For later.
I’ve seen you tube vids where the “victim” hacks into the scammers computers. It’s fun to watch them freak out when they are shown their pictures and personal information.
I went to visit an elderly neighbor and her husband was reading numbers off to someone on the phone - an Indian guy had convinced him he needed to pay for something for his computer. I asked to speak to the man, took the phone from him, hung it up and called their son after I left. The son went over later to change passwords, get cc reissued, etc.,...
They are monsters, preying on the elderly and vulnerable.
Are those the same scammers behind the car warranty schemes, who call from all over the country?
Those guys are brilliant
Will watch later
About 3 months before we paid our house off we began getting calls from one company urging us to re-finance with them. I explained a couple of times that we weren’t interested and could they please remove us from their call list. The calls kept coming. One day I said yes, I’m interested but you caught me outside on the portable, let me go inside. I grabbed my Charter Arms Bulldog on the way out and 2 minutes into his spiel I put it up to the phone and let loose. After about 5 or 6 times the supervisor called me, complaining that he had 2 workers out on workers comp because of my actions. I asked him if he realized how stupid he was just as I cut loose on him. Never had another call from them.
The company I used to work for built custom software. We had to interface with banks and had dozens of test accounts.
On occasion, we’d go in the conference room and see who could piss off the scammer first, who could keep them on the longest, etc. We had been issued cell phones but rarely used them. Seems each number was in some list. I took it as a team building thing. We were working too long anyway. A woman in our office was real clever. One day she took the call for an auto warranty. When talking to the guy, she’d answer but add something suggestive. The indians on staff knew how to insult the scammers. I learned a lot of phrases in their language.
The best were the Microsoft/virus scammers. We also conferenced in two scammers on the same call once. Talk about confusion.
Did any of the fashioned booby traps involve large amounts of C-4?
I just blocked the following sites who sent emails asking for campaign contribution for well known conservatives:
(Fake Email political donation:)
greenecongress22.com support@greenecongress22.com ---- wendyrogers2022.com wendy@wendyrogers2022.com ---- electfinchem.com mark@electfinchem.com ---- wendyrogers2022.com wendy@wendyrogers2022.com ---- firelizcheneynow.com chipin@firelizcheneynow.com ----
Most of the text of the email is clearly copied from material from the candidate.
This is the most recent, but have previously blocked about 6 others with similar scam attempts.
The sites they give do not work and there is a java script behind the name on the site.
This gets real old.
Some other interesting email phishing scams appear to originate in the UAE. Some how, I doubt that is where there were.
Makes you want to not even have an email account.
Although I seldom answer the phone to such callers, sometimes I inadvertntly get trapped.
At some point I tell the caller that generally I do not deal with Paki’s.
That is a mortal insult, calling he caller a Paki
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.
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.
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.
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 😔
PM
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.
Here’s another good one.
Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g