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  • Many of the calls can have a Nothing Is Scarier quality to them. Since we only get the (often amateurish and low-quality) audio from the scammer's phone, whatever is happening in that call center is up to the viewer's imagination.
  • "Crazy IRS Scammer Threatens To Kill Old Lady Over $200". What began as a pretty standard IRS scam took a sudden turn for the dark when the phone was handed to the person in-charge of dealing with hooked victims. In response to Edna making an off-hand reference to having a deceased husband, the scammer threatened to have her shot on her doorstep for not complying, and continued gloating about saying that even after Kit broke character to express his disgust. Possibly the most legitimately angry that Kit has ever been in response to a call, as he practically prays that the scammer was just making a random one-off joke.
  • "Immigration Scam Exposed" deals with a call center that impersonated ICE and targeted immigrants with threats of deportation if they didn't pay up. The scammers themselves were particularly unsympathetic and nasty towards their victim, and also proved themselves to be quite competent at selling the premise of the scam. Kit noticeably struggled to find any humor during much of the call.
  • Meet Steve, possibly the angriest and most volatile scammer that Kitboga has called, surpassing Adam's monumental freak-out in Episode #1 of the Adam and Alex call. Steve's ridiculous outbreak over what he thinks is a clueless old lady not following his instructions to the letter or redeeming the cards instead of giving him the numbers might be funny at first, but imagine if this weren't Kitboga and a genuine clueless elderly person?
    • Also, keep in mind that after his outburst, he started threatening to rape and murder Edna's family, getting progressively more depraved and violent in his rage.
  • The scam in which the scammer calls someone up, usually someone they believe to be elderly, and claims that one of their relatives was at fault in an accident and is in jail. They then convince the victim they have to pay up to get their relative out or they will be in jail for years, using very high-pressure tactics. These include demanding that you can't hang up and also that you not tell anyone else about the call.
  • In this video, the scammer claims not simply that there's a virus on Granny Edna's computer, but that he is a virus on her computer. It mainly comes off as bizarrely amusing, but imagine if it actually was a befuddled 85-year-old woman that he was making the claim to. And when "Edna" asks what he wants, he tells her to take off her clothes. ("There's no way! I'm 85 years old.") Then things get even sleazier as he goes for the Schmuck Bait nudes folder.
  • The eponymous "Professional" scammer of "Baited - The Professional" is a subtle example of this. She doesn't get particularly angry nor does she directly threaten the would-be victim like other scammers would. Instead, she's amicable, personable, and can improvise on the spot...which is exactly what makes her so dangerous, as Kitboga himself points out. If she's that good in the absurd and abnormal situations Kitboga's character puts her in, just how many regular old folks did she successfully scam?
  • Abel ("The Most Raw Scammer Meltdown Ever") is another great example of one who is scary precisely because of being "good." He is friendly, personable, and easily able to engage with Kitboga's "Dr. Linda" character. He doesn't get put off by her long digressions and even ends up going on some himself, all in an attempt to relate to her character. As Kitboga notes more than once, he's exactly the type of scammer he feels like he should be talking to because he's wasting the time of someone who otherwise might be out there genuinely scamming someone and doing a good job of it too. It's only as the call drags on for hours and hours that Abel finally begins to crack, and even then he doesn't curse or make threats of violence like so many other scammers do, instead just going the route of claiming that terrible things will happen to him.

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