Hacker Breaches Scam Call Center, Warns Victims They've Been Scammed (404media.co) 21
A hacker claims to have breached a scam call center, stolen the source code for the company's tools, and emailed the company's scam victims, according to multiple screenshots and files provided by the hacker to 404 Media. From the report: The hack is the latest in a long series of vigilante actions in which hackers take matters into their own hands and breach or otherwise disrupt scam centers. A massively popular YouTube community, with creators mocking their targets, also exists around the practice.
"Hello, everyone! If you are seeing this email then you have been targeted by a fake antivirus company known as 'Waredot,'" the hacker wrote in their alleged email to customers, referring to the scam call center. The email goes on to suggest that customers issue a chargeback "as this trash software isn't worth anywhere NEAR $300-$400 per month, and these trash idiots don't deserve your money!"
"Hello, everyone! If you are seeing this email then you have been targeted by a fake antivirus company known as 'Waredot,'" the hacker wrote in their alleged email to customers, referring to the scam call center. The email goes on to suggest that customers issue a chargeback "as this trash software isn't worth anywhere NEAR $300-$400 per month, and these trash idiots don't deserve your money!"
Godzilla Does Dallas. (Score:1)
So, when a hacker screws over a scammer, what’s the storyline look and feel like?
Do you sell that story to Netflix more under the action-packed of King Kong vs. Godzilla, or do you sell it to Pornhub as more a ménage de tois love story between frenemies with benefits and the innocent consumer-next-door who came knocking, just looking for a cup of digital tea?
Do tell, TMZ.
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It's funny that you mention entertainment studios because something else I learned from watching television and movies is "mess with the revenue stream of a low-moral person at your own peril"
I mean, who knows what kind of resources the head of that outfit can bring to bear. I doubt the hackers were very careful to cover their tracks.
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Movies sensationalize these things a lot. Some hacker in Eastern Europe isn't going to do much if an operation in the US is busted. They'll just move on. It's not about l33t skillz or reputation, it's purely about money.
It's more effective to send out another million scam attempts under a new name than waste time taking down a hacker who compromised their system. They might not even take the time to figure out how it happened to guard against it happening again - after all, what are the odds that person
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You put it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/result... [youtube.com]
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They don't care... (Score:2)
Putin will just find them a new hacking co. in a different city.
DO NOT REDEEM! (Score:2)
Scammer Payback (Score:4, Informative)
Scammer Payback on YouTube has had a team hacking scam call centers and posting it online for a very long time, and has been successful in having police raid these scammers offices
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* Arrests only if the scam centre has not been tipped off. It is either deserted when the police arrive, or they have switched into travel agency mode. Some of
Oh, the irony (Score:1)
Hello, everyone! If you are seeing this email then you have been targeted by a fake antivirus company known as "Waredot"
Looks like a phishing mail, I would probably move it straight to my spam folder after reading the first line.
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Hello, everyone! If you are seeing this email then you have been targeted by a fake antivirus company known as "Waredot"
Looks like a phishing mail, I would probably move it straight to my spam folder after reading the first line.
The problem with scam victims is that often, they steadfastly refuse to admit they've been scammed. As oft reported by the BBC here in the UK about a vulnerable person (I.E. your gran) getting scammed out of a £250,000 they'll often go straight back to the scammer even though everyone from the Police to their kids to the UK's largest broadcaster and worlds widest reaching news channel having done a story about it has explained in excruciating detail that the whole thing is a scam.
So an email isn't
Jim Browning have been doing this for years (Score:4, Informative)
https://www.youtube.com/@JimBr... [youtube.com] . He use the same remote access tool that the scam calling center to backdoor to their own network. Lots of content there.
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These scammers are mostly located in India. The problem over there isn't that the police are lazy, its that they (and more so their masters) are paid by the scammers to leave them alone.
Corruption at all levels is the reason Indian scams are as big a problem as they are.
Nothing New (Score:2)
Jim Browning (on YouTube and even on BBC TV) is like the Godfather of scambaiters, and he and others are a
How many people will think (Score:2)
that the *warning* is a lie?