Just like in Russia, in India, a fraudulent scheme is widespread, when attackers contact the victim under the guise of bank security and elicit information that allows them to withdraw other people's money to their accounts. This time, the scammers ran into a blogger who revealed their identities (literally) and publicly dishonored them.
An Indian blogger with the nickname Scambaiter specializes in pranking scammers, he "hunts" them and uploads prank records to YouTube. He recently received an email informing him of an order on Amazon that he certainly did not place. The letter indicated the phone number of the call-center, which must be called to cancel the refusal.
Usually, a scammer asks to name the sent SMS code, allegedly in order to verify the client, but in reality it is a code for resetting the password on the Amazon website. This may be the end: the offender will report a successful cancellation, and he will make several purchases with payment using the victim's card linked to the account. The scammers contacted by Scambaiter decided to go further. They used the data from his Amazon account to "rub" into his trust (name, address, etc.) Then they asked him to install TeamViewer and give them access to the computer in order to deal with the problem in more detail.
While the attackers fiddled with connecting to his computer, he turned this scheme against themselves: he calculated the IP address, the location of the call center where they are located, and found on their computer a document with a scenario of stealing money, as well as photographs of employees' IDs. Using this information, the blogger found the Facebook page of one of the scammers and learned the details of his life.
The hacker pretended to be a naive victim and followed all the instructions of his interlocutor, and at this time hacked the webcam on his computer and displayed the image from it on his screen. When he provided access to the computer, the employees of the fraudulent call center saw themselves on the screen. The scambaiter tried to talk to them, but they panicked and ran away for help. Soon they returned and began to try to turn off the webcam, listening to the prankster's jokes in their address.
Scambaiter has become almost a national hero. His video with this giveaway has gained more than 15 million views, about half a million people have subscribed to it, who are waiting for new draws of scammers. Now the blogger has set himself a new goal: he wants to hack surveillance cameras in one of the fraudulent call centers and show how such criminals work (how many there are, in what conditions they are, how they call victims and log into other people's computers remotely).
An Indian blogger with the nickname Scambaiter specializes in pranking scammers, he "hunts" them and uploads prank records to YouTube. He recently received an email informing him of an order on Amazon that he certainly did not place. The letter indicated the phone number of the call-center, which must be called to cancel the refusal.
Usually, a scammer asks to name the sent SMS code, allegedly in order to verify the client, but in reality it is a code for resetting the password on the Amazon website. This may be the end: the offender will report a successful cancellation, and he will make several purchases with payment using the victim's card linked to the account. The scammers contacted by Scambaiter decided to go further. They used the data from his Amazon account to "rub" into his trust (name, address, etc.) Then they asked him to install TeamViewer and give them access to the computer in order to deal with the problem in more detail.
While the attackers fiddled with connecting to his computer, he turned this scheme against themselves: he calculated the IP address, the location of the call center where they are located, and found on their computer a document with a scenario of stealing money, as well as photographs of employees' IDs. Using this information, the blogger found the Facebook page of one of the scammers and learned the details of his life.
The hacker pretended to be a naive victim and followed all the instructions of his interlocutor, and at this time hacked the webcam on his computer and displayed the image from it on his screen. When he provided access to the computer, the employees of the fraudulent call center saw themselves on the screen. The scambaiter tried to talk to them, but they panicked and ran away for help. Soon they returned and began to try to turn off the webcam, listening to the prankster's jokes in their address.
Scambaiter has become almost a national hero. His video with this giveaway has gained more than 15 million views, about half a million people have subscribed to it, who are waiting for new draws of scammers. Now the blogger has set himself a new goal: he wants to hack surveillance cameras in one of the fraudulent call centers and show how such criminals work (how many there are, in what conditions they are, how they call victims and log into other people's computers remotely).
