They are getting a lot of contributions for doing this - people hate scammers and are happy these people are going after them.
I’ve heard them say things like they get into the scammer’s computers. How are they able to do that without the scammer opening up a gate on his computer?
Maybe they really DON’T do that, and this is just a scam.
Maybe they really DON’T do that, and this is just a scam.
Scambaiters like Pierogi and others are sometimes able to get remote access to the scammers computer. How exactly they do that, they will not divulge and understandably so. They are themselves hackers but White Hat hackers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJV_thKUPmQ
Yes, they get contributions and their You Tube channels are monetized and they have advertising sponsors. This funds their operations and in the case of Scammer Payback, some contributions are used to make scammed victims whole again.
One type of scam is based on fake customer support calls. Some scammer calls and says they are from Microsoft and you have a virus on your computer which they will help you remove.
At that point the scammers convince the victim to allow them to remotely access the victim's computer.
Apparently some clever anti-scamming activists use carefully constructed hacking tools to take over the scammer's computer at that moment and insert various hacking toolkits on the scammer's computer.
And then the fun begins.