Right now I have something (maybe very silly) weighing heavily on my mind and I want to tell someone a story, but I'm the only one awake, and this place is an old reliable fallback, prepare to be the emotional outlet.

I recently listened to one of kitboga's scammer conquest videos. In this one he convinced the scammer that he was an old couple with a few hundred big in the bank. The scammer told him to move the money to a secure account to safeguard the funds (the scammer's own account, of course). This went on for a day or two I think. At some point there was a break in the conversation, and post gap kitboga informed the scammer that he had moved the money to the account of his son in law. The scammer, a little emotional about it, asked if kitboga trusted his son in law with the money. Kit said yeah, it will be an inheritance later anyway. The scammer said he was a good dad. Kit asked if the scammer was a good dad. The scammer explained he tries to be a good dad. The conversation went on, his son wants to be just like him, but he doesn't want his son to be like him. Here the scammer was being vulnerable, and Kit began a severe moral bludgeoning. The scammer tried to hint that the call was being monitored so he couldn't confess to being a scammer, and eventually, reduced to tears, gave in, then hung up. 

It was really sad to hear. I love to see criminals get pwnd, but this was an instance where I was thinking along the lines of, "I take no pleasure in the suffering of the wicked". The scammer's son is the same age as my son, and he's impoverished, and his dad hates himself. It's terrible for him! Even though his immediate surroundings attempt to normalize dishonesty, his conscience is inescapable.

I used to get a lot of scam calls, and I would share the gospel with them. One time, the caller cried on the phone with me.  I told him that Jesus died so he wouldn't have to live that way anymore. He tried to stick to the script, so I told him, "come on man, your company is paying you to lie to people. You can do better than this."  He broke down and said "but I have no other choice. What else can I do?"  I told him to go find a church that teaches about Jesus, and that they would help him out. I sure hope and pray it worked out for him. I had a few conversations like that, and then they stopped calling me. 

It actually makes me pretty emotional to think about those guys and imagine their situation.  Am I just too tired right now to process it impassionately? Idk. I think it has been weighing heavily on me for a few days, and the weight has been increasing as I have been listening to a lot of kitboga lately. Some of his videos are genuinely hilarious, and some really show that nobody can escape their God given conscience "bearing witness against them". 

Ok well that's the end of the story. Idk if I feel better having typed it out or not. What is it in people that makes them need to tell these kinds of things? 

"A hero"