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Attackers posing as an Amazon call center "ran into" a seasoned fraud hunter.
Internet scammers should be prepared for the fact that the "fish" that they are trying to catch on their hook may not be up to them. This is exactly what happened to the careless scammers who tried to deceive the Indian blogger Scambaiter.
In his YouTube video, which has received more than 15 million views in less than one month, Scambaiter demonstrated how he managed to outsmart an attacker and force him to show his face through a webcam.
According to Scambaiter, he first received a phishing email allegedly from Amazon. According to the letter, an order was placed in his name, and if he did not order anything, then he needs to call the specified phone number and request a refund.
"As soon as you call this number, you are connected to a call center in India. “We will send you a verification code, please help me with the verification you will receive." What the fraudster does is pretend to send the victim a verification message from Amazon. Well, the message is indeed from Amazon, but it is intended to reset the password, " Scambaiter said.
After the fraudster logged in and changed the victim's password, he began to search for information and look for the credit card attached to the Amazon account.
"I decided to run a GPS scan on the reverse proxy server in the network of this camera, and these coordinates led me to the north of New Delhi," Scambaiter reported.
After calculating the IP address of the fraudster and finding out the location of the call center, the blogger even found in his files the identity of two employees and a document with an extortion scenario. Using the information provided in the ID, Scambaiter found the Facebook page of the call center employee, thanks to which he was able to learn many details about his personal life.
Continuing to conduct a conversation with an unsuspecting fraudster, Scambaiter hacked his webcam and displayed the image from it on the screen of his laptop. When the attacker tried to go further and convince the "victim" to install TeamViewer software for remote access to her computer, he suddenly saw an image from his own webcam on the screen. He tried to hide from the camera, but Scambaiter began to press him, claiming that he knew everything about him and his "company". The scammer was scared, and while he and his colleagues were trying to decide what to do next, the blogger continued to mock him.
Internet scammers should be prepared for the fact that the "fish" that they are trying to catch on their hook may not be up to them. This is exactly what happened to the careless scammers who tried to deceive the Indian blogger Scambaiter.
In his YouTube video, which has received more than 15 million views in less than one month, Scambaiter demonstrated how he managed to outsmart an attacker and force him to show his face through a webcam.
According to Scambaiter, he first received a phishing email allegedly from Amazon. According to the letter, an order was placed in his name, and if he did not order anything, then he needs to call the specified phone number and request a refund.
"As soon as you call this number, you are connected to a call center in India. “We will send you a verification code, please help me with the verification you will receive." What the fraudster does is pretend to send the victim a verification message from Amazon. Well, the message is indeed from Amazon, but it is intended to reset the password, " Scambaiter said.
After the fraudster logged in and changed the victim's password, he began to search for information and look for the credit card attached to the Amazon account.
"I decided to run a GPS scan on the reverse proxy server in the network of this camera, and these coordinates led me to the north of New Delhi," Scambaiter reported.
After calculating the IP address of the fraudster and finding out the location of the call center, the blogger even found in his files the identity of two employees and a document with an extortion scenario. Using the information provided in the ID, Scambaiter found the Facebook page of the call center employee, thanks to which he was able to learn many details about his personal life.
Continuing to conduct a conversation with an unsuspecting fraudster, Scambaiter hacked his webcam and displayed the image from it on the screen of his laptop. When the attacker tried to go further and convince the "victim" to install TeamViewer software for remote access to her computer, he suddenly saw an image from his own webcam on the screen. He tried to hide from the camera, but Scambaiter began to press him, claiming that he knew everything about him and his "company". The scammer was scared, and while he and his colleagues were trying to decide what to do next, the blogger continued to mock him.