If you have kids under 15 you are most likely familiar with YouTubers.
Specifically, gamers.
The boys are obsessed with watching other people play video games. These gamers may be most annoying people on the face of the earth. Their over the top drama used to hype up Minecraft is the stuff that creates migraines.
THE Mark Rober of glitterbomb fame.
According to the profile on Wikipedia, "Mark B. Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, and inventor. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before YouTube, Rober was an engineer with NASA for 9 years where he spent seven of those years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory."
Rober only makes one video a month but the boys had not watched him before so we binge watched everything that he had created to date.
If you have kids who says they hate science, you need to have them watch this guy. He is amazing!
Warning: Be prepared to do some serious experiments once they are inspired!
One of the videos he created was Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
Scamming is a numbers game. They send out thousands of emails or phone calls and get a handful of responses that can earn them hundreds or thousands of dollars. We've all received the irritating phone calls and emails. Most of us ignore them but, once in a while the scammers get someone on the phone and get them talking. They convince them that they will be sending a refund and then walk them through a number of steps that ultimately gives the scammer access to the person's personal information.
They are smart, unscrupulous and corrupt.
They don't care if they are taking a person's last dollar. They care about making money.
We all think that "people should know better" and we should but they are crafty.
One of the people who assisted Mark Rober was YouTuber Scammer Payback. While I was recovering from my mastectomy I spent lots of time watching his videos.
I'll never have the mental capacity for programming but I am very grateful for guys like this who can expose these scammers and send the authorities to their door!
I don't have Norton. In fact, I haven't had Norton in years. And even when I did have Norton, I purchased it through Norton not Amazon.
But just to be sure I hadn't accidentally purchased it in the past, I double checked my order history.
Nope. No Norton.
Because I had watched the videos I knew it was the Amazon scam described in the videos but I called anyway.
They said all the things that Rober and Scammer Payback said they would.
When I said that I didn't want the renewal they said they could do a refund as long as I had a computer.
He replied, "Oh no. We send you a form to complete."
I said, "No, no you won't. I don't know how you can sleep at night knowing that you are ripping people off!"
They don't actually take the money, nor do they actually provide a refund but they make it look like they do. Then they get the victim to send them gift cards, money orders and even cash packed with coffee grounds or wrapped in foil!
They gift cards and cash can't be traced and coffee grounds and foil keep it from being detected by security dogs.
The lengths they go to is amazing and they are astoundingly successful!
Scamming is a $20 billion industry. It most likely will not stop any time soon.
Educating yourself about how they work is the best way to keep them from working on you or your loved ones.
Huge thanks to Mark Rober and Scammer Payback AKA Pierogi for your work. You saved me lots of money!
Make sure to click the links and watch the videos!
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