**A Tale of Scamming: A Cautionary Story**

In this wild and wacky tale, our hero found himself embroiled in a scam that would test his patience and determination. It all started when he stumbled upon an ad for a PlayStation 5, an item he had been coveting for some time. The price? A whopping $133.08, a steal compared to the usual markups of $282.

Excited by the prospect of scoring a deal, our hero quickly clicked "buy now" and waited anxiously for his new console to arrive. However, as the minutes ticked by, he began to feel a sense of unease. The seller claimed that they would expedite the shipping process, but the estimated delivery date remained shrouded in mystery.

As our hero delved deeper into the transaction, he discovered that the seller was none other than a former Olympian. This revelation raised his suspicions, but he couldn't shake off the feeling that this might be an genuine opportunity to snag a bargain. That is, until the seller claimed to need his payment method in exchange for the console.

Our hero's instincts began to kick in as he realized that something was amiss. The seller's request for personal information seemed fishy, but he hesitated to question them further. After all, who wouldn't want a PlayStation 5? In a bold move, our hero tried to negotiate with the seller, offering to pay $159.09 in exchange for a discount.

The seller agreed to this new price point, but the conversation took an unexpected turn when our hero asked if they needed his address. To his surprise, the seller claimed that they didn't require any further information, and the transaction seemed to be moving forward. That is, until all communication ceased, leaving our hero wondering if he had been scammed.

In a bold move, our hero decided to send a screenshot of the transaction as proof of payment. However, this only led to more confusion, with the seller claiming that they would "gettrudelus" (a name we can only assume is nonsensical). The sender eventually opted for a "goods and services" option, which seemed to be an innocuous term.

As our hero waited anxiously for his console to arrive, he couldn't shake off the feeling that something was amiss. Would he finally receive his PlayStation 5, or had he been duped by the seller's cunning tactics? In the end, it didn't matter; our hero had already wasted two hours of his life on this wild goose chase.

**A Lesson Learned**

This cautionary tale serves as a reminder to always be vigilant when dealing with online transactions. Scammers are notorious for their cunning and patience, often preying on unsuspecting victims who are eager to snag a bargain. Our hero's story is a testament to the importance of verifying sellers' authenticity and being cautious when sharing personal information.

