unknown scam phone calls...(plus extras)

I thought those of the online Instagram scams that I was being a victim in 2020 was bad enough, how about this one which is currently occurring on me through MANY of those unknown phone numbers? Believe or not, they call me specifically using regular phone numbers instead of WhatsApp like several of those advanced scammers with their respective methods out there, though this particular type of classic scam is already existed since more than decades ago, way before those of the advanced ones with combination between WhatsApp and those online social medias are now exist. Since I also installed GetContact on my 📱, I somehow leaked the slight secret about who are the culprits behind all of those unknown phone numbers, which I have no clue about how come if they also leaked my phone number there too.

After I briefly checked it through several of the identified ones (specifically for those ones which GetContact flags them as a spam, because there are many of them that are remains unidentified, oh boy), it turns out if those culprits are indeed either fake online loan promoters and fake (supposedly) technicians from one of the popular ISPs in our entire country, for this case (if I'm not mistaken, unless if I already read those popular articles related about them from various online news portals). There's not much else that I could say to them apart from the fact I still able to simply ignore them at all costs, unlike those online Instagram scams that I mentioned just earlier. So that's basically just it, I obviously DON'T accept any of those suspicious regular phone calls like so for highly obvious reasons. Which means, the only action that I'm gonna do against them is obviously blocking their phone numbers specifically using my 📱's built in contacts app (and possibly using Getcontact app too), though I'm not sure if they somehow able to call me back with a vengeance.

As for the bonus related to this short article, specifically in one of the popular online marketplaces. In the exact time where those of the aforementioned unknown scam phone calls that are now a thing in mass numbers instead of few, I received a single direct message thread from a fake (some sort of) customer service account on the direct message section where "they" claimed if my account would eventually suspended if I didn't do certain tasks which "they" specifically give to me, and "they" also sent me a random Google Drive link of an unknown file which I didn't even check it due to the fact I immediately deleted the entire direct message chat itself anyway, particularly in order to save my account from getting banned or hacked... This also reminded me to those times when I used to receive those of the SMS inbox message threads, which particularly claimed if I won IDR 500.000 (❔) from (supposedly) those of the popular marketplaces including that one where that particular unknown fake customer service itself used to exist there. They also even provided me those links that redirected to their fake Blogspot "winner" websites instead of redirected directly into their official sites from those online marketplaces, though they clearly stated if they don't do certain stuffs like so outside their official events from themselves. Those fake Blogspot websites also provided those WhatsApp numbers led to those of their following scammer syndicates, which roughly using the same scamming method like those online Instagram scams that I also mentioned earlier.

Well then, there's not much that I particularly say about this apart from the fact you MUST avoid them at all costs. If you suddenly caught those of the unknown phone call numbers especially outside WhatsApp, DO NOT call them unless if they're from the trusted source, or specifically from people that you know through your own phone app or contacts app. As always, pay FULL attention when it comes to dealing with one of these even if I already being a victim for few of those, because like majority of those scammers out there, you definitely don't want to lose your bucks over those simply for nothing.

Summary of the SCAMS that I experienced...💸💸💸💸💸

 "If there's something that is too good to be true, then it totally isn't true..."

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As every wise people said, yes, that's basically the one and the only sentence that is related to what I'm explaining on this particular article this time, which is literally explaining about any kind of scams that I literally fell for each of them, mainly for the ones that I simply lost my money over those scammers... I already explained about few of the scams that I exposed from my two separate article that I made just earlier. Now, I think it's time for me to reveal more of the scams that I also experienced from the past (including the ones that I already exposed from my previous articles about them), yet I will reveal the initial names of each of the culprits who scammed myself in each of the occurrence as well, particularly from the ones that were occurred from our country. Without further ado, let's take a look at my overall summary of what kind of scams that I fell on each of them, shall we?

