@Gabe Kowalski This might help^_^ "Hero (noun)- 1. a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character ('He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.') 2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or ideal ('My older sister is my hero.' 'Entrepreneurs are our modern heroes.') 3. the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc. 4. Classical Mythology- a being of godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity. (in the Homeric period) a warrior-chieftain of special strength, courage, or ability. (in later antiquity) an immortal being; demigod. 5. the bread or roll used in making a hero sandwich."
Jim, you really are doing a service. I showed my nan these videos and now every time she has an email with shit like this (Your computer has a virus, or some tax scam crap) she ignores them. So you really are helping. Thanks, mate.
I'm imagining a bunch of scammer organizations bidding on various phone numbers to be able to use for certain days, a la some sort of boisterous underground stock market trading floor.
A very close friend of mine fell for their trap and he was about to give his credit card info. But fortunately the internet was cut off. He then called me and I showed him your videos. He was really happy that I showed him your videos. Thank you for your help sir. My question is now.... How can we get rid of these pop-ups? He has Kasperkey Antivirus but that doesn't seem to work. The popups keep coming up. He can barely do any work. Can you provide us with a solution? My friends has a lot of important files in his PC and he doesn't want to lose them. Thank you. 😊
I cannot believe this is happening in India. As an Indian, I feel ashamed for such scams from India. This spoils the reputation of my country all over the world. I really want to say that you sir should take a harsh action on such people. You should contact Indian cybercrime division and make it sure that these fraudsters are put behind bars. The reason why such scammers are successful is the lack of knowledge of computer softwares and essentials. People should watch such videos and learn not to fall for such a scam. Thank you so much for revealing those people. At last, I want to state that do not consider such activities as the global image of India. We Indians are also scammed for such things. Someone should take a major step to stop this. Keep up the good work.
Yes I saw those 2 videos. Actually those 2 were the videos I stumbled upon to first and got to know all about this scamming things going on. And yes, I'm sorry to say that there is a lot of corruption in India. A lot! I'm really thankful to you that you spend time on and work hard to try to expose such scammers to not only make India safe and aware but the whole world. I'm sorry for the lack of acknowledgment from the Indian authorities. They won't realise this until someone is severely hit by such scams and the media reports it in a very dramatic way causing people to protest on streets and do silly stuff. Thanks again✌
Scams and scammers are found all over the world. These scams are running by chain of organizations located all over the world. These guys are low profile figures and getting used by mobs as guinea pigs. The world just have to increase the standards how internet works. This is nothing compare to counterfeit checks and forgery costing billion of dollars in loss worldwide. Also, Jim Browning is indeed a legend. I hope that one day he has his own non-profit security company helping people from these cunts.
***** Nah i remember now it was a survey thing from a recent thing with your house. Also mate, do you not get charged a fuck ton for making these calls to india ?
***** You should make them pay you £300 lad, i would love to see that, in pounds not dollars xD Give them a good old look at the old currency they had, Not only that but it will return the money they take back into our country
If I were a Federal LEO, I would be taking a hard look at who controls those telephone numbers. All fraud linked to the telephone number would be punishable by the U.S. federal wire fraud statute (18 USC 1343) as well as the money laundering statute (18 USC 1956). The FBI has jurisdiction in such matters. If you are so inclined, consider submitting a.......
Hey Jim! :) Just wanted to say amazing work. :) I have started scambaiting after My Mother almost became a victim. One scam blew my phone up calling every hour on the hour till I picked up. I have been propositioned by up to 15 different companies most in the north of India, and 5 here in The States (Wireshark is awesome). I also had one where the "technician" actually admitted it was a scam. He told me he was sick of it and trying to warn as many of us as possible. There are some decent folks there , at least.
Very interesting. I take it as a kind of hobby to find these numbers and call them just to waste their time. They usually curse me out when I either tell them I know it's a scam or when they figure out that I'm full of it (usually when I break into laughter or lay the dumb on too thick). You've taken it to a different level, good work!
You have a great way of doing things. You don't get into the name calling with them and you're very thorough in your investigation. Keep up the good work
yup, with Jim's calm and soothing voice you feel like watching an award winning cyber thriller somewhere in the cinema lol...that's also the reason why I don't like ScammerRevolts dude, who openly mocks and takes piss of these vermins, stooping to their level and making it some kindergarden toy war
Just a question, are you aware that if you are on a USA VPN, (the one I use is "HOXX VPN for firefox") and you type in misspelled website names e.g. yootube.com, fecebook.com, fgoogle.com etc you'll often get scammer pop-ups? (we don't get them much in the UK from my experience) so i'd give that a go, I often get pop-ups with fake BSODs and sometimes they even make a red screen and call it an "RSOD" with fake errors etc, but be aware if you were to make videos on them, some do show your IP address.
Glad I could help with the information :) Love your videos, always liked how professional you are with the scammers and the scammer bingo application made by me and my friend was inspired by you of course :)
Jim Browning Old comment and you probably know this but misspelling things are good ways to get viruses via exploits of java nor other things. *Do not try this! This is how spysheriff was spread, not necessarily by exploits but by misspelling of popular websites!*
New subscriber here (French living in the Irish midlands). I've started watching your videos from the bottom up. It's frightening to see the extent of this fraud epidemic, but this video really drives the point home. This is a hydra-like problem: widespread and with many heads to it. Scary. Thanks for enlightening me and many others.