As for our hero, he'll likely never receive his PlayStation 5. Instead, he'll be left with a tale of woe and a valuable lesson learned the hard way. So, take heed: if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni need my ps5 now send all right you've sent 159.09 to catrudulus hello audience we need to have a serious talk first of all stop it stop stop falling for the telegram scams they're obviously fake we're not gonna ask you to message us to pay us 400 to ship you a computer number one reason i'm not giving away any computers and i will not anytime soon i'm sorry if that disappoints you that's how we do it here and if we do it's probably going to be to an e-waste recycling charity and we're not going to ask for 400 to give it away it's a scam i don't know how to spell telegram which is apparently the app everyone uses because when i went to try and download the app i kept spelling it wrong so we don't have a telegram account we will never have a telegram account and we're not going to give computers away in exchange for money that's not a giveaway that's a sale so please stop falling for it now what we're going to do is i've gotten kind of sick of this so we're going to look up a couple of the scammer accounts i'm going to pay them money i'm going to scam myself i've registered a telegram account that is called steve burke gamers nexus and we're gonna message gamers nexus one and some other ones we're gonna give them money and then i'm gonna show you how i don't get a computer and that's it that's all there is to this this video is brought to you by us we're almost out of our limited edition foil cyberskeleton t-shirt to help us pay for willingly doing this to ourselves for this video today for your entertainment and to protect others from falling into this trap consider supporting our work you can grab one of these limited edition shirts from store.gamersnexus.net our inventory will only last a few more days as we close the pre-orders so if you want to make sure you get one of these shirts grab one now the cyber skeleton shirt features a rib cage on the front with water cooling tubes and fittings pcie slots and rgb led strips forming the structure featuring a gm logo and a foil gold pump cap for the heart centrally the back has a spine made out of voltage regulator components your purchases of this shirt will help fuel our future adventures on this channel grab one before sales close over on store.camerasnexus.net so uh let's let's start with we're we're interrupting our entire production schedule just for this because it's become so widespread so patrick can you please give us some examples he got a reply on our rk 750 review saying that in a youtube comment yes saying that he was the final winner on unspecified what the winning is right and text at gamersnexus0 on telegram and he looked that up and couldn't find it but he found one called at gamersnexus1 and he paid 160 for shipping to some random gmail address none of us use gmail addresses uh we only use that gamer's nexus addresses and then another 140 dollars for packaging to another random person's name at gmail like a separate name and that adds up to 300. yes yeah um and then he said he got asked to pay 250 for a security charge so yes so so this is what's happening where uh i would be really clear here this is not my responsibility to not fall for scams or to warn you about scams but we've already done this we've posted on the youtube community page i post it on twitter and we've done everything short of making a video because making a video about it seems like a waste of everybody's time but here we are and so to make it worth the time i'm going to now pay to make the video by getting scammed so that it's entertaining uh i don't know we need jim browning can send me a message and then we can do a collaboration on finding getting my money back i'm going to be scamming for but it's kind of ridiculous i yeah i i can kind of understand this from one angle which is first of all i i know we're going to see this in the comments and i don't want to see this but this shouldn't be a matter of like people just saying saying how could you possibly fall for these and shaming people for falling for them because what's happening is people are afraid to say they've fallen for the scams because they know it looks stupid and they feel kind of dumb for it after they get through the whole process so of course they don't want to talk about it and that means that more people get scammed and so this isn't just like something where the elderly fall for it it's people who are computer savvy who are watching our channel falling for it which means that something works and so first of all if someone says i fell for a scam in the comments you shouldn't be jumping down their throat saying you are so dumb oh my god because there's clearly something that clicks or maybe they see it as like this is my shot i needed this right now uh i really need some money or i really need a computer or i'm having a hard time whatever it is this is like a shining moment for them and these scammers they're taking advantage of a few things one of them is free stuff another one is they're making you feel like oh my this person i watch is interacting with me and is going to give me something for free so they're abusing all of these social angles to get you to fall for it and that's social engineering so our goal with this is to say yeah you shouldn't fall for these but also you shouldn't chain people necessarily who do although if at this point you fall for it well um all right let's show let me log into telegram and then we will we will get scammed okay the login is complete this app is breaking my heart patrick handed me a list of some names we're not going to censor these because you can just go into telegram typing gamers nexus official gamers nexus gamersnexus00 gamers nexus 1 official underscore gamers underscore nexus official underscore gamers nexus gamers nexus underscore official official gamers nexus gamers nexus underscore official giveaway creative one of those is gainers i'm just gonna ask about gainersnexus01 and gamer underscore nexus let's talk to official gamers nexus last seen at 8pm i was informed that i won a free gaming computer omg i'm so excited okay we got that one started let's start another one this is the youtube studio dashboard and i search for telegram and this is a comment on one of our videos and you can see that a user called telegram me and emma dax said thanks for your support and watching you have been shortlisted to claim prize above on telegram let's just