Name: Scams That Should be Illegal
Uploaded: 2019-08-30T05:07:27.000Z
Duration: 8 min 45 s
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Me and my twin sister used to share a single Neopet account.

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Which was a dumb decision, because it was completely free to make a second Neopet account-

And we already struggled at sharing things in the non-virtual world.

But the reason we co-ran our Neopet account was because we didn't want to put our pets through a divorce,

And because we wanted to save up our Neopoints for a paintbrush.

For those of you who grew up with real video games,

in Neopets, a paintbrush was a super-rare item that would change your neopet's appearance based off the paintbrush you used.

When I said that paintbrushes were a rare item, I meant it.

You see, your average neopet paintbrush would sell for about...

And the most me and my sister had ever saved up was about 100,000.

[James] WHY DID YOU SPEND 3K ON FOOD? WE'RE TRYING TO GET PAINTBRUSHES!

[Faith] IT WAS FLOWER67'S BIRTHDAY, AND YOU SPENT 4K GETTING THAT STUPID JACKET!

[James] THE JACKET IS COOL AND YOU KNOW IT!

One day, my sister went searching in the back alleys of the internet

And she stumbled upon this website that said:

And all she had to do was enter in her username and password,

And in a moment of desperation, she entered in the login details of our SHARED ACCOUNT

And you'll never guess what happened next...

We log in our account and there were 3 fairy paintbrushes in our inventory and-

and we never got the paintbrush we were promised.

But we learnt a valuable lesson that day which was:

People will try to scam you so, trust... no one.

We were lucky enough to only lose virtual money.

On the internet you have to deal with people trying to scam you constantly.

There's probably comments underneath this very video of people using

"Click on this link and get a free gift card!"

And they always use a stupid amount of emojis so their comment sticks out more.

I thought it was obvious those comments were fake but some people still fall for them.

Listen, we need to get one thing straight about our relationship.

Scammers like to target non tech-savvy people or what I like to call: Babies and Baby Boomers.

There's a lot of things you can do to help prevent people from taking advantage of you on the internet.

if something sounds too good to be true...

Your long lost uncle didn't wire transfer you money,

You can't cheat the system that's just life, man.

"Your computer has a virus! Call this number to fix it."

A guy with an indian accent named Jason will charge you real money to "fix the virus"

Cause you never had a virus in the first place.

Millions of family suffer from it every year.

However there are some scams that are, for some unknown reason, completely legal.

And frankly, I think we should reopen alcatraz for the people who do these scams.

(009 Sound System Dreamscape) So here's my list for the top 4 legal scams that shouldn't be legal.

I was doing a show with this nine-year-old kid named Ariah.

And in the show, he was going to punch me like this: (Ariah punches James).

And one day while we were rehearsing Ariah asked me:

[Ariah] Can I play some games on your phone?

So I gave him my phone and his Dad told me

[Ariah's Dad] Hey man, I don't even trust my kid with my phone.

And I thought: What's the worst thing he could do besides tweet something or delete my YouTube channel.

and inside the game you could buy a VIP Member version.

that gave you extra lives and more skins.

The thing that was a scam was that the app gave you the VIP member

free for 3 days then charged you $6 a week!

That's a dollar a day, not including Thursdays, to play some stupid mobile game.

It's more expensive than a Netflix Subscription and

a tasty, hot and ready $5 Little Caesars pizza.

"Okay, yeah that's a ridiculous price for a mobile game.

But that's not a scam, they tell you how much it's going to cost right there on the screen''

But here's the thing, roughly zero people bought the VIP member pass

because they were fans of the game and didn't mind the price.

NO ONE IS WILLING TO PAY A WEEKLY BILL FOR A GAME WHERE ALL YOU DO IS THIS:

But 100% of the people who pay for the subscription are kids

using their parent's phone and bought the VIP pass because they have no concept of money.

And you don't even have to enter in your credit card information

so it's easier for kids just to hit the "Purchase 6000 Gems" buttton

It's targeting kids and I don't like it; SCAM.

I wish I had the confidence of a mobile game developer

to charge someone $312 a year to play their stupid game.

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