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Spying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]

Jim Browning · 20.1M views · 2020-03-02 · 16:18

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Overview

Jim Browning reverses a scammer's remote connection and discovers CCTV in a Delhi call centre. He gives a detailed look at how a tech support scam operation runs, and he shared the footage with the BBC.

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HN points to it as a fascinating inside look at how Indian scam call centres operate, often when scams come up in discussion.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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Privacy, surveillance & cybercrimeSecurity & hacking
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scam baitingcall centresjim browningfraudsocial engineering

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whoooooo123 · 2021-05 · Recommendation

Yes. Many scam operations are full-fledged "companies" which operate out of commercial office space and have a payroll of employees who show up to work every day Monday to Friday and scam people as if it was a normal job. This is a fascinating YouTube series from a guy who managed to hack into the IT system of an Indian scam operation (including gaining live access to their security camera footage!) It goes into a lot of detail about how this particular outfit operates: [VIDEO]

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Cyph0n · 2020-07 · Recommendation

Obligatory kitboga mention: [LINK] . The dude is a genius at baiting scammers and his stream is family-friendly as far as I know. Then there is Jim Browning on YouTube.... I’ll just leave this here: [VIDEO]

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dmix · 2023-04 · Reference

Probably much the same for phone spam which is why all of us get (semi-targeted) calls from indian call centers daily. Plenty of these are spawn out of Discord/Telegram networks to coordinate infrastructure. Via the grey/blackhat versions of Twilio. It's far too common for the operators to give a shit. See: [VIDEO]

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