Scamming is a multi-billion dollar criminal industry most of these scammers operate within
the shadows and try and be very stealthy either behind a computer screen or using fake identities
but some scammers are less smart and do things out in the open this can sometimes lead to them
being caught on camera and arrested here are some scammers who were caught on camera trying to get
money from their victims but thankfully all of these scammers failed were recorded and some
were even arrested chinese insurance scammer ever wondered why dash cams are so popular nowadays
they're most popular in countries such as russia and china that's because of the very high rates of
insurance scams in those countries it's incredible how brazen some of these scams really are
what they do is pretend that they've been hit by you driving your car they then try and extort
money from you they either simply ask you for some money there and then so that they go away and stop
bothering you or they get insurance companies involved and try and get a big payout this
happens so much in certain countries it's led to everyone having to buy dash cams an example of one
of these scammers was caught one day in china a man was driving through a very narrow street
that's when a woman walks out in front of his car and lays down in the road she does this to pretend
the driver hit her with his car these scams are so common people walk and drive past the woman
it's not even surprising to see this kind of thing happen on many chinese roads
the woman hopes the man will drive closer and honk his horn to make the scam more believable
she has no idea that his dash cam is recording the entire thing she realizes that the man is
caught onto her scam so she gets up and charges at the man's car she hits the man's car hood to
try and make a dent that way an insurance company may think that the man's vehicle struck the woman
the man reverses slowly as she does this she purposely falls over one more time and then gets
up and strikes the vehicle again motorbikers simply drive past because this is simply so
common in china eventually the woman gives up and the man calls the police but the worrying
part is if the man did not have a dash cam then he likely would have been blamed it just goes to show
that maybe it's a good idea to have a dash cam just in case insurance scam gang sometimes car
insurance scammers aren't pedestrians sometimes insurance scammers are also driving cars take
this dashcam video from russia a man is driving along as normal when a silver car cuts him off
he veers left into another lane suspecting that they're simply bad drivers but then the silver car
enters his lane at this point it's clear they're trying to cause a small crash the silver car slows
down so that the man's tires scrape on their car they then pull their car over and various men get
out having many scammers is a common tactic that's because it's more intimidating to their victim
the driver tries to drive off but the men block the road however the five men have no idea that
their scam has been caught on camera the men get ready to try and get the man's insurance details
that way they can claim money from their insurance company but when the driver informs them that
their scam has been caught on camera the men instantly give up they likely moved on to the
next victim who did not have a dash cam and was not so lucky mixtape scam if you go to many cities
in the united states people may try to sell you their mixtapes a lot of the time these are good
honest up-and-coming musicians trying to sell their music but in some areas for example new
york city's times square there are many scammers in this video a man offers a tourist a free cd
he signs it and says he does not charge any money for his music but as soon as he gives the tourist
a cd he then asks for money for the cd he says this is like a donation instead of actual payment
but of course it's really the same thing after the man asks for money the tourist says he's fine and
does not want the album but the scam artist then says that he will need something for the album
thank you ted we don't sell it again we just asked for a donation for the record okay
he has various friends around him which makes this more intimidating a lot of the time tourists
simply cough up some money so the guy will leave them alone at one point the guy says
give me a small tip after all my guys are around thanksgiving small tip my dice is around i mean
i didn't want it right here and you got to come here and you got to give me a tip
i don't know about you but to me that sounds pretty threatening these mixtape scams are
very common in new york according to some the man who filmed this was later doing a
live stream in new york that's when one of these cd hustlers stalked him and threatened the man
this video went viral on tick tock and youtube and some of the comments even said these guys
are why i no longer go to new york this is because it's a very bad problem in some parts
of the city and also in other parts of the usa if you ever encounter one of these scammers make
sure not to be intimidated simply say you do not speak english and do not want their album
wiper scammer this is yet another insurance scammer in china but this one scam has a very
different method instead of laying in the road or jumping on the vehicle the scammer
flags down this female driver she slows down and the man begins leaning on her hood he also grabs
her window wiper for good measure this means that she can't reverse otherwise her wiper will break
the man is not shy to show what he wants holding up a banknote in this situation he's not trying to
get insurance money he simply wants the driver to give him some easy cash the man seems very
relaxed like he's having a normal conversation but thankfully the driver has seen this all before
she shouts get off and get lost at the man after all she is recording all of this on her dashcam
the man even seems like he's enjoying himself trying to scam this woman eventually
he realizes that this woman is too stubborn to give him any money and fall for his scam
and he thumps the car's hood in anger this just goes to show that he should stand up to scammers
they're trying to get money as easily as possible and if you make it too difficult they will simply
give up and move on to the next person it's always a good idea though to have a dash cam just in case
if it wasn't for this woman's dash cam if the man called the police they would not know who
to believe however scammers will often not call the police that's because they do this as a job
and are sometimes known to cops running start this is a pretty funny scammer fail coming from
a chinese city one morning a man is driving down a busy road that's when out of nowhere a woman runs
up the road towards his car she does not expect the man to slow down so quickly but he does
it's quite funny how annoyed this woman visibly is she marches off as she realized her scam has
failed unfortunately for everyone else on the road this means that she will move on to them
but luckily in china more than 60 percent of people have dash cams in their cars
this means it likely will take a while for this woman to find a good victim to scam
motorbike scammers scammers riding motorbikes and mopeds is very common in some countries i managed
driving down a quiet street one night that's when two guys on a moped speed in front of him and then
slow down they then pretend to get rear-ended the first guy hops off and his friend tells him to lay
down the shirtless moped driver then gets off his bike he begins acting very poorly pretending that
he was rear-ended by the driver his friend lying on the floor seems very confused like he doesn't
really want to be there maybe this was his first time scamming the moped duo were hoping for some
free money but after the driver alerted them that their entire scam had been caught on camera
they quickly moved on even if you're caught off guard by these scammers and don't have a dash
cam it may be worth saying that you do they might believe you and simply move on to the next person
after all many dash cams are rather small and scammers don't seem to ever notice them
fake disability this video comes from the city of altai in china he is a professional street beggar
but to gain more sympathy and money he's got a good scam going he pretends that he
has lost both of his legs he then moves around asking people for money on a board with wheels
he did this for a long time and was famous in the city no one knew that his disability was
fake until one day it was revealed in front of everyone he had been riding the bus with someone
earlier that day standing up normally the same man from the bus later recognized him pretending
to have a disability to get more money instead of just confronting him he walked over and revealed
the man in front of everyone using custom-made clothing he was simply wrapping his legs behind
his back because the man's legs were wrapped up he had no choice but to wheel himself away in shame
hopefully he won't be returning to scam people in this city ever again thankfully video of this
went viral online and now many people in china know to avoid this man and other such scammers
fake homeless scams have been getting more and more popular all over the world and i recently
made an entire video all about that so check it out if you haven't seen it already but now it's
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