internet celebrities. [4]
It was released on YouTube Premium in April 2019. [48] [49] On December 13, 2019, Pearlman was the subject of an episode of ABC's 20/20 titled "The Hitman: From Pop to Prison". [50] [51] On July 24, 2024, Pearlman's story was featured on Netflix's documentary series Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam. [52]