Using 'malware' to refund tech support scam victims (hopefully)
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2017
- Number called: (02) 8310-7911 (Australia)
WeTechConsultants.com --- Update: I have received a response from one of the victims so far, no refund seen.
As much as I like to goof around with them, this isn't a joke and I spent the time to report this, contact all victims I could see, and attempt to refund them as Mr Varun. If this worked, someone's down quite a few thousand, and they deserve whatever they get.
Laughed when the keylogger prompt came up.
Paul Dawson 😂😂😂
When? I didn't see it =/
34:42
I'll let you know about that
Paul Dawson what exactly does a keylogger do?
What a glorious scammer smashing.
Mr Hoax Hotel, a pleasure to see you here. I'm quite a fan of your work too. Glad you enjoyed it!
The Hoax Hotel Two Legends, One Thread.
oh good, hoax hotel and scorpioNick are at their location
I will let you know about that.
I was one if the people refunded. THANK YOU from the botton of my heart
That's so nice to know. Thanks for sharing.
This Anne winburn above is a huge scammer
How much did you get refunded? Did it just appear into your account?
If you, Jim Browning and Kitboga joined forces you would be the real Justice League!
Add in Lewis tech and scammer revolts and we are onto something lol
500k... I had no idea how successful these scams were. good job. I wouldn't worry about doing anything illegal to these guys, they are hardly going to call the police..
This seemed to be only a tiny operation. Probably about 5 people in a bedroom. The big ones have heaps of background chatter. Plus the payment count on any given day were mostly very low
First I thought this might be a hacked merchant account, because of the different sums, but if you divide it by the count for the number of transactions, it's always in the region of $200-$300, so probably you are right, all income from the scam. But I guess it is a big call-center and they are using all the same account. And I guess the people on the phone line don't get paid much. Might be a good idea to contact the Indian police and the website which provides the merchant account, with a link to this video.
These scammers seem to be really stupid, knowing nothing about computers and then even accessing their accounts on the victims computers. But this is expected; if they were smarter they would do something legal.
Might be fun to prepare a computer which contradicts the script of the scammers, like all Windows services started, cleaning up the error log (I saw this in another video, they were just opening the Windows event log, explaining all the "errors" are caused by a virus, but this mess is normal in Windows). In one video the scammer was starting the "tree" command from a DOS prompt, explaining he examines all the files that were listed. Would be fun to show an actual ASCII tree when the command is started. I know, I have no life watching all these videos :-)
Sadly the whole reason people in India do this is because the Indian police and government do almost nothing to stop this.
the Indian police probly take their cut of the profits..
Jboycs hire a hitman instead
You Sir, deserve a medal!
I bet you all the dislikes are those fucking scammers.
Cause Undertale is still an amazing game.
Do you think 12 year olds are frikking everywhere? wellll im 12
Undertale is hes name.. no shit its gonna be related
What do u mean English? Do you not speak it or something?
Undertale Central or just people who thought the racism was not needed
Kept hearing that guy say, "I'll let you know about that", obviously had no clue.
All hope is not lost. I can assure you of that within a short time you can recover you lost Bitcoin when you have been dealing with a scammer. I had a bitter experience with a scammer who wanted to sell me an equipment and paid in bitcoin. it was an unsupervised transaction , the escrow service was fraudulent and I lost $7000. However, things took a surprising turn when I hired a private investigator and ethical hacker by the name BinaryReap3r, dude is specially trained in cryptography and ethical hacking so he put his skills to use and helped recover all my funds, he's a hero. If your account has been fraudulently hijacked or unfairly seized by wallet provider... reach out to BINARYREAP3R @ gmail com
As someone who's grandparents have gotten baited into this shit, you're a hero.
Flesh Sandwich give them their diabetes medicine you hack fraud
It's really terrible to hear the elderly being fooled by this. But completely understandable. I don't really discriminate between ages/genders/etc but I understand they're a particularly vulnerable target. If I ever heard an Australian scamming an Indian, I'd do exactly the same to them. It's the scamming I'm against, not who's doing it or on the receiving end.
A friend of mine got sucked in by these bastards due to a very unfortunate coincidence of events at the time. When he told the scammers that he wouldn't be giving them any money, they trashed his PC into unusability. Ever since, I've been exacting revenge for my friend by scambaiting these bastards with a VM if they call me, but seeing money refunded back out of the scammers' bank account takes vicarious satisfaction to a whole new level.