1. Investment scam...💸

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Culprit name: B-L (which technically it was one of the fake B-L accounts that I encountered on Instagram)

This was technically my first scam that I ever experienced, which was I got scammed by a random investment scam by one of those counterfeit Instagram accounts that was technically a fake account nicknamed of that one popular entrepreneur in our country, which was B-L... I discovered this particular account due to the fact my mom literally pointed at this particular account in order to solve certain financial problems that we both were dealing in those times, then we both decided to take some calls with the fake B-L. Then, he decided to do some "rules" in order to do his own f****** thing by transferring approximately around IDR 700.000 to him. After I transferred that particular amount of money that I transferred into him yet I had some conversation between myself and him through the chat, and of course you probably guessed it... He literally blocked us right after few moments later! So, that was it, and obviously there was no way to track that particular scammer anymore.

2. Scammed again over a steal price of a "mega" fancy 💻...💸

Culprit name: M-I-M (which basically it was one of the counterfeit Instagram online marketplace account who "sells" certain devices [i.e. flagship 📱, 💻, 📷, etc.])

As what I explained in one of the said post that literally explained about this particular scam, I literally fell for this particular scam due to my native stupidity that I did in those times, yet this was occurred by myself during the time that particular ancient 13" Dell 💻 that I stupidly bought from a legit online marketplace suddenly had it's own LCD screen died... Well, for some idiotic reason, I literally had an idea by "buying" another "replacement" for it from that one "seller" on Instagram for unbelievably steal price, which was from M-I-M. I literally looked at "her" gallery of what kind of 💻s that "she sells", then I decided to "pick" that particular fancy Apple 15" 💻. Before I "pick" that particular 💻, I previously looked at various other 💻s that "she sells" them online, until I decided to pick that one 💻 that I previously mentioned earlier... So, I decided to take some chat on M-I-M of certain things related to it, until I transferred approximately around IDR 500.000 to "her" through a someone's bank account instead of "her" name (which sounds like "she" hijacked that particular person's bank account)... After few moments later, I felt something suspicious behind it, because the fact right after M-I-M contacted myself through a chat, "she" said something to myself by contacting another person in order to continue my "order" of that particular 💻 that I wanted, but of course after M-I-M said so, "she" blocked me yet I simply lost the said amount of money that I transferred into "her"! Well, that concluded if I got scammed by one of those Instagram counterfeit online marketplaces, so I learned the lesson for totally NOT looking at one of those for ever.

During the time I had some conversation between myself and M-I-M, I checked the address of "her store", and it turned out if the address of "her place" itself just led to the empty lawn that was located somewhere in Riau, Indonesia (which was definitely fake as "her" f***)... As for the said scammer itself, yes, it was one of those online bandits that pretended to be an online marketplace who sells certain items (for this case, it was certain electronic devices that I mentioned earlier (i.e. 📱, 💻, 📷, etc.), but as soon as you "ordered" one of those items, you ended up in further problem if the item itself that you "ordered" had some issues for certain reasons that they usually tell to you, but of course it's completely NOT true at all (i.e., got stuck in some sort of customs, those items are black-marketed, etc.)...... This particular scammer of the said type wasn't only the one that I got scammed by, it's because the fact I saw another victim who got scammed by another one of those online bandits of the same kind, but under a different "store". He lost his money approximately over IDR 126.000.000!!! Definitely the jackpot for the scammer itself that he stole that much amount of money of what the particular victim itself transferred that amount of money to him!! HOLY F****** S***!!!!!! Not even any cops from our country were able to track down those scammer bandits like this, including myself with that scammer that I got scammed by.

3. Didn't win a giveaway from bunch of those mails...📨💸❓

Culprit name: E-S (a company, but I have no clue whether if this particular company is a legit company or not)

Another sort of scam that I experienced, yet I also explained already in my titular post that explained about this particular occurrence, which was how I didn't win a so-called giveaway that they "promoted" through those mails that I received from that particular company. In order to do it, I had to buy some random cheapo items that were literally costed several times cheaper than what they literally "offered" through every single mails that I received, then I decided to sent them back numerous times to them in order to win it, yet I also transferred a lot of money to them in order to buy every single items that they "offered" through those of the said mails... Until the fact I and my mom wasted a lot of money over this particular crap, so we both decided to stop it, even though they clearly said if we both almost won the grand prize of it.

