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| Born | July 16, 1996[1] | |||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||
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| Website | scammerpaybackstore | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2019–present | |||||||||
| Genre | Scam baiting | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 5.64 million[2] | |||||||||
| Total views | 607 million[2] | |||||||||
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Scammer Payback (born July 16, 1996[1]), also known by his nickname "Pierogi", is the internet alias of an American YouTuber and streamer who specializes in creating content about scam baiting against phone scams. Pierogi works against a variety of scams over the phone, such as technical support scams, refund scams, social security scams, and IRS impersonation scams.[3] His YouTube channel currently has over 5 million subscribers and 607 million total views, making him one of the most prominent scam-baiting content creators on the Internet.
Career
Pierogi works primarily as a cybersecurity specialist.[4] He launched his YouTube channel "Scammer Payback" on May 15, 2019, focusing on high-production scam-baiting content in which he pretends to be a scam victim by portraying a variety of characters with the use of a voice changer in order to waste the scammers' time and distract them. While distracted, Pierogi uses his expertise in cybersecurity to infiltrate the scammers' computer networks from his virtual machine, and proceeds to delete their files and gather their location and information to expose and use against them.[5][6][7][8] Throughout his career, Pierogi has been able to stop numerous scams in progress and give money back to scam victims.[6]
Pierogi has been in a number of collaborations with other content creators, having worked alongside the likes of Mark Rober and Jim Browning.[9][10] In 2022, Pierogi and his team set up an anti-scam call center dedicated to scam baiting. Named the "People's Call Center", its participants consisted of Pierogi and several other scambaiters, including Jim Browning, Trilogy Media, Pleasant Green, Karl Rock, among others, who spent one week at the call center monitoring scam call centers, wasting the scammers' time, and preventing people from getting scammed.[5][6][11][12]
On January 10, 2023, 13-year-old Renner Taylor and his mother saved an elderly man from a phone scam at a Publix store in Beaufort; the man was being told by a scammer on speakerphone to buy gift cards and hand over the serial codes.[13] Having overheard the conversation and recognized the signs from binge-watching Pierogi's scam-baiting content, Taylor and his mother successfully intercepted the scam by stationing themselves at the store's gift card section and got the store managers and police involved. Taylor was later recognized by Pierogi and South Carolina Senator Tom Davis for his efforts to serve others.[14]
See also
- Jim Browning, online alias of an anonymous British YouTube personality whose specialty is scam baiting
- Kitboga, fellow scambaiter on Twitch and YouTube
References
- ^ a b Pierogi [@ScammerPayback] (2022-07-16). "The best present ever for my birthday tomorrow would be if you all could come to my premiere. I promise this thing is 🔥🔥🔥". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ a b "About Scammer Payback". YouTube.
- ^ Scammer Payback (2019-09-06), JACKPOT OF ALL SCAMMERS! ( IRS, Social Security, Refund and Technical Support ), YouTube, retrieved 2023-04-12
- ^ Cascio, Josh (2020-11-24). "How one man turns the tables on identity thieves and scammers who target the elderly". FOX 13 News. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ a b "Four Best YouTube Channels That Fight Back Scammers — Counting My Pennies". Medium. 2023-03-28. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ a b c Ryan, Shannon (2022-08-18). "YouTuber Pierogi targets scammers with 'Scammer Payback' channel, new project". FOX 7 Austin. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ Baleegh, Mohammed (2022-06-07). "Hyderabad: Online scammers call cops after getting exposed". The Siasat Daily. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ "American YouTuber busts scam call centre in Hyderabad". TimesNow. 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ Cluley, Graham (2021-03-21). "Fighting back against phone scammers with glitter bombs". Graham Cluley. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ Webster, Sophie (2021-04-24). "Mark Rober, a Former NASA Scientist Turned YouTuber Content Creator That Engineered Glitterbomb Packages". Tech Times. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ Scammer Payback (2022-08-21), We Created the First Ever 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜-𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗠 Call Center, YouTube, retrieved 2023-04-12
- ^ Trilogy Media (2022-08-21), SCAMMING THE SCAMMERS w/ Scammer Payback, Jim Browning, Karl Rock & Pleasant Green [BIGGEST COLLAB], YouTube, retrieved 2023-04-12
- ^ Sanchez, Sofia (2023-01-12). "Beaufort boy and mom help save elderly man from gift card scam. 'Right place, right time'". The Island Packet. Retrieved 2023-04-12.
- ^ Sanchez, Sofia (2023-03-05). "SC senator, YouTube channel congratulate Beaufort boy for stepping up for elderly man". The Island Packet. Retrieved 2023-04-11.