If you ever get one that's in Florida closer to me, the Orlando area, I'm willing to drive physically to the reported building and video tape any interaction.
***** Sweet, thanks. I'm interested to see what is at these address, if anything other than a dumpster. If someone is there, are they even aware of what's going on.
I live in Miami fl I get insane fraud numbers from Robo calls. I don’t call call back or answer the phone they record my number and then start selling it to other scammers harassing me. So I did knowdest how they get your number now the calls happen around the time I think I pick up the call
Wow! that's fantastic! I like people mistaking 'think' for 'thing', which kind of makes sense, but this is a new one for me: "knowdest' for 'noticed"! It kind of makes sense too. And comes complete with the 'd' American pronunciation! Fantastic, thank you. I'm gonna use it.
I've got to say it's great to see someone who stands up to these scammers! I would love to know how these organisations feel about taking away hard earned cash! Anyway keep the great work mate, love your content!
I like your approach, there are tone of videos out there where people give the scammers a hard time, but ultimately do nothing of value. I have learned from you and respect your precision, preparation and methodology in scouting out, identifying patterns, gathering real data and then using this data to let the authorities handle the issue. Well done sir, you are doing it the right way. Cheers
+That's one of the things I like about what Jim Browning is doing. Other people record interacting with the scammers and having noisy fun with them. More entertaining than anything. But I prefer the way JB shows it is serious, and he's on a mission. And that polite NornIrn voice patiently calling them to task would be scarier than someone making fun of them. Great, great stuff!
Very interesting Sir, documents quite a few of the current issues my clients are seeing. Thankfully videos like this make people more aware, thus saving them from the pain of fraud/dataloss/etc... Keep em coming :)
Again, great job. Way to keep justice alive and call out these scammers. Your videos inspire me to learn more about computers. Keep up the amazing work!
I had something like this before, I called some scammers from my phone and it was this one company. I then tried it on my friends phone and we went through to a completely different person. Really weird.
thanks for the information and research. I just got an emergency alert for security for my computer with the same number and a ladies voice. I shut down and unplugged the router. I think they are selling phone numbers that are current?? Big Fat Scam.!!
These types of videos I find intriguing, pretty amazing what you find man, and crazy how so many centres are based off of one organization. love the vids man, love them.
Keep up the amazing work. I love how professional you are, and how you track them Dow. They can run, but they can't hide! So awesome, because most of us could never do what you do.
great job Jim... 👍... the scammer don't bother wither the person they are scamming are old or poor or they leave in pension they just go for money.. I really appreciate what u r doing.. this will help other people so that they will aware and they avoid been the victim of this kind of scam calls...
Wow thanks for the great detective work !! Now I hope to find the way to remove the pop up annoyance from my computer screen. again thank you for posting this
Great investigative work on your part. Almost 2 years later, and I just got a red screen. I don't know if it's the same people. Thanks for the heads up.
make a video where you make the errors and warnings in event viewer something like safe or success or succeeded or... you get the point and also change the pictures to the green tick in circle thats on windows then call a scammer see what they do
I imagine a rather substancial amount of website URLs that gets redirected on very regular basis so they keep switching around in order to keep undetcted.
I love what you do man it's amazing and really really entertaining to see the scammers get frustrated with you 😂😂 and when will you do scammer bingo again?
Those scammers work together in some wort of way, to spread the popup crap. then they have some kind of load balancing in place that distributes the calls equally among the party. For all you know, maybe it's just one big corporation separated into small unites to prevent being taken down so easy.
Wow this is scary to know,obviously there Are that many Americans uneducated about these scams,cuz these people are making money or they wouldn't be doing it ,especially to this scale,wow,I will share to hopefully educate everyone especially our elders ,who aren't tech savvy,,,great work as always!
Since some of them were in the US i bet they can actually do something to them, i mean unlike India i bet the US authorities will be more than interested in the info you have uncovered. I hope they get what they deserve and thank you for all the efforts you spend on battling against this scum.
Interesting to see that they’re taking the numbers in shifts. Makes me wonder if there’s an organization that rents the numbers out, and does some kind of management so the number doesn’t get shut down.
Jim I live in FL and we are bombarded with scam calls that show they are FL numbers but when you call the number back, they seem to piggyback their numbers with actual florida residential orders, I even had a scam call from someone and while they were leaving a message on my voicemail, I noticed that they were using my number. In other words. The incoming call was from my own phone number. I was going to leave this call on the do not call list but I would be blocking my own number lol. How are they doing this Jim? Any ideas or has anyone else seen this?
