Scammer Payback YouTube Stats

@scammerpayback · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Scammer Payback channel overview

Scammer Payback (@scammerpayback) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2019. It has 9.5M subscribers and 1.5B total views across 987 videos, an average of 1.5M views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.2M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 1.2M views. Over the last 12 months, Scammer Payback published 53 videos (17% Shorts), and 3 of them (6%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, Scammer Payback gained 10K subscribers and 12M views, about 680K views a day.

How much does Scammer Payback make?

Returbe estimates Scammer Payback's YouTube ad revenue at $54K – $162K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.89 to $8.66, typically $4.81, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $4.8K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Scammer Payback publishes about 6.5 videos a month. Based on its last 33 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (70% of uploads), usually around 17:00 UTC. The last video went out on Oct 31, 2026.

Scammer Payback's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Scammer Payback's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Scammer Freaks Out after Epic Virus Hack!13M views · Sep 28, 20248.7× typical views
• Scammer Recognizes Guy who Hacked Him1.1M views · Sep 3, 20268.7× typical views
• I Made an Antivirus That Secretly Attacks Scammers4.8M views · Jun 13, 20264× typical views
• Sending Pizza to a Scammer’s Front Door4.6M views · Sep 12, 20263.9× typical views
• Torturing This Smug Scammer Group With Their Photo3.2M views · Jun 27, 20262.7× typical views
• Outsmarted This Scammer…Watch His Reaction Live2.1M views · Jul 25, 20261.8× typical views
• How I Accidentally Broke a Scam Call Center2M views · Jun 20, 20261.7× typical views
• I Built a Virus To PUNISH This Nasty Scammer1.9M views · May 23, 20261.6× typical views

Latest videos

7 of Scammer Payback's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Stealing a Cocky Scammer’s Crypto Wallet1M views · Oct 31, 20260.9× typical views
• Idiot Scammer Fakes His Own Death927K views · Oct 24, 20260.8× typical views
• Surprising a Scammer with Pizza152K views · Oct 22, 20261.2× typical views
• Facebook Scams Are Out of Control517K views · Oct 20, 20260.4× typical views
• Flooding a Scammer’s Computer With His Private Photos1.2M views · Oct 10, 20261× typical views
• Desperate Scammer BEGS Me For Crypto1.7M views · Oct 3, 20261.4× typical views
• I Got an Angry Scammer To Give Up1.5M views · Sep 26, 20261.3× typical views
• What it Takes To Become a Dark Web Hacker522K views · Sep 19, 20260.4× typical views
• Sending Pizza to a Scammer’s Front Door4.6M views · Sep 12, 20263.9× typical views
• Fake Gang Prank on Scammer125K views · Sep 10, 20261× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 499 channels in this niche. 8.1% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.5×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Scammer Payback or YouTube.