History WebVideo / Kitboga

Kitboga is a scambaiter and occasional PC game streamer on Website/{{Twitch}}. His goal is to spread awareness of the various phone scams out there, that prey upon innocent people that are too easily-manipulated into their schemes.

* CanadaEh: The Canada Revenue Agency scams, which are essentially the same as the IRS tax scams with references to US institutions replaced with Canadian ones. Kitboga always checks whether the fake-CRA offers its services in French[[note]]Canadian law requires all government services to be available in both French and English[[/note]], which it never does. To prove that the scammers have never set foot in Canada in most cases, Kit will also refer to tourist attractions or cities in Canada and ask the scammers if they visited them; often the scammer will give only very vague responses or try to avoid the question.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: One of Kit's favorite scammer time-wasters is to tell a [[RamblingOldManMonologue long, rambling story]] that is supposed to be a metaphor of some sort or have AnAesop, which is thoroughly forgotten as the story branches off in five different directions. On rare occasions, the ''scammer'' may supply one, which may or may not resemble whatever was originally being driven towards.

* AccidentalMisnaming: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKOBZ7PpQI8 Do Not Cut the Cards]]," Kitboga's character, Dawn Dewitt ("Granny Edna") often forgets the name of the scammer, Kathleen. She calls her at least a dozen different incorrect names, including, but not limited to, Candice, Kristin, Kelly, Cindy, Catalina and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Rachel]]. At one point, she even seems to think that she's received a call from "Krispy Kreme," possibly offering a promotion on donuts.

** Another minor one, more of an irriation really, is any time the refund scammers ask him to fill out their fake "refund form." He considers it a boring and unnecessary part of the process and therefore especially in latter installments will either refuse outright or demand that ''they'' fill it out.

* KnewItAllAlong: After a reveal, scammers tend to claim that they knew Kit was a scambaiter the entire time. Kit notes that the scammers are trying to save face; he even picks this apart by saying that if the scammers truly knew about the scambait, they would have hung up on Kit to move on to a real person. He has cited this as part of the reason why in later installments he has largely stopped revealing because the response tend to be predictably be this and he prefers to end things with them thinking that they wasted hours of time on a potential actual victim and got nothing for it.

* PhonyPsychic: At least twice now, Kitboga has pretended to be psychic during a scambaiting call, using a combination of his own accumulated knowledge of how the scams work ("I sense your job will soon be in jeopardy!") and traditional tactics such as ColdReading. The first time, it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZAtornIzzA goes so well]] that the scammers basically just give up on trying to scam his character and start confessing their troubles. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd21_Xy3kDchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd21_Xy3kDc second time]], it's not clear if the scammer ever really buys it, but it doesn't end up hurting the bait either (it ends up lasting over 4 and 1/2 hours).

He streams on [[https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga Twitch]], but also has a [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw YouTube channel]] where condensed videos are posted. In 2021, he began a new [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWpQycBnpPxyWY6bBhr4Rbw YouTube channel]] called "More Kitboga" in which certain full calls can now be seen on [=YouTube=]. Not long after this, another [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgmhcAFfPVx_AMSf89HGh_A new channel]] was posted called "Kitboga Highlights" in which he posts brief highlights of memorable moments from calls, sometimes even before a more extensive clip is posted to [=YouTube=]. Some fans have quipped that this channel should be called "Less Kitboga." In July 2021, it was [[https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/g4-signs-twitch-streamer-kitboga-for-its-first-toon/ announced]] that Creator/{{G4}} had signed Kitboga for an animated series featuring some of his most memorable scambaiting calls. In February 2022, he released a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl-_LBx_tpM first look]] at the series, ''Baited'', on his [=YouTube=] channel, featuring one of his most popular calls in which he pretended to buy hot dogs using the gift cards that scammers wanted. A [[https://podcast.kitbogashow.com/ podcast]] is also now available.