Scam Buster Jim Browning collaborated with an insider to record undercover video inside a pig butchering scam operating from a large complex in Dubai. Here, offices full of migrant workers impersonate glamorous models on dating apps to lure victims into fake investment opportunities. — Read the rest
The New York Times took a deep dive into the world of call center scammers, investigating a particularly malicious example and profiling Jim Browning, a tech-savvy scambuster (previously at Boing Boing) famous for turning the tables on fraudsters and explaining to them exactly who they are. — Read the rest
Jim Browning (YouTube) posts long but riveting videos of him turning the tables on tech support scammers (previously at Boing Boing) and in the latest he goes full Neeson from the outset: "a scammer has just connected to my pc and he's just seen a photograph of him and his family on my desktop." — Read the rest
Scambuster Jim Browning got access to a tech support scammer's computer and was able to find out his real name and monitor his communications with his boss and colleagues. He spooked them so much that it looks like they shut down operations, at least temporarily. — Read the rest
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. — Read the rest
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.
Yesterday I posted a video by Jim Browning, who runs the Tech Support Scam website. In that video, Jim shows how he figured out the likely suspect behind a recent spate of telemarketing scam calls in the UK. In the video above, Jim reveals that the people he suspects to be behind the scam have disappeared from the Internet by wiping out their websites, Facebook pages, and LinkedIn accounts.
Jim Browning, who runs the YouTube channel called Tech Support Scams, recorded this call from fraudsters who "are robo-calling thousands of people in the UK with alarming messages apparently from 'VISA.' These messages are designed to alarm potential victims and is a ruse to gain access to people's bank accounts via remote access software."
In this highly satisfying video, Jim Browning received a fake invoice for a $3800 laptop. He ended up getting a lot of personal information about the scammer and was able to scare the hell of him.
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In this video, Jim Browning (previously at BB) calls back a tech support scammer, knowing what not to do and what to say to lure them into making revealing mistakes. Browning also appears to be a gifted hacker, presumably knowing of security flaws in the remote desktop software that scammers tend to use, giving him free rein on their machines. — Read the rest
Jim Browning got a look into a Kolkata call center via one of the scammers' insecure machines: "You're looking at the webcam of a scammer named Deva ██████. He's currently uploading the phone numbers of people who will be his next potential victims. — Read the rest
David and I love Blank on Blank, a video series that animates recorded interviews with notable people. It's produced by PBS Digital Studios, and the latest one is a 1982 interview with kidnapping victim Patty Hearst, who served time in prison for being forced to take part in a bank robbery by her captors, the psychotic Symbionese Liberation Army. — Read the rest
Vietnam War veteran and photographer James Speed Hensinger has shared a never-before-published collection of night photographs he shot in Vietnam in 1970.
They show US troops opening fire on a Viet Cong sniper who was firing on the US soldiers with an AK47 automatic rifle. — Read the rest
