Rinoa Poison: Scambaiter

Rinoa told us about an email scammer, Mr. Smith, that she’s been communicating with, who is trying to sell her a Bernese Mountain Dog puppy named Billy. He is disappointed that she can’t follow his “simple” instructions to give him giftcards and thinks that, perhaps, she may not be able to handle the care of a puppy if she’s so incompetent. We tried calling him but he didn’t answer.

 

 

Stream Timestamp [00:26:17]

Laura vs Eve

Eve bailed and booped.

 

Total Time Wasted: 34sec

 

 

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Laura Redfield vs Derry Steffan (Derry-air) & James Martin & Eric Webber & Kevin & Joseph – McAfee

Refund Amount $349.99

Transfer Amount $20,000

 

Derry-air said that his manager would call us back.

 

 

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Mr. Smith called us about the puppy. He told Laura to send him a photo of the cards and send them to him. She was worried that she would do something wrong again and was asking questions about how the photos of the cards will make it so that he will get the cards in his hand. She thinks that he needs to be able to swipe them to use them.

 

 

We called Derry back. He said that his manager would call us back. James Martin called us back.

 

Laura juggled phone calls between Eric Webber and James, both from the same call center. Both scammers said that we shouldn’t talk to the other one.

 

Laura to James: “Can you take Eric’s phone and plug it into your phonejack? Because your phone sucks and he sucks. We need to combine the two.”

 

Eric called back but James told Laura to only speak with him. So, we booped and answered Eric’s call, asking to speak with James. He booped.

 

James called us back. James said that he’s in charge of the situation. James explained that his grandmother fell down the stairs on a wheelchair or something like that…

 

Laura was very concerned about the repercussions of this accidental transfer. She was scared to death of going to jail.

 

Laura: “I swear I didn’t do it on purpose. This was an accident!”

 

We were transferred to Kevin, “the senior account manager there.” Laura explained the problem to Kevin.

 

Laura: “The zeros were just flying in on the left and flying in on the right!”

 

Kevin: “It was just a system error.”

 

Senior billing manager, Joseph, took the phone next.

 

Joseph: “By your mistake or by the server mistake, the mess has been happened.”

 

We were transferred back to James. James asked Laura if she had ever used Zelle.

 

He couldn’t explain why her computer kept updating. Then he said that she was a hacker. She had no idea what he was talking about.

 

He tried to use her Amazon account to purchase Xbox giftcards. She wouldn’t let him. He said he wanted to play with her. She asked him what he meant.

 

Laura: “Are you a thief? I’ve heard a lot of scammers use giftcards.”

 

James told Laura to go to the bank and withdraw $20,000 cash. He claimed he was not trying to confuse the situation.

 

Despite his suspicion that Laura is a YouTuber, he asked her to send him $20,000 cash.

 

He couldn’t explain what was going on or why he was asking her to do things. So, Laura booped in his face. He called back immediately, but we didn’t answer.

 

MelonBuddy Translation

How to deal with her?

Shut up and listen.

Shut up.

I know you understand.

 

Total Time Wasted: 1hr 37min 58sec

 

 

We called Mr. Smith and told him that she had texted him the photos. She asked for an invoice and the shot records for her puppy, Billy.

 

Mr. Smith: “Are you having a mental illness?”

 

Laura works as a window banger.

 

He said that he would send the invoice and the shot records as soon as she emailed him the photos of the giftcard payment.

 

Total Time Wasted: 7min 44sec

 

 

Stream Timestamp [03:08:17]

Laura Redfield vs Shawn Ray (Ray Ban) – Windows Defender

TeamViewer was used.

 

Laura wanted to know about when to update her computer and talked about her computer blasting off.

 

Ray Ban didn’t know what a Mackie was and didn’t seem to want to talk about it. He put us on hold, then bailed and booped.

 

Total Time Wasted: 36min 35sec