If only it worked. I heard back from one of them and he said "Hi,Ive received no refund as of yet." (direct quote, spelling and all). It was not easy replying to him, but now he knows what has happened, as they all do, and can now take steps. I have put annotations in the video and altered the description section to reflect this, but I will not be making a follow-up video about this one; I do not want to milk this just because it got a lot of attention. Regular scambaiting is what people come here for, and that's what I'll deliver.
The refund can take 7-10 days to show up in their bank account or credit card statement. Source: I have done legit tech support for a legit app and have issued refunds for my company.
I don't give a shit if the "law" would or would not consider what you did legal. I would do the same in a heart beat. I applause your work in giving back to the victims of this scam.
Thanks; it's interesting that some people have been saying I've broken the law and need to worry.
ScorpioNick Technically you did, but so does the scammer. Ain't no one gonna care about someone scamming you getting rekt in the process xD
The only one breaking the law is the Indian scammer. James is 100% innocent.
The thing is, whether or not something is considered a good deed from most of the society or not, under the law we all (should) be the same.
Refunding the scam, well, whatever. Entering another computer by force is actually illegal.
If people actually report that, that a scammer scammed a scammer, is on a totally different page. Personally, I would not.
MrRocketeer That is very true. Would be rather pointless to discuss this any further, though.
The MAC address part was priceless.
Jesus, the amount of times he said "Yeah, ill let you know about that"
That was infuriating
right as im reading this he just fuxking said that 😂😂😂
I'll let you know about how many times he said I'll let you know about that.
Yeah, I'll let you know about that but first give me your banking details
I will let you know about each and everything just go on with you’re information
@computerjd ... One way of not actually giving a straight (or any) answer to a question. He has several. Simplest is just not to hear or understand it. Very calculated.
this is the serious side of scambaiting, we may have fun, but this is what we can do/need to do to stop this immoral crime, If i was able i would do the serious side, but my talents rely on talking and stalling.. also a useful thing to do. but those that go deeper they earn my respect, the IP trackers, the baited links all are over my pay grade but.. people who can do it so good on you my friend..
We can't really stop them, and stalling/messing with them is about the best that can be done anyway. I just got lucky enough with this guy logging in from my machine, and he did try to wrestle the keylogger from me, and the connection itself. I had to disconnect the virtual network connection be sure. It was too valuable by that stage to be playing.
the only way is awareness as i said this is the serious side, i just put a keylogger on my scambaiting laptop.. this keylogs my vm, just a little something else i really want to get the.. its not a good laptop not the best, but its a learning laptop.. now i can do it on better machines. we need all the tools we can get to get them.. If the law cant do anything.. we have to its about whats right.. (as you said this is teh serious side so i got serious)
It is, and that's why I decided not to put any filler music in there. Over half a million USD on that account alone, in a relatively short span of time. This is why I won't teach what I do to dumb kids who don't know shit about what they're doing, who think this is all fun and games. Sorry for the attitude, but I know you understand my stance with this anyway. I like to have fun with them, but this shouldn't be a _trend_.
i totally understand, occasionally we need to show the serious side, its easy to see the fun videos but you lose that we are fighting a war against these criminals. They may not realise our moral cause, we are protecting others, and yes it can be funny getting them, but there is a deeper meaning deeper cause. I grew up without computers so its a harder time for me, only came to computers later on. SO occasionally we need to show the real reasons, the old and vulnerable people scammed out of thousands, It is good to show these sometimes, but as you said it shouldnt be a trend.. (and people think scambaiting is easy its tiring but the feeling of success is worth it)
The serious side sort of presented itself to me (I'm more a reactive person, let these things happen naturally). I prefer to have fun, yes, but an opportunity like this was too good to turn down when I saw it. I started messing around when I was about 5, but computers were quite rare in households back then. Making something like this trendy is ...a bit of a mockery to the thing itself. People should do this because they want to, not because it's 'in' at the moment.
I m an Indian. I m not being racist here. I know these scammers are from India. This is their work. They scam people for thousands and thousands of dollars and they get small portion of it. They actually make living out of it, what a shame! I really love you man, @ScorpioNick. I really request you to do this type of Robin Hood kind of stuff more often. These companies should be grounded! Keep up the good work.
Thanks, but it's not really something I can just do by request, otherwise I'd be doing it every time.
It's OK, I don't mind. Just try to scan the scammers. That's what I would like to watch and feel happy.
