• Ganesh Venugopal@lemmy.ml
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    As an Indian, I would like to congratulate everyone here, you tax returns are here, but there is a spelling mistake in your name and it would take $5000 to correct it, please call 1800420SCAM to get your refund.

    bad jokes aside, these are the scum of the country and I am sorry for this shit.

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      If we’re apologizing for national issues that aren’t our fault, I’d like to say sorry for mass-shootings, exploiting poor people and the widening wealth-gap, and (worst of all) obnoxiously loud Americans abroad!

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      Hey! Someone from India!

      I watch lots of scambaiting videos and I know all about the public sentiment you guys have about scammers

      It’s a damn shame the police in India are so easy to bribe… not that American cops are any better

      American cops will rob you and then arrest you too.

      There’s normally at least one person waiting at the door to every scam call center waiting to give a big bag of money to the police to go away

      Sometimes the guy at the door will direct the cops to a legit call center to throw them off

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    We’re all gonna get old and some of us are going to get dementia. I have a hard time pointing at vulnerable people whose brains are nearly expired and saying “Haha jeez what noobs, how could they be such idiots?”

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    I get unexplainable joy watching scammers get scammed on YouTube.

    My favourite scam scammer is kitboga.

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      Kitboga’s work is just epic. With all the programs he develops, sound effects, other people to help him, etc he uses it’s just like a modern day version of a radio hear play.

      It isn’t just entertainment, it’s art.

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        And he’s literally doing good! Every minute a scammer is being baited is time they can’t try to scam innocent people…

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          I just want you guys to be aware of how weird and sad this sounds as someone outside of all this.

          “I really like the people playing whack-a-mole with scammers, my favorite guy even makes it fun with colored lights and sound effects and gadgets he makes. It really makes me feel nice to know at least someone is punished for something I know is wrong but see little other efforts to solve. Ah fun catharsism.”

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    I know it clearly works, and old people do definitely fall for it, but I’ll never understand how. What part of the script makes it sound reasonable that the IRS would want amazon gift cards instead of, you know, a cash transfer or something?

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      Scammers intentionally use typo’s to weed out the intelligent people.

      They pry on the lowest denominators, since they know they can convince them of anything.

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      Gullible, scared, lack of critical thinking, blindly following authorities, there are many reasons. It’s not only old people, thought.

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    Yet they still have the courage to say “my generation was smarter than kids these days”

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      People only think theyre smarter because there wasnt social media to show how stupid they really were.

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    People who fall for scams like those aren’t always stupid.

    They’re not always old people

    With the IRS scam, they usually use the remote desktop software they direct you to to lock you out of your device

    Then they’ll extort you for the thousands of dollars worth of gift cards

    After they have the codes from the gift cards they’ll exchange them for crypto currency and/or sell them for even more than what’s on them

    And after the scam is done they keep the connections on all the remote desktop apps open so they can spy on them for future scams