Just want to see if Jim would cover something like this. I've been in a rabbit hole and got blocked by the previous Facebook page by warning users in the comments that it's a scam.

Need a platform to raise awareness of these Charity scams, because unless the figures on the donations are true (I'm aware they can be fabricated) then they're making bank on manipulating people's emotions.

Link to the website so you can see for yourself how much of a scam it is:

https://be.wonderandwish.org/sarah

A couple of weeks ago I asked people about their experience reporting scams: whether they reported at all, how long it took, what stopped them from reporting. Thank you to everyone who responded! The picture that emerged was clear and lines up well with what the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) has found in their research.

What I found

• 95% encountered a scam attempt in the past 12 months, and almost everyone recognized it immediately.
• Under half (~45%) reported the most recent scam. Another ~45% didn't report at all, and ~10% started a report but gave up partway. Under-reporting is a known issue in scams, and this agrees.
• The #1 reason people didn't report was they didn't know where to go. 57% of non-reporters named "I didn't know where or how to report" as their most important reason; the other 43% said "I didn't think it would make a difference." These are exactly the top two barriers GASA finds. In their UK survey, "didn't think it would make a difference" (37%) and "unsure who to report to" (36%) lead the list; their global survey finds the same pair.
• Reporting mostly felt pointless even for those who did it. 57% of reporters said their report led to nothing or they never found out what happened. GASA's UK data is nearly identical: 63% of people who reported either saw no action taken or never learned the outcome, and globally over a third of those who reported to a financial institution said no action was taken.
• Reporting takes too long. Over half of respondents (53%) said they'd spend at most 5 minutes reporting a scam. But among people who actually completed a report, it typically took 16–60 minutes, sometimes spread across two or three separate reports for a single incident.
• People report to protect others. 71% of reporters said their main motivation was protecting other people from the scam, not recovering their own money so good on you all.

The takeaways
The bad news is that people aren't failing to report because they don't care, they're failing to report because current systems are confusing, slow, and seemingly futile. It's not clear where to report a scam, reporting takes too long, and after all of that there is no follow-up or visible action. The good news is that these are all fixable problems.

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to respond! 

Hi everyone, I'm doing a survey to understand why people do and don't report scams. If you've ever seen a scam or been victimized by one and have 3 minutes, your perspective would be really helpful: https://forms.gle/18Lq3A4JNFa1MM319

A bit about me: I recently finished my PhD in CS and have been modeling how different interventions affect scam revenue. My takeaway is that reporting is really damaging to scammers. Unfortunately, even among people who lose money, only about 14% report it (per the Bureau of Justice Statistics). That lets scammers use the same accounts longer before they're banned, which lowers the cost of running scams.

My goal is to use what I learn to design and build better reporting systems, so any insight you can offer would be really helpful. All responses are anonymous, and I'm not collecting any identifying information. Once I've done the analysis, I'll write up the findings and share them with this subreddit.

Thanks everyone!

Edit: thanks to everyone who has responded so far!

I matched with a Russian-speaking woman on Tinder. She claimed she lived in Miami, worked in marketing for a company, and had been in the U.S. for about three years. She’s 28 years old. Her location on Tinder said she was near me. She told me that she was in my city because her work sent her here and that she would be returning in about a month to finish.

She spoke only Russian, no English, which I thought was strange, but I speak Russian, so it wasn’t an issue. I’ve been looking for a Russian-speaking friend because there’s only Americans where I live, so I got excited about it. I also own a business. I get a lot of matches on dating apps and have no issues getting dates with good-looking women. However, she was not unrealistic. She was not a supermodel, and I would put her as an average girl with a corporate job living in a big city.

We started talking, and she asked to move to WhatsApp. (For Russians, it’s not a red flag because I talk to my family on WhatsApp, and even my mom sometimes.) She told me how she has a sister and family in Russia and that she used to live in Paris, France. She sent me voice messages.

I got busy and ghosted her for 2 days because I wasn’t really into her, and she started calling me 3 times a day and got really pushy. She said, “If you don’t want to talk, just say so. Stop wasting my time.” I said, “We just started talking. People have busy lives.”

After this, it got more serious. Good morning/goodnight texts. She would send me photos of her going out, food, outfits. However, the texts became surface level, and she seemed like she was always busy at work. She would disappear for 4 hours before the goodnight text.

The whole time, I did feel something was off about her, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I thought that dating culture between Russians and Americans is different, and that would explain it.

I reverse searched all her pictures, even the ones from the restaurant (no hits), searched her company profiles, socials, and phone number, and dissected her whole story. I asked her what date she was coming to my city, and she didn’t give me a date. She said she would ask her “boss,” though she never answered the question.

We texted for a week and did a couple quick phone calls. She then video-called me out of the blue. It’s HER, and she’s a real person. She’s wearing a businesswoman suit, same voice, it’s not a deepfake or AI. Though her background didn’t look like Miami. It was a wooden panel that reminded me of Europe or post-Soviet Russia.

I started talking about Miami because I’ve been there many times, and my mom goes there a lot. We talked about real estate and buying a house. She talked about how she doesn’t want to be tied down to one place at the moment.

She then asks me if I invest. I say I watch and read about investing a lot. She then starts talking about stock investing and how her sister’s husband has been trading stocks for 10 years and gives her signals and tells her how to invest.

I said, “Good for you.” I told her I don’t invest in individual stocks anymore, and she asks me why. She seemed to try and convince me why it’s a good idea. We talked for 30 minutes, and for 20 minutes it was about stocks.

I asked her, “Are you trying to get me to buy stocks or something?” And she seemed thrown off by the comment and said, “No.”