send a message here uh hello i got a comment reply you are my favorite youtube text telegram official welker farms thanks for living thanks for leaving a comment inbox above telegram to acknowledge a gift okay this was before i banned the gift emoji uh if you post a comment and you're like hey why did gn hide my comment it's probably because you used an emoji that i banned because of telegram let's try this one oh in the process of trying to find more telegram comments we had this comment uh that says hey you probably didn't notice it but i said something really snotty and crappy on an older video of yours because i didn't like something you said i apologize and have really enjoyed watching your content since then sorry if anyone of the company saw me being a turd and got bummed out nope doesn't sound familiar but thanks for letting me know that's that's very mature i i respect that official jay's two cents i'll send jay an email and tell him i got scammed and demand him to pay me back i think it's pretty genuine and if it's actual jay i hope i get an angry response about how i shouldn't fall for scams how many of these things do i how do they even how do people get scammed they won't reply to me are they all asleep or what oh i found it oh i think i found a better way to search oh no wait austin evans 1-1 transmorgified from at austin evans previously so i went to message 101 and it opened up a chat where i had already sent okay so they changed names maybe there's a whole one person hey guys this is austin there's no way they let calls through right like uh what's another youtuber uh we've got nick simmons oh yeah hi nick what did i win i heard you were giving away nike vapor flies oh we got one nick simmons not the real one but if the real one's watching then let's let's make a video together uh how can i help you if you are a winner the comments sent to you from youtube and send it to me patrick help we have our technician send it to me on discord i'll download it he sent a thumbs up when i said you're so smart little thanks type in all right congratulations you have been selected among my shortlisted winners wow now what ps5 let's see there we go haha mine is broken well i need a new one so bad you are a lifesaver what country are you from united states of america how long have you been watching my videos on youtube i said like 12 years i'm pretty sure nick has only been on youtube a couple years he's a former olympian so it can't have been that long wow that's awesome how do i get the ps5 oh these are my options let's see ups expedited 133.08 that's not too bad normally it's 282 wow what a great discount ups express saver delivery date unavailable for any of these can you get me a discount because you are famous i really like people who are honest and keep to their word what the does that mean all right you can pay 159.09 wow that's a good deal what's your payment method my parent method is hey pal he's looking he's looking up where nick simmons lives right now look where does this youtuber live yeah he definitely looked up where nick lived it's it's coming no it's not coming from oregon it's coming from new orleans very famous american state one of 51 states in fact is it nice in new orleans yes sure it's great year this man this is actually a lot of effort to get scammed from a guy in new orleans all right just a minute get true to lust okay sure send screenshot after payment for fast confirmation oh boy this is a good opportunity to remind you to please buy stuff on store.gamersnexus.net it won't always go to this just this time normally it goes to testing equipment for our reviews but you can pick up one of these limited edition foil cyber skeleton shirts and you'll actually get something that's not a free computer giveaway in exchange for your money so that's pretty cool it's like the opposite of a scam that we're doing right now send to gettrudalus that is the name 15909 all right ps5 is what it's for continue let's send it let's send it for goods and services oh what take up 24 hours to reach catrudelus fine family and friends i don't have 24 hours i need my ps5 now send all right you've sent 159.09 to gettrudeles send a screenshot sure this is how he taught me how to screenshot so i'll continue doing that tell us how this transaction went i'd be glad to your feedback is important to us how easy or difficult was it to complete your transaction today very difficult next what was difficult about your experience getting scammed took longer than expected frown thanks this feedback will help us make improvements to your experience well i mean we have completed the story arc we've been scammed uh i can't say it was the most believable or enjoyable scam i've ever experienced i'd say some of the scams in runescape about 14 years ago or more creative but have you given him an address to ship to yet yeah he's shift he's shipping to the united states andrew obviously do you need my address no no just your money want to do the hold on to the bar challenge one dollar of every second i can hold the bar you're gonna feel quiet if if i hold it for 159 seconds i get a ps5 you know nick if you see this i know it wasn't actually you but if you want to do a video together i'll i'll hold on to a bar and try and get my 159 seconds back i don't think i can hold it for that long but maybe we could do something easier like walk 159 steps that i can do uh that's the scam i haven't gotten another reply even though i asked did the payment go through should i try again we're still waiting on a response here i'm sure i'll hear from as patrick said 27 more of these tomorrow morning but uh that's how it works they asked where do you live and i said america and then they said okay the shipping will be 159 actually i said it'll be 210 or whatever i said can i have a discount because you're famous and they said sure 159. uh i then sent them 159 i said do you need my address they said just a minute okay and then didn't message me again so um i don't know that it's even legitimate for me to dispute the charge because i knew what i was buying it was this video i guess i'll dispute it anyway i did send it to friends and family though just because nick and i are close like that but he'll message me back later he's probably busy so um that's it for this one stop it stop getting scammed it's it took me two hours to get scammed don't do it we're not gonna give you anything sorry i don't know if you see me at a convention or something i'll sign your shirt or whatever we can take a selfie i'm not going to give you a computer though definitely