4. Almost bought the thing that I wanted for much cheaper price, but...

Culprit name: L-J-S

This was occurred from one of the legit online marketplaces that I ever used, because I almost scammed by that one seller who sells one of the things that I wanted (for this case, it was some sort of so-called mini air cooler thing). I looked at the particular thing itself on that particular online marketplace, then I came across one of them that costed WAY cheaper than the average price of the said item that I wanted. So, I had some conversation between myself and that particular seller who sells it nicknamed L-J-S, then I placed an order and paying it using cash-on-delivery system for it... Right after I ordered it, I decided to take a look at the reviews about what kind of the item that he sent to any buyers who bought his items, and I was shocked if this particular seller sent them his f****** random items instead of what he literally listed for how cheap it was! Then, after few days later, I got a call from a random courier if he delivered the item that I ordered for, but I decided to reject it by simply not receive and pay it for obvious reasons. After that, the thing that I was ordered just went lost, yet his store just gone immediately as well upon this occurred... Well, at least I didn't scam by this one anyway, even if the price of the thing itself was way cheaper than the average cost of the said item itself that I wanted either way.

5. Almost "won" a "giveaway" from a SMS, but...📨

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Culprit name: Unknown

🆗, even bunch of the junk SMS in any form of frauds did count for this, because I almost fell for one of those scams if I won a giveaway through a junk SMS that the random scammer sent to me. It literally led to a wacky Blogspot page if I won a "giveaway" from a legit online marketplace, but truly is NOT true at all, it's because NONE of the legit online marketplaces did able to do that either way... Even though I obviously don't care about all of those junk SMS scams in general, I was once almost fell for one of them by simply looking at the wacky Blogspot page itself after I tapped the URL link on the said SMS itself that I received, until I had some conversation between myself and that particular scammer. The scammer itself literally had an obvious rule in order to "win" it, by transferring some money and reloading my phone's credit in order to do so... During the time I reloaded my phone's credit in a small cell phone store nearest from my current home, the owner of the cell phone store itself taught to myself in order to avoid it at all costs. He taught to me right after I almost reloading my phone's credit for approximately around IDR 300.000 for that. So, that saved me from this particular scam, although his workmate of the same cell phone store itself also received the same SMS junk scam if he also won a "giveaway", but he simply ignore it either way, then he deleted it off.

I even received even more of the same junk SMS scams like this (including the investment scams that I mentioned earlier), although I was able to do some conversation between me and any of those anonymous culprits, I annoyed themselves instead in various ways until they just simply blocked me... As of nowadays, I rarely receive any kinds of junk SMS scams like one of those though.

6. Online "affiliating academy" scam...💸

Culprit name: K-W-A (an entrepreneur, but I got scammed by the "affiliating academy" website of it)

In order to solve my major financial problems that I dealt in those days, but I just ended up in another scam, although it was possibly the least amount of my own money that I simply lost on it... This was also my second time my mom led to this particular scam without noticing the obvious perilous thing itself in the first place, because she simply shared a video to myself about how to earn money quicker by affiliating something through that "affiliating academy" website authored by that particular entrepreneur, nicknamed K-W-A. I checked a ton of videos of him showing his pride if he literally got a lot of money (I had no clue if it's true or not), and I was simply fell for it........ Until I ran into a problem if I had to follow some rules to do it in the website itself, I must transfer IDR 99.000 to K-W-A's bank account to unlock all of the so-called premium features in there (which I doubt it if it was his real bank account)... Unfortunately though, of course there was NO reaction from it at all if I actually got registered to do it further, even IF I already signed my main Google account on that too! Even if I also tried to transfer that particular amount of my own money to him like thrice times in order to unlock it, but it DIDN'T EVEN WORK!!! F***

Well then, there you have it for my overall summary of the dreaded scams that I experienced, being 4 of them were the ones that I caught by simply losing some of my own money over 4 of those scammers who did so to me... As every wise people said, if there's something that is too good to be true, then it is truly not true at all. Even though I got scammed 4 times like what I clearly stated here, I already learned the lesson for NOT fall for any kind of scams. As always, pay your FULL attention in order to avoid any kinds of scams that may happen sometime in the future, and thanks for reading this mega crucial article.