Chad Van Oostendorp This is what's been happening to me too! I get calls from numbers one digit up from me and one digit down from me. Also a fuck ton of calls from Florida and California. Really annoying
The US does have some serious antifraud laws, I'm curious how all of this turns out with the US based parts of this international organization. If you don't know where to report these go to the Federal Trade Commission's website. www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov though I don't know if this it how you'd report internationally or just from within the US, but I'd definitely try there. Good luck in getting these people busted. :)
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to clear those event logs and change all of those processes to "running" and change your NAP to on before allowing them to connect to your VM? I'd be super interested to see their reaction and if/how they still try to scam you at that point. It would be entertaining if nothing else. Also, isn't it possible that they are hiding behind another IP address using a program such as Peerblock? I would definitely think that this were the case if the IP addresses were showing up all over the globe, but I guess it's unlikely since so many are pinging back to ISPs in India. Just throwing out some thoughts. Despite being somewhat of a UA-cam junkie, I only "subscribe" to a few channels. You, sir, have earned a subscription.
Hey Jim, thank you for all the great videos. I am quite impressed with your talent and dedication to your art. I usually lull scammers into thinking I am diminished before I regale stories of my imprisonment. I usually ask them if they know what happens to little soft Indians in prison....they keep hanging up on me.I put them on speaker phone so my adult kids and I can get a good laugh.
I think it is really fortunate that they expanded operation to USA, since now you can actually get cooperation from law agencies if you decide to report them. I would keep calling untill i hit next usa based one, record it and report it.
Some excellent investigating,very well done,more needs to be done by the Internet Providers once these scams have been highlighted, especially in Africa & India.
I wish I could teach them a lesson as you have several times over. I usually play with them on the phone for a few minutes and then get nasty but they end up hanging up. every time I call back a number its a magic jack or voip caller so I can't get anyone on the line. Love watching these videos. thanks for the info.
I know for sure why there is a high traffic of scammers at Chandigarh, Gurgaon and Delhi. Guess where banks like Royal Bank of Scotland has outsourced their jobs? They actually moved these jobs from secure countries like Hong Kong and Singapore to countries like India where there is no security and no way of the tracking either culprits or the money trail. Anyone with a fake certificate can enter a call centre and I.T. field in India and within a matter of days they have customer information from all over the world. Once they are in a MNC, they get the customer information and sell it to third parties or organise scams like these themselves. This scam is a syndicate started by one person who may have opened new centres once their scam was established. Others might have sought the opportunity and jumped on the bandwagon. Most Indians would never fall for a scam like this where money is to be paid upfront. That's why online shopping websites were forced to come up with COD (cash on delivery) option. It is highly unfortunate that a lot of people from USA and UK have fallen a victim of the scam, despite wide spread awareness. FYI, I am an Indian just in case a troll calls me racist.
Interesting. I was scammed by an Indian couple on a "Microsoft Security" cold call. My computer was locked with a password, and a virus installed. The people who helped me out by unlocking my computer and removing the virus while saving all my data (at a very low cost) were also Indian. So, it's about crooks and decent people, not skin color or nationality. Thanks. :-)
that's interesting, so what you're saying is that people in legitimate call centers from big companies and banks are selling customer details to scammer call centers?
There was a story a few weeks ago in the UK where a woman who had closed her account completely, think it was HSBC. received a bank statement for here closed account as it was active. 16 pounds sterling had been debited. She went to her branch and enquired why. The manager apologized and revealed that her old card had been used to pay for lunch time coffee's and sandwiches as a reward to the staff at the branch. He subsequently found her card in amongst (she reported about a hundred) And after her demanding, cut the card in front of her. How many of these incidents take place every day? So yeah I can believe info being sold off. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4412784/HSBC-staff-member-buys-drinks-customer-s-card.html
The easiest way to stop this sort of garbage (until scammers figure out how to stop it) is for windows to add a message on that page with errors and stops that says it's normal and should not be changed. I figure they'd say something like "Microsoft agents can change them" but they could mention that too.
Loved this video. You do all this work and it must be hectic. You really are a great person and kudos to you . I am in San Diego and watch you ALL the time 😁.
Regarding the Florida ip addresses, their claimed locations (Boynton Beach and Wellington) are actually very likely to show a North Miami Beach isp address. Both claimed locations are in Palm Beach county, which is 2 counties away from NMB (Dade county). I live in Broward county (sits directly between Palm Beach and Dade) and my IP Addy traces back to either Hollywood or Miami, depending on site doing the tracing (Yahoo locates me in Miami, Amazon in Hollywood). Our infrastructure is not "state of the art" by any means, so such traces tend to end at major isp "junctions" where traffic is redistributed to rather large areas. The ISP is almost always either a phone company or cable TV provider (bellsouth and Comcast respectively), so I assume those "junctions" are pre existing distribution hubs of the core service. Honestly, the locations in India probably have FAR better infrastructure than here, so give far more accurate traces. Ours is "rigged" through 4 generations of communication tech, and evidence of that kluging is everywhere, lol.
Which makes you think that either they're all working together and part of a bigger organisation or they are separate but have some sort of agreement in place, or something else is going on.
Great work Jim, you've inspired me to do the same work.. I've been frantically searching the internet for scam phone numbers I can call from Australia. Should I ever be fortunate enough to do the investigative work you've demonstrated in your video, my next step would be to literally jump on a plane and go to India and confront them in there call center, now that would make for awesome viewing.. Please don't ever stop doing what you're doing!
