Anytime ANY person who is selling goods asks for Friends and Family through PayPal it is a RED FLAG! Never do this ever! As a seller, they should factor fees into the cost, and they should want you and them to be protected. If you pay F&F you can't get a refund, keep that in mind, always! Thank you for this video! WHat a horrible scam!!

This explains why I had a hard time getting rid of our piano when we were moving 😂 I had no idea it was a common scam tactic.

I am a piano technician and have warned people about this many times. Thanks for putting this on youtube! The last one I got a call about was a free Steinway.

I LOVE when I see “kindly” in the email, message or text. It saves me time and I can play it out it little more.

I just can't believe how much work these people will go through. Their customer service is actually pretty good. WHY NOT JUST HAVE AN HONEST BUSINESS WITH ALL OF THOSE SKILLS?

100% of the viewers knew from start that it was just another Nigeria scam.

Pianos are so ubiquitous that people will pay you to take them. I can't give mine away. And I've tried all the charities, including the ones that exclusively work with schools.

A month ago we were moving into a new place and there wasn't room for our piano. Nice, tuned, no roblems. We tried giving it away on line, schools locally etc and couldn't get anyone to take it. Even offered to bring it to them for no charge. Ended up having to pay a junk removal place to take it. This might explain my trouble getting rid of it😂

I made a living as a courier for 20 years. We never moved a piano, or any other furniture. I also worked part-time for a small, local moving company. One of the things they specialized in was piano moving.

This scam is going on through Craigslist currently too. I've never seen so many free pianos in my life 😂

I work in the world of insurance - the word "kindly" is used quite often with communications between brokers and underwriters - I find myself avoiding it now after watching your videos lol..... Kindly keep up the good work Ben!

Getting the scammer to say "I leaned over?" Is just wonderful

Easiest way to piss off scamner tell them cash on delivery

What I find the most amusing is when they are on the phone they slightly struggle saying the company name they chose 😂

Well I responded to a Facebook ad about several free pianos that had been uncovered in an abandoned storage facility. It was legit! I fell in love with a player piano from the 1940s, complete with hundreds of music sheets! I picked it up with a truck, polished it up, and LOVE IT!

well played. I always get a bad vibe when someone types something like ' I hope my message finds you well" as well as "kindly" no one I know speaks that way.

"This piano will be cherished like a key to my heart, treasured and played with the utmost love and care. It's melodious motes will resonate through my soul, creating symphonies of gratitude that will echo through the years." Had me in tears lol

On a related note, any "free" or "cheap" piano, even ones that aren't "scams" per se, are often neglected or damaged, often beyond its value to repair. Be sure you understand the condition of the piano before you take it, otherwise you may not be able to get it properly tuned or repaired. I've had piano tuning technicians tell me a piano cannot be tuned because the tuning pins are damaged and do not properly hold tension. The cost to redo the pin block and then restring it is *thousands*. They tell me straight up it's better to buy something else than to try to fix the current one, unless it has any sort of significant sentimental value.

Imagine if a genuine person who wanted to give away a piano was just very kind and said "kindly" alot just for people to think they are a scammer 😭

How could anyone not want to follow through with helping a sweet lady like Eileen? She only wants to provide good music for all those children 🤗 Good work as always Ben ❤

Even without a scammer, a free piano usually just means they don’t want to pay the cost of getting it out of the house and it’s so old it’s not worth using. And if they want to donate of “free piano“ to a church or something, they usually just want the tax write off even though it is likely not working right, if they’re in the US.

Man, they sure do play the sympathy card mentioning the late wife every chance they can. I loved the poetic way you assured the slimy weasel that you would take care of "his late wife's piano." 🤣🤣🤣

Funny enough, there actually was a lady at my church who really was giving away an old piano she had, and all I had to do was pay for shipping. It just got delivered today.

What I absolutely love is that you come across as a nice guy and that you’ve actually befriended some ex-scammers, but that you also wouldn’t hesitate to give a scammer a hard time if they deserved it. Another great video.

I played with piano scammers for a long time now! It's fun! I make them create an invoice and then trek them that someone else is offering me a free piano, then come back in two day, tell them I never got the other piano and make them Photoshop another invoice. Their Photoshop skills are getting better thanks to me.

I'm a piano tuner, so as soon as I saw the title of this vid I clicked on it faster than a scammer in Nigeria can think of different ways to scam people out of their money ! People really do give away free pianos to churchs, unfortunatly they are nearly always a pile of cr@p......

So glad my wife told me no about a piano last year lol thanks for the video. Kindly keep making these kindly please

Thank you for exposing these scams . I hope lots of people see this and can save people from getting scammed.

