Ray William Johnson
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Podcast Appearances
It's actually pretty cool.
So one day in 2020, Pierogi, I guess he gets an email or like a pop-up ad or something telling him that he's owed a refund of $500 from Amazon.
And of course, he knows this is a total scam and he is not going to let this slide.
He's going to try and bust the people who did it.
So he invents an alias, and he pretends to be a 79-year-old elderly woman named Vivian Rogers.
And he uses a voice modifier to change his voice and everything.
So he calls the number that the scammers gave him in their fake email or whatever.
And he pretends to be this elderly woman.
And so he eventually ends up talking to this guy, Ben.
And Ben claims he's the senior manager in charge of getting her the refund, but in reality, he's just another scumbag scammer.
So Ben has Pierogi log into the bank account where he wants the refund to go.
Now, I'm assuming part of the reason the scammers do this is to see how much money the person has in their bank account so that they can see how much money they can scam out of them.
Then Ben has Pierogi type in the amount he's owed, which is technically $499, but they round it up to $500.
That's it.
Okay, 500.
All right.
Now, this is where Ben gets really sleazy.
He intentionally types in $5,000.
See, on the screen, it says 5,000.
And now that he has convinced this poor elderly woman that she's made a typo, he starts to manipulate her by telling her that he knows that she's an honest person and he basically says that he knows she'll return the extra money to them.