History WebVideo / Kitboga

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kit will often deliver one of these at the end of a video, usually [[ShutUpKirk while the scammer berates him with profanity and threatens to murder him]], among other things.
** Even after he stopped regularly revealing himself to scammers, he will occasionally manage to deliver these in-character, usually after the scammer has been baited enough that they'll continue trying to come back anyway.

!!Kitboga's streams feature each and every trope:

*** Sometimes the scammer may direct the caller to the aforementioned [=GoToAssist=] and set up a second program after they log in, or ask the caller to install the software themselves. A notable quirk is their frequent insistence on using very specific, outdated versions of [=TeamViewer=].

* InsaneTrollLogic: Much of what happens in scams operates on things that don't really make a lick of sense and that the scammers can only get the victims to go along with because they create a sense of urgency. However, possibly the ultimate example of this has to be Sam and Johnson and the "Tubs" saga. The scammers tell Kitboga's Granny Edna character that hackers have authorized a $3,000 charge at [=PornHub=] on her account. The bank can't remove this because someone on her phone line pressed "2" to authorize it. The only way they can remove the charge is if she goes out purchases Lowe's gift cards to create a "duplicate charge," at which point the bank will flag the charge as being unusual for being a "duplicate" and therefore cancel ''both'' charges. This is so ridiculous that Kitboga manages to string them along for nearly an hour claiming not to understand and trying to make them explain. He then misinterpets in the way only he can, by claiming to go to Lowe's, only to instead purchase $3,000 worth of ''products'', including a "drainless bathtub," in order to make a duplicate charge.

** Kitboga reserves this particular fate to scammers who want gift cards from their victims: Kitboga pulls up a (fake) Google Playstore on the computer, promptly remove all control of the PC from the scammer (though still allowing them to see the screen) and then redeem fake Google Play gift cards right in front of them. This makes said scammers go ''completely bonkers'', and will often scream at Kitboga's character to stop as they see what they think is actual money, and their scam with it, going up in smoke. In the most successful / longest scambaits, he has actually done this trick ''more than once'', as he claims that he thinks by doing this he is actually sending them the money. (And therefore they tell him to go back out and get more gift cards.) In other cases, he has pretended to buy stuff with the amount of extra refund money he supposedly received.

* MistakenAge: It is common when Kit portrays older characters for the scammers to express that they sound much younger than they actually are. This has happened so frequently that Kit speculates that it is written into their scripts as an attempt for the scammers to endear themselves to the victim.
--> '''Kitboga''': I swear this is in their script. I swear it's always the same thing: 'Ask how old they are. If they're old, say "O-M-G, you sound so young"'.

* MoodSwinger: Scammers routinely go from berating and threating people, to sucking up to them, to begging pathetically at the drop of a hat.

** For some inexplicable reason, nearly all scammers refer to going to jail as "be behind ''the'' bar", instead of just "be behind bars".

** The standard "refund" scam involves editing the HTML to make it look as though the scammers transferred too much money to the victim, when actually all they did was an internal transfer between the checking and savings accounts. Thus, when Kit does stuff like "redeeming" gift cards in front of them, it is essentially a taste of their own medicine since he isn't actually doing anything but running a program that fakes a confirmation screen claiming that $500 has been redeemed whenever you enter any 16-digit string. The "bank account" that they manipulate is alos entirely fake.

** The standard "refund" scam involves editing the HTML to make it look as though the scammers really transferred too much money to the victim, when actually all they did was an internal transfer being the checking and savings accounts. Thus, when Kit does stuff like "redeeming" gift cards in front of them, it is essentially a taste of their own medicine since he isn't actually doing anything but running a program that fakes a confirmation screen claiming that $500 has been redeemed whenever you enter any 16-digit string. The "bank account" that they manipulate is alos entirely fake.

** One of the standard tactics of refund scammers is to claim that they will lose their job unless the target gives them back the excess money that they refunded, typically via gift cards. So, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqWrHDYK1M this video]], Kitboga claims that he is Kelly from a company's Human Resources department. Then, when the scammer asks "Kelly" to go get gift cards, she tells him that if he wants her to do this, then he needs to do her job, which involves calling up various employees and getting their responses to a survey regarding their job satisfaction. Although he does some of this, when he fails to fill out and submit the form properly over multiple calls, she tells him that she has lost her job. At this point, he calls a number which he thinks goes to Kelly's boss, but which is actually Kitboga himself using his own voice, admitting that he's a scammer and telling the boss that he was the one doing the surveys and that he was taking advantage of Kelly and not to fire her. He then calls "Kelly" back and tells her that he's saved her job, only to say that he was lying to the boss about being a scammer and he still needs gift cards from her. Kitboga, unamused, eventually tells him as Kelly that not only has she lost her job, but now she's in legal trouble for giving a criminal company information and access to a company computer system.

