Free iPads? All I gotta do is enter my phone, address, social security, email, race, gender, country of origin… what could go wrong?!

I love how it escalated into a tech review XD

Dude I work for a credit card company and talk about fraud all day. I could tell you some stories. We call these call centers all the time. They never say what company they work for. It's always "press 9 to speak to customer service" and then they answer and just say "thank you for calling customer support". They are so secretive.

Congratulations on 1 million Ben!! Much love and respect!!

I remember the “Free iPod” ads back in the 2000s where you not only had to support and refer people to sites but you’d also get a lot of ad/spyware in the process.

This was one of the best commercials I've ever seen. Seamlessly plugging Guardia the entire video while still providing great content at the same time. Advertisers take note, Ben is a master!

Really impressed at how far you tracked this and how much research you did, Ben. Informative and entertaining. I present to you my single humble congratulation! 🤣

Really funny how much legal trouble they could actually get in if this was an actual sweepstakes.

Thank you for your research . I read the small print and discovered I was actually entered into a subscription where I would be charged about $60 each month. This also happens with TV free gifts from Walmart. also from Spectrum for being a customer. Everyone shops at Walmart. I am not a customer of Spectrum. When I type STOP, they don’t. The old adage, if it looks to good to be true, it isn’t. Thanks again Pleasant Green. Blessings

That website or app you use to generate a card number and set a dollar limit is genius.

The patience this man has is incredible 😂

Wow Ben, I never would have guessed that 'Guardio' was today's video sponsor 😂😂 Very smoooooth 😉

I love it when you (and other scam baiters) actually follow through with these obvious scams, very interesting to see what happens

Some things that should have been pointed out: If you’re told that you won something, but you’re told you need to pay them, whether it’s for taxes or shipping… it’s a scam! No legitimate sweepstake will require you to pay anything to claim your winnings because they’re not allowed to. Yes, there are taxes - but you will pay those to the IRS during tax season. For-Profit companies (like GroupMe) are not allowed to run raffles, too. Even if they told you in the first place that you’re paying for an entry, they’d still be breaking the law. These are things that need to be pointed out so that those who don’t know can learn about these massive red flags.

I love the face of disappointment in Ben’s face while speaking with the woman, like if he was actually frustrated because he was expecting a free ipad 😂

Wow, congratulations on hitting over one million subscribers, Ben! 🎉🎊👏 This video is extremely helpful for people like myself, who rarely get online these days, aside from watching KZfaq videos from my phone. 😅 Very appreciate everything you do! 👍

Videos like these are why you only come out with only 1 video a week or less. Just great content and great information. Thanks for keeping us safe. Congratulation on 1 mil subs! Can't wait for the 1 mil sub video.

You are so great for informating others about such scams they might not be aware of. Nothing in life is free after all. Also yippiee on 1M my dude! 👍

I feel like they only sent them in the end because otherwise they were concerned that you would continue to pursue them and cause them potential legal troubles. By giving you that product; they know most of the time you would stop bothering them.

I used to work for a credit card fraud team in the UK and this was one of the most common scams we saw during COVID. I would speak to atleast 3-4 people a day that had several charges around £50 and they all thought they were getting an iPad with just paying a delivery charge.

I’m glad you did a video on this! I have been an avid fan, and promoter of the awesome scam-baiters on KZfaq, for several years, and I still got to duped by this scam about a year ago, which was aggravating. Like you said, the layout was very clever, and intentionally made to deceive you into recurring payments. The difference was I was charged $20, and then $70. I was never able to get through to a customer service number, either. And when I recorded the scam through my credit card company, they only refunded me the $20, so I still lost $70. Thank you for all you do to bring awareness to these kinds of scams, congratulations on 1 million!

I love this channel. Ben has a good way of brightening up your day. He has good humor. 👍 thanks ben

Ben I really love your videos and I really enjoy watching you. Thanks for taking one for the team and notifying us all about this screamer filled world. Keep up the good work...😀😀

I get so excited when I see a new vid from you on my feed!

