The gentle voice of an elderly woman named Edna is heard over the phone. "I'm going to call Ticketmaster and see if we can get us some tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, OK?" she says. "Will you call ...

Kitboga has become a rising Twitch star by livestreaming himself for hours at a time. But unlike most streamers on the platform, he's not playing video games. Instead, the software engineer spends ...

“Whether you think you've won $1 million or you think you owe $1 million... the scammer is going to make you do something right now,” warns scambaiter Kitboga. In an exclusive interview with ...

“How should I get you the money, like, write a check?” said the Twitch streamer Kitboga, affecting the frail vocal fry of an 81-year-old woman named Edna. On the other end of the phone line, a man ...

Streamer Kitboga had been livestreaming earlier today, baiting scammers and fraudsters on his Twitch channel. He then got into a conversation with a particular scammer for more than ten hours, after ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Kitboga is a popular ‘scam baiter’ who poses ...

Everybody has their own way of dealing with phone scammers. I tried different tactics. When someone tried to sell me an extended car warranty I played “the dumbest man in the world.” When they asked ...

Earlier this week, live on Twitch, the streamer Kitboga attempted to place a wholesale order for an essential oil that, the woman on the phone implied to him, cured Covid-19. There is, of course, no ...

On Twitch and YouTube, Kitboga spends most days delving into the murky world of tech support scams. Donning aviator sunglasses and sometimes a wig, he is a rising star in the live-streaming scene, ...

"Well, my grandchildren were over and it's something about a pornography virus," says the soft voice of an elderly woman over the phone. "I unplugged my computer right away," she continues, and after ...

Kitboga is the alias of a Twitch and YouTube streamer who focuses on scam baiting - wasting the time of con artists who are trying to steal money from people. He and a few others have now turned to ...