Rinoa Poison: Scambaiter

We spoke with David Wilson, who we were talking with prior to today. At some point, Rinoa had confused him with another scammer and called him Steve Roy. David seemed OK with accepting this as his new name.

 

Timer started at 2hr 59min 06sec.

 

While speaking with the scammer now called Steve, he called CR “Susan” and mentioned that she needed to send him $294,000, split into three shipments to three different addresses. Rinoa said that she thought he might have confused her with a real victim. If so, she was happy to think that she may be accidentally intercepting a scam due to the scammer’s mistake.

 

Susan said that she would send out the parcels later today. She explained that she hadn’t felt comfortable sending that amount of cash to a place like a CVS. She needed to catch a flight out of town soon. He told her to go to three different UPS locations to send the packages out to three different shipping addresses, send it overnight, and no signature required. She said she’d call him when she had done this and had the receipts to show him.

 

We booped.

 

Total Time Wasted: 3hr 05min 37sec

 

 

 

We called Robert Parker (Robert Plant), FBI agent.

Timer started at 2hr 01min 58sec

He said someone is trying to “hack away” her IP address. He will call later.

 

Total Time Wasted: 2hr 05min 20sec

 

 

Stream Timestamp [00:41:32]

CR vs Jason – Walmart

He said we don’t need to worry because we don’t have a Walmart account.

He bailed.

 

Total Time Wasted: 1min 27sec

 

 

Stream Timestamp [00:44:12]

Jessica Wilson vs Steve Santiago (Steve Miller) & Noah Scott – PayPal

Refund Amount $2,850

Order #457885

Awesun was used.

 

Steve got the computers connected and identified the problem. He wanted JW to open her camera and show him a eucalyp-less tree but she didn’t have a camera or a eucalyp-less tree.

 

He said we would be transferred to Noah, Senior network specialist. But instead, Steve just got creepier and creepier. We booped.

 

Total Time Wasted: 37min 01sec

 

 

Stream Timestamp [01:42:17]

James & Jamal & Steven Gray (Steve) & Ben Toad & Ben Dover (Both Bens are imaginary) – PayPal

Chase Bank beautifulprofanity

 

He said that we were working with one of his colleagues yesterday and that he was following up on that call.

 

She said she was working with Mr. Ben Toad yesterday.

 

James was worried about activity that was done “fraudumently” and expressed this concern to her.

 

We were transferred to Jamal, senior supervisor, who was trying to connect our call to Ben Toad, but the line was unavailable. She told him that Ben Toad was at extension 1553. But it looked like he wasn’t at work today, so the work had been assigned to someone else.

 

The password with Ben Toad is “Paws look red, boots with the fur.”

 

We were transferred to Steven. He is taking over the case for Ben Toad. He didn’t know the password at first. He told her the “Paws look red, boots with the fur,” but that was wrong. She said it was “Apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur.” He corrected himself. Ben Toad was his boss. She had also spoken with Mr. Ben Dover, so he needed to remember to specify Ben’s last name.

 

He told her to send money via Zelle.

 

MelonBuddy Translations throughout the call:

There is a call coming in.

She needs to approve it.

I am trying to call her.

 

We booped in his face to answer a call from David from earlier.

Total Time Wasted: 1hr 22min 23sec

 

 

We answered an incoming call from David/Steve from earlier. He said that he needed to verify her but she said that she’s not very photogenic. He said his technical team would call us soon.

 

She calls her car “The Blue Thunder Plunger,” so she made the password “Blue Thunder Plunger Burp.”

 

We booped, waiting for a call from the technical team.

 

He asked her to ship the three parcels via UPS.

 

Susan: “What about Bob?”

 

We said we’d talk to him after we sent off the package.

 

Total Time Wasted: 3hr 23min 37sec

 

 

Stream Timestamp [03:05:15]

JW vs Christine Watson & Harry Wilson (Hairy Willy) – GeekSquad

Refund Amount $400; $120 first, then $280

Transfer Amount $12,000

She works as a cashier at a grocery store.

 

Early on in this call, a talented MelonBuddy noted that someone in the background was speaking to somebody named Satia.

