Les arnaques par téléphone !

Hello, my friends, as part of the rlax, I have already made two or three videos on the subject. You know, at one point I spent time. I spent hours a week. I volunteered to waste the time of scammers. That means when they contacted me, I had email addresses that I left lying around on the Internet when they contacted me to tell me, look, I am a prince from Nigeria and we have a box of money, or I am a dowry, or I am a surgeon, or I am a doctor for the un, or, you know, they always have qualities like that. And then they write you a long story telling you, look, there is money, but it always ends with there is money. Somewhere there is a box with 30 million, with 100 million, with 5 million. And then they want your help because you're an heir or because they found you online or whatever, and in return you get a share of the money, quote. So what I did was I would reply. I would reply to them, and why would I reply? I would reply through a lot of email addresses that I had in order to waste their time and I would see how they worked. So invariably, I can tell you that very invariably, they end up sending me money via Western Union. Because, for example, if they tell you we have a box, a small box or a briefcase of money stuck at customs, they'll tell you they're going to send it to you. Then just before sending it to you, they'll contact you and say, here's a guy who's got a whiff of the deal, he's blocking the briefcase. It's a story, you know, he tells you it's very convoluted. And then they want money. You have to send us €500 via Western Union. Or you could send us a fee so that we can ship it here. We have a briefcase full of money. It weighs 10kg, but you have to send us €1,000 via Western Union so that we can release it. So I was wasting their time. I even sent them fake Western Union numbers, telling them the money had arrived. They went there, they came back, but they didn't have the money. Oh, really? What's going on? Wait. All I'll call them and then I'll give them another number and so on. Why did I do. Wasn't just out of revenge. I wasn't trying to avenge the victims, but I was just telling myself to waste their time. And while they were taking care of me, it made me a victim. There you go. I saved a victim that I don't know, that I will never know. But at Least I wasted their time. Now, these people I'm talking about may be based abroad, but don't forget that there are some who may be very close to you. It could happen on your street. Let me give you an example. I remember one day when I usually destroy papers. And that's the idea of today's video. Usually papers, old papers. Because, you know, I receive letters from the administration. Lots and lots of letters. You know, there are some, I assure you, in my drawers, there are letters that I haven't opened for months. Because the administrations that send me mail, they have people, they have secretaries. They have people who come in the morning at 8am and leave at 5am but at home, I don't have a secretary to spend my time opening letters. Every time an administration writes to me, so they pile up. And sometimes, well, I look, I start to find some open or unopened, and I want to throw them away because it's starting to add up to a lot of paper. That's where there's a problem. One day I wasn't careful. I remember I threw away some papers. I cleaned up like that. I had some documents. They were honestly four or five years old, easily. I threw them all in the trash. Paper, trash. And that's it. And sometime later, I get a call. I get a call on my phone. It's an incoming call. I pick it up. But before I pick it up, I. I think to myself, hey, it's my bank calling me. Why? Because their number was displayed on the phone. Now, I don't know their number, but it has a certain sequence of numbers. When I saw it, I put it back together. I thought, ah, the bank is calling me. Okay, I'll pick up. Hello? There you go. It's your bank and everything. Okay, listen, it was nice, guys. Perfect. The quality of the blood was perfect. The guy really spoke like the concierge of a palace. Very respectful, very articulate. Someone really perfect. And you know what he told me? We've just blocked a $500 charge on your card. I don't know in which country. We've just blocked it. Oh, really? Automatically, I think it's fraud. It's the bank's fraud department that detected that my card had been used. He tells me it's the card ending in. And he gives me the number. He gives me the last four digits that the card ends with. When he gives me his numbers, I have a doubt because I know which card he's talking about. I know which card. I don't remember its number. You know, I have A thing with numbers. I see a license plate, I can have it 18 months later. I remember it, but I couldn't tell you. But I remember it. And I have thousands of them in my head with age. My memory is a little less photographic than before, but I still have a good memory. At one time, I could flip through an address book in my head and read someone's phone number. For example, I say, when it comes to Intel's number, I can't remember the number anymore. And then I imagine the book. I open it, and then I read the number and call the person. I can't do that. As I get older, my memory isn't as good as it used to be. But it's still the card. Indeed, I remembered it because when I received this card, I opened the letter, I looked at the card, I read the card number, I closed the letter. I have never used this card. And that's where I have a doubt. Because, yes, he told me the card ends in zero. I don't remember. 