I always open them cause they sent me $4 once. They wanted me to send it back to them with some extra money. Because if the lord does something nice for you, you should do some even nicer for the church like triple their cash or some bullshit . But to hell with that, the way I look at it... the lord bought me 2 slices of pizza. And it tasted heavenly!

Sad thing is, people fall for this.

People who use God to scam people are the absolute worst. I think its the ultimate in hypocrisy.

All that mail, and all you got was a stupid horn.

I laughed so hard over the magic rope when you said tie it around my dick lol!!!

8:27 *sneeze* “sorry, I’m just allergic to all this religious bullshit”... one of the best lines.

If the return address is free of postage, (if that's a thing in Australia too), return a package filled with bricks or something. They will have to pay for it, and after a couple of times they will stop sending you this nonsense. Success guaranteed!

I was raised in a household believing in God, and I still do. However, even I know this stuff is bullshit. lol

In the US a lot of this BS shows up with postage paid envelopes for your donation. I cut out my address and mail their crap back to them, along with anything else I've got in my trash that fits, just so they can pay for it.

I think most of the religious evangelists got it wrong. It's *not* "I will pray for you", it's "I will prey on you".

I think he spelled profit wrong :-)

Did Peter Popoff notice your ACL videos, and think "There's a sucker that can give money for healing"?

i love this junk mail because it's usually on good high quality cellulose paper that burns really well, and it's good for starting a fire in a stove or fireplace.

You'll never believe what I just saw This Peter Popoff guy has a fucking late night INFOMERCIAL on the *DISCOVERY and SCIENCE CHANNEL*! My jaw was to the floor! So much for science!

BTW, I looked into the address on those envelopes. Darling Park Tower 2, levels 20 & 21 are managed by Regus, a company renting out managed office space (basically cubicles). Most pobably, Popoff rents one or two spaces there and has his local employees just open all mail, take the cash out and throw out the rest.

Those are postmarked from Santa Ana, CA. That's legit. They paid to mail those from the US. Glad to see Dave busting this BS!

IIRC, in Finland these letters are actually illegal, you need a permit for asking money without getting anything in return... It caused some issues with crowdfunding projects but maybe they have changed that now.

all of us atheist should sign up for this, mess up their roi.

dave your commentary is pure gold we need a junk mail bin for this channel cause your commentary makes the videos as good as they are yes someone can rip apart electronics and blab on but you have a good skill i vote for eev blog 2 to get a junk mail bin segment reviewing the bullshit spam mail like this and others cause your commentary makes it good to watch

If they come with pre-paid postage envelopes everyone should send them back empty!

Hmm, I should sign up for that, I could do with some free firelighting material this winter... :P

We have a Pitney Bowes postage machine at my business that produces the same postage marking on the envelope, and yes, as far as I am aware, the dollar amount displayed on the envelope, is what the business is actually paying, and already includes any relevant discounts.

On behalf of those of us Americans who have not lost our minds, I apologize to the people of the rest of the world for unleashing scammers like Popoff. Sadly, our ability to lock them up is limited.

Don't get these kinds of things anymore, i have a deal with my mail man, i give him a pack of beer, and anything that's not utility mail or law related (i don't receive anything else on that mail box, my family uses internet, and i have a different mail box for orders and official work) gets thrashed. But before that, i used to pile them up and use them as fire starters for when i'd burn my leaf pile in the autumn. They make for great kindle.

I just feel so sad when I see videos like this. I just think if it was my mom who was in desperate need of help. And these monsters come along and prey on people. I hate them.

I deliver mail for a living. I have about 20 people who fall for this bullshit. I feel bad for them, but it's not really my business to say anything.

Sadly, I think my grandparents will fall for this, mostly because they're catholic and they'd probably believe that sort of thing. +Jim Griffiths I'd love to watch Dave throw all that junk mail at the bastard that opens the door. I wonder if anybody just signs family members (and in-laws), neighbors, and/or some guy at [fill-in-the-blank] just to exact revenge in this way.

Note the dates on the stamps. Several of them were sent on the same day, yet they always arrive on different days, so they must have been sent with an instruction to delay some of them to give the appearance that he's replying to the previous letter you sent back. For this scam to work, it's important that the victim feels they are responded to, but it's a lot of work to pack all these letters, even if the apparent ink writings are printed, so he probably has his team sending several at once to save time and effort. Because of course he has a team. He always had a team. It's not him sitting there and composing it all, he employs people to do that for him. He might even have been able to scam some people to do it for him for free. There is no way a single person can send thousands of letters every single day and add handwriting to them all, especially not with the names of the victims within the texts themselves. I've seen quite a few of these letters, and from what I've managed to analyze so far, the handwriting is the same on all of them, but they also say the same thing a lot of the time. In fact, comparing letters side by side shows a remarkable similarity in the handwritings, as if they were copied onto the letters rather than written. I also think that he might be using a macro to imprint the names of the victims, rather than having his workers replacing a placeholder manually, as none of the letters that has been made public has shown any errors so far, other than misspellings of names, and then it's always the same misspelling in every instance. That, with the IRS reports he has filed showing a profit of over 10 million US dollars a year, together with the postage costs, the costs for all the trinkets and the printing itself, the employment of people and the computer system he uses, the database maintenance etc. really shows how many people there is around the world that sends him these $27.11 or £20 to him. He's getting well over $12 million, 20 bucks at a time... mostly in cash.

