I’ve been indulging in something I haven’t done for quite a while.
Today I watched some videos on YouTube of “scambaiters” torturing scammers, wasting their time, completely controlling their computers, screwing with the phone systems and frustrating them in their purely evil greed.
The scammers can get pretty violent in their reactions when they reach maximum frustration.
Usually the scambaiter will, in the end, reveal that this has been cat and mouse role reversal and then, perhaps far more kindly than I would, suggest they find something else to do.
In the meantime, I’ve learned a lot about the types of scams that are being run and their techniques.
As I have opined before, I wonder if we might not create an order of Cyber Knights – the Order of the Cyber Knights of St. Dismas – which would have Virtual Machines and VPNs by which scammers could be taken in and taken down.
Someone needs to fight back against this sheer evil industry.
Bottom line, just as you have to be avoid near occasions of sin, you have to be on your guard against scams. They are clever and there are many approaches that they use. Often they will want you to install a program like Anydesk on your computer and then go into your online banking. Sometimes they will pretend you have a bill to pay. Sometimes they will say that they made a mistake and gave you too much money back and then ask you to pay them back by buying gift cards. There are more scams, too, and some of them quite sophisticated. They even have one where they get you to call your real bank and then when you are being transferred, they take back the call and pretend to be an official from that bank. Very slick.
Be careful.
Someone quite close to me got taken in by one of these slimy bastards. I don’t want any of you to get taken.
UPDATE:
Funny. I just received this. Clearly, this is a scam. Screenshot of the email…
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