Scammer Payback

American YouTuber and scambaiter

Scammer Payback

Scammer Payback in 2025

Personal information
Nationality| American
Other names| Pierogi
Occupations|

* YouTuber
* scambaiter

Website| www.scammerpayback.org
YouTube information
Channel|

* Scammer Payback

Years active| 2019–present
Genre(s)| Scam baiting, Vigilantism
Subscribers| 8.3 million[1]
Views| 1.18 billion[1]
Associated acts|

* Mark Rober
* Jim Browning
* Karl Rock
* AnyDesk

Creator Awards

| 100,000 subscribers| 2020
| 1,000,000 subscribers| 2021

Twitch information

Channel|

* ScammerPayback

Followers| 209K

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Last updated: July 2, 2025

Scammer Payback, also known by his nickname "Pierogi", is an American YouTuber and streamer, who specializes in creating content about scam baiting against phone scams and Internet scams. He works against a variety of scams over the phone, such as technical support scams, refund scams, social security scams, and IRS impersonation scams.[2] He also has a dedicated team working to find numbers which link to different scams, as well as trying to stop other people from being scammed by using reverse connections.

In 2022, Pierogi and his Scammer Payback team made an "anti-scam call center", “The People’s Call Center”, which has had two runs. His team worked with AnyDesk: a Remote Desktop access software to ban over 2,000 AnyDesk Login IDs.

## Career

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Pierogi was born on July 16,[3] and he previously worked as a cybersecurity professional.[4] He launched his YouTube channel "Scammer Payback" on May 15, 2019, focusing on high-production scam-baiting content in which he pretends to be a scam victim by portraying a variety of characters with the use of a voice changer to waste the scammers' time and distract them. While distracted, Pierogi uses his expertise in cybersecurity to infiltrate the scammers' computer networks from his virtual machine, and proceeds to delete their files and gather their location and information to expose and use against them.[5][6][7] Throughout his career, Pierogi has been able to stop numerous scams in progress and give money back to scam victims.[5] He is known to read out the scammer's real name and location that he has discovered through the process.[7]

Pierogi has been in a number of collaborations with other content creators, having worked alongside Mark Rober, Trilogy Media, and Jim Browning.[8] In 2022, Pierogi and his team set up an anti-scam call center dedicated to scam baiting. Named the "People's Call Center", its participants consisted of Pierogi and several other scambaiters who spent one week at the call center monitoring scam call centers, wasting the scammers' time, and preventing people from getting scammed. This has now become somewhat of a yearly tradition, with the "People's Call Center" making a return in both 2023, 2024, and 2025.[5]

## See also

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* Scam baiting

## References

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1. ^ a b "About Scammer Payback". YouTube.
2. ^ Johnson, Whit; Morris, Kaitlyn; Prince, Hannah. "FBI warns of rise in costly technical support scams". Good Morning America. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
3. ^ "Pierogi on X: "The best present ever for my birthday tomorrow would be if you all could come to my premiere. I promise this thing is 🔥🔥🔥."". X. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
4. ^ Ryan, Shannon (August 18, 2022). "YouTuber Pierogi targets scammers with 'Scammer Payback' channel, new project". FOX 7 Austin. Retrieved August 15, 2023. "A former cybersecurity professional"
5. ^ a b c Ryan, Shannon (August 18, 2022). "YouTuber Pierogi targets scammers with 'Scammer Payback' channel, new project". FOX 7 Austin. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
6. ^ Baleegh, Mohammed (June 7, 2022). "Hyderabad: Online scammers call cops after getting exposed". The Siasat Daily. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
7. ^ a b "American YouTuber busts scam call centre in Hyderabad". TimesNow. June 7, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
8. ^ Webster, Sophie (April 24, 2021). "Mark Rober, a Former NASA Scientist Turned YouTuber Content Creator That Engineered Glitterbomb Packages". Tech Times. Retrieved April 12, 2023.

## External links

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* Scammer Payback's YouTube channel
* Semuels, Alana (September 18, 2024). "Welcome to the Golden Age of Scams". Time. Archived from the original on September 18, 2024.

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