Well they consider it 'scamming' when I waste their time, and I continue to do plenty of that ;-)
Yeah! Things like this has to be done to make a point that people are not fools anymore. And if you need any help in language translations or anything else, I can help you!
Although I do already have a couple of native Hindi speaking subscribers, I'll always be grateful for more!
This is amazing, even if they don't get a refund this is certainly going to screw them. I personally took down teqfly.com :D
Nice work - it was actually your own messing with them a year ago which inspired me to begin this in the first place.
whats teqfly?
Real PIE Gamer Indians stealing card details
@vini yes, he does :) just click on his name to visit his channel
All hope is not lost. I can assure you of that within a short time you can recover you lost Bitcoin when you have been dealing with a scammer. I had a bitter experience with a scammer who wanted to sell me an equipment and paid in bitcoin. it was an unsupervised transaction , the escrow service was fraudulent and I lost $7000. However, things took a surprising turn when I hired a private investigator and ethical hacker by the name BinaryReap3r, dude is specially trained in cryptography and ethical hacking so he put his skills to use and helped recover all my funds, he's a hero. If your account has been fraudulently hijacked or unfairly seized by wallet provider... reach out to BINARYREAP3R @ gmail com
My God! The flies fooled me! It's funny how you know they're fake but you check anyway - just in case.
those flies
Harjit Sajjan ikr
Harjit Sajjan they freaking me out :D
Harjit Sajjan why was there flies?
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ruin it pls
That may be true but those flies were intentionally added for whatever reason in editing and are extremely distracting.
The MAC address part was pure gold. "Ye wanna go buy a macbook?"
Way to go, I'm glad someone is fighting these scammers and giving back. I hope that works. Keep doing what you do brother!
This is one of the more elaborate scams I have seen. Inclusive with an official looking payment website. That's incredibly deceiving for someone who is computer illiterate. Keep up the good work and continue to tear these a-holes down.
those flies around 31:25 are freaking me out
So... Did I catch this correctly? A MAC address is the IP address of an Apple computer? Hahahahahaha! XD
I'm usually good at keeping a straight face and voice now, but I think I laughed at that part. Either he thought I was stupid enough to believe it, or he was.
Good to know that my MAC addresses are ALWAYS protected. XD
It'll be fine; in the industry we call it a Big Mac address ;-)
You should have totally asked him if a Big Mac address is better than a simple Mac address. XD
don't you mean big Mac with cheese... great work btw
Your awesome. Thanks for refunding peoples money. Your my hero. If I knew how to do this I would. keep on screwing over these scammers. Thank you
You are a special kind of scambaiter 💖 I think I love you!
Really hope the people got their refunds and the scammers shut down..
Bro you should be awarded for this work you have done, if the refunds worked, you deserve a nobel prize
Rick James! no he doesn't deserve one... like wtf?!
Microage why not?
What he did was real great. But comon a fucking Nobel prize? haha
Damn, you like geek Robin Hood, yo
lee Roberts Using complex names in your sentence, does not make you sound smart. Especially as you spelled 'making' wrong.
lee Roberts they would be talking about a crew of people who stole thousands of millions of dollars from people.
You mean take it from the poor and give it to the rich? Because that's exactly what he has done!
Made me a proud Aussie today :) I often watch these videos for entertainment value and to get a good laugh at seeing these scammers pay for their crimes. But this video? This was leaps and bounds above anything else i have seen. Cheers
These are the comments I can't help but smile at. Cheers, and enjoy the Friday night!
I clicked each and every like button.
Thanks. No clickjacking required!
Very welcome sir. :)
Path of Exile, eh? Nice - I haven't played that for a couple of leagues, highest character was level 91. Looking forward to 3.0 with _ten_ acts!
10 baby! :)
I clicked it 2 times and it is now Gray,
took me a good while of trying to blow at my screen before realising those flies were in the video..
You're joking, right?
Damn you must be used to flies on your monitor
i got saved by my shitty Philips monitor ,it leaves a trailing shadow when an image moves across the screen.
it ws quite rewarding knowing there is a case where that could come in handy:))
To be honest I thought they were real flies as well so I wiped my hand over the screen then felt dumb afterwards
Wow - I am seriously impressed! This is state-of-the-art scambaiting. I tip my (white) hat to you.
Please do post back in the morning if you find out anything further about their bank account or of the grief that you have just given them.
