General / Off-Topic *URGENT* Advice required.

[Jenner]

Ive seen some great white hat hacking being done against the fake technical support scammers.

Typically these tech support scammers will invite you to install a Remote access client under the pretence of investigating security alerts.
Once in your computer The scammers will run something simple like NETSTAT or point out random warnings in your event viewer and suggest that these are lists of hack attempts (which is rubbish) and then try to sell you a security package for hundreds of dollars.
Sometimes the scammers once remoted into you machine will run SYSKEