YouTuber exposes scammers on camera after posing as 80-year-old woman

The YouTuber has over 90,000 subscribers. (symbolic picture)

A YouTuber with over 90,000 subscribers is giving scammers a taste of their own medicine by exposing them on camera after posing as a vulnerable grandmother. “Neld Harris,” the pseudonym of the content creator behind the Scamsandwich YouTube channel, has made a career of exposing online scammers. His YouTube channel features dozens of his scam-the-scammers videos that have garnered millions of views and likes on the platform. They have also gained thousands of subscribers since going online in January 2023 New York Post informed of.

The YouTuber presents herself as Neld, an 80-year-old widow from Dallas who joins the elaborate scammers’ efforts to take over her computer, install malware, and convince them to give her money. “I make surreal phone calls to lure scammers into ridiculous situations using voice mods [voice-altering software]Fake banks, and fake gift card redemptions,” the content creator who is apparently in his 30s said, Post,

The YouTuber revealed that he finds scammers by searching for phrases like “Zelle Support” on Google and calling their 1-800 numbers, or sometimes they get contacted by “Nelled” thinking they are calling an old lady. Taking aim.

In their videos, they are often told by scammers to go to CVS or Walmart and buy thousands of dollars worth of gift cards. He pretends to do all this and then sends the details to the scammers. The YouTuber keeps up with his scams as well as keeps them online for hours. He drives them crazy by responding slowly and stupidly to their demands. “Nailed” said scammers usually pretend to be American or Mexican with names like Thomas Wayne and Brian Collins.

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“He’s so exhausted he’s crying and swearing that if he leaves them alone they’ll give up their criminality and go straight,” a “Nailed” insider told The Sun. Post, “But this usually only happens if he has actually hacked their computers and downloaded or destroyed all their data, installed a very dangerous computer virus on the scammers’ computers, gained control of their webcams And livestreamed their videos to the world, publicly embarrassing them and threatening to contact their innocent families, exposing their criminal acts,” he said.

The source said, “He is brilliant and has a keen sense of humor. Although he would not discuss it, he reports some of his investigations to authorities in the US and India, in the hope that authorities will make arrests.”

The YouTuber usually takes over the scammers’ webcams and tells the scammers that he “knows exactly where they are operating from, often in Indian cities and sometimes in West African countries”. He also tells them that he can view their group chats, and even in one case a scammer snuck into a woman’s direct messages (DMs). He then spreads a powerful virus on their computers, destroying their ability to deceive people.

Point to be noted is that Post The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) warned last year that Americans over 60 are scammed out of $28.3 billion each year, with only 1 in 10 scams being reported to authorities, the report said. Is given.

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