Subscribed. You, sir are amazing. There is so much ************* on UA-cam and it is refreshing to come across something so deliciously diligent, informative and useful.
I was on a website about a year ago on a 7 year old laptop and I got this pop-up that took over my screen that flashed red and spoke in a robot voice saying my IP had been leaked and I needed to call microsoft ASAP, I was scared shitless, turned off the laptop and haven't opened it since. It was 2 in the morning and the volume was all the way up
Would think that the removal of the syskey would atleast slow these scammers down, But sadly enough their scare tactics still work on people who dont know about them. (Annoying people 😒)
I really like your videos. You aren't just calling them, you're investigating them. If you need the community help just ask. If the law wont do anything then lets do it our self. Again if you need help just ask!
Very cool. I just got the popup and wanted to see videos about it. Very informative and sad so many scammers working hard on this this. What a waste of effort just to steal cash. Why not do something useful.
love the vertual machine as i just got messed up in this mess This shit is serious when your getting death threats from aledged microsf tech support. thanx JIM i watch all your vids .Ithink we got them on the RUN.lol
This is like the worm I encountered about 8 years ago that was posted in the web forum with a person asking, What is this. The payload was a plain base64 string that when decoded and activated would then deliver a payload. The strings were very way to find and many websites had this thing as a download, mostly repository sites offering free scripting. The coders were obviously monitoring posts in the forum because I commented on how to take it apart, find the scritps and then suddenly the scripts were being generated with random variable names to circumvent detection. This is no different, they have several numbers, several companies, they roll the companies and numbers around so that any complaints that may be made don't link to that number, by the time a number is exhausted, it has been recycled several times. Its a way of ducking and diving by posing as an alternative company, they can still operate. Many years ago I was part of a fileshare group (private) and maintaining a server was difficult for most, so I implemented a simple hooking system, users would hook the IP and new connections went to their machine and not mine as it was on 24/7 and we had taken the serve over in time zone shifts. So it might be a simple case of a company is hooking up to the available number for that day. Sounds like there is a central server or program that decides who gets what number and what interface that they will be posing as on that day.
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Not all heros wear capes. Thank you for your service
what if he does
@Gabe Kowalski This might help^_^
"Hero (noun)-
1. a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character ('He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.')
2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has special achievements, abilities, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model or ideal ('My older sister is my hero.' 'Entrepreneurs are our modern heroes.')
3. the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.
4. Classical Mythology-
a being of godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity.
(in the Homeric period) a warrior-chieftain of special strength, courage, or ability.
(in later antiquity) an immortal being; demigod.
5. the bread or roll used in making a hero sandwich."
@Gabe Kowalski the windows 10 wallpaper lol
Spiderman doesnt wear a cape
I still like to think Jim is sitting behind his desktop mask, cape, spandex and all. Super scambaiter to save the day
Jim, you really are doing a service. I showed my nan these videos and now every time she has an email with shit like this (Your computer has a virus, or some tax scam crap) she ignores them. So you really are helping.
Thanks, mate.
I'm imagining a bunch of scammer organizations bidding on various phone numbers to be able to use for certain days, a la some sort of boisterous underground stock market trading floor.
+Jim Browning mmmmmm
HI, HOAX HOTEL :D
A very close friend of mine fell for their trap and he was about to give his credit card info. But fortunately the internet was cut off. He then called me and I showed him your videos. He was really happy that I showed him your videos. Thank you for your help sir.
My question is now.... How can we get rid of these pop-ups? He has Kasperkey Antivirus but that doesn't seem to work. The popups keep coming up. He can barely do any work. Can you provide us with a solution? My friends has a lot of important files in his PC and he doesn't want to lose them. Thank you. 😊
*lose is the word you want . Opposite of win. Loose is the opposite of tight !
ReadandWite you're a douche
I cannot believe this is happening in India. As an Indian, I feel ashamed for such scams from India. This spoils the reputation of my country all over the world. I really want to say that you sir should take a harsh action on such people. You should contact Indian cybercrime division and make it sure that these fraudsters are put behind bars. The reason why such scammers are successful is the lack of knowledge of computer softwares and essentials. People should watch such videos and learn not to fall for such a scam. Thank you so much for revealing those people. At last, I want to state that do not consider such activities as the global image of India. We Indians are also scammed for such things. Someone should take a major step to stop this. Keep up the good work.
Yes I saw those 2 videos. Actually those 2 were the videos I stumbled upon to first and got to know all about this scamming things going on. And yes, I'm sorry to say that there is a lot of corruption in India. A lot! I'm really thankful to you that you spend time on and work hard to try to expose such scammers to not only make India safe and aware but the whole world. I'm sorry for the lack of acknowledgment from the Indian authorities. They won't realise this until someone is severely hit by such scams and the media reports it in a very dramatic way causing people to protest on streets and do silly stuff. Thanks again✌
Scams and scammers are found all over the world. These scams are running by chain of organizations located all over the world. These guys are low profile figures and getting used by mobs as guinea pigs. The world just have to increase the standards how internet works. This is nothing compare to counterfeit checks and forgery costing billion of dollars in loss worldwide. Also, Jim Browning is indeed a legend. I hope that one day he has his own non-profit security company helping people from these cunts.
