Pleasant Green is a scambaiter popular on YouTube, having posted his first video in December 2014. His videos tend to be somewhat different from those of typical scambaiters. Rather than posting long segments of him talking with a scammer on the phone, he typically presents his videos in an informational/recap format, outlining the journey through the scam and posting snippets of text messages or calls. He also tends to explore a much wider variety of scams than the typical scambaiter, ranging from tech support to romance to air duct cleaning scams and much more. Pleasant Green is himself a guy named Ben Taylor who also works as an Adjunct Professor at a university.

Tropes featured in Pleasant Green's videos include:

• Actually Pretty Impressive: Frightened as he is about Suno's ability to create AI-generated music from his nonsensical prompts, Pleasant Green admits that the software did make a surprisingly decent result from his request for a hard rock song about a chicken sandwich.
• A.I.-Generated Content: invoked The topic comes up in several videos focused on online ads selling nonexistent products and services. Pleasant Green is dismayed to find that not only are the goods and services heavily exaggerated with AI visuals, but even the influencers promoting them are using the same AI avatar service to fool users into thinking they're real. (That's if they're not all using the same promoters-for-hire on Fiverr.)
• Baths Are Fun: In "Don't Buy AI Bath Bombs," Pleasant Green begins exploring a scam that involves a supposed bath bomb that, when placed in the water, will create swirls of rainbow bubbles and, at the end, features a toy that pops out, such as a cute turtle. As he continues to go down this rabbit hole, it turns out they are marketing other products such as a spray wand, plastic fish that glow when placed in the water, and a plastic crab mounted on the wall above the bath that sprays out streams of bubbles. "Look at this and tell me what parent is going to allow one of these in their house. These went from adorable bath time fun to full-on chaos machines." Then... "Why does this woman's shower handle have two heads? I just fell for an AI trap, didn't I?" As it turns out, the product delivered from China a month later is an actual bath bomb that takes at least 20 minutes to dissolve into a murky yellow mess, and the "toy" is a cheap plastic piece of junk that does not magically appear within seconds like in the video. The videos were generated by a new Facebook AI feature called "Vibes." When Pleasant Green emails to complain, he gets a response stating that there was fine print, saying that "visual effects may vary" and that the videos showcase the product under "ideal conditions." He emailed back asking what conditions would be ideal to get the product to work as shown. No response. He concludes the video by stating that if you really want to make a bath fun, you might do better to go with the classics, like a Rubber Duckie.
• Berserk Button: Pleasant Green absolutely cannot stand sextortion scams and will do anything to call them out and to help someone who has been a victim of one. He also makes it a point each year to make a video on the subject, covering tragedies where victims killed themselves, cases where sextortion scammers were arrested and extradited, and encourages prospective victims who may be watching to seek help, coaxing them that no amount of embarrassment is worth ending their life over.
• Captcha Gag: In "Exposing a Payday Loan Scammer," Pleasant Green manages to get a partial camera image of the top of the scammer's face. He uses ChatGPT to generate possible full-face images of the scammer and sends them to the scammer in a captcha form with the heading "Select all images of the person trying to scam you" under the pretense that solving it is needed to send them Bitcoin through Coinbase.
• Catch-22 Dilemma: In the Illuminati scam, the scammer requires the victim to perform a sacrifice using a bunch of weird items, which it just so happens are available at the Illuminati temple. The catch is, only members can visit the temple, and this is an initiation ceremony to become a member. Fortunately, the victim can be "connected spiritually" once they have made a payment.
• Con Man: Naturally, Pleasant Green spends a large amount of time talking to these, most of whom wouldn't think twice to separate him from his life savings if they could get away with it.
• A Dog Ate My Homework: In this, Pleasant Green tells the scammer he got peanut butter on the cashier's check that they wanted and the dog ate it.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Pleasant Green's very first video involved him sending poop to Nigerian scammers, something he would never do today. There were also a few videos that didn't have anything to do with scambaiting, such as him reviewing various restaurant chicken sandwiches or exposing the questionable business practices of online shopping sites such as Wish.
• Edutainment Show: The scambaiting experiences tend to be presented in an educational format, with a recap of exactly what is going down and ways viewers can avoid being taken for a ride if someone tries to scam them in this way.
• Four Nineteen Scam: These have come up from time to time, including the infamous "cash flip" scam in which the scammer claims that they can "flip" a certain amount of money you give them into ten times that much.
• I Have Your Wife: In "Scammers Have My Daughter," a scammer emails Pleasant Green claiming that his daughter, Cynthia Dover, is in jail and needs a large amount of money to pay her bond. Except Pleasant Green has no daughter. When he points this out to the scammer, the scammer doubles down by claiming that Cynthia is, in fact, his niece, or "mother-in-law's daughter's kid." But since he already knows it's a scam, this results in the scammer's time wasted and his face eventually posted for the entire Internet to see.
• Jenny's Number: One of his fake phone numbers is "867-5309."
• Meal Ticket: One of the scams that Pleasant Green has explored is the "sugar daddy" scam, in which someone on the Internet claims that if you send them things like photos of your feet, they will be your "sugar daddy" and give you money, lavish vacations, etc. This invariably turns out to be a variation on the Four Nineteen Scam in which they ask you for money first and then cut off all contact after being given it.
• Punny Name: Names that Pleasant Green commonly uses with scammers include Ben Dover ("bend over"), Eileen Dover ("I leaned over"), and Mike Rafone ("microphone").
• Record Needle Scratch: In 38 Scammers Get Arrested!, Pleasant Green states that he let the scammer connect to his computer, then reversed the connection to get the scammer's info. He then does the record needle scratch, admits that he didn't actually do this because he isn't a hacker but somebody who sits on his couch making videos, so he contacted a fellow scambaiter who does know hacking and got him to do it for him.
• Signature Move: One of Pleasant Green's preferred methods in getting a scammer to reveal certain personal details is to generate a link via the website Grabify, and nest that address inside a hyperlink that Ben uses to submit fake receipts or other information to the scammer. If the scammer clicks the link, Grabify captures the scammer's approximate location, IP address, type of device that they're using, possible use of VPN, and so on. In editing his videos, these Grabify screenshots are usually accompanied by an audio cue of ethnic music based on the scammer's location. Unfortunately, the move has become well-known enough that savvier scammers will promptly disengage from the scam once they recognize it, which prompted Ben to remark that maybe he needs to be less overt with the strategy or use it less often.
• Verbal Tic: He has noted that the use of the phrase "kindly" in any communication is highly likely to indicate a Nigerian scammer, especially if used more than once.