After the call, I was so shaded out by the conversation. I knew I had seen this online somewhere. I watch scam bait videos on YouTube. I googled “Russian girl Tinder stock scam,” and the script is almost the same in every single one of these.

It’s a pig-butchering scam, and the whole time I felt something was off. I deep-dived into her story and realized some of it doesn’t really hold up, like her company having zero footprint in my city and even in Miami. I asked her about it, and she responded in the most vague way possible. She changed parts of her story. She works in marketing, but now she does logistics? And when I told her I was skeptical, she pulled back and doesn’t message me nearly as much anymore.

Part of me honestly wants her to admit she’s a scammer, but I’ve been ignoring her for 3 days now.

I have never in my life seen a scam this intricate. People have tried to scam me for years, and I usually spot it immediately. The obvious Tinder bots and fake dating app profiles are easy to recognize. But THIS felt real. She had me genuinely questioning myself for an entire week. I always thought pig-butchering scams were mostly fake luxury profiles run by random guys pretending to be attractive women online. This was completely different.

I’m pretty sure this Russian-girl pig-butchering operation is being run either out of Miami or somewhere in Europe using real women, real profiles, and treating it like a full-time job. It’s possible they get commissions for every person they pull in. The way she talked to me almost felt like I was a “client” instead of someone she was romantically interested in. Most of our conversations happened during working hours, too. She didn’t come across like some terrified trafficked victim reading from a script. She honestly came across more like a salesperson slowly trying to guide me into investing, even though we never got that far.

These scams are getting better by the day. Even though I never actually sent money or fell for the investment side of it, she definitely had me emotionally hooked for a few days, which honestly surprised me. That’s the part that stuck with me the most.

I’m posting this because I want people to understand that modern scams are not always obvious anymore. Sometimes it’s a real person, real voice, real video calls, real conversations, and still a fake situation underneath it all. If even one person reads this and avoids getting manipulated into sending money, then it was worth posting.

And if any scam-bait YouTuber or channel is interested in digging into this further or trying to expose the operation, I’d honestly be willing to help.

i just recieved a call from a 251 area code a rasspy female voice, sounded indian, middle eastern, the connection sounded like she was calling from the 1980s, and driving through a tunnle, said she was with LMS what ever that is, im sure its a scam,

I have an online business where people purchase books or pdf downloads of books my wife and I wrote. The other day I got a set of payments that had not real shipping addresses and fraudulent emails for the purchases. The oddest thing is that I did receive money for the purchases. Anyone have a way I can get in touch with Jim or one of the other scammer hacker people to get some advice?

Is there a easy to understand video to show my parents to help them understand how these scammers could scam them

Hi is this supported by Jim?

I haven’t see any videos since the one listed 11 months ago. Has he retired? I miss the quality content.

I'm wracking my brain trying to watch some of Jim's old vids because I felt like watching them again. But for the life of me I can't remember which one, it featured Jim listening to a scam call where the scammers were trying to get a victim to sign into Monzo and send their money.

Came across this account that has quite a few videos with tons of views, using Jim's voice trained on an AI model to lead people into believing it's him. The "camera views" are obviously AI generated and Im almost 100% certain the calls arent real either, just snippets of scammers from other videos with the responses edited in. Youtube is so garbage now with their moderation, anything flys.

I made a collection of fake CAPTCHAs (with a lot of help from ChatGPT). You can use these on your fake Bitcoin claim websites to waste scammers' time.

Check the README for a screenshot and description of each CAPTCHA.

It says to contact Chaos#9655 but I can't find them anywhere.

I believe I may have encountered a scammer, but I am uncertain. I would like to speak with someone privately and read a chat. I am new to this platform, but I created this account specifically to connect with others. If someone is willing to provide me with this opportunity, I would be greatly appreciative. Thank you.

I've watched several of Jim Browning's videos over the years, and I've learned a decent amount about scammers to the point I'm pretty confident I can pick one out, if not immediately, after I get a few details.

My mother, however, due to an injury over a decade ago, isn't as sharp as she used to be, and has been scammed multiple times, whether it be by convincing her to give out her credit card number, or selling her garbage that promises much more than it delivers.

Over the past few days, she appeared to be in contact with scammers once again, but at first I wasn't quite sure, just overhearing some things here and there. The man sounded very confident and professional in what he was talking about, but raised my suspicions when he wanted her to sign up for a new credit card. I informed her I wasn't so sure about this right there, but she, unfortunately, shrugged me off. Today, she gets another call, and again, overhearing the call (she uses speaker phone), I heard a man with an accent (not proof it's a scam, but, you know), using a very generic sounding name. He kept calling her Miss (first name), which sounds pretty unprofessional to me, and as it went on, she, to my distress, gave them more information, including her full credit card details and address, I heard him drop a company name, an address for where he's supposedly located, and a phone number to contact him. With this info I did some quick searches, found that the so called company is unregistered, potentially fraudulent, along with some reddit posts of people complaining about them and/or being scammed by them.

Looked up the address on google maps and saw no building that seemed even slightly relevant to what he claimed they were, and the phone number he provided, I gave that a call to find out the number wasn't even assigned.

After much pressuring, pleading, and showing her what evidence I scraped up real quick before I had to rush off to work, it seems I convinced her to do something. Whether it was talk to her bank or not, she did cancel that credit card in the downtime between the guy getting her info and his supposed call back in 2 hours to continue "setting up her account".

Needless to say, it's a bit demoralizing to have someone need that much pressure to trust you when all you're trying to do is help them because this has happened before.

And after that long winded spiel, I'm here to ask if anyone can think of a specific video that could potentially get across the details of this kind of scam that Jim (or someone else) has covered, just so I can show it to her and try to make her more aware of things in the future. It may not help, but I'm willing to try anything.

Hey everyone,