A while back a scam baiting video popped up in my YouTube feed. In the video the supposed victim just babbled nonsense and toyed with the scammer. After watching it, my YouTube feed was awash with scam baiter videos. The videos in this post are from Wisconsin's Better Business Bureau. They put them out to demonstrate and warn against common scams. They do it by having Juliette call the scammers and leave them walk through their spiels.
This set is of a lottery scammer. Juliette has won $96,000 and only needs to send a small fee of $950.88 to get a 'Federal Golden Eagle Stamp of Approval' so's she can demonstrate to the U.S. government that the money has nothing to do with drugs or terrorism. Sounds legit to me. What funny about it is that the scammer tries to flirt with Juliette to gain her trust. Let's just say his flirting tactics are bit odd. By the way, do you know how long the Cold War lasted?
If you're interested in watching more serious looks at this Jim Browning is probably the best of the scam baiters. He runs a virtual computer and when the scammers have him download remote desktop software to manipulate his files he has a method to reverse the connection so he can see their machines. He'll spend time on their machines mapping their business networks and gives a pretty good picture of the behind the scenes operation of Indian service desk tomfoolery. Good stuff.
Edited to add: great minds think alike. Today Borepatch posted If it looks too good to be true, it probably is discussing scammers.
2 comments:
I second the recommendation for Jim Browning’s videos.
He's good. His latest video is pretty entertaining -- he's watching to a call center's CCTV while he's talking to them and their reactions when he calls them by their names and what-not is amusing.
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