Most are from India, i have had so many scam calls from india like around 300 in this past 3 years all talking about insurance and what not xD
***** Nah i remember now it was a survey thing from a recent thing with your house.
Also mate, do you not get charged a fuck ton for making these calls to india ?
***** You should make them pay you £300 lad, i would love to see that, in pounds not dollars xD
Give them a good old look at the old currency they had, Not only that but it will return the money they take back into our country
"on the fifth day of scambaits my true love gave to me, a koobface in cmd tree"
Make cmd bash!
“On the fifth day of scambaits, my true love gave to me, a koobface in a bash tree”
Four keyboard loggers,
Three bench toads!
Two turd brains,
And a bad English speaker from indi!
Loving the amount of legwork you are doing. a fresh new take on the whole scam baiting thing.
please keep making these. It's absolutely awesome seeing these scammers getting wrecked. Keep up the great work!
The past five videos on this channel were like a novel i could not put down... very well done.
Jim Browning do you perceive this activity decreasing steady or increasing???
Jim Browning Interesting given the number of arrests and such.
This whole channel needs to be made into a Bollywood movie.
With songs and dancing and “each and every thing”
If I were a Federal LEO, I would be taking a hard look at who controls those telephone numbers. All fraud linked to the telephone number would be punishable by the U.S. federal wire fraud statute (18 USC 1343) as well as the money laundering statute (18 USC 1956). The FBI has jurisdiction in such matters. If you are so inclined, consider submitting a.......
Hey Jim! :) Just wanted to say amazing work. :) I have started scambaiting after My Mother almost became a victim. One scam blew my phone up calling every hour on the hour till I picked up. I have been propositioned by up to 15 different companies most in the north of India, and 5 here in The States (Wireshark is awesome). I also had one where the "technician" actually admitted it was a scam. He told me he was sick of it and trying to warn as many of us as possible. There are some decent folks there , at least.
YOU SIR, ARE AMAZING. Please do more of these. It's so funny watching the scammers get trolled. It's so great. We need more people like you.
Very interesting. I take it as a kind of hobby to find these numbers and call them just to waste their time. They usually curse me out when I either tell them I know it's a scam or when they figure out that I'm full of it (usually when I break into laughter or lay the dumb on too thick). You've taken it to a different level, good work!
You have a great way of doing things. You don't get into the name calling with them and you're very thorough in your investigation. Keep up the good work
yup, with Jim's calm and soothing voice you feel like watching an award winning cyber thriller somewhere in the cinema lol...that's also the reason why I don't like ScammerRevolts dude, who openly mocks and takes piss of these vermins, stooping to their level and making it some kindergarden toy war
ScammerRevolts is a different kind of entertainment. It’s just a laugh tbh, it’s obviously over-the-top and the scammers deserve the annoyance.
Also, I went on this popup, called the number and realised it was a completely different number.
I used the same URL
Just a question, are you aware that if you are on a USA VPN, (the one I use is "HOXX VPN for firefox") and you type in misspelled website names e.g. yootube.com, fecebook.com, fgoogle.com etc you'll often get scammer pop-ups? (we don't get them much in the UK from my experience) so i'd give that a go, I often get pop-ups with fake BSODs and sometimes they even make a red screen and call it an "RSOD" with fake errors etc, but be aware if you were to make videos on them, some do show your IP address.
Glad I could help with the information :) Love your videos, always liked how professional you are with the scammers and the scammer bingo application made by me and my friend was inspired by you of course :)
Jim Browning Old comment and you probably know this but misspelling things are good ways to get viruses via exploits of java nor other things. *Do not try this! This is how spysheriff was spread, not necessarily by exploits but by misspelling of popular websites!*
Please continue doing these videos. You are helping alot of people. These scammers hurt so many innocent people.
New subscriber here (French living in the Irish midlands). I've started watching your videos from the bottom up. It's frightening to see the extent of this fraud epidemic, but this video really drives the point home. This is a hydra-like problem: widespread and with many heads to it. Scary. Thanks for enlightening me and many others.
Good to see a fellow country man taking on the scammers. Keep it up mate, i love watching your videos.
FINALLY!!!! I was looking for some new scambait content from you for what seems like ages. Glad to see your back at it, give em hell Jim.
If you ever get one that's in Florida closer to me, the Orlando area, I'm willing to drive physically to the reported building and video tape any interaction.
***** Sweet, thanks. I'm interested to see what is at these address, if anything other than a dumpster. If someone is there, are they even aware of what's going on.
I live in Miami fl I get insane fraud numbers from Robo calls. I don’t call call back or answer the phone they record my number and then start selling it to other scammers harassing me. So I did knowdest how they get your number now the calls happen around the time I think I pick up the call
Wow! that's fantastic! I like people mistaking 'think' for 'thing', which kind of makes sense, but this is a new one for me: "knowdest' for 'noticed"! It kind of makes sense too. And comes complete with the 'd' American pronunciation! Fantastic, thank you. I'm gonna use it.