I just now tried to log into the 'Varun' account. They've changed the login details, so they know full well what's happened. I'm sure there's some serious grief, at the very least extreme embarrassment and 'shame' (yeah, I use that word loosely), at the most...who knows. I can only imagine what happens to a subordinate who allows a 'victim' to play them, then 'hack' the account. I'm just glad I was able to do what I could at the time, before they could stop it. Hell even after the login timed out due to inactivity (I was emailing the victims) I used the password and got back in. So I don't think he noticed right away (although he did try to mess up my input, with the Russian keyboard).
Thanks for getting back, Nick. I hope you managed to get some sleep last night. If I'd just pulled off a coup like that, I'd be just about bursting and too adrenalined up to go to bed.
It doesn't look as if the scammer digested the timeout popup message from the keylogger at 34:43, but what a stroke of luck that it didn't show up before he logged into their bank account, anyway.
For a while I've had a nagging feeling that your voice reminded me of someone, and it occurred to me last night whom: one of the lads from "The Chaser" (the ABC TV series). Given their routine of pranking and exposing security lapses and the like, and even just given the name of the series, I thought the association was rather fitting. :-)
I slept, but it took a while (I'm just an insomniac anyway). I was also lucky about the timeout on the keylogger, and I should have been paying more attention; I know it times out after 40 minutes - and he came close to shutting it down. I might invest in a good one. The only reason I haven't, is because of how rare this is. But I've bought a proper mic, a VPN service, and I'm looking into a SIP trunk...a little more on a keylogger wouldn't hurt. I've never seen that series, but I have heard of it and shall look into it :-)
You've never seen "The Chaser"? They became particularly notorious for a stunt that they pulled during the APEC summit in Sydney in 2007. Taking a limousine and decking it with some Canadian flags to impersonate a Canadian diplomatic vehicle, and with an Osama Bin Laden-lookalike character sitting inside the "diplomatic" vehicle, they tested how close they could get to the venue where Pres. George Bush and other summit participants would be present. Waved through all the way by complacent security personnel who didn't check their credentials too hard, the Chaser team got right to the exclusion zone around the venue before deciding that they'd gotten further than they ever expected and that they'd made their point. Much police and security embarrassment followed the broadcasting of the stunt.
Just search for *chaser apec* on UA-cam. Sorry - that's all off-topic, but I thought I should put that previous comment of mine into some context for you.
I thought I must have seen them before, just forgotten the name. Indeed I have seen it - hilarious stuff!
I love how you drop hints that you might---just might!---know rather more than you are letting on. ...And he never catches it. Delightful.
Yes, to me that was the more amazing part; you'd think if he knew a fraction about anything he was reading from a script, alarm bells would have been ringing!
I have a lot of respect for you and what your doing, exposing and educating users about scammers, and even making efforts to refund the money they have lost. I was honestly shocked when I saw the amount of money scammed in such a short period, over half a million dollars in a couple months. And many of the victims are likely elderly or late - middle aged, simply not familiar with computer and related technology because they never had to be; and just as often living on a small/fixed income. They scare and confuse users by misrepresenting system functions and programs.
I actually just assisted a client of mine who was nearly scammed, she had purchased a roku and in the process of setting it up was presented with a link to enter on her computer. She entered the link into her browsers search bar instead of address bar, and one of the first results was a scammer masquerading as roku support. He had her run some commands via command prompt and basically tried to scare her with something unfamiliar to most. Fortunately my client was familiar with the command prompt and grew suspicious (the fact that she called for roku setup help and was being sold PC tech support should have been a red flag itself).
Anyways they wanted $300 dollars for 5 years of tech support, when they needed her to call the bank to clear the payment is when she finally grew to suspicious to continue, and when she didn't pay the threatened to call the police and "lock up" her computer. Of course they didn't do the former, and were likely to incompetent to do the latter. They did delete chrome from her program files, I believe in an attempt to have her call back and pay as her "internet" wasn't working. She had her card cancelled and called me to look over everything.
Thank you - although I'm not currently doing this at the moment (busy, and I got burned out on it after a while). Also, this particular call was a unique opportunity regarding an attempt at refunds; usually they don't attempt to log into their own payment gateway using their victim's computer.
Interesting story regarding your client there, and a fortunate stroke of irony that she pasted a 'malicious' link into a search engine rather than the address bar. They could have maybe applied the SAM security lock (famous 'syskey') on her PC, but calling the police? Oh how I wish one of them had threatened me with that! At least they merely deleted a browser; some of them will delete anything they can - even attempting system32 (though that rarely works due to permissions of course. For _that_, they'd need a bit more time and know-how to elevate the permissions). But yes oftentimes the scammer will attempt to create a problem on the victim's computer, hoping that it'll create a need to call back for support. Thinking on how many people this probably happens to, who don't report it... not pleasant.