not on telegram which i've now learned has two e's not no that's it thanks for watching see you all next timei need my ps5 now send all right you've sent 159.09 to catrudulus hello audience we need to have a serious talk first of all stop it stop stop falling for the telegram scams they're obviously fake we're not gonna ask you to message us to pay us 400 to ship you a computer number one reason i'm not giving away any computers and i will not anytime soon i'm sorry if that disappoints you that's how we do it here and if we do it's probably going to be to an e-waste recycling charity and we're not going to ask for 400 to give it away it's a scam i don't know how to spell telegram which is apparently the app everyone uses because when i went to try and download the app i kept spelling it wrong so we don't have a telegram account we will never have a telegram account and we're not going to give computers away in exchange for money that's not a giveaway that's a sale so please stop falling for it now what we're going to do is i've gotten kind of sick of this so we're going to look up a couple of the scammer accounts i'm going to pay them money i'm going to scam myself i've registered a telegram account that is called steve burke gamers nexus and we're gonna message gamers nexus one and some other ones we're gonna give them money and then i'm gonna show you how i don't get a computer and that's it that's all there is to this this video is brought to you by us we're almost out of our limited edition foil cyberskeleton t-shirt to help us pay for willingly doing this to ourselves for this video today for your entertainment and to protect others from falling into this trap consider supporting our work you can grab one of these limited edition shirts from store.gamersnexus.net our inventory will only last a few more days as we close the pre-orders so if you want to make sure you get one of these shirts grab one now the cyber skeleton shirt features a rib cage on the front with water cooling tubes and fittings pcie slots and rgb led strips forming the structure featuring a gm logo and a foil gold pump cap for the heart centrally the back has a spine made out of voltage regulator components your purchases of this shirt will help fuel our future adventures on this channel grab one before sales close over on store.camerasnexus.net so uh let's let's start with we're we're interrupting our entire production schedule just for this because it's become so widespread so patrick can you please give us some examples he got a reply on our rk 750 review saying that in a youtube comment yes saying that he was the final winner on unspecified what the winning is right and text at gamersnexus0 on telegram and he looked that up and couldn't find it but he found one called at gamersnexus1 and he paid 160 for shipping to some random gmail address none of us use gmail addresses uh we only use that gamer's nexus addresses and then another 140 dollars for packaging to another random person's name at gmail like a separate name and that adds up to 300. yes yeah um and then he said he got asked to pay 250 for a security charge so yes so so this is what's happening where uh i would be really clear here this is not my responsibility to not fall for scams or to warn you about scams but we've already done this we've posted on the youtube community page i post it on twitter and we've done everything short of making a video because making a video about it seems like a waste of everybody's time but here we are and so to make it worth the time i'm going to now pay to make the video by getting scammed so that it's entertaining uh i don't know we need jim browning can send me a message and then we can do a collaboration on finding getting my money back i'm going to be scamming for but it's kind of ridiculous i yeah i i can kind of understand this from one angle which is first of all i i know we're going to see this in the comments and i don't want to see this but this shouldn't be a matter of like people just saying saying how could you possibly fall for these and shaming people for falling for them because what's happening is people are afraid to say they've fallen for the scams because they know it looks stupid and they feel kind of dumb for it after they get through the whole process so of course they don't want to talk about it and that means that more people get scammed and so this isn't just like something where the elderly fall for it it's people who are computer savvy who are watching our channel falling for it which means that something works and so first of all if someone says i fell for a scam in the comments you shouldn't be jumping down their throat saying you are so dumb oh my god because there's clearly something that clicks or maybe they see it as like this is my shot i needed this right now uh i really need some money or i really need a computer or i'm having a hard time whatever it is this is like a shining moment for them and these scammers they're taking advantage of a few things one of them is free stuff another one is they're making you feel like oh my this person i watch is interacting with me and is going to give me something for free so they're abusing all of these social angles to get you to fall for it and that's social engineering so our goal with this is to say yeah you shouldn't fall for these but also you shouldn't chain people necessarily who do although if at this point you fall for it well um all right let's show let me log into telegram and then we will we will get scammed okay the login is complete this app is breaking my heart patrick handed me a list of some names we're not going to censor these because you can just go into telegram typing gamers nexus official gamers nexus gamersnexus00 gamers nexus 1 official underscore gamers underscore nexus official underscore gamers nexus gamers nexus underscore official official gamers nexus gamers nexus underscore official giveaway creative one of those is gainers i'm just gonna ask about gainersnexus01 and gamer underscore nexus let's talk to official gamers nexus last seen at 8pm i was informed that i won a free gaming computer omg i'm so excited okay we got that one started let's start another one this is the youtube studio dashboard and i search for telegram and this is a comment on one of our videos and you can see that a user called telegram me and emma dax said thanks for your support and watching you have been shortlisted to claim prize above on telegram let's just send a message here uh hello i got a comment reply you are my favorite youtube text telegram official welker