I love how you used the 24 countdown clock sound effect at 7:44 ! My favorite show !

As usual, AWESOME video! Hope you keep it up Ben! Big fan 😉 and those 1M subscribers, congrats because you deserve it.

This sponsor placement was very smooth not gonna lie

No, you SHOULD expose the call handlers because their complicity is part of the illegal scam. It's disgusting, this criminality is rife and it should be exposed at all levels ... there are real people being financially harmed and thus all perpetrators need to be exposed.

Most anti scammer channels are about taking down the scammer or callcenter. But you sir, you really explain the details of the scam, even looking up the product, receiving it and comparing it. I like this!

Congratulations Ben. 1 million is phenomenal. I've been subscribed for some time now, your site is so informative. I guess it just took people awhile to find you and sign up. Now they have discovered a brilliant scambaiter, rock-on! These scammers are really slick, with an address in Los Vegas. I'll just bet those IPod ear buds are coming from a private home or office. This is a terrible scam. It 's always a good idea to look-up and find out what's real. It's also a good idea to use a credit card with limited funds, so you don't have charges that are not authorized. Thank you so much for telling us about this disgusting scam.

Wow you can’t trust anything anymore 🤦🏽‍♀️it’s a shame that they tried to bill your card for 50 plus dollars without your authorization. So they are just going to scam you right in your face 😮thank God you didn’t give a real credit card 🤦🏽‍♀️you are amazing Ben and thank you so much for exposing these scams 😘

Honestly you are the best. Love the way you go down the rabbit hole just to see where it ends. Funny as Man 😉😁

I love your videos & this was no different. Thank you for posting these and Congratulations on 1 MILLION followers !!! 😅

I actually fell for something like this several years ago, thought I was getting two flashlights for a really good price, weeks later I see charges on my checking account totaling $70. I called my bank to report those charges. I did get those flash lights and my money back, kept one, sold the other one on eBay.

Thank you. This was extremely helpful. I have a lot of customers with charges like that, on their cards and this helps me form questions to ask them about it. Thank you!

Congratulations on 1 million! Been watching you for a while now! Love your channel and love seeing you grow!

I remember falling for these type of scams as a kid 😂

great video Ben Dover! i am super happy to see you at 1 million subs, you deserve it and your content is always top notch, keep up the great work cant wait for the next video!!!

Congratulations on 1 Mil ! You deserve it !! This calls for some popcorn 🍿

Just this morning I've won a gift card from American Airlines, a portable DeWalt heater from Ace Hardware, and a portable DeWalt power station from Lowes Home Improvement. It's hard to believe how lucky I am!

Very good video! Good job. Love your videos. Keep up the great work. Thank you for showing people these scams and telling them to avoid them. You are really making a difference in the world.

i absolutely love how she had the nerve to get aggressive and yell about charging your card lol. But! At least you got something 🤣 Anyway, congrats on 1mil!

Trust me; I’ve entered a lot of raffles. The only difference is that they’re normally explicit about being raffles and they never required me to buy anything before I was allowed to enter.

They probably bugged it... I would be very careful keeping that around in your home Ben. Love your videos ❤️

That sponsorship was really fitting for this video

I really love this channel. I ended up binge watching every single video in a day

So glad to see another video from you!!!!

Well, whoever made that site knows at least the basics, I guess. Website was registered through a virtual postal adress in Iceland and they took their name out from everywhere. Website is fairly new too. Love your work, please keep it going. :)

If something is too good to be true, then it is probably a scam. No Guardio required to handle this.