We infect computers so we can fix em.....such a bad error,, so bad....
Benjamin Losaw Well they're not really infected. Some are kinda hard to back out of but they don't really do nothing. Well the ones that tell you to call support don't lol.
Occasionally they'll eat up system resources and eventually crash the browser in truth, but they're not so common. But yes, still not a real infection.
ScorpioNick you should make another video like this, and then afterwards call them and say like "don't worry I won't call the police, i just refunded everyone so thank you for that" .. and also i saw someone that had the scammer mess with his own BIOS and at the end none of their computers worked, perhaps you can try this aswell? You're so amazing for doing this! :p (i've never been scammed and never will cause i'd just go to a real store)
omg these flies triggering me
I looked away from my screen for a second and nearly had a heart attack when I looked back!
Yo, thank you for taking your free time to try to help these people. You're a modern day hero in my eyes. If you've received a response from a victim with no refund, at least you have helped educated one person about this from happening in the future. So glad people like you are around. A different type of "smart pc person" could've also stolen that information, and kept the ball rolling in a bad direction. kudos man.
Could have, but I couldn't live with having done that. It's also why I censored that stuff for the video. I'm glad that the people I emailed are now aware, hopefully telling people they know about the scam. I don't understand why there aren't public awareness campaigns about this.
I'm memorized by these videos. I think I do good talking to a scammer on a phone for 25 mins to keep them busy. There are days I can't find my phone when I'm talking on it - your knowledge and skills are amazing.
Yep just keeping them on the phone as long as possible is still pretty good, and they hate it once they know you aren't fooled but have been taking them on a ride.
Class act!! Bravo! Hope the refunds worked!!! There is nothing I love more than hearing you ask questions you know these scammers can't answer and hearing them squirm as they try to come up with an explanation that in the end just makes them sound even dumber than they did a minute before. The part with the MAC address and his "oh you want to buy the mac computer ya the mac computer ip addresses are very secure" was classic! Please keep up your awesome work! These scammers absolutely deserve everything you dish out to them and more. You're amazing!
I love to do that too, in fact I usually don't ask anywhere near enough questions of them. Lately I've been a bit wary of it, since they don't like talking to anyone who seems to know something. But if they bring it up, different story. Yeah that part about the MAC address was a pure cringefest. The question about how many bits in an IPv4 address....pretty much anyone working professionally in networking really should just know as though I'm asking "how many wheels do cars usually have?", it's not even asked in job interviews. Occasionally I'll meet a scammer who knows a bit, but that's rare also. And thanks for saying that!
Luckily i cam play dumb.. doesnt take much acting in my case LOL
Total respect to you mate. I just piss these bastards around as much as I can and then verbally abuse them. Greetings from the UK.
Wasting their time is still a great thing to do, they purely hate it, and it ties up human resources (yeah I know, I use the term loosely) that could be used to scam real victims.
You sir, earned a new subscriber, that is just breath taking! Keep doing this amazing work!
Thank you. Obviously this is a nice exception to what normally can be done, as it relies on them doing something very careless.
Stroke of genius using his merchant login against him, and refunding all those people (hopefully). Hats off to you sir.
You're a vigilante, and I respect your honor. Although the victims might have not gotten their money back, but it still says a lot about the human race in general.
I appreciate your service.
By the way, have you ever considered a job where you do this for people? I think that would be nice if your work went recognized.
fuck those flys at 31:06 look really real i actually poked my monitor :P
Ponlets same :/
God bless your heart for refunding all those people who were robbed from those disgusting people.
a true hero
"Mac IP address is always protected, sir."
Ironically, while viewing this video, I got literally the same exact scam page come up on my computer when clicking on a link. That's fucked up
Nick, you are my hero. That was so kind of you to take the time to try to refund the money to all the victims and notify them of the scam by email. I know this entire process took hours of your time. Seriously, I’d give ya a big wet liquory kiss if you were here.
Secondly, your fake name, James Brady, was my father’s name. He passed away several years ago. It was nice seeing his name, kinda like he was saying hi lol.
Lastly, the flies were freakishly realistic. I was reading something while listening to your video. When I looked back at your video there were all these “bugs” on my screen. I had to check several times to be sure they weren’t real!
