Awesome / Kitboga

"Honey, Happy New Year, darling! Happy New Year! I barely know what to say."

• When Kitboga decided to investigate a scheme in which a call centre pretended to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he discovered a group of scammers that scared victims into paying up by threatening to deport them, verbally abusing them throughout and showing zero remorse or compassion towards an audibly upset "Vicki". They proved to be fairly technically competent as well, at one point spoofing a call so that it appeared a police officer was en-route to arrest Vicki. All this makes the three hours Kit managed to waste with them all the more gratifying, especially when he managed to finally get the scammers to break their facade at the end.
  Michelle: Since the officers will be dispatched from their department, you can simply disconnect the call now. You can be where you deserve to be.
  Vicki: Hey, Michelle. Where do I live?
  (Lengthy pause.)
  Michelle: Fuck yourself bitch. (Hangs up.)
• Kitboga has created a fake Google Play card redemption page by hooking into the real page's Javascript and replacing the real popup with his own fake one that accepts any code. Of course it doesn't actually do anything beyond displaying a message, but the scammers don't know that!
  • He then strung a scammer along for 5 hours before 'accidentally' redeeming "$500" worth of fake cards to Edna's Google Play account.
    Scammer Steve: Do not click on "redeem" [..] Once you done with the alphanumeric number, say "I am done", okay?
    Edna: Oh, okay.
    (Edna clicks "redeem".)
    Edna: I... I am done. (Clicks "confirm".)
    Scammer Steve: Madam, madam, oh...
    Edna: Oh great!
    Scammer Steve: Oh, you see—
    Edna: $500 has been added to your balance. We did it honey!
    Scammer Steve: My goodness, madam, why'd you—
    Edna: We did it! That's the first card...
  • Then he did it again. Twice. The scammer threw his headset in frustration at the end, having apparently lost out on $1500.
    Scammer Steve: Madam do not redeem, do not redeem it! (Edna goes to redeem the card.)
    Edna: You are about to add to balance... this is what we want, right? (Clicks "redeem".)
    Scammer Steve: Oh Goooood! (Throws headset and flings some choice Hindi swear words around.)
  • This scammer really was Too Dumb to Live, as Kit called back the next day, and strung Steve along again, once more ending in a fake redemption. It took the scammer's boss to realise that the code spelled "get a real job silly" in Leet Speak.
  • Kit has demonstrated on stream that he's quite impressive at multitasking, being able to edit the scripts and HTML codes used for his fake bank and card redemption scripts on the fly, whilst at the same time keeping up the act with the latest scammer to fall into his trap.
• Frequently, scammers use the Chase online business demonstration account and try to pass it off as their company's own bank account. In this instance, a viewer who works for Chase got in touch with the bank's IT department, who added an obvious disclaimer to the page as a way of making the scam a little harder to pull off.
• One 2020 call culminated with Kit literally going on video chat with the scammer after he started getting flirty with his character. He says right off the bat that it was one of his most favorite calls in several years...
• The "Baited" saga with Adam and Alex possibly counts as the biggest moment of awesome, when summed up as a whole. In all, Kitboga managed to waste the time of these two callers to the tune of over 37 hours, with them calling him over 1,500 times. The entire thing was so massive that he had to split it up like a television series when presenting it on YouTube and even those videos are still only a fraction of the total time. At 24 hours, which was itself a record, he did a simulated Confetti Drop and wished them "Happy New Year!", not knowing at the time that the whole thing would continue on for half again as long. When the complete saga was posted in its entirety on his "More Kitboga" channel, he still had to split it into four parts of about 9-10 hours each because it was that long.
• In "Scamming a Scammer with Rogue AI - He Lost His Bank," Kitboga pulls off the trick of pretending to redeem Google play cards even though the scammer never even asked for gift cards, just by having the "AI" think that this was what the homeowner wanted.
• The sheer amount of effort that Kitboga and his followers have put into background content and gags, etc. This includes fake ads that appear when the scammers use the search on his computer, ridiculous surveys for the scammers to fill out when "doing Kitboga's job," fake e-mails on Kitboga's computer and more.