Yet another weird YouTube's bot comments...

This is possibly one of my shortest article post yet that I ever made on my whole Blogspot, but I will tell you about yet another bot comment spams that recently appears in every single of newly uploaded and published YouTube videos, including me. Last time, I encountered those "sus" YouTube's bot comments that were well-known for providing their shady links that leads to those wacky, dangerous hookup sites that would "kill" my devices or some sort of shady cyber crime behind them that always wants to conceal them away after every single of their actual actions to every victims, and now...... I got bunch of those aforementioned bot spams that looks like this!

Yes! But before I'm gonna explain them shortly, it's basically almost the same s**t to the last ones that I ever encountered from a while ago, except these particular bot comments do have completely different language (which is Spanish). Again, just like those ones that I encountered earlier, these particular bot comments also provides some wild URL links that leads to yet another s**t "sus" hookup sites too, except these particular bot comments do have completely different formula. Unlike previous ones which commented with just a random timestamp (duration) of a video then followed by their shady URL links themselves, these ones literally promotes "them" in their own Spanish language for some particular reason, yet they put those shady URL links between any of those sentences as well. As of today, these particular bot comments initially appears from nowhere since last month, and I literally have no clue about how come they keep doing their own purpose, but under different story. Of course I DON'T bother to open ANY of them, and I literally reported them straight away as unwanted spams for those reasons that I mentioned above, or even the reasons that I also explained in my aforementioned article post about those bot comments too... 

Well, I think that's pretty much it from what I encountered yet another one of these YouTube's bot comment spams that appears recently, but under different anonymous culprits that I absolutely have no clue about why they keep appearing again and again from nowhere like so. Yet again, pay FULL attention about how to deal with any of those out there since they are newly spams and swarms from nowhere every time you upload your latest YouTube videos... As always, stay safe from any of those culprits with their bot comments and thanks for reading this short post.

Random infant vs. my electric fan videos on my YouTube channel...

"Ah yes. I know this user. The account was probably belonged to a mother of an infant. Hence the username. Many Indonesian AC and fan YouTube channels and videos always had their comments clogged with infants and autistics. Unlike the ones from US and etc. that had more fan enthusiasts than here..."-brothers.boy.88 on my Instagram account of fans and air conditioners

Recently, I received a lot of comments that are so weird on my whole YouTube channel of electric fans (and air conditioners). I know if I did encounter many weird comments from certain bad users that I encountered through many years, ranging from those hate comments, bot comments, dangerous porn "sus" comments that had some links that led into those "sus" sites, and recently, I received a lot of them from an user that belonged to a mother of an infant. Yes, and I'm not kidding particularly about that! But for some reason, she looks like she let the infant him/herself* to comment almost ANY of my own electric fan videos that I uploaded, yet also applies to most of my fellow fan enthusiasts too... Well, without further ado with them, I'm gonna explain about why this particular infant always doing so on almost ANY of my own electric fan videos that I uploaded on my whole YouTube channel of electric fans.

Before I explain about it, there are some of my possibilities about why this particular infant doing so. Here are my possibilities about it:

1. Just like what I clearly stated for a bit just earlier, she looks like she let the infant him/herself* to comment almost ANY of my own electric fan videos that I uploaded.
2. My own profile picture that I put on my whole Google account that I'm using right now, which probably the reason about how this particular infant got attracted on my whole channel by watching my own electric fan videos on my whole YouTube channel, AND commenting them in just THAT ONE word based on the name of the mother of the infant him/herself* for no reason.
3. The username itself is probably fake, which means there is some random idiot behind all of those comments, but it's very unlikely or clearly not true.