Keep up the good work. Your efforts are truly appreciated by many.
📱subscribed📱
Much appreciated. It did take hours, but was entirely worth it. When given such a rare opportunity, it would have been wasteful not to try.
The name James Brady just came to me - I intended it to sound as 'common' as possible (of course, not to say that about your father). A pleasant coincidence then!
Those flies were in almost every call I made. For a while I wondered whether perhaps I was overdoing it, but... people liked them and it became something of a trademark.
It's people like you that inspire me to help out exposing scammers....
Well done Nick. Hopefully some people got thier monies back through those refunds, the keylogging was pure brilliance.....
I hope so..either way, someone's day was completely ruined and I've no remorse about it. This one felt very good.
you sir are a gentleman, and my hats off to you.
I appreciate that. I'm not always a gentleman, especially when they become abusive.
That is so awesome! I would love to be a "fly" on the wall when they see all of these refunds!!! You're a hero!
Flies were a common theme in these videos ;-) But yes, I would have liked to see what happened in that call centre that day.
You, sir, have won the Internet. I cannot thank you enough for doing this. It's about time the scammers get kicked in the wallet, these guys were making some bank. I still can't believe the scammer was stupid enough to log into their merchant portal on your end. SMART move on the keylogger.
I run a (legitimate) IT support company and computer repair shop in the Nashville, TN area and we get complaints about calls from fake tech support companies like this on a daily basis, and unfortunately the "older" population are the biggest victims. It's sad really, and brings a certain degree of mistrust in the IT industry from the customer side of things. Maybe we can all somehow band together and put a stop to this.
It really is unfortunate that it's primarily the elderly who fall victim to this sort of thing. In a way, it's no wonder many are borderline paranoid about these devices.
my dog nearly broke my screen going after those flies .. lol
MouseFudz 30:20
LOLOL holy crap that's hilarious
Same here, but it was my big screen TV and it was 2 of my cats. The flies were huge and they were going crazy!
Or may be he is interested to know finally what is ip v4/6
@@BM-oz2cd nope, he's too busy figuring out what to order at MACdonalds
His pitiful accent just makes me 10 times more annoyed...
half a million dollars!!!!! you sir are an absolute legend for doing this. protecting vulnerable people from scumbags. do you wear a cape?
All-light....he sucks at coming and explaining things he said he would come back to. You are a fine gentleman.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear most of the people you emailed actually got angry with you claiming you interfered with there legit business with tech support.....
I had a man called me asked me am I having problems with my new computer I bought from Best Buy I didn’t buy one but I had fun anyways
Can confirm.
All hope is not lost. I can assure you of that within a short time you can recover you lost Bitcoin when you have been dealing with a scammer. I had a bitter experience with a scammer who wanted to sell me an equipment and paid in bitcoin. it was an unsupervised transaction , the escrow service was fraudulent and I lost $7000. However, things took a surprising turn when I hired a private investigator and ethical hacker by the name BinaryReap3r, dude is specially trained in cryptography and ethical hacking so he put his skills to use and helped recover all my funds, he's a hero. If your account has been fraudulently hijacked or unfairly seized by wallet provider... reach out to BINARYREAP3R @ gmail com
just fill out the form, and i'll educate you about each and everything afterwards..... lol
That's one hell of an expensive lesson.. what I told them would have been worth thousands, at that rate.
eeehh uuh I will let you know about that.
aboslutely Nick @ you absolutely schooling this asshat with MAC addressing and HTTP/HTTPS and so on.... far out.... i was sitting here like "Dude just dropped more knowledge on this guy than he knows what to do with" ^_^
I could have told him how many groups of hex digits a MAC address is, the first half and second half significance... I barely scratched the surface with him. Shocked he didn't know such basic things (for a 'technician'). I don't expect everyone to know a lot of the terms I throw out sometimes, but _these_ guys should know some...