farms thanks for living thanks for leaving a comment inbox above telegram to acknowledge a gift okay this was before i banned the gift emoji uh if you post a comment and you're like hey why did gn hide my comment it's probably because you used an emoji that i banned because of telegram let's try this one oh in the process of trying to find more telegram comments we had this comment uh that says hey you probably didn't notice it but i said something really snotty and crappy on an older video of yours because i didn't like something you said i apologize and have really enjoyed watching your content since then sorry if anyone of the company saw me being a turd and got bummed out nope doesn't sound familiar but thanks for letting me know that's that's very mature i i respect that official jay's two cents i'll send jay an email and tell him i got scammed and demand him to pay me back i think it's pretty genuine and if it's actual jay i hope i get an angry response about how i shouldn't fall for scams how many of these things do i how do they even how do people get scammed they won't reply to me are they all asleep or what oh i found it oh i think i found a better way to search oh no wait austin evans 1-1 transmorgified from at austin evans previously so i went to message 101 and it opened up a chat where i had already sent okay so they changed names maybe there's a whole one person hey guys this is austin there's no way they let calls through right like uh what's another youtuber uh we've got nick simmons oh yeah hi nick what did i win i heard you were giving away nike vapor flies oh we got one nick simmons not the real one but if the real one's watching then let's let's make a video together uh how can i help you if you are a winner the comments sent to you from youtube and send it to me patrick help we have our technician send it to me on discord i'll download it he sent a thumbs up when i said you're so smart little thanks type in all right congratulations you have been selected among my shortlisted winners wow now what ps5 let's see there we go haha mine is broken well i need a new one so bad you are a lifesaver what country are you from united states of america how long have you been watching my videos on youtube i said like 12 years i'm pretty sure nick has only been on youtube a couple years he's a former olympian so it can't have been that long wow that's awesome how do i get the ps5 oh these are my options let's see ups expedited 133.08 that's not too bad normally it's 282 wow what a great discount ups express saver delivery date unavailable for any of these can you get me a discount because you are famous i really like people who are honest and keep to their word what the does that mean all right you can pay 159.09 wow that's a good deal what's your payment method my parent method is hey pal he's looking he's looking up where nick simmons lives right now look where does this youtuber live yeah he definitely looked up where nick lived it's it's coming no it's not coming from oregon it's coming from new orleans very famous american state one of 51 states in fact is it nice in new orleans yes sure it's great year this man this is actually a lot of effort to get scammed from a guy in new orleans all right just a minute get true to lust okay sure send screenshot after payment for fast confirmation oh boy this is a good opportunity to remind you to please buy stuff on store.gamersnexus.net it won't always go to this just this time normally it goes to testing equipment for our reviews but you can pick up one of these limited edition foil cyber skeleton shirts and you'll actually get something that's not a free computer giveaway in exchange for your money so that's pretty cool it's like the opposite of a scam that we're doing right now send to gettrudalus that is the name 15909 all right ps5 is what it's for continue let's send it let's send it for goods and services oh what take up 24 hours to reach catrudelus fine family and friends i don't have 24 hours i need my ps5 now send all right you've sent 159.09 to gettrudeles send a screenshot sure this is how he taught me how to screenshot so i'll continue doing that tell us how this transaction went i'd be glad to your feedback is important to us how easy or difficult was it to complete your transaction today very difficult next what was difficult about your experience getting scammed took longer than expected frown thanks this feedback will help us make improvements to your experience well i mean we have completed the story arc we've been scammed uh i can't say it was the most believable or enjoyable scam i've ever experienced i'd say some of the scams in runescape about 14 years ago or more creative but have you given him an address to ship to yet yeah he's shift he's shipping to the united states andrew obviously do you need my address no no just your money want to do the hold on to the bar challenge one dollar of every second i can hold the bar you're gonna feel quiet if if i hold it for 159 seconds i get a ps5 you know nick if you see this i know it wasn't actually you but if you want to do a video together i'll i'll hold on to a bar and try and get my 159 seconds back i don't think i can hold it for that long but maybe we could do something easier like walk 159 steps that i can do uh that's the scam i haven't gotten another reply even though i asked did the payment go through should i try again we're still waiting on a response here i'm sure i'll hear from as patrick said 27 more of these tomorrow morning but uh that's how it works they asked where do you live and i said america and then they said okay the shipping will be 159 actually i said it'll be 210 or whatever i said can i have a discount because you're famous and they said sure 159. uh i then sent them 159 i said do you need my address they said just a minute okay and then didn't message me again so um i don't know that it's even legitimate for me to dispute the charge because i knew what i was buying it was this video i guess i'll dispute it anyway i did send it to friends and family though just because nick and i are close like that but he'll message me back later he's probably busy so um that's it for this one stop it stop getting scammed it's it took me two hours to get scammed don't do it we're not gonna give you anything sorry i don't know if you see me at a convention or something i'll sign your shirt or whatever we can take a selfie i'm not going to give you a computer though definitely not on telegram which i've now learned has two e's not no that's it thanks for watching see you all next time\n"