Oct 12, 2026 · 3 hr 51 min · 20 segments
Pierogi is the creator and host of Scammer Payback, one of the largest scam-baiting platforms online. After leaving a career in cybersecurity, he began exposing scam operations by infiltrating their…
Shawn RyanHostAnd, and again, this isn't, this is like instantly gone.
The way that the scammers make people move money, it's instantly gone.
It's very scary.
And that's a huge, that's where like you'll see a lot of like Chinese and Eastern European scammer.
They love playing in that realm.
Um, there's also European scammers that have pretended to be companies like Robinhood and Coinbase, and they'll call people up that they know somehow have accounts.
And, um, they'll call up and say there's a problem with their account.
And when you start dealing with crypto, man, it goes so fast.
And I'm not saying it's untraceable, but it goes...
They're good about moving money, man, especially when you're using crypto.
So th- those are some of those.
There's also, um, like the romance scam.
Always makes me laugh, man.
Like, we had the landlord of our office building was telling me a story.
I won't go too deep on personal of it, but he had a family member that thought she was talking to a country music star and had been sending like, I think it was 150 or $190,000 to this guy, and buying phones and shipping them and helping him write a new album.
And I, I'm pretty sure the artist was Garth Brooks, by the way.
I don't think he needs a grandma to seed his next album.
You know what I mean? Uh, there's also a lady that was in, I think she was in France, and she was being romance scammed by Brad Pitt, and she left her husband and had transferred almost a million dollars to Brad Pitt that was in the hospital, and they were using AI and sending photos.
You might have to look up these photos, like the AI photos of Brad Pitt in the hospital, and this woman is leaving her husband to...
And she got a lot of shame for it because it like went viral.
Um, she was leaving her husband for this guy, for Brad Pitt, and sending all their money to him.
But what happens is these scammers, they-
And, and again, this isn't, this is like instantly gone.
The way that the scammers make people move money, it's instantly gone.
It's very scary.
And that's a huge, that's where like you'll see a lot of like Chinese and Eastern European scammer.
They love playing in that realm.
Um, there's also European scammers that have pretended to be companies like Robinhood and Coinbase, and they'll call people up that they know somehow have accounts.
And, um, they'll call up and say there's a problem with their account.
And when you start dealing with crypto, man, it goes so fast.
And I'm not saying it's untraceable, but it goes...
They're good about moving money, man, especially when you're using crypto.
So th- those are some of those.
There's also, um, like the romance scam.
Always makes me laugh, man.
Like, we had the landlord of our office building was telling me a story.
I won't go too deep on personal of it, but he had a family member that thought she was talking to a country music star and had been sending like, I think it was 150 or $190,000 to this guy, and buying phones and shipping them and helping him write a new album.
And I, I'm pretty sure the artist was Garth Brooks, by the way.
I don't think he needs a grandma to seed his next album.
You know what I mean? Uh, there's also a lady that was in, I think she was in France, and she was being romance scammed by Brad Pitt, and she left her husband and had transferred almost a million dollars to Brad Pitt that was in the hospital, and they were using AI and sending photos.
You might have to look up these photos, like the AI photos of Brad Pitt in the hospital, and this woman is leaving her husband to...
And she got a lot of shame for it because it like went viral.
Um, she was leaving her husband for this guy, for Brad Pitt, and sending all their money to him.
But what happens is these scammers, they-
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