Totally... i was seriously pissing myself just listening to his whole "uhhh ehhh don't worry bout that i tell you each & everything after form" and so on ... man he was salivating, thinking he got another one.... nope... not here, not today ^_^
We need more people like you in the world and more videos like this. I'm so tired of evil scammers getting away with things. You and Jim Browning are the best by far. Would like to see more videos of you helping victims in real time and preventing the scam from ocurring.
someone needs to do a story on you. what you have done here is amazing and such a great thing to see. and I'm sure a lot of those people really needed that money. your my hero of the moment.
his reply to you askin him a technical question "ill let you knw bout that" and "dont worry bout that"....freakin hilarious how dumb these scammers are......have you received any emails back from the victims that you emailed? and have any of them received refunds?... let us knw if so i dont see any questions in the comments regarding that... great work tho and you are a fine human being
Yeah it was getting annoying honestly, sounded like "I don't know, just pay me". I'll be checking on all that today as I have a coffee to wake up. If I hear back about it from the victims I'll put annotations, something like that. And thanks, I just did what I could at the time - it's a rare opportunity that they accidentally give that information "without their permission and without their knowledge" (funny to hear their own rhetoric apply to them).
Whatever's in the description is current.
Curtis Carter k
124 scammers didnt like this video
222 now
237 now :D
256 now
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Mate there are some people in this world who are truly heroes. You are one of them! Thanks for your effort!
Cheers, I appreciate that.
This is the first time and probably the last time I'll ever comment on a video but it's pure genius!! It should be on the news!!
LMAO I love how you opened up the keylogger in front of him.
Cherry Pauper
When did he do that ?
ImplantedMemories @34:42
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This is Great Nick. If we had more people like yourself hitting these jerks with whatever means available then they might at least think twice before scamming people out of their honestly earned money.
Thank you Nick.
Oh again with the flies,. I was cracking up with the mental image of that goof swatting at his screen.
Take care Buddy and Thanks again.
Scammers are evolving. I run WireShark every time, but now I'm finding it harder to get a IP out of them. The flies have become a sort of trademark for me - people expect it now!
You're welcome of course, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Good on you for keeping him busy for all that time and trying to refund his victims. My cat also liked the fly part!
amazing, well done and thank you for taking the time to do this . you're helping so many people.
You are a hero!!
You're a legend.
I'm glad the world has people like you, keep up the good work
I'm glad there's people like you out there that help the people that get scam wish there were more people like you then there are a scamers. keep up the great work and keep the vids coming 👍
i salute you good sir!
24:05 “Oh yeah the IP address...”
(About to confront scammer but sees him logging in to payment portal)
“Yeah how do they work?”
Refunding all those payments is such a great thing to do. Cheers man, good on you
Dude, you're a legend. Making the internet a better place one small step at a time.
ScorpioNick my family member my grandmother suffered an event like this. She not being very tech savvy was baited into and had over 100k USD taken from her. to this day she has not recovered those funds and is on SS and food stamps and support from our entire family.
Although I try not to favour one demographic over another (all scam victims are still victims), it's particularly hard to hear of cases like this. I'm sure the scammers perk up when they hear the voice of an elderly person.
deadly 3652 so fucking sick :(
deadly3652 that’s so fucked up
deadly3652 I’m so sorry to hear about what those inhuman a$$holes did to your grandmother. Karma will do her job & handle those scammers.
The elderly are their demographic of choice and if you look at the demographic they are trying to get ads directed to it is older age groups when they set up where they want popups directed. I work at a day center for elderly that are staying in their own homes rather than choosing a facility to live in. One of the biggest issues we deal with is elderly that have been scammed out of what is often their life savings or at least a good chunk of the money they had extra for the month they were scammed in. Their scams of course work well with anyone not well versed in using a computer and never heard of tech support scammers but more and more the chance that anyone under 60 has not is a long shot, so they do start drooling when they get a call from someone obviously in their later years. We do all we can to educate and remind our clients about scams but the problem is that often in later years people's memories for things are not as sharp as they were in previous years. We still hear about these scams more often after the fact event though they see out 'watch out for this scam' posters they see on tehir weekly visits to the center and the write ups that we include in the newsletter we send out. Also, as some get older if what they are hearing from a scammer is not exactly what was put forth on a poster or in a newsletter they think its 'not the scammers because they did not say that', the warning has to be much more concrete. The last case we had the person even admitted that the scammer asked if she had an friends that might need tech support and she handed out names and phone numbers so I am sure many cold calls came from that connection also. Most of those that have given into a scammer, even having been made aware that these scams happen will tell us later that either the warning was about bit different or they were really scared that something was happening and totally forgot warnings they had gotten previously. With some elderly they do take and expect things to be very literal so if a scam does not run in the exact same lines we reported happening to another then the think they have gotten a legit company but I think the fear factor makes the biggest impact. We actually tell out clients not to contact a number that pops up but to call the center instead because we have a group of volunteers that will go out and personally fix anything that might be wrong if anything is. It would be very nice if there was a third level of protection we could add to the computer of an elderly client that looked for certain activities like a remote connection from certain IPs the running of certain commands and some of the other steps scammers take that would remind clients using a tool-tip like box that they maybe be a victim of of a scam and if the connection is not from a trusted relative or friend not to allow access, etc.
a fucking legend is what you are. wish I could have heard buddy after this.