Varning your computer has been invaded by a wirus. Please gimme your credit card Sur.
Retro Plus each and evury wiruz
I've got to say it's great to see someone who stands up to these scammers! I would love to know how these organisations feel about taking away hard earned cash! Anyway keep the great work mate, love your content!
Great job! I love the work you put into this, and more importantly that you document and share it with others.
I like your approach, there are tone of videos out there where people give the scammers a hard time, but ultimately do nothing of value. I have learned from you and respect your precision, preparation and methodology in scouting out, identifying patterns, gathering real data and then using this data to let the authorities handle the issue. Well done sir, you are doing it the right way.
Cheers
looking forward to them. The video about covering your "VM" tracks was a real help. Cheers
+That's one of the things I like about what Jim Browning is doing. Other people record interacting with the scammers and having noisy fun with them. More entertaining than anything. But I prefer the way JB shows it is serious, and he's on a mission. And that polite NornIrn voice patiently calling them to task would be scarier than someone making fun of them. Great, great stuff!
Very interesting Sir, documents quite a few of the current issues my clients are seeing. Thankfully videos like this make people more aware, thus saving them from the pain of fraud/dataloss/etc... Keep em coming :)
I came from Lewis's Tech, this is very interesting. I didn't know how widespread their operations were. You're going a great job, keep it up!
Again, great job. Way to keep justice alive and call out these scammers. Your videos inspire me to learn more about computers. Keep up the amazing work!
Crazy. You have blown my mind. Keep the videos comming.
This is an excellent video. It is fascinating and informative. I hope you keep tracking these scum down!
The frame drops on the video make it more intense
***** Have you tried OBS?
One more thumbs up for OBS, best screen recorder out there!
+Jim Browning good to hear
I had something like this before, I called some scammers from my phone and it was this one company. I then tried it on my friends phone and we went through to a completely different person. Really weird.
I really like ur work! Nice to see there are some people out there trying to make the world a littl better :D Subscribed!
Alex Mikulsky Same!!
Agreed.
Thank you fellow Jim for exposing the worst kind of criminals of this world. From a Ballymena cowboy!
thanks for the information and research. I just got an emergency alert for security for my computer with the same number and a ladies voice. I shut down and unplugged the router. I think they are selling phone numbers that are current?? Big Fat Scam.!!
It's good that there are tech support people in the world....
But it's sad that most of them are scammers
These types of videos I find intriguing, pretty amazing what you find man, and crazy how so many centres are based off of one organization. love the vids man, love them.
You are truly a hero. Congratulations for your persistence and professionalism.
Keep up the amazing work. I love how professional you are, and how you track them Dow. They can run, but they can't hide! So awesome, because most of us could never do what you do.
ah the audio is way better now
@JNP Films Good job, you replied to a 4 year old comment.
great job Jim... 👍... the scammer don't bother wither the person they are scamming are old or poor or they leave in pension they just go for money.. I really appreciate what u r doing.. this will help other people so that they will aware and they avoid been the victim of this kind of scam calls...
My god Jim, you're like the internets Batman. Doing things the law won't bother looking into. Working to protect the innocent from these scammers.
Jim,
Always enjoy your videos. There seemed to be a "digital" sound during the entire video. Just so you know. Keep up the good work.
Wow thanks for the great detective work !! Now I hope to find the way to remove the pop up annoyance from my computer screen. again thank you for posting this
what is crazy is how organized these scammers are. whole "businesses" that seem legitimate with dozens of employees. this is beyond crazy.
USA IPs could be just proxy and still originally located in India 🤔
Great work 👍
Great investigative work on your part. Almost 2 years later, and I just got a red screen. I don't know if it's the same people. Thanks for the heads up.
make a video where you make the errors and warnings in event viewer something like safe or success or succeeded or... you get the point and also change the pictures to the green tick in circle thats on windows then call a scammer see what they do
I imagine a rather substancial amount of website URLs that gets redirected on very regular basis so they keep switching around in order to keep undetcted.
I love what you do man it's amazing and really really entertaining to see the scammers get frustrated with you 😂😂 and when will you do scammer bingo again?
When Jim says it shocked him twice in the first 2 minutes we're in for a ride
Those scammers work together in some wort of way, to spread the popup crap. then they have some kind of load balancing in place that distributes the calls equally among the party. For all you know, maybe it's just one big corporation separated into small unites to prevent being taken down so easy.
Wow this is scary to know,obviously there Are that many Americans uneducated about these scams,cuz these people are making money or they wouldn't be doing it ,especially to this scale,wow,I will share to hopefully educate everyone especially our elders ,who aren't tech savvy,,,great work as always!
You rock!
Upload videos mate!
Great work! You're doing us all a favor. Thank you!
Thanks Jim. Another insightful presentation, I recommend for newbies. Have a nice day!☺
Since some of them were in the US i bet they can actually do something to them, i mean unlike India i bet the US authorities will be more than interested in the info you have uncovered. I hope they get what they deserve and thank you for all the efforts you spend on battling against this scum.
