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Americans Overwhealmed by Spam Calls, But the FCC Still Does Nothing

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0:00 [Music] dude are you guys getting so many ████ robo calls and spam ████ i am i get like 300. i get robo comments i get robo pictures hot chicks feet from hot chicks i don't believe them dude what's the dm use of these photos they do whatsapp a lot of chinese whatsapp girls try to meet me for golf dude i get a bunch of people who who think my name is andrea and they're like or or is this andrea and they're like um we're supposed to have a business meeting and i'm like what the ████ is it it's like a hot chinese girl yeah they're always hot they got pretty creative man what's going on with this you know about this pandemic yeah dude so there's there's i mean we're getting killed with robocalls responding to them is really funny the type of messages i got tired of one but i should have continued to love there were more spam calls last month than any of the previous six months ever why uh dude

0:51 dumber people man is it really working is that why they're like conning a lot of us gotta be i mean think about all the scams you watch the scammer payback we both watch that yep and they're always seeing because they'll track somebody and like try to save this one person and they'll see like a ████ ton of other packages there which which means that people are going to the store buying a ████ best buy gift card or whatever putting it into a package sending it to the irs and like pacoima and then that's where the headquarters is that's what i think my bad and then they'll drive to some private address that basically the the cats all got an airbnb and then they get some girl that they hired from like craigslist to pick up packages yeah and that's how they that's how they scam you and so then they take your your card and they use it to buy ████ and then they sell that ████ ████ wild right but um so it's working that's the biggest they wouldn't

1:41 be investing effort in it without yields yeah uh it's extremely easy to deploy these spam texts as well an enormous volume and also hide your identity at the same time says the assistant director of the ftc uh there are there's also a large number of actors all over the world that's trying to squeeze spam into the network from an almost infinite number of entry points all the time like all the different apps whatsapp like you you have telegram you have discord like glitter yes sir it's it's everywhere right now so like i get feet pics from from random things i get like it's like it says like p████.ox and ████ well that one's real that one's right that's a really good one look hi jack how have you been chinese girl that all the time that's my whole what's up dude i have deleted the craziest one that i heard so far is uh geo got this call and then it's like this girl crying and then she's like this is like andre

2:32 or something like i'm your cousin in mexico and i've been kidnapped he goes you don't know me but i know whatever and you just hear it on the phone it sounds intense but we know it's fake but i could just imagine like imagine like if gio's mom got it or someone that's like not in tune with technology who who are we related to you just hear slaps in the background just crying even more and we're like what the ████ they're like good acting pretty good it's pretty good it's just like hella real like somebody's actually ████ yeah or they just called the wrong number that kidnapping is real but you're like shut up scammer and then you hang up and you're like really going through an event right now yeah it's the drug cartel that's a funny thing too because some like my parents i thought they would be falling for ████ like that but they're a different kind of like old asian where they just think everything is a scam oh so like they've thrown away like some of my like tax papers or like i'll get it i'll get

3:22 a red light this is a scum okay got a red light ticket sent to their house and then they just threw it away that's great honestly good for them i just think everything's just good it's better that than the other thing oh yeah it is yeah then i i pay for it so it's all good i got one right here that says like is this is this miss alicia not sure if i remember the wrong number but ████ like that and then somebody goes oh it's not her but i'm very alone alone yeah my kids moved out and i need someone to talk to how long have you guys pursued the conversation because i know ryan is pretty notorious for that but it's you know what it's so often now that it's not even fun anymore so it used to be cool because it would happen every blue moon but now it's like even trying to buy or sell things on offer up those are there too my favorite reply that i still haven't got a rebuttal for is oh let me talk to you

4:13 after i finish coming in my mouth and then no one replies after him or like delete my number and stop texting or or i'll send you somebody else's dick pics oh that's good that's a funnel just because typing out dick and sending that to somebody like i never really get to do that that much it's really fun why don't you just start sending dick pics to people that message you yeah well that could be scary if if if they're legit that's why i say somebody else's just in case i still want to send them mine because i'm weird like that like your mom just got a new number and then she'd be like hey and you're people will hit me up all the time as like like are you a fitness trainer question my question mark or they'll be like hey i'm i'm i'm gonna i'm looking for a fitness instructor and i'm well clients dude no no these aren't they're your clients why would they know that hey hey nick dunn i saw your business and i'd be like scam yeah right i throw

5:03 my phone away dude send it to you no but there's some where they go like oh i have three children i'm looking for a fitness trainer um i don't live in the area but a driver will send uh my kids to you and i'll be like okay cool well how how much would they ask me how much and i say like 10 000 and they go sweet sounds great call me on google voice like that's the game so it's like a whole ████ thing and they want you to call on google voice super weird you know you know what's amazing is i feel like there's so many of these people doing it and they're so consistent why the ████ are they not just social media managers oh they would be the best they would be that same amount of effort that same amount of algorithm gaming they'll kill it and then you hire other people to do social media they just oh sorry i forgot people who buy billboards even it's like dude you're ████ bro you're buying a billboard right now you're ████ i'm

5:53 gonna try to flip them next time to hit me up you want to be my social media manager that's a lot you want to work with your guide like sure google voice you're like ████ they're going to get me somehow because i think they were real clients and i would hit them up and they would just send me the run around and i'd be like oh these ████ they're trying to get me so then i would say fifty thousand dollars for a month of training they'd be like sounds great let's do it that's what they would do every single time i like to make their day a little bit and so like as soon as they hit me up this is like before i got beaten down like you did by so many of them but i used to be like uh they'd be like hi is this whoever and i'm like no but i'm i'm alone and i don't know anybody will you be my girlfriend i have a lot of bitcoin they go oh my god did i look we got a motherboard one of my favorite things to do is watch these uh hackers catch scammers that is so it is and it's so next level like back then it used to