The end of this video really made me happy. Thank you.
Good on you, this was great to see. At least the effort was there and the victims are aware!
Someone is going to get fired!
Instead of take the money to yourself
You return to the people who won it
God bless you and I hope if there's a lots of guys like you I appreciate what you have done and I thank you for it
تحشيش عراقي راقي it would not be right to take money I didn't earn. Thank you for the compliment and writing a proper comment )it is surprising how many silly ones I see(.
It looks like your name has messed up my reply a little. I do love the script though - I could read it if I had the accents to go by (I was taught, but I don't speak/write it fluently).
Hero!!!
Fuck Mohammed
why not transfer all available money at once to the fbi or the interpol with the files so that the fbi makes the refunds?
Nothing but the most respect for YOU, bud! Entertaining, and effective. Hopefully the "refunds" worked! If not, at least these people are aware now!
I don't think they did, but still it was worth a try - and as you say, they're aware of it now.
Many thanks for such an encouraging video. You are so fast, the perp never caught on.
My hat goes off to you. But dude, how did you build those flies? My cats went crazy and knocked over my monitor (no damage), the whole video was hilarious and heartwarming. Keep up the good work.
No worries; it was a pleasure. The flies freaked cats out? I'll have to test this out on my own cat - I always figured they fooled humans better than animals (it has seemed to be the case thus far).
This is my ASMR.
is that your fetish
Same! I hate asmr, but could listen to this all day. It makes my heart glow haha!
Good man Nick!!! way to go!
Glad there are people like you out there with the knowledge how to do this. Glad you did it, hope the refund button wasn't fake and those people really got refunded.
The button was real, but I think the permissions were denied to that account unfortunately.
It's good that there is decent good people like you on this earth thank you for trying to help.
Respect sir !
These pop up on my laptop from time to time but I just close them out. My step mom freaks out and screams when the ones with audio pop up. I tell her to just alt-f4 them.
Excellent, that's how to deal with them of course.
Where do you even go online to see these? lol
I guess i never see them since I have an ad blocker.
To find them yourself, it's usually just typing in common URLs (for example youtube.com) with spelling mistakes. An ad blocker does cut down on popups, and I have to disable my anti-virus/malware, because that often detects it and overwrites the page.
ScorpioNick what is your antivirus/malware software?
MalwareBytes
You are hero matey. These scamming bastards needs sorting out once and for all. I applaud you
Great work. We are lucky to have you fighting the good fight. Thank you from Canada.
You're most welcome, and hi from Australia!
ScorpioNick - THAT WAS PERFECT. Keep doing this, only hurting their pockets can force them to stop. And the best in it is that not only you, but we all have hell of a fun watching them get their pockets busted! Any replies from their victims yet?
Not yet, and I must sleep soon. But of course I'll be checking frequently, I'll probably send them all another email from one of my real ones (not the James Brady one) in case it got marked as spam or junk.
I wish I could do it this way all the time; it felt great. But I did get lucky with him typing out the login on my machine.
Get some rly good rest then - you deserve it as hell. I belive that the scammers are now in kinda hell of a stress: "where ar my moni?!"
I'll let you know about that
Professional people: Have average wpm speed
Tech support scammers: Want to see me type like a snail?
Thanks Nick for doing what you do and sharing your well edited videos.
Thanks - though apparently some people think I leave too much in! Can't please everyone I suppose...
Good work Nick, great vid as usual and you have bonus points if you can get those peoples money back. Ahhhhhh those flies looked a sunday lunchtime bbq during a summers day and shooshing the flies away and giving them the aussie wave.
Let's hope so - I'll be watching for any responses from them. I have no idea if I was able to refund them properly, and surely he noticed his account being logged into as well.
The flies...I'm still trying to work out what I even mean with them. Disrespect, probably; flies are attracted to shit as they say.
I always looked at the flies as your aussie signature....................
Why not... they're something we all learned to deal with as little whipper-snappers anyway.
hahaha totally ^_^ felt like home :P
Hero !!!!
Good Job! And thanks on behalf of those people to have taken the time to refund each one you could!! A+ !