With US postage, the amount on the postage is the amount that was paid. You'll see a lower price on domestic mail if they're getting a discount, but the rates are sent my the post office, not Pitney Bowes.

you should of opened all the letters i wanted to see the goodies

I got one of these once in the uk many many years ago. Thought it very funny that the powerful skygod needs cash so badly

I honestly can't understand how people can allow this to continue. It's really disturbing to know this is still happening...

If any of those letters say (or even imply) a threat against you for not complying with any instructions, and the return address is inside Australia, you can report the matter to the police since it counts as "using a carriage service to make a threat" which is a crime in Australia (that's a felony in Ay-merry-cun speak). I'm not sure if the federal police would carry out an international investigation if it came from overseas, but you could always try. Yes, threatening something as vague as "bad luck" for not complying still counts as a threat for the purposes of the law.

Seems that Darling Park Tower 2, Levels 20 and 21 is actually used for "virtual office space", so it does not seem like they have a physical adress there. Unsurprisingly.........

Are those scammers really that bad for society? Being scammed like this is like getting speeding ticket, but for being mentally lazy. Stupidity ticket.

Decades back (late 60's early 70's?), some US TV news/investigative types managed to film the mail 'processing center' of one of those big time TV evangelist guys... what an operation! Must have been 80 or more people working. IIRC they had their own postal 'zip' code, complete full size truck loading docks, bill & coin counting machinery, security guards and regularly scheduled armored truck cash/check pick up's. The envelopes were opened/dumped assembly line style via machine, 'trusted' workers riffled through; currency was dumped through chutes in the floor and checks through others to processing personnel below. Coins were gravity extracted and went through to still others. The remaining envelopes, letters and/or anything else were funneled (all un-read) into enormous trash compactors and hauled off by teams of lessors... Don't recall how mailing lists were generated, it was likely in the days before direct mail solicitation... I'm sure there was more; don't recall anything about credit card payments or if they were even taken then... but I only caught bits & pieces as I was pre occupied and not particularly interested at the time. Would like to see that segment again...

Peter Ripoff lol

These frauds will be eternally destroyed for perverting the works of God.

i want one of those rams horn to drive my wife crazy

Dave, I think their actually paying that rate and sending it from the US. I mean, it has the USPS PostNet barcode on the bottom (correct spot for envelopes) and the USPS sorting code. Plus the one has the Santa Ana post office cancelling mark on it.

An exciting supernatural opportunity

this was Gold thanks for the laugh :)

not only do people fall for this junk, but they make money. Not just on the postage, but the stuffing, printing etc which is often as much or more than the postage itself.

I love those return envelopes Last time I used it to get rid of some nice used nails that I did not need anymore.

I cracked up at "we've got a magic rope, probably gotta tie it around my dick or something" This video is Comedy gold dave.

I feel bad for all the rainforests cut down for bullshit letters like this...

Do you have any nice heavy mild steel parts from teardowns that you can put in those reply envelopes and send them? Without a stamp of course. I'm surprised it doesn't fall under fraud and deception in Aussie law anyway.

Kinder surprise is illegal in the states, but blatantly scamming people is legal? How is that even possible.

How do I sign up for this? The local newspapers don't deliver as often anymore, so we need more kindling.

ah, i always shake my head at popof when i see him on TV, im just as surprised as you, that he's still going, especially at those mail prices XD

These scams by volume, the more they send out the more likely they will find a mark. Once they have found that mark, usually somebody with mental health issues, desperate or the elderly they can fleece them for large amounts of money.

how do i get on his mailing list? one i never get any mail hardly and two i think it might be interesting to make a piece of art or display out of all the trinkets he sends out.

In Britain to popoff means to fart, wich makes this even more hilarious

At least he's wasting his org's money sending you that garbage. If only he wasn't wasting the paper.

08:17 - Dave, you should soooo take a visit to that building and knock on the door. I'd love to see who runs that place!

They are being mailed from the US. You can tell because the yellow envelope has a postmark from Santa Ana here in California.

He should be investigated by the Govt. for fraud.

Did you calculate how much he already spent on you?