 

Christine got the computers connected. JW filled out the form. She was told that the refund link would expire in 180 seconds. She became panicked and scrambled to login to her bank. But she wasn’t fast enough. The link wasn’t there anymore.

 

We were transferred to Harry Wilson, refund manager.

He said he could help us with the refund.

 

We connected to the server and had to be careful or “the server will be crash down.” $12,000 was “accidentally” transferred. He said that she needed to return $11,600. He told her to go to the bank, withdraw the cash, and send it to their safety deposit bank.

 

She asked to speak to Satia. He asked, “Who is she?” then “there is no one here.” She pressed, and he continued to feign ignorance. She said that it was his coworker. He said, “Oh, the lady you were talking to before me?” Then, he tried to get back to the scam. JW wouldn’t allow it.  She wanted to speak to Satia! She said, “Satia is a boy’s name, put him on the phone.” He said, “Okay, let me just put him.”

 

We were transferred back to Christine. JW didn’t want to talk to her. She wanted Satia. Christine asked, “Who is she?” JW said, “It’s not a she. It’s a male name.”

Christine: “All right.”

 

“The manager” then got on the phone.

JW: “Harry Wilson.”

He denied being Harry.

Scammer: “You want to talk to Harry?”

JW: “No, I want to talk to Satia.”

Scammer: “Who is she?”

… and so on!

 

JW had a message for Satia. She wanted them to put her on the phone. She had a lot of information for her.

Scammer: “Yes, I’m Satia.”

JW: “Put the real Satia on the phone.”

 

He tried to get back to the scam, saying she must return his money. She wanted to talk to Satia. He said that there was nobody there by that name.

Scammer: “First you need to return the money, then you can speak to him.”

 

Scammer: “Are you recording this call? Are you wasting my time?”

 

JW: “Okay, nobody by that name. Got it.”

Scammer: “You need to return the money.”

JW: “My computer’s locked. There’s no way to return it.”

 

The scammer kept repeating to “send it to the UPS safety deposit box.”

 

She didn’t know where to send it. He just said, “First get the cash,” then he will give her the address.

 

He knew she was using a virtual machine and told her not to be oversmart. Then, he got back to the “withdraw the cash” demand. She said that, if he knew it was a VM, why did he waste the time locking it? He said that he’s not that same person. She insulted him. He said, “Duck you,” and booped after a couple of seconds of silence.

 

Total Time Wasted: 50min 13sec

 

 

We answered a call from Robert Parker (Robert Plant) – FBI agent investigating scammers who tried to scam LR several days ago.

 

He said that he wanted to connect “the technical team” on the same call, give him 2 or 3 minutes, she can have a cup of tea or coffee while on hold.

 

When he came back on the line, he butchered the password again. She said that she wanted to add “bling bling” to the end of the password, then asked him to add “ding dong” to the end instead. We were put on hold again as we waited for him to add the tech team to the call.

 

When he came back on the line again, he remembered to add “ding dong” to the end of it. She complained that she had been on hold for a while but got no response. So, she booped him. He called back again. He was too quiet, possibly trying to find the password. We booped him after several seconds of silence.

 

He called back.

LR: “If you put me on hold one more time, do you understand, I will find out where you are. Do you hear me, Mr. Robert Plant? I will find out which government building you are working for. I will make it my life’s duty to find out where you are and I will put my foot so far up your butt that you will be pooping out leather shoes for the rest of your entire existence on this planet. Do you understand me? You bastard!”

Robert: “I am so sorry, ma’am. Don’t use these type of words. I’m not doing anything bad here.”

 

LR asked the password, but he refused to say it, claiming that he’s a government official and this isn’t how he should be treated. She apologized. 

 

Officer Marvin Kein from the technical team was going to call us.

 

Robert put us on hold again!!

 

LR: “Jimmy Page would never give me this hard of a time!”

 

LR: “What happened to Jimmy Page?”

Robert: “Who is Jimmy Page?”

LR: “He’s an officer there.”

 

He booped so that we could wait for Marvin to call us.

 

Marvin called us back. We answered and asked for the password.

 

Marvin: “fart, fart, burp, fart, burp, fart, fart”

LR: “I’m sorry, I think this is the wrong password. I’m sorry.”

We booped in his face!

 

Total Time Wasted: 4hr 03min 13sec