I absolutely love these guys

Scambaiter and Jim Browning are two other really good ones. In fact, they've both collaborated with your guy, Pierogi.

And Jim Brown, possibly the original scam-buster, has been working with US and UK cyber intelligence over the past couple of years. I believe Jim was the first to hack into scam call-center's surveillance cameras and computer systems. It was illegal at the time; a felony in the US. They all do it now, so I assume the laws have changed or a loophole is being used.

Yeah, I love watching those effin chodes get tortured.
 
I have watched the young guy with the blue hair he seems to have fun with the scammers.
If he is able to stop any transfers of money great but if he gets money back, does he locate the victim whose money it is?

I see the few I have watched seem to all go to a specific section of the country of India.
 
Jeni said:
I have watched the young guy with the blue hair he seems to have fun with the scammers.
If he is able to stop any transfers of money great but if he gets money back, does he locate the victim whose money it is?

I see the few I have watched seem to all go to a specific section of the country of India.
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Yes, redeposited / reverse-charged to whatever account they used. His team sometimes contact the people who were scammed, and help them get their money back through a bank representative or credit card agent. But I've noticed that retrieving money has gotten much easier the past several years as banks and cc companies have become more aware of various scams, in part because law enforcement started taking this more seriously and created scam task forces and investigative teams.

The FBI started working with more and more scambaiters over the past decade, too. Some of the methods scambaiters use used to be illegal. The FBI brought this to the attention of the US Congress, who formed a commission, who had a hearing, and the legal roadblocks were ultimately removed, and the FBI and other enforcement agencies given oversight of scambuster's and scambaiter's activities.

Since then, one of the first and most technically skilled scambaiters, Jim Browning, has worked very closely with the UK's and US's international law enforcement agencies. He lives in the UK, and Jim Browning is not his real name.

Jim used to post his scambait scambusts every week. It's my understanding those agencies basically recruited him. He posts only occasionally now, because he stays pretty busy working with them, teaching them how to do what he does, learning even newer technologies from them, and assisting with international sting operations. They even assigned him moles who live in Calcutta and other scam center cities, and are able to work on the inside.

One of the biggest hurdles to the dismantling of scam-call centers and the arrest of their owners, directors, and bosses is local law enforcement in India, Pakistan, South America, and Southeast Asia due to a steady flow of bribery money.

Jim Browning's YouTube channel is still up, and he talked about this a few years ago, but he had to keep a lot of details secret, and says little to nothing about it now. He only posts a new scam-bust video once or twice a year, if that, but they're even more technologically advanced, and usually include a mole.

And like I said, he sometimes works with Pierogi, the blue-haired guy. Usually he's masked or his face is blurred, or they just don't show him.
 
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