Did some research, that address is a virtual office so someone just forwards the mail to the USA from there unfortunately, it's about $4358 AUD a year just to have the address and they then get charged for all the mail they need to receive and forward. The more people who send stuff to that address, the more it'll cost them.

Maybe you can heat your home by burning popoff spam, or make a steam engine to lion charger.

This guy would make money if he just stopped sending junk mail.

When u hold the stack of mail it's ASMR to my ears

i was thinking if the scam mail had return envelopes that already have a prepaid postage then you could stuff the letters into the return envelope and then send it back. if my theory is correct peter would have to pay for postage for a that return envelope.

Not blowing the China ram horn 7 times- You are proper effed ;)

he needs thrown in jail he's the devil begging 4 money

I can confirm that these are sent from the US. The zip code on the postage stamp is from Upland California. Pretty sad indeed.

6:41 that's CLEARLY the voice of God

I've found Jesus. . . doesn't exist! That's my new tee-shirt slogan but feel free to use it chaps! I love the skeptical approach, so common with those whose income depends on understanding how things actually work!! I bet many here have trodden a similar path!

Level 20 & 21 are probably just a marketing company. There was a video showing that the cheques are sent to a marketing company, and all the other bullshit that was sent in was trashed.

1) gods name is not Jehovah 2) Miracles are free 3) You don't get to choose what you want and when you want or if you even deserve it.

How could anyone in good conscious work for a telecongist like Peter Popoff. My draw dropped at the amount of spam mail you're getting from this charlatan.

Is scamming really legal outside EU? Here that would count as false advertising as well as scamming and raise an international lawsuit. You can scam, but you can't hide!

I think you should get all of your viewers to sign up to his mailing list, just to troll him into wasting even more money.

I actually live right behind Oral Roberts University, can see the eternal flame from my back deck. Not as bad as a university as you imagine, actually have electrical engineering. I went to University of Tulsa for my EE and we competed with them in 2005, they're senior project was to build a copy of a commercial product, a panning cable camera mount. My wife worked for a prayer call center in college, don't think they handled Popoff, but made some bank on sublingual vitamins. Religion's some exploitable stuff in the flyover states!!!

Just get all the return envelopes and fill them with other junk mail send em back to him !

That stamp has a US zip code it is Upland California and looks to be about 100 miles or so east of LA.

What a bloody waste of the mailman's time

If the return envelope is paid by the recipient, fill it with sand, or led shot or something, so they get a TON of postage on it.

Bahahaha I signed my neighbor up for this.

Strange that so many of those letters don't have return addresses. Generally you can't send U.S. mail without one.

I saw at least two different addresses to you in this pile of mail, so perhaps you have been added more than once?

Another very special mailbag

Lol he said what the hell is this when he seen the horn Im so weak right now

lol I was just blowing my nose after sneezing myself when you sneezed. I must also have an allergy to BS :P

Not only do they want your money, I see they expect you to pay the postage to send your CC details back to them (no reply paid on the return envelopes). Good thing is if you search for 'Peter Popoff' on KZfaq the first few videos are either exposing his scams, showing he is insane, or satire.

It sounded an awful lot like you killed Oral Roberts "I received this from Oral Roberts, he's, well he's dead now"

Kind of scary actually, that is textbook psychotic behaviour.

That was soooooo funny...funny funny funny😂🤣

Do you get this spam to your home mail box too? I was thinking maybe because its a PO box that maybe it's public record or something and that's why you get spam there.

As soon as he got to the one about Jehovah, I thought of "The Life of Brian" :D

He's doing the same thing that Rev, Ewing is doing. This stuff started with the "Church by Mail" thing while he was in the military. Check into St. Matthew's Churches. Those people sent me dirt in an envelope along with nails, pennies, oil, water, sand, wood chips. They preyed on my grandmother, she was sure she was on a skateboard headed for hell. She was in tears when Jimmy Swaggert got caught with a hoe, in a sleazy hotel. Not to mention the lines of coke on a mirror. I love these guys. Oral Roberts held himself for ransom. I don't think any of this had God's stamp of approval on it.

Just as bad as Kenneth Copeland and Jesse duplantis

Dave, you should use that horn when you come across potentially lethal products like the Chinese bare conduction water heater, seven peeps on the Rams Horn and a wa, wa, waaaaa.

I just found your channel I’m crying right now your are funny as hell 🤣

I laid my faith on it & got $3k the first time, out of debt, one thing I refuse to state and $11k.

I shred his letters and send them back to him in his return envelope.

That kind of shit never makes it into my house. I tossed in the trash on the way in.

Did I mention, that in German, "Poppen" is a colloquial term, like, "To F***"? So, Peter, Popp off! ^^)

I put the junk back into the provided pre-paid envelope and send it back.

Note that at the bottom of the envelope it says 00404$0001. I believe that is the http code 404: not even a dollar can be found by falling for this scam.