Jim Browning runs a YouTube channel dedicated to busting fake PC support scam centers. In this episode Browning shows how he and a partner managed to bring down a call center in Dehli.
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8:16 am Mon
Nov 18, 2019
How a couple of guys shut down a scam call center in Delhi
Man spies on scammers through their own security cameras
Jim Browning (previously at Boing Boing) turned the tables on another scamming outfit. But this isn’t just a video showing a savvy user wasting a scammer’s time: he gained access to the criminals’ computers and even their office CCTV system. The result is incredible footage of them at work, trying to scam Jim while he […]
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Jim Bakker selling fake coronavirus cures now
Ex-convict, sex scandalist, and TV evangelist Jim Bakker is at it again.
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Tech support scammer talks to a bot
You are probably familiar with the tech support scam. You get a call from someone (usually from a call center in India) pretending to be from Apple or Microsoft. They tell you they have noticed a problem with your computer and ask you to open a web site that gives them remote access to your […]
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Take part in the clean energy movement with Arcadia
At this point, it’s every single person’s responsibility to reduce their own carbon footprint and transition to a more sustainable lifestyle. But if you consider the grim fact that the biggest culprit of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in the U.S. is burning fossil fuels for electricity, things, like pivoting to metal straws and […]
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Canva Pro can be the ultimate design tool for all us non-designers
Companies that don’t have their own in-house design teams (which means 99 percent of all companies these days) face lots of serious questions. Among those questions is how you keep up with all the design requirements of a 21st-century company without the personnel. It isn’t just a website or an annual product catalog anymore. It’s […]
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Upgrade your PC with this sale on refurbished computers from Microsoft, HP, Dell, and more
In case you’re one of those computer shoppers who instinctively turns up their nose at the very mention of the word refurbished, here are a couple myths worth dispelling. Refurbished equals junk somebody didn’t want. While desktops, laptops, notebooks, Chromebooks and tablets marked as refurbished may have been unboxed at some point, meaning they can […]
