Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Pranking the Scammers (VANITY)
Windcatcher

Posted on 07/21/2022 3:06:31 AM PDT by Windcatcher

Recently, a team of individuals went after phone scam call centers in India in EPIC fashion. Mark Rober used his skills to fashion booby traps, Trilogy Media flew to India and had insiders plant them, and Jim Browning used his hacker skills to gain access to the scammers' internal systems. What follows is mind-blowing. Presented here are three separate videos from each of their channels detailing how it all went down and the aftermath.

Mark Rober - Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback
Trilogy Media - GLITTERBOMBING a Scam Call Center w/ Mark Rober
Jim Browning - Pranking Scammers ft. Mark Rober

Each shows a different aspect of how it all went down, from the details of making the booby traps, embedding their rather (ahem) special payload, the nail-biting risk of deploying them under the scammers' noses, and the psychological warfare that only Jim Browning could provide (his video is not to be missed -- it's comedy gold).


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: india; notnews; phones; prank; scammers
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041 next last
To: Windcatcher

One day we were not busy at work and some scammer called. We pretended we were interested in whatever he was selling but didn’t have the authority to issue a purchase. Let me transfer you to purchasing. Make the guy go thru his spiel again and tell them hold on for the purchasing agent, then his boss and so on. The three of us held them up for quite a while before they caught on.


21 posted on 07/21/2022 5:27:03 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: skr
I have elderly relatives that are exactly as you describe. If their phone rings, they will try to pick it up 100% of the time. Even if they are in the bathroom or otherwise inconvenienced. If they do miss a call, they will spend the rest of the day worrying about it and will sit by the phone hoping that whoever tried calling earlier will call back.
22 posted on 07/21/2022 5:30:59 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,576,552 users on Truth Social)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

My friend answers scam calls and fakes a weird foreign dialect. They hang up on her and she claims calls have been cut in half.


23 posted on 07/21/2022 5:44:05 AM PDT by Toespi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

Watched some of them. Funny, and sad .
That one center making $65k /day.
Caught my wife almost getting scammed on a call.
When I hear a strong Indian accent my antennae perk up.


24 posted on 07/21/2022 5:44:49 AM PDT by Vinnie ( L g Brandon)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Feckless

I would have tried to get Worker’s Comp to DENY the claims.


25 posted on 07/21/2022 6:10:05 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Vinnie

I get a similar guy who calls me from “U S Medicare”

Called Sat at 5:38 AM.


26 posted on 07/21/2022 6:14:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Hot Tabasco

I like Kitboga as well.


27 posted on 07/21/2022 6:59:22 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

Worth watching. I made my elderly parents watch these videos and it was very eye opening for them.

Mark’s squirrel maze was also worth watching. Diabolical squirrels and evil scammers will always be with us 😔


28 posted on 07/21/2022 7:12:41 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

PM


29 posted on 07/21/2022 7:13:10 AM PDT by Ken Regis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

There is a freeper who used to occasionally post his accounts of scamming the scammers. Can’t recall the name. Might have been lowbridge. Some of the posts were hilarious.


30 posted on 07/21/2022 7:28:04 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bert

Can’t tell you how many organizations I’ve phoned that require me to press one for English and then I end up with an Indian who’s accent is so strong, I can’t understand a word they are saying. I ask to speak to an American.


31 posted on 07/21/2022 7:40:50 AM PDT by Quilla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: skr

I did not get the “phone gene” ( and I am getting old)..on the other hand, I have finally trained my husband NOT to answer every call on his cell...and he has learned to ask the caller if he can call them back if the caller is questionable. That usually ends the call.


32 posted on 07/21/2022 8:19:07 AM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Cowgirl of Justice

A few years back my father-in-law called me. He said “I shouldn’t be telling you this but your son is in a Canadian prison charged with drug crimes.”

“They told me not to tell you but I thought it might be better if you knew.”

Fortunately, he didn’t send them the bail money.


33 posted on 07/21/2022 10:33:00 AM PDT by Ken Regis
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher
 
 
Voice actress who runs scammers crazy -
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_tVRmzA7Y
 
Has a ton of videos on her channel.
 
 

34 posted on 07/21/2022 10:49:10 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lapsus calami

Thanks for sharing! She is adorable and brilliant!


35 posted on 07/21/2022 11:09:26 AM PDT by cabbagesNkings
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

The current scam in my area is a tweo stage scram. They call saying they are Amazon calling to confirm a thousaand dollar purchase of a smart phone and if you did not authorize this prss 1. I know Amazon does not do this so when I press one and the Indian liar comes ont he line I tell them they are a lying thief and they are going to hell. They always hang up, somtimes after a loud gasp.


36 posted on 07/21/2022 11:20:55 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

Here’s another good one.

Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g


37 posted on 07/21/2022 12:02:45 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN

Yep

Tell the Jesus Christ can deliver them from that.


38 posted on 07/21/2022 1:38:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

Scammer Payback on youtube has some good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ScammerPayback/videos


39 posted on 07/21/2022 1:44:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Joe Biden, VOTUS. Vegetable of the United States.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Windcatcher

OK, I have been hooked on scam baiting videos and this one is pure gold.

It’s 8 1/2 mins long and the best part is the very end. IRLrosie does a killer Alexa imitation.

Calling Scammer as Kermit the Frog and DRUNK ALEXA! #scambaiting with IRLrosie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZdbouYj4s


40 posted on 07/25/2022 11:21:43 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson