Infiltrating scammer networks with the world’s top fraud fighters | Marketplace

Marketplace joins forces with top scambusters to confront scammers in real time, cracking into networks of organized crime groups and watching some through their own security cameras. We stop nearly a dozen Canadians from potentially losing their life savings at our very own Fraud Fighting Centre, joining forces with scambaiters Jim Browning, Pleasant Green and Kitboga.

00:00 – Meet the scambaiters
06:08 – Saving Canadians from scams
12:48 – Psychology of a scammer
22:42 – Outsmarting scammers in real time
33:45 – The ‘grandparent scam’ and the impact of AI
38:56 – How to protect yourself

#Marketplace #Scammer #scambaiting

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Meet the scambaiters
Jim Browning: The ‘godfather’ of scambusting – https://www.youtube.com/JimBrowning
Pleasant Green: The Protector – https://www.youtube.com/c/PleasantGreen
Kitboga: The crime-fighting comedian – https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow

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SCAM STOPPERS:
THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN

producer/director
NELISHA VELLANI

editor
AARON TAYLOR

reporter
DAVID COMMON

additional editing
SIMON PARUBCHAK

camera
NORM ARNOLD
DAVID MACINTOSH
JOE FIORINO

art director
DAVID ABRAHAMS

audio
IGAL PETEL
RICHMOND LEE

additional field production
JENNY COWLEY
MICHELLE McCANN

additional research
BOBBY HRISTOVA

additional footage
YOUTUBE: Jim Browning
YOUTUBE: Kitboga
YOUTUBE: Pleasant Green
YOUTUBE: Scam Sandwich
YOUTUBE: Amazon MGM Studios
YOUTUBE: O2

special thanks
AMELIA KARIM

media management
ASTORIA LUZZI

social media producers
CAROLINE GDYCZYNSKI
BRITT PURDY
RACHEL MACLEAN
AVNEET DHILLON

colour correction
KYLE J. SMITH

sound mix
DANY TREMBLAY
MARIANA HUTTEN

resource coordinators
MARC CORMIER
DRAGAN MARICIC

news rollout associate producer
DEXTER McMILLAN

packaging producer
LINDA SIBONY

promo producer
GREG SADLER

senior producer
TIFFANY FOXCROFT

executive producer
NELISHA VELLANI

FIRST BROADCAST March 21, 2025

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