Scammer Payback

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. 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.

Career Pierogi previously worked as a cybersecurity professional. Throughout his career, Pierogi has been able to stop numerous scams in progress and give money back to scam victims. He is known to read out the scammer's real name and location that he has discovered through the process, usually on livestream. 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.