I Shut Down a Crazy Movie Scam

We uncover a publishing and movie deal scam targeting self published authors. These scammers are stealing millions of dollars every year.

0:00 Movie Scam
2:19 My Book
13:28 Screen Play
22:40 Saving Victims
28:19 Where is "Mike"

I hope you get a chance to laugh while learning about this new scam. Publishing scams and movie deal scammers have been targeting authors for over 10 years now and I had no idea. Hopefully this will make a dent in their "business" while we start investigating more of them.
Scammers Gave Me A Movie Deal - So I Played Along...

[KitbogaShow]

Imagine seeing "Butterfly Midwife" on the big screen...

[bubs]

First rule of thumb as a writer...NOBODY contacts you first about your book. NOBODY. No publisher, no literary agents, no movie contractors. Nobody comes to you. It takes years of you doing all the hard work yourself, unless you have a legit publisher YOU had to vet and contact.

[SrslyTony]

Us loyal Crow Pro fans have been fighting for scraps, yet Butterfly Midwife, an IP sprung out of NOWHERE gets a theatrical release?? We feel betrayed... We wouldn't even have to pirate the movies/TV shows if you simply put them on modern streaming services! 😭

[triggahappi]

As SOON as he heard the name Louise, I knew there was a “Geez, Louise” just around the corner

[irradiatedbadger]

My brother has a mental illness and he's been scammed out of so much money by fake publishers like this. A long time ago he wrote a ten page "story" that's mostly rambling. Somehow they found him online and since then they've scammed him out of thousands of dollars. Asking him for money for promotion and marketing, telling him they were going to turn his story into a movie script, that he was going to be rich. Because my brother is so depressed in life he desperately wants to believe them, no matter how many times we tell him to stop sending them money, they manage to trick him. One of the scammers was female and she even pretended to be his girlfriend to take advantage of him.
These people are evil, he told them he was homeless and living on welfare and they still asked him for money.

[demeter-the-great]

3:07 “Are you familiar with Summit Entertainment?”
“Oh my God, is that the one where they did the movie with the one guy?”
“Yeah!” 😂

[DrRipper]

it's a rare video where I can see the scammer enjoying the nonsense. This guy's endless patience honestly makes me wonder if he's salaried or something.

[rayrous]

I've never heard of this scam. Your warning to authors might save some people. Keep it up.

[BlueYoshiGirl]

Ridiculousness aside, the concept of lost babies becoming butterflies to find their parents is kind of beautiful.

[Ironraven]

I've written books. Tried to get them published. My first red flag would be a literary agent who actually contacted me 😢😂😢😂😅

[lelandfranklin]

"You mean the studio that did that movie with that one guy?" "Yes" LOL😂

[KartenonYT]

If these scammers had invested their time into adapting Butterfly Midwife instead trying to scam Thomas, they'd be rich enough they wouldn't need to be scammers.

[guesswhopeekaboo]

My dad wrote a book and gets at least 4 of these calls a month. Thankfully he's aware enough to know they're scams, but idk if he realizes just how vicious these people are. Thanks for the video, man. Passing this along to him.

[crawlingthroughyourwalls]

It feels like these scams are getting more and more abhorrent 💀. Please keep scamming scammers and raising awarness, it really makes a difference

[AnimalisMD]

"Butterflies oh yes oh yes" 🎶🎶 OMG I nearly fell off my chair especially when the scammer started singing along.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Banaziir]

Kitboga: "I am not an author".

Also Kitboga:
"It was four score and 4 years ago. Midnight. The curtains in my living room were fluttering with spectral movement. I could tell something was thirsty for blood. I couldn't sleep because I knew something (or someone)was here in my house. I did what anyone would do in that situation. I cooked. I cooked like my life depended on it. First I got 3 cups of flour. Then I got ½ cup of sugar. Followed by ¼ TSP of salt. This is how you make Binangkal. I think. Ghosts are known to love it. I forgot the water. Oh god. The ghosts draw near. I can tell they won't like my bingangkal. I'm sweating. I'm crying. Tears of … joy? Maybe? Is that my huband. My dead ghost husband richard? Out of his urn? To see me? Oh how could I have forgotten.... it was our wedding anniversary. I can't beleive after all these years HE remember and not me. He was the one who always forgot. And now lookat me. Thats exactly what Richard was doing... looking right at my eyes. Well.. that is... if ghosts can see. I'm not sure. I'm not ghost. I'm human. That's where our story begins. Chapter 1. The ghosts."

[mahdesian]

"I don't think this book is going anywhere." Louise was a real downer. lol

[avianna]

Kit… please do one for all the rental scams next. I’m so sick of getting run around in circles by their fake properties. ☹️

[themidnightlibrary]

That "Binangkal Recipe" reply by the female scammer associate is a usual meme reply in FB comments in the Philippines

[ephvvonlyway]

I'm glad you are warning people. I recently survived cancer and am keeping a journal. I still have to have reconstruction surgery, but once I am finished with that I hope to publish my journal to help other people going through this. It is good to be aware that someone may try to scam me like this if I can successfully publish the journal