Okay, back to my short story about main topic of this particular post that I'm explained about. In the meantime I encountered this kind of user, it used to post comments that exactly like what the particular infant is doing right now, but with bunch of random emojis right after THAT ONE word that he/she* usually posts right now. Even though if this particular infant still exists until today, it used to to so on completely different account that he/she* used in it's days, until I and most of our fan fellow enthusiasts forced to stop it (if I guessed that statement right, but I honestly don't have a clue about that anyway).

But, from what I could tell to it from at least few months ago until today, this particular infant literally never gives up! He/she* keeps spamming that with just a single word in EVERY SINGLE of my own electric fan videos. I tried to report it, and he/she* keeps doing that all over again! I mean, I'm not really angry like some people who can't stand with all of those hate offensive comments on their own contents, but the fact because this particular infant STILL doing so more than 10 times already, which is more than just a casual spam with all words and sentences that they usually do, but these ones just literally don't! Also, I obviously know if I honestly don't understand about what this particular infant expresses by just that SINGLE word comment of the username itself! (Sigh)

Although this isn't obviously my first time I encountered this kind of user, I also encountered some other users who being "abused" by their infants by commenting just a SINGLE word comments in my whole YouTube channel of electric fans before, but not as many as this one would be. Even then, those ones did annoy me as well, but not nearly as bad as what this particular infant constantly doing so these days, until I'll take an obvious action to force stop doing that entirely.

Well, I think that's pretty much it for the update about what's going on with this particular infant who constantly comments just a SINGLE word of the respective username of him/her* mother on almost ANY of my electric fan videos that I uploaded on my entire YouTube channel. I don't know about what else that I'm gonna say about this particular user though, yet this isn't one of the worst ones that I ever deal with, unlike certain ones that I already dealt from the past, which were ended up in obvious part of a cyber crime (for example). So, there you have it for my short story that explains about that particular infant who constantly doing so almost ANY of my electric fan videos that I uploaded on my entire YouTube channel, and hopefully you can pay full attention about it by learning some obvious lessons to them, if you're able to.

* means I obviously DON'T know the gender of the particular infant that I explained about

"Wanna be friends?"

"Don't trust with X (name of the bot YouTube users), they're scammer"-Lachlan Potts

Yes... This is literally what I have seen on YouTube recently, including many of the YouTubers around the world. In case you've wondering, this comment was posted BUNCH, BUNCH, BUNCH, and again, BUNCH of times by those unknown users, yet they known them as a bot. At first glance, I thought they were just a normal YouTube comments like usual, but turned out if most of the YouTubers discovered them if they were actually bot users who hacked any YouTubers, even with millions of subscribers that they hacked too. For example, every time I upload a new video, those users always comments as soon as possible. I know if they praised me in the comments section as a bait like "Loved it", "Wanna be friends?" like this post's title said, or other else that they always scam on me... But nope! Instead of me rambling about this like nothing, let's prove this big problem by explanation by one of these YouTubers who investigates them, right here:

Yeah... Those bot users literally hacked thousand of channels around YouTube like what this guy said in this explanation video right on the top here... I have no idea why this some sort of mega exaggerated cyber crime happens, but those users were hacked through different bot usernames. From that video above here that he explained was the Logan one, then followed by Tom, Ted, Music, Song, Liam, Huddy, Bananarama, and the one that I took my own screenshot of it, which was the Olivette as for nowadays. I simply IGNORE them in order NOT to being hacked by those bots, but yeah, as long as they keep commenting every time I upload a new video, it's fine, I simply NOT respond them AT ALL, apart from me reporting them as an unwanted spams... If you want to ask to me about this mega serious problem that always happens on the YouTube platform lately, please let me know about the additional information about this in the comments section below here. Anyway, that's it from what I can say about this "Wanna be friends?" mega serious problem that recently happens on YouTube platform, and hope you can pay this attention against those bot users that you MUST get rid all of them away, so be VERY careful.