023-20232. And there it sends me back two or three years to the card. Yes, this card. And then I say to myself, but I have never used this card. How can it be used in a fraud since it never came out of his letter? It's a bank account. Yes, that I have. It has one or two cards associated with it, but I don't use them all. So that's where I had a doubt. I said to him, listen, uh, I'd rather call you back. I'd rather call you back. I have a doubt. Do you know what he answered? No, but listen, you look at the phone. You look at the phone. The number I'm calling you from is indeed the bank's number. I said, yes, it is indeed the bank's number, but I'd still rather call you back. But you know, you don't need to call us back, because then we risk wasting time. The card could be for fraudulent reasons and all that. And then I told him, now I'm sure you're not the bank, because you have to know one thing. Banks will never object. They will never object to what you say. You hang up, I'll never call you back. If there's someone who says they're trying to force you or convince you not to hang up, not to call them back, they're a scammer. One thing. The phone number. It was good. The bank number. But how does that work? I can tell you something. It is possible when someone calls you, there are calling systems that can Mimic any telephone. That means the incoming telephone. It is a number that can be easily faked. It is a number that can easily be sent anything instead. Just like emails, by the way, when emails arrive, the return email or original email field, where do they come from? It is contained in the email that was sent. There is one of the fields that has been filled in by the sending server. So the sending server can put anything. It can put the elisa, it can put the White House, it can put the tax authorities. That does not really mean that the IML comes from there. It can be easily faked. And, well, it is the same with telephone numbers. They can call you and give the impression that they are calling you from the bank, the town hall, the prefecture, the hospital, the police, anywhere. And that's what scammers use. Of course, later on I hung up and I really called my bank again. Sure enough, they never called me. There was never any problem or anything at all. This card had expired, had never been used, and all that. One day, in a very similar situation to this one, the scammer, I got him going. He was on the phone. I got him going, I got him going. He said to me, yes, hello, it's the. He called me, he said, it's the tax authorities. Ok? Tax authorities. Okay. Yes, uh, hello, uh, tax authorities. You're behind by, I don't know how much. He told me, like £2,000. He said to me, you, you're behind by £2,000 on your taxes. And then we're going to start legal proceedings against you right away. We're going to do it right away. I'm calling you to tell you, and I'm saying, how can I stop this? They're telling me, pay me right away, pay £500 right away, pay me, we'll stop. In reality, it's on purpose. It's like, we can call you and tell you we're the police. We can call you and tell you we're the justice system, the tax authorities, whatever. And at that point, of course, you're being forced to pay something right away. So be careful, be careful. I'll tell you in parenthesis. I have a friend. Recently, he received a letter and then he told me, yes, I received a scam. The tax authorities, you see, the scammers are getting better and better these days. They want money. I said, can you show me the letter? He showed me the letter. It was authentic. I said, no, I regret to inform you that this letter is really from the tax authorities, so be careful. But anyone who calls you out of the blue stating any kind of status and demanding money is a scammer 100% of the time. So the guy said to me, yes, I want €500 to stop, otherwise I'll call the police right away and he'll come to your house and all that. Okay, I let him talk, I waste his time. And then I tell him something. I just say, between us, like that your is don't stop. Do you really think your works? Because now I'm stopping the game. I tell him that I know he's a crook. Do you know what? He answers me? The guy says, do you think I would have continued doing it if it didn't work? He said to me, do you think I do? He said, pa, it works. He told me that people were walking in there. I was quite shocked by this guy's antics. And we continued talking. We talked for two or three minutes like that, and then we parted ways, almost as good friends. But he told me that he had been doing this for a very long time and that it worked, that he had several scenarios of city breaks like that, and that in general, people panic and are ready to give their cards over the phone or make transfers or other things like that right away. The worst thing that can happen is that the victim says, I don't have 500, I can't pay you 500 now. How much do you have? And says, yes, I have 250 in the account. Well, you pay 250 now and. And we stop the procedure and next month we call you back to continue, and the person can pay 250, can empty their bank account and say, phew, I escaped. And then when they call for each other, they never called you, they never contacted you. Okay, there you go. I just want to share this experience with you, to tell you that scammers, especially in a context of economic crisis, are becoming more and more bold, more and more aggressive. Hello, it's the university. You have to pay. Hello, it's so and so. You have to pay. Always the same story. They decline qualities, they demand money. Don't trust them. Thank you, my friends, for watching this video so far, and I'll see you in the next one.