Interesting to see that they’re taking the numbers in shifts. Makes me wonder if there’s an organization that rents the numbers out, and does some kind of management so the number doesn’t get shut down.
I'm very impressed in what you are doing, keep going!
adress "A 51" i can't believe you were scammed by extraterrestrials
Jim I live in FL and we are bombarded with scam calls that show they are FL numbers but when you call the number back, they seem to piggyback their numbers with actual florida residential orders, I even had a scam call from someone and while they were leaving a message on my voicemail, I noticed that they were using my number. In other words. The incoming call was from my own phone number. I was going to leave this call on the do not call list but I would be blocking my own number lol. How are they doing this Jim? Any ideas or has anyone else seen this?
It's been a thing lately here in the US... Not only local numbers but numbers that are like within a couple digits of your number.
Chad Van Oostendorp you can download the spoof app from the playstore.
Dillon Mathew srop answering
Chad Van Oostendorp
This is what's been happening to me too! I get calls from numbers one digit up from me and one digit down from me. Also a fuck ton of calls from Florida and California. Really annoying
OR answer every single one and waste their time as much as you want to .
Fantastic video, mate. These scammers are the lowest. Can't wait too see the next vid. Cheers.
The US does have some serious antifraud laws, I'm curious how all of this turns out with the US based parts of this international organization. If you don't know where to report these go to the Federal Trade Commission's website. www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov though I don't know if this it how you'd report internationally or just from within the US, but I'd definitely try there. Good luck in getting these people busted. :)
yes but most of tham are outside of us usually india and the laws are different there
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to clear those event logs and change all of those processes to "running" and change your NAP to on before allowing them to connect to your VM? I'd be super interested to see their reaction and if/how they still try to scam you at that point. It would be entertaining if nothing else. Also, isn't it possible that they are hiding behind another IP address using a program such as Peerblock? I would definitely think that this were the case if the IP addresses were showing up all over the globe, but I guess it's unlikely since so many are pinging back to ISPs in India. Just throwing out some thoughts.
Despite being somewhat of a UA-cam junkie, I only "subscribe" to a few channels. You, sir, have earned a subscription.
Really interesting stuff. Good job, looking forward for more content like this!
Hey Jim, thank you for all the great videos. I am quite impressed with your talent and dedication to your art. I usually lull scammers into thinking I am diminished before I regale stories of my imprisonment. I usually ask them if they know what happens to little soft Indians in prison....they keep hanging up on me.I put them on speaker phone so my adult kids and I can get a good laugh.
Great to see more stuff, Jim - keep them coming.
I think it is really fortunate that they expanded operation to USA, since now you can actually get cooperation from law agencies if you decide to report them. I would keep calling untill i hit next usa based one, record it and report it.
Very informative and explains in detail how these scams work.
Really nice one ! Love it mate ! Do you know if you could uncover some adware worm firms like this ?
wow, people really don't know how deep these scams go(myself included)...Very informative
ho wow who knew there where so many scammers, thanks for pointing them out.
Excellent video. I like these investigative topics. Nobody does what your doing. Thank you for your service
Some excellent investigating,very well done,more needs to be done by the Internet Providers once these scams have been highlighted, especially in Africa & India.
Loved this vid! So interesting! Keep up the good work
youre so under subbed you deserve at mill at least mate youre doing gods work bud
I wish I could teach them a lesson as you have several times over. I usually play with them on the phone for a few minutes and then get nasty but they end up hanging up. every time I call back a number its a magic jack or voip caller so I can't get anyone on the line. Love watching these videos. thanks for the info.
please keep working until each and every scammer quits or dies
Hi Jim, they are like chameleon. surprise to me. You have been very helpful in your thorough investigation.
I know for sure why there is a high traffic of scammers at Chandigarh, Gurgaon and Delhi. Guess where banks like Royal Bank of Scotland has outsourced their jobs? They actually moved these jobs from secure countries like Hong Kong and Singapore to countries like India where there is no security and no way of the tracking either culprits or the money trail. Anyone with a fake certificate can enter a call centre and I.T. field in India and within a matter of days they have customer information from all over the world. Once they are in a MNC, they get the customer information and sell it to third parties or organise scams like these themselves. This scam is a syndicate started by one person who may have opened new centres once their scam was established. Others might have sought the opportunity and jumped on the bandwagon. Most Indians would never fall for a scam like this where money is to be paid upfront. That's why online shopping websites were forced to come up with COD (cash on delivery) option. It is highly unfortunate that a lot of people from USA and UK have fallen a victim of the scam, despite wide spread awareness. FYI, I am an Indian just in case a troll calls me racist.
And don't expect police or cyber police would help you with this, they make their bribes out of scams like these.
I tried to interest law enforcement in the US to help me after I was scammed, and they, too, ignored me.
Interesting. I was scammed by an Indian couple on a "Microsoft Security" cold call. My computer was locked with a password, and a virus installed. The people who helped me out by unlocking my computer and removing the virus while saving all my data (at a very low cost) were also Indian. So, it's about crooks and decent people, not skin color or nationality. Thanks. :-)
that's interesting, so what you're saying is that people in legitimate call centers from big companies and banks are selling customer details to scammer call centers?