Hi Ben, I'm a new subscriber, I just finish watching a tik tok video of what you did for Joel and the community in Liberia. I was brought to tears, may God bless you

Annoyingly I was stupid and 2 times and fell for this scam but I was able to correct some of it, they was able to refund me half of my money on the first time and the 2nd time I was quick enough to cancel my card before they charged me again. They are sick and twisted due to I'm a uni student who already struggles for money but you are a god send due to you enlighten so many people on how to save there lives because that's how much effect they can make on someone who doesn't make money and have small amounts of money. Thank you so much ❤

This same skam works it’s way through various different channels and there are hundreds of different websites involved. If you don’t cut it off it also becomes a monthly recurring charge on your credit card and each time that they charge your card they will change their company name on your bill in hopes of the recurring charges going unnoticed. The call centers in the Philippines are also complicit in the skamm.

seeing the 1M on my phone is so cool. you deserve it!

Your voice is perfect for these short and snappy videos you've really found the best way to capitalise on your skill-set, I saw your live the other night for hitting the big 1 and whilst that was funny and enjoyable you definitely benefit from the editing stage, I don't mean that as a slight more a commendation of finding and knowing what you're good at. Please if you can do live scam baits do so, but your style sets you apart from others its a usp for sure. I follow loads of scam baiters and love them all for all different reasons.

Nice to see a pleasant green video on a Saturday

You were confident putting those in your ears! Imagine if they did something malicious like possibly having them zap you or put something gross on it, lol

Love these! I get some many like offers or (you won) in my email each and every day! Hopefully people will not trust these emails.

Finally 1 mill, you def deserve more subscribers, to many more man!!

Our family is quite savvy but find these informative non the less, as it shows what actually happens when you sign up.

you can report the webiste for violation scam

Idk where they are, but clear buds or at least something like them can be bo

Would love more of these videos Ben

Amazing video like always! Good job Ben. I'm a 15 year old from South Africa, and your vids are super entertaining. Thanks for the great content.

nothing is free in this world but masking your credit card is a genius skill to have

Ben is getting smooth in the way he shows the paid promotions 😏😏

Another well made video! Keep up the good work.

That warning alarm sound never fails to freak my cats out as we had it on a door alarm at one stage 😂

Apple would never give away their products

Congrats on your iPad win! I also won one as well, still waiting! Absolutely loving all the subscriptions I got as well, what a treat! So excited!! 😂

Happy 1M Ben ❤️ heres to another 1M

I laughed so loud when the clock hit 0 and reset lmao. 🤣

congrats on 1 mill thanks for keeping us safe from these scams!

As someone said "there is a large discrepancy between the airpads i have won online and the airpads i actually own"

200th video and 1 mil subs, congrats!

Thanks for the heads up Ben

babe wake up Pleasant Green posted

Facts: Nothing is free in this world.

