Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout 2020.
It has been a horrible year and I really hope that 2021, vaccine year, will live up to everyone's hopes.
For me, it has been a very mixed year. I have obviously continued my quest against scammers and, by ...
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I've been watching the scams of Webzant IT Solution Private Limited, of Kolkata, India and they must run one of the worst scams on the Internet. Why? They will drain their victims' bank accounts....
Folks, it's been a while since I've posted here and I thought I'd bring you up to date.
Firstly, here's a link to a podcast I did for the 'Easy Prey Podcast' with Chris Parker - I hope you find it interesting.
So why have I been so quiet? Well, the big news is that I've been collabor...
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Sometimes I get the opportunity to stop scams, but this one was cutting it very fine.
You'll see a variant of the refund scam and one victim that I managed to stop, but it was too late for someone else. I've passed as many d...
2020-11-02 17:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've been watching a few different scamming groups running the 'Amazon' refund scam and I've been disrupting their scams.
You'll see how they run the scam and how best to defeat it. You'll also hear both the scammer and the victims - something I've n...
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I teamed up with Scammer Payback and Ownage Pranks to wind up and take down another scamming group.
This one is a little unusual because I teamed up with a couple of YouTubers who would wind them up as I watched the scammers' computers.
Li...
2020-09-27 14:17:09 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've not heard 'Lenny' before, this is an 8 minute recording of a scammer talking to a bot.
"Lenny," a senior with a strong Australian accent, loves to talk and talk and talk to telemarketers and tech support scammers, even when they become furious and abusive.
There will be a vi...
2020-08-30 15:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post
A bit of extra content for my Silver+ Patons:
This is the reality of being an agent in a scam call center. You will spend most of your day getting abuse, mis-dials, responding robots and generally angry people.
This is a fairly unedited view of just what that experience is like. &n...
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I persuaded a scammer to reveal the tactics he uses in his scams by showing him his own photograph when he connected to my computer.
His photos also had a geo-location tag and they were taken from his own apartment in Gh...
This will have to remain a Patron only video for the time being because the woman doing the scamming is under investigation by the police in the UK.
The video shows just how close one particular victim came to losing £14,000 (around $18,000). It was a bark of a dog which fouled the scam.<...
I've just had a Skype chat with Mark Rober. If you don't know who he is, think of a video where a package thief gets more than he bargained for when he steals one of Mark's specially-engineered boxes, complete with glitter bomb and fart spray.
Check out that video and his channel:
I did an hour long podcast interview with David C Luna recently. Click the link above if you'd like to listen to the interview.
Alternative links:
𝐢𝐓𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: 2020-06-29 20:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This group of popup scammers got a little more than they bargained for after I called them.
This version has the un-blurred names and details of the scammers, so please don't distribute. The public version will have these details blurred.
The fake company names are:
2020-06-26 18:40:38 +0000 UTC
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This group of scammers send fake Paypal invoices and try to convince their (usually elderly) victims to login to their online bank whist they have remote access. And it usually ends badly for the victim.
This time around however, I managed to find out who they were and I slowly dismantled...
For my Silver+ patrons, this is extra content.
I was asked to give a presentation on scams and Cyber Security to a group of young adults. We had a Microsoft Teams meeting where I presented some information on what scams were out there, what I observed about these scams and a bit about Cyber...
2020-05-09 21:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post
So I was thinking of updating my old logo, intro and outro.
Personally, I think this looks fantastic, but I'd welcome any feedback.
Click the video above for the Intro and here to see the outro:
https://youtu.be/yVb2...
Early access Patron version!
This group of scammers have set up 10 fake websites and have managed to get these websites to list high up on Google's search engine thanks to some black-hat SEO operations.
But unusually, they also have online chat enabled on these websites. That ga...
2020-04-26 15:59:22 +0000 UTC View PostA few people have mentioned that they have trouble accessing Patron-only content and it seems to have something to do with Patreon itself rather than YouTube.
If you do have trouble, I've listed the most recent Patron-only videos below. Hopefully you'll be able to use these direct links to ...
2020-03-24 10:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the final part of a series exposing the tech support scammers: Faremart Travels / Adhrit Technologies
When a scammer connected to my PC, I was able to reverse their connection and discover that they had CCTV. You're going to see the most detailed exposé of a tech support sca...
2020-03-22 10:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post
For a little more background on who the BBC UK Documentary team worked with me at the start of this month, this is a link to a podcast which should be available to everyone.
You'll need to jump to the 23:11 minute mark for the audio concerning the scam call centre.
Hopefully this wil...
Some extra content for my $5+ Patrons...
It's rare to be able to see and hear a scam happening, so I've compressed a scam which took over an hour to complete into around 20 minutes. The footage is from the Faremart/Adroit Technologies CCTV and hasn't been seen before.
You'...
2020-03-14 23:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Following the release of my video and the Panorama TV documentary, the call centre owner, Amit Chauhan, has been arrested and will appear in court tomorrow (5th March 2020).
The police have plenty of evidence, so let's hope, for the sake of the thousands of people who he conned, that he go...
Exclusive to my Patrons here is the first 3 parts of a new documentary: Spying on the Scammers. The 4th and final part will be release later this month once a the UK documentary version of this video has been broadcast.
Background:
When a scammer connected to my PC, I was able to reve...
2020-03-02 20:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, just to let you know, I've been working with journalists in the UK to try to expose one of the largest scam calling operations I've yet seen.
I've shared my footage with the team who make 'Panorama'... a documentary which is shown on prime time TV in the UK and this particular episo...
I get lots of comments asking me why all tech support scammers are from India. They are not all from India and this video will show scammers in two other countries who run identical scams. Admittedly 95% of tech scams will originate in India, but never assume they're all there.
If you...
2020-02-10 19:20:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok. So this one will probably never make an appearance on public YouTube because of the contents, so it's Patron only.
Sorry for the delays with uploads. I actually have 3 ready to go, but I have to hold back because of a TV documentary(!) More about this soon. In the meantime, I hope you e...
2020-01-29 17:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
As always at the end of a year, I present 2019's dumbest scammers. Since this is a Patron version, it's un-blurred and available a few days before the public version.
It's poking a bit of fun at some scammers, but the serious work of trying to get them shut down will continue in 2020.
Early access to a new video.
I found a lot of scammer audio files and this particular one stood out. I still find it hard to believe that anyone with any kind of conscience could do what he just did.
Thank you again for your support. This group of scammers are just about to be major...
Early access to a forthcoming video. A longer one this time because it's really two videos. It shows how I can sometimes thwart scams in a subtle, but effective way. Other times though, I fail to help the victim... particularly if they are vulnerable or elderly.
Can I ask two things... fir...
