Scammer Payback | |
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 Scammer Payback in 2025 | |
| Other names | Pierogi |
| Occupations | |
| Twitch information | |
| Channel | |
| Followers | 220K |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2019–present |
| Genres | Scam baiting,Vigilantism |
| Subscribers | 8.87 million |
| Views | 1.31 billion |
| Last updated: January 25, 2025 | |
| Website | www |
Scammer Payback, also known by his nickname "Pierogi", is an AmericanYouTuber andstreamer, who specializes in creating content aboutscam baiting againstphone scams andInternet scams. He works against a variety of scams over the phone, such astechnical support scams,refund scams,social security scams, andIRS impersonation scams.[1] 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.
Pierogi previously worked as a cybersecurity professional.[2] 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 avoice changer to waste the scammers' time and distract them. While distracted, Pierogi uses his expertise in cybersecurity to infiltrate the scammers'computer networks from hisvirtual machine, and proceeds to delete their files and gather their location and information to expose and use against them.[2][3][4] Throughout his career, Pierogi has been able to stop numerous scams in progress and give money back to scam victims.[2] He is known to read out the scammer's real name and location that he has discovered through the process, usually on livestream.[4]
Pierogi has been in a number of collaborations with other content creators, having worked alongsideMark Rober,Trilogy Media, andJim Browning.[5] 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 2023, 2024, and 2025.[2]