6:44 be like where they would just control like you know their computer or whatever but now what they'll do is they'll record their whole entire operation whole office they would get drones out there get a outside shot everything and they would just play this while the scammers are like working and they're like what the ████ and then they're all freaking out turning off all the cameras and ████ it almost seems like they're mildly prepared for that now because if you watch some of the newer ones yeah but if you watch some of the newer ones it's almost like they yell out a protocol when they find out they have a hacker have you noticed that no they'd be like it was like saying subtitles oh we got a hacker we got a hacker as if like everyone knows what to do now oh that's like when a us embassy has to like immediately flee a country so they burn all the documents and start ████ loading up because as much as i thought like you know how like we're kind of raised to think like oh like all these these indian hackers whatever and you just think like india is complicit

7:34 they're actually not they hate that ████ too so like when these guys get in trouble it's their own cities or their own government to actually do raids and they're just like get the ████ out like they don't want that either you know what i mean well they could be a little more proactive in my opinion i uh it's pretty pervasive uh so who their spam emails rose by 30 from 2020 to 2021 and then like i said last month was bigger than ever um the federal communications commission saw a 146 percent increase in the number of complaints about unwanted text messages in 2020 and americans reported losing 131 million dollars to fraud schemes in 2021 alone 131 million dollars yeah dude that's a 50 year-over-year jump from 2020. wow huge industry huh and people feel like the uh the fcc

8:26 isn't really doing anything because they remember they don't do ████ though yeah they did that um do not call list that's all ████ now nobody believes in that anymore i mean having scam likely appeared in your phone made a big difference cam like that was nice that was that was great like google what they do now they're i think they're advertising their phone service and their whole pitch is like no more scam calls so they have an algorithm i'm sure they have their own google voice i thought they're hitting you up on google voice shut up dude google voice date they don't have any scams we got it we got to get our brand deals they don't have any scams that's what they're advertising and i've seen the ads for it wow on google voice i wonder if that's the guys that hit me up i noticed i got way less since i started using expressvpn if you use code stephen it's pretty good but seriously i'll buy it if that's old

9:16 have you guys been ever uh scammed for anything like have you been caught like ah got me ████ no no i haven't oh one time there was um there was this ████ i probably told the story before but there was this chick who got chick right but i was working at a high rise downtown and i was looking for a renter for my spot because my buddy was moving out and with his girlfriend so i was like okay i need a renter so i put my ████ all over craigslist and all those places and stuff and this person's like hey i'm going to send you a check for five thousand dollars and they sent it to my place and then i was supposed to take that money deposit in my bank account and then go to western union and send them a ████ check so they're basically just stealing from my bank account yeah because they're gonna your check's gonna bounce right and check's gonna balance but i already already wired that that transfer to already took it out into western union sent to those cats and then you can't get it back once it wasn't just western

10:07 union so you deposited it i didn't do any of that ████ i just i they sent me the check and i was like yeah ████ you'll never do this in my life but that was and i told the bank and stuff but that was that was the closest thing because i actually got a physical check with this person i wonder what would happen if you deposit that check i think i would have probably haven't paid the fee for the balance i had to pay the amounts yeah the bounce fee that's it you pay the fee when it bounces yeah you pay the fee because you're inconveniencing your bank but how would you know it's going to bounce because this f█████'s a bouncer dude i i lied actually i do get scammed sometimes when you order ████ on ebay or amazon and you don't know it's coming from china and like i'll order like a motorcycle helmet and it'll be like a child's ████ bike helmet dude that's how i got scammed on ████ instagram dude i saw this ████ paddle boat right like you know those paddle boards and then i was like oh this ████ sick man for 30 bucks hell yeah dude i can't believe this and i bought it and i'm like ████

10:58 and then i was like man why is it 30 dollars though that doesn't make any sense and i was like normally they sold me a ████ paddle for 30 bucks oh it was a piece of ████ paddle it's the same paddle that you get on all those inflatable kid ████ boats dude yeah but let's be real what are you gonna do with the paddle you ████ we're gonna go you're just gonna use it as a prop on jk news i was gonna go to the beach but then i should have known because all the comments were like it's for the paddles it's for the palace with the ████ boat right and then immediately i emailed back and i was like hey i need this right refund i already requested for it and they're like it's already shipped out i'm like how i just ordered it 30 minutes ago there's no ████ way you shipped it out that's what the they're really fast though that's how fast we are that's what the weird loophole is is that like like the last helmet i ordered and that happened to me it said it would be coming from like

11:48 louisiana or some ████ but then they do like a mirror address where it's like yeah that's where they're sent it from but then your shipment gets delayed and you're like oh why is it taking 20 days and then soon it'll be like oh it's on the way from whatever china city and then it'll take one day longer than the 30 day money back guarantee oh so by the time you realize it's not the right helmet you go online and then you're like hey uh hey ebay this happened to me they scammed me it'll go oh the the time is up for you to get your money back what a bunch of jerks do you guys ever think about how much money or how many people would have been scammed as much if xbox never named it the xbox because all the people who try to buy xbox on ebay and they get the box notorious scam such a good scam they just get the box just get the box and because it's named xbox it's like i got the xbox i guess ████ it's fired up were people getting away with that ████

12:38 because it's because it's not illegal you're saying oh it's the xbox box oh my god so it's just your misunderstanding you know we gotta get some xboxes dude and they were real xbox boxes that's it it was a reputable business yeah we sell xbox [Music] you

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