There was a story a few weeks ago in the UK where a woman who had closed her account completely, think it was HSBC.
received a bank statement for here closed account as it was active. 16 pounds sterling had been debited.
She went to her branch and enquired why. The manager apologized and revealed that her old card had been used to pay for lunch time coffee's and sandwiches as a reward to the staff at the branch. He subsequently found her card in amongst (she reported about a hundred) And after her demanding, cut the card in front of her.
How many of these incidents take place every day?
So yeah I can believe info being sold off.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4412784/HSBC-staff-member-buys-drinks-customer-s-card.html
The easiest way to stop this sort of garbage (until scammers figure out how to stop it) is for windows to add a message on that page with errors and stops that says it's normal and should not be changed. I figure they'd say something like "Microsoft agents can change them" but they could mention that too.
Loved this video. You do all this work and it must be hectic. You really are a great person and kudos to you . I am in San Diego and watch you ALL the time 😁.
Regarding the Florida ip addresses, their claimed locations (Boynton Beach and Wellington) are actually very likely to show a North Miami Beach isp address. Both claimed locations are in Palm Beach county, which is 2 counties away from NMB (Dade county). I live in Broward county (sits directly between Palm Beach and Dade) and my IP Addy traces back to either Hollywood or Miami, depending on site doing the tracing (Yahoo locates me in Miami, Amazon in Hollywood). Our infrastructure is not "state of the art" by any means, so such traces tend to end at major isp "junctions" where traffic is redistributed to rather large areas. The ISP is almost always either a phone company or cable TV provider (bellsouth and Comcast respectively), so I assume those "junctions" are pre existing distribution hubs of the core service. Honestly, the locations in India probably have FAR better infrastructure than here, so give far more accurate traces. Ours is "rigged" through 4 generations of communication tech, and evidence of that kluging is everywhere, lol.
The way you explained it very good. I guess I got some idea about it....
Which makes you think that either they're all working together and part of a bigger organisation or they are separate but have some sort of agreement in place, or something else is going on.
Brilliant Detective work.
Great work Jim, you've inspired me to do the same work.. I've been frantically searching the internet for scam phone numbers I can call from Australia. Should I ever be fortunate enough to do the investigative work you've demonstrated in your video, my next step would be to literally jump on a plane and go to India and confront them in there call center, now that would make for awesome viewing.. Please don't ever stop doing what you're doing!
Subscribed. You, sir are amazing. There is so much ************* on UA-cam and it is refreshing to come across something so deliciously diligent, informative and useful.
Thank you for all you do to help thwart and stop these thieves. Excellent!
I believe its funny that there places are in India since the DELL support call center was moved
to India from here in Edmonton, AB, in Canada
Good job collecting all these info
I was on a website about a year ago on a 7 year old laptop and I got this pop-up that took over my screen that flashed red and spoke in a robot voice saying my IP had been leaked and I needed to call microsoft ASAP, I was scared shitless, turned off the laptop and haven't opened it since. It was 2 in the morning and the volume was all the way up
He is not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed😃
Would think that the removal of the syskey would atleast slow these scammers down, But sadly enough their scare tactics still work on people who dont know about them.
(Annoying people 😒)
I really like your videos. You aren't just calling them, you're investigating them. If you need the community help just ask. If the law wont do anything then lets do it our self. Again if you need help just ask!
Thanks for the free iPad in your description, only took 10 weeks to be delivered.
Very cool. I just got the popup and wanted to see videos about it. Very informative and sad so many scammers working hard on this this. What a waste of effort just to steal cash. Why not do something useful.
Did you report US scammers to the us gov? I would think that they would be a bit more proactive than India countries.
love the vertual machine as i just got messed up in this mess This shit is serious when your getting death threats from aledged microsf tech support. thanx JIM i watch all your vids .Ithink we got them on the RUN.lol
love everything about these videos, tho I'm wishing for a bit more malice. we need some black hats in the mix lol.
bravo, this is awesome, keep doing this it is really entertaining
This is like the worm I encountered about 8 years ago that was posted in the web forum with a person asking, What is this.
The payload was a plain base64 string that when decoded and activated would then deliver a payload.
The strings were very way to find and many websites had this thing as a download, mostly repository sites offering free scripting.
The coders were obviously monitoring posts in the forum because I commented on how to take it apart, find the scritps and then suddenly the scripts were being generated with random variable names to circumvent detection.
This is no different, they have several numbers, several companies, they roll the companies and numbers around so that any complaints that may be made don't link to that number, by the time a number is exhausted, it has been recycled several times.
Its a way of ducking and diving by posing as an alternative company, they can still operate.
Many years ago I was part of a fileshare group (private) and maintaining a server was difficult for most, so I implemented a simple hooking system, users would hook the IP and new connections went to their machine and not mine as it was on 24/7 and we had taken the serve over in time zone shifts.
So it might be a simple case of a company is hooking up to the available number for that day.
Sounds like there is a central server or program that decides who gets what number and what interface that they will be posing as on that day.