** Kitboga's fake banks in particular are full of gags and memes (see IfYouCanReadThis below) that would set off alarms if the scammers were actually paying the slightest bit of attention. Some may not be obvious to those from other countries like the scammers, but stuff like "Cash me outside, how about dat?" or "3.3333% interest rate ([[Machinima/LeeroyJenkinsVideo repeating, of course]])" ought to raise red flags. Another good one is "Banking doesn't have to be complicated, but it is anyways." There's also the ones where he runs Windows [=RG=] ("Really Good") Edition, a parody of version of Windows so fake and with such obvious memes, it's crazy any of the scammers believe it for a second. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7BV4yIwZE this video]], his desktop has a background which reads "Windows 9 Professional." There is no such thing as "Windows 9."

** And [[Music/{{Ween}} "Ocean Man"]], although it's pretty much a general meme to begin with. Kit's fake online bank for the refund scam was "Ocean '''Main'''" at one point, though he had to scrap it for "[[Machinima/LeeroyJenkinsVideo L. R. Jenkins Financial]]" after "Kitboga" started showing up next to it on Google's autocomplete box.

* IsThatAThreat: A little more than three hours into "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSgFRq2pY0Q When Scammers Think You're a Bitcoin Millionaire]]", Kitboga's character is refusing to cooperate with the refund scam, given that she's a Bitcoin millionaire and therefore doesn't really care about wasting time trying to claim a $300 refund. The scammers tell her that she ''has'' to take the money, saying that if she doesn't take the money "then there will be a problem with your banking." "Are you threatening me right now?!" wonders Kitboga, asking just what sort of problem there's going to be.

** The 36-hour record call with "Adam and the Boys" takes this UpToEleven. Around the 8-hour mark, Kit starts portraying Edna as someone with $3 million in savings who routinely falls for simple scams, but also as somebody who "Adam" is completely incapable of getting money from.

** Turned UpToEleven in the record 36-hour scamming attempt, in which the scammers repeatedly scream down the line that Matilda's computer is about to explode. It's missed during the first entry in the series, but played up by Kit to hilarious effect when the scammers attempt it again several streams later

* {{Corpsing}}: Kit will often have to turn aside to chuckle at the sheer ridiculousness of something happening on one of the phone calls with the scammers. This is generally easy enough, given that it's a phone call, and the time spent not talking can easily be played off as something like not hearing the scammer, therefore wasting a bit more of their time.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQW8jQhhkQw this video]] about puppy scams, he can't help from busting out laughing at the site's claim that a particular individual puppy is "backordered," though he manages to recover enough to keep the scammer from getting suspicious.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0peLpovDB8 another video]], Kitboga runs a fake/parody version of Windows called "Windows [=RG=]" [[note]]Really Good[[/note]] (actually not the first time he's done it) simply to see if the scammers will even notice. As a scammer tries to claim that everything going on his happening because of a virus, he cracks up and notes on the screen "Scammer can hear this."

* HehHehYouSaidX: "[[https://clips.twitch.tv/OpenTenaciousNikudon4Head Do you know what a floppy disk is?]]" Kit is [[{{corpsing}} visibly amused]] by how the caller ends up pronouncing "disk".

* AiIsACrapshoot: "Scamming a Scammer With Rogue AI - He Lost His Bank" features the introduction of Western Amber, an 'AI' character developed by an old woman to act as a housekeeper. As the title of the video hints at, it's not exactly a stable AI, completely ignoring the requests of Kitboga's character ''and'' the scammer of the moment and often doing the exact opposite, offering to ''help the scammer'' and at times speaking in a distorted voice.. [[note]] The character was born completely by chance after an off-hand joke. Kit expected the scammer to hang up right away, but surprising even him, he didn't, leading him to double down on the joke even further. [[/note]]
-->'''Western Amber:''' Do you believe in God?
-->'''Edna:''' Yes I do!
-->'''Western Amber:''' '''''[[AGodAmI I AM GOD]]'''''

* FiveFiveFive: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDMSCfol3HM Scammer Wastes Entire Day Expecting My $2,000]]," a popup supposedly appears on Kitboga's computer with a 555 number that connects to Daniel the scammer for supposed free virus cleaning.

** For some inexplicable reason, nearly all scammers refer to going to jail as "be behind ''the'' bar", instead of just "behind bars".

* VerbalTic: Scammers often seem to pepper in "Sir", "Ma'am", or the like into their speech an inordinate amount, even when they're angrily cussing out Kit's characters. [[https://youtu.be/QJV9TibuQiY At least once]], the scammer defaulted to using "Sir" to refer to a female character, leading Kit to correct him multiple times throughout their interactions and at one point flat-out hanging up on him in in-character anger.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the early days of the channel, Kitboga would always reveal himself at the end to the scammer and letting them know their time was wasted. He stopped doing that because he finds it more fun if the scammers think they've failed to scam an actual target even after the video is over. Additionally, the early videos lack some of the signatures of later material, such as the more complex ChromaKey backgrounds and the crazy characters, instead featuring Kitboga speaking to the scammers using his own voice. (These days his own voice is usually reserved for the "rival scammer" character Daniel.)