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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!"

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Hacker Breaches Scam Call Center, Warns Victims They've Been Scammed

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  • 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.

    • 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.

      • 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

    • by Dadoo ( 899435 )

      So, when a hacker screws over a scammer, what's the storyline look and feel like?

      You put it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/result... [youtube.com]

  • Putin will just find them a new hacking co. in a different city.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] Enjoy "Steve's" insane rage...
  • Scammer Payback (Score:4, Informative)

    by ironicsky ( 569792 ) on Thursday May 23, 2024 @04:16PM (#64494245) Homepage Journal

    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

    • Yes, I sometimes watch that stuff. But the police raids and even arrests* are just theatre. The expert scambaiters will tell you that the scammers are back in business next day (or next week max) after some money has changed hands. Or no money needed if the scam centre is run by the local police chief's brother, or the chief's wife works there.

      * 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
  • by Anonymous Coward

    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.

    • by mjwx ( 966435 )

      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

  • by BigFire ( 13822 ) on Thursday May 23, 2024 @04:30PM (#64494261)

    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.

  • The battle between scambaiters and scammers has been going on for years, and it is quite common for the baiters to get into the scammers' systems, although the effect of this is only a pinprick compared with the size of the scam industry. Scamming is a significant part of the Indian economy for example, both in employment and foreign currency income, which is why its government does nothing about it.

    Jim Browning (on YouTube and even on BBC TV) is like the Godfather of scambaiters, and he and others are a
  • that the *warning* is a lie?

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