We had this done to us as well. My wife is a music teacher. We strung them on for a long time. We left them on the hook as we said we could not afford the exorbitant transport costs.

thank you for teaching all of us how these scammers try to steal our money. And Thank you for teaching these scammers a lesson about stealing.

This is crazy. Thank you for bringing these scams to our attention, Eileen.

Love your videos! I enjoy scam baiting videos but you always seem to find scams I haven't heard of yet, and you're a great story teller!!

As soon as you see the word “kindly” you know for sure it’s a scam cause nobody uses that word hardly lol. Thank you for always keeping everyone up on all the diff scams ❤

I feel horrible for these mules and it’s horrible the victim gets punished when the real criminals are left untouched

Telling a scammer that they are a scammer or telling them to stop scamming is a waste of time. They are not going to stop.

Until they send that fake shipping company website I think I could've fallen for this too. Makes you think, nobody is immune to scams. Thank you Ben for your great job, as always

Kudos to you and the time you spend exposing these scumbags. Keep up the good fight ❤👏

A "lady" on Facebook once offered me complementary tulips for my organ. Oh yes please!

After a long day seeing you post a video is such a blessing. Thank you for all you do to help people. I love watching your videos.

I absolutely love your videos! Thank you for exposing scammers and for being so calm and amusing about it 😅

I was looking for a piano. And saw a free one on FB marketplace. As soon as they replied with "The scammer's favorite word" I KINDLY just stopped responding 😂

Thanks Ben for helping us see through the scammers out there!!!

I love that you do all this and post it for our entertainment and education. Thanks so much! Oh, and the old woman voice is very nice touch.

"their CEO and co-founder Richard Hobbs apparently also works as a stock photo model."🤣🤣 Dead.

Watching these videos are hard as a Nigerian there are good people here 😢

Tickle the ivories made me smile. Thanks for that. Always enjoy your stuff PG.

I am grateful for your knowledge in how to get these scammers. The videos are learning resources and entertaining.

Good job finding the new tricks of scammers! Keep on!

Thank you for bringing this scam to our attention. I am 62 years old and do not trust on line shopping. I want to beable to see it, touch make sure it is there. Thank you for watching out for us seniors.

Thank you for exposing scams. You are doing a great service to prevent people from being scammed of their savings.

Ive seen this scam going on for a while now, I've even baited a few of em. Great job Ben!

I always love when Ben posts! Great work!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Sometimes I waste the time of vehicle shipping scammers (similar scam to this one, just with a cheap car/RV instead of a piano). It's scary how good some of their fake shipping company websites are. Some will also create fake web pages meant to look like popular discussion boards, with "people" favorably discussing the shipper. I've even seen some that registered with the state and have a Tax ID number. The most depressing part is, if you copy some of the text from the shipping Co website and put it in Google, you'll find dozens more just like that, waiting to be used by scammers.

I like your presentation on this one that is full of humor and wit. Thanks!

Thank you for all you go to keep us aware sincere appreciation❤

Kindly keep the videos coming Ben!

Thank you for making us aware. Kindly keep making these videos. Fun fact: People in my country, Bangladesh, use kindly way too much too*

I love these videos. So cool and collected. Amazing stuff!

It is absolutely amazing how gullible people can be to actually fall for these scams or be a mule for them.

Shipping is more expensive than a nice new plastic piano that never goes out of tune.

I have been following u for 3years now, love ur content so much U are a God send to scam victims. pls live with caution ⚠️ and stay protected with security agency before scammer come for ur life.

That's actually really enlightening! I have always seen the free piano ads and wondered why nobody wanted them!!!

I guess I’ll stop using the word “kindly” when selling my piano! 😅😊🤣

I got this exact scam from a sweet old irish lady :D, one of the best ones I've seen tbf - because we heard about it from the church it felt more legitimate

Not sure why I don't get your channel recommended to me anymore. Every couple of months I came back and binge your latest videos.

I got this exact same email. Baited them for a while, claiming I would drive to the "storage facility" and physically pick up the piano. They gave up after that. 🤣The Grabify tip to fake an email from PayPal and link from the button is brilliant! Another Grabify tip: When creating a link, you can change the URL to a number of innocuous domains they provide so the word "Grabify" doesn't spook the scammer when they hover over it. Keep up the great work, "Mr. Dover"!

i really hate when they use someone in their family being sick or dying to get you to fell bad and help them they use peoples Fellings against them scammers truly are scum

thankyou Mr Green , for all you do xoxo

Fantastic, great job! Can't wait to see more of your content.

Another great video Ben. Kindly make some more.

