Kitboga

Kitboga is the pseudonymous former software engineer who has spent nearly a decade scam-baiting on Twitch and YouTube — posing as confused grandmothers and gullible marks to keep phone scammers tied up on camera. He started in 2017 after learning how relentlessly fraudsters target the elderly, including people like his own grandmother, who suffered from dementia. Millions now watch him run out the clock on criminals.

An AI bot army in the garage

For years the bottleneck was arithmetic: one Kitboga could waste one scammer’s time. So he and a developer known as ABK built AI clones of his characters — voices like “Granny Edna,” whose befuddled patter helped inspire O2’s famous scam-fighting AI granny “Daisy.” The bots transcribe a scammer’s speech, run it through a language model, and answer in real time; multiple bots dial a scam center at once to occupy every operator. In one showcase call, a scammer spent three hours trying to talk an AI clone into buying gift cards.

Announcing the system publicly in March 2025, he framed it as evening the odds: “We’ve been outnumbered in this war against scammers until now… I believe that we can win this fight.” The bots also harvest scam infrastructure data — fake numbers, phishing domains, payment rails — which feeds SeraphSecure, the anti-scam software company he founded, and gets shared with authorities pursuing fraud rings.

Kitboga is equally clear-eyed about the other side of the ledger: scammers use voice cloning and AI scripts too, and much of his recent content warns viewers about AI-powered fraud. His answer is not to ban the technology but to out-build the criminals with it.