Congratulation ( just one ) on 1 mill subs greenboi 💚

I like how you said you went easy on the call centre workers. While some telephone operators are absolutely complicit in the scam, not all are. When I was in my late teens, I got a job in a call centre. I was told that the company's business was buying unwanted timeshares and selling them at a profit. I was admittedly young and naive but I believed them. The whole thing was presented to me as a legitimate, perfectly innocent business. My job as an opener was simple. They had files with the details and phone numbers of prospective sellers. I was to call them up, ask if they still wanted to sell, explain how it worked and confirm their details. Later, a closer would get in touch with them and take it from there. One of my first calls was to a gentleman who started off as pretty abusive, hurling insults and yelling that he was sick of me, personally. I went off script and explained that I hadn't spoken to him before because it was my first day. I don't think he believed me but he calmed down enough to warn me that I was working for a scam company. He also told me that they had been harrassing him with constant phone calls and he never had any intention of selling his timeshare in the first place. I wasn't sure what to think. I didn't know who was right, the company or him so I just wrote a note on his file that he wasn't interested and told him that I would bear his warning in mind. His warning had made me suspicious, though and these suspicions were heightened when everyone I called that day either didn't pick up or had a similar reaction. Nobody stayed on the phone for very long or went along with the script. The next day, I was handed a "new" stack of papers with people to phone. Most were ones I hadn't seen before but one was the same gentleman from the previous day, complete with my own handwritten note that he was not to be contacted. I was confused as to why it had shown up again so I took my pen and scribbled heavily over his phone number, rendering it illegible. I also started thinking more about how this business worked as they required people to provide their card details and fly over to attend a meeting prior to the sale. At first, I had just assumed that this was normal but now, I was seriously questioning it. I started hanging up before people could answer and repeatedly calling numbers which I knew would just ring out with no answer. I wanted to look busy so I wouldn't be fired if the company was legitimate but not actually get any work done in case it was a scam. Later, I overheard a couple of closers laughing about having convinced a woman to provide them with her husband's card details without his permission, while he was at work. I also heard that when people flew over for meetings to sell their timeshares, there was some sort of sales pitch which they would be subjected to (I don't know any details, that was all I heard). There were other little inconsistencies or things which bugged me too like how the job was cash-in-hand and some of the papers on prospective sellers had the name of a different company on them. Combining everything, I became convinced that the gentleman from before was correct and it was a scam. That was when I stopped showing up at the call centre and went looking for a different job instead. I wasn't there for very long and never got a single penny as it was entirely commission based. I'm just thankful that I didn't actually scam anyone while I was there, mainly because of that gentleman and his warning. I never want to do something so horrible to innocent people.

Thank you soooo much for posting these videos!!! I was almost caught in these scams un I watched your videos !!!!

Reminder For If Someone Brings Up "Sweepstakes" Again. It Is Not Legal For There To Be Only Paid Ways To Enter. There Always Has To Be A Free Entry Option. So You Can Have That In Your Back Pocket Now 🖤 *For When They Claim To Be In The States

Question: “beats airpods by kim kardashian” cost $199.98 USD and they are the same $9.99 product that you received- would you call that a scam or great marketing? Btw I am in no way condoning any scam or advertising just curious how you or your audience feels. Also congratulations on 1million subs Ben :)

1million subs congrats you have been working hard

this was an interesting ad video haha. Had me at the start

Awesome vid 🎉-!!!!!!

I am from the philippines, but thanks for the information you asked to protect us from our countries scam calls and how to avoid these free gadgets surveys

congratulations on the big 1 million been watching for a bit now much 🎉🎉❤

I have actually seen people selling ClearPods before but in real life shops. They mostly are sold by street vendors lining the streets of Hong Kong and Shenzhen. If I am not mistaken they are most likely made in Shenzhen. They are not meant to be a scam when made but its meant to make a cheap lookalike to the Airpods, which I guess is kinda like a scam but yea. Its usually sold for around anywhere from USD$4-20.

Tbh Sky has done this legit. They called me about an iPad about 6 months ago as they told me that I was entitled to a free iPad. Then they tell me they’re gonna up my monthly bill from £30 a week (for broadband) to £45 with a discounted fibre optic included for £48 a month. My legit reaction was “so it ain’t free? As you want me to up my cost of using the internet which is actually for the IPad which is false advertising as if I want a free one then it’s free nothing more or less.” So stunned shocked he hung up 😂 I know it was real as I’ve used that number they phoned me on through the app

Ah yes free iPads

@Pleasant Green you’re awesome keep up the great work

1M subs!! WOOHOOO!! Congratulations Mann!!! 🎉

I’m surprised they actually sent you something

Just curious, How do they get away with this? Doesn't their payment gateway blacklist them cuz of chargebacks?

The “my boss is from the states and I know absolutely nothing” is definitely part of the script

Im surprised you even got anything in the mail tbh !!! Congrats!!!

Give the man some credit he saved three cents on headphones sold by scam artist. I call that a win.

You just sold this guardio right, I am getting it asap

Omg a magic keyboard? now I gotta do it. It's like they are shopping on you while they got ya on the phone.

Love your channel for all your work