Eileen is Ben's aged grandma, calling scammers from her orphanage/ old folks' home combo

Should empty their bank accounts and redirect it to places that need it ( orphanage, hospitals ect).

For the voice changer, the quality of your sound going into the mic is extremely important. Minimizing background noise is also crucial. For the most crisp sounds you will probably want a a desktop condenser mic or directional mic (such as those used for singers on stage) if you have noisy backgrounds. Having some background noise intentionally added behind your voice (from the voice change app) also helps mask some of the audio artifacts, so long as your background audio also sounds low quality. This can help give the impression that the mic has built in background cancellation that is working hard to suppress the background, but is lowering the quality of your voice in the process. Something like a Scammers don't usually catch on to the voice changers, but you'll reduce your chances of that giving you away if its clean.

Always fun and entertaining to watch your videos. Like always pleasant green, keep up the good work 💪

I stumbled upon your videos by accident but I gotta say you rule for all the things you are doing to these scammers.

Ben, your videos are cool and entertaining

There's no such thing as a free piano unless you find it in a junkyard totally dilapidated, a sincere, donating person, from a friend or relative.. Scammers work hard to hook unsuspecting victims. It's like a chess game. They anticipate beforehand what scenarios to expect and apply resolutions. Like "what if ? " But some people are smarter than them. These scammers will meet their karma soon. They should burn in hell. It's good thing you brought up this piano scam. Thanks.

Many thanks, Pleasant Green! That said, as many commenters have noted, depending upon how the free piano is offered, it can be easy to tell that it is not a scam---obviously if the piano is being donated and you can see it, it is local to you, and you meet the owner in person :). Payment is made to the MOVERS, not the owner of the piano (or any donated item) and you have reviewed the movers.

The names he chooses are always hilarious.

Mr. Dover, it would be awesome if you have a video on Temu in the works. The site popped up out of nowhere and some things are 50-90% off, hell, shipping is free in the UK which is pretty suspicious. As a lover of all things sketchy or silly, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Seems like another Wish type thing.

Thanks for the video. I saw a free yamaha piano pop up in my area today, and initiated a conversation (but knew that it was probably a scam). The person referred my to her sister's email and said to contact her. I sent a message and she replied back with the long paragraph of text basically with the same story as yours. So at that point I bowed out of the deal and cut off the conversation. I had seen your video about a month ago so I knew what was up.. Thank you.

Great video, love the pic of Batman and Robin! I watched it in primetime in 1966 when I was 10 years old every Weds and Thursday night. The Dynamic Duo couldn't be scammed either 🙂

I’m Nigerian but this is damn hilarious 😂

A really good friend of mine had to move out of his house and had to give away a bunch of pianos and could barely even get people to take them free. It was so sad. He also converted a flop house homeless shelter into a place to get free help, make your life better get treatment, education, free concerts etc. It's still helping ppl.❤

I just know this channel, very good one. Thanks for the lesson, man. I think you deserve at least 5 M subs because school doesn't teach us of "how to not get scammed" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Thanks for sharing this scam. I actually run a piano store and get these emails all the time. Have read some of the other comments. Sometimes people do give away free pianos. You'll just have to pay movers to pick it up. As mentioned, most of the time the pianos are worth exactly what you're paying. Occasionally people will give away a decent piano. Couple of things: always hire a certified piano technician to go inspect it first (use "piano technician guild" to find technician). Hire an actual piano moving company, not some random furniture moving company. It's always wonderful to have a piano in your home.

Ben and Eileen the most effective couple in the world

Great work as always Ben

Came across this channel last week.....now I'm glued to this channel

Kudos to you, *Vortextrace* , for your exceptional commitment to protecting us from these dishonest scammers. It is of utmost importance that we prioritize the safety and well-being of the elderly and the general public by taking all necessary measures against these reprehensible con artists. You are truly deserving of praise!!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Nicholas: This piano belonged to my late wife Eileen: -proceeds to write a wholesome message- Nicholas: Nice, here are contact details (in a nutshell) Jesus Christ are these scammers lackluster 😂

Eileen Dover = I leaned Over, lol

Another one exposed, Excellent! 👏🏻❤️✌️thank you! Great job

The names you come up with, are just so good! 😂

Glad to see eileen is doing well

They need to restrict all access to the internet in Nigeria

Scammers' most popular word is "Kindly" 😂😂😂. After I started watching your videos, I always looked out for that word in emails as one of the first red flags. Respect to you mehn👌

thank you for your time and your work learning a lot

Let’s go Pleasant Green uploaded🥳

They ought to teach about the scam world at grade school and up. Much like sex ed and DARE.