A failed scam attempt

I actually emailed everyone who was scammed...including the person in the video. I've lost track a bit about who responded, but I definitely emailed him.

Jim Browning

Yes.... Any time that I can find out who they are scamming, I do get on touch with the victim. The worst case for me is when I get access at the end of a scam and I can see they've managed to obtain money and I'm too late to prevent it. I'm not always at my keyboard and it's always hard to accept this. But I know I can't always be around :(

Jim Browning

good old Nimmi. Bored artist. She suddenly got so pissed when what seemed like an easy target refused to comply... I wonder about those files she downloaded though... have you managed to get in contact with this guy to let him know his machine was indeed compromised?

There's another one in the background! HAHA!

Sam Wittsell

Ah yes. Let me see if there is something I can do within YouTube to blur this. YouTube's post editing tools are not great though. However, Miroslav, I really thank you for becoming my latest $20 Patron. I'll send you a DM with my SkypeID if you even want to get in touch. Thanks again for the sponsorship and for pointing out this privacy snarfu. Jim

Jim Browning

Hi mate, you forgot to "blur" the "edit line" in excel... So I can still se "cannot afford"... (time 10:57)

She talks so slowly. Also, it's funny that she says she will never be able to get the machine back if it shuts down.

Sam Wittsell

Thanks for your support Ruddie. Really appreciated.

Jim Browning

Stupid scammers.

I intend to find out exactly who she is. There are 5 other people working there too... It's a pretty small operation but they've been around for years now. I've personally encountered them a few times because they specialise in UK scams.

Jim Browning

cheers Jim, learnt so much form your channel, enough to waste the time of a scammer that called my misses. top work keep it going sir.

It is sad. I get a lot of contact from genuine Indian people who are equally upset about what the scammers are doing for their countries reputation. Sad really.

Jim Browning

Jim, have you considered posting individual scammer contact info? I did a little googling and found more than one Nimmi S. Kumar. I would love to send her an email (or maybe a couple per day) asking her if I can help her to find more rewarding and respectable work using the technical skills she already has.

Once again if they have an Indian accent then its a scam. Its sad that all Indian people are getting a bad rap. No morals at all.

John Ramsey

You can hear the other scammers in the back ground. Sick sick sick

John Ramsey

That “good money” comment makes me wonder if that’s why local police are hesitant to do anything. It brings in a mass of wealth to the local economy, who cares how. You’ve got the right idea shutting them down through their sources, IE teamviewer and the phone companies they use.

Westly SpringLockedFoxy Roanoke

I blurred out most of this, but the victim here did seem to access a lot of porn sites. This particular popup seemed to come from 'stripchat.com'. But they also have the same popups on mis-typed URLs like gmil.com or ttwitter.com

Jim Browning

I think it's to remind her of her own nickname (Mary)

Jim Browning

Yes - only 1-2 victims per day. However, there are 3-4 scammers in operation here... you can probably hear some of the others in the background. 2x300x4=£2,400 or $1,800 per day. Good money in India.

Jim Browning

I get the access myself and there's definitely no bunch of hackers in the background here. I've got a technique where, if they attempt to remotely connect to me, I can reverse the connection with a bit of tech know-how and social engineering. I do hear quite a number of what they term "prank calls"... i.e. scam baiters who string them along. I'll maybe publish some of these, but like this video, you're unlikely to be able to hear the scam baiter.

Jim Browning

Wow, I love the art they do while they're bored. The 'very pretty' comment killed me. It's really sad that they try to run these scams on these people, but super good that he was wise to her garbage. So, do you currently have remote access to a bunch of hackers? Is that how you get awesome footage like this? Maybe some day you'll hear my voice on the other line. Hahah!

Westly SpringLockedFoxy Roanoke

The excel spreadsheet from the scammer doesn't seem to show that high of a success rate which is great.

I got one of these a while back, let them connect to a Win7 VM I had at the time, then before I gave them access I wondered what porn website I got it from. They said they don't know so then I just started going to random porn sites and clicking on stuff going "Was it this one?"

Seems rather... ironic that a scammer would have the Virgin Mary as their desktop background...

I can't believe (or maybe I can) that the scammer draws/doodles in Paint while trying to scam this person. I guess even a scammer gets bored with their job too, if only they would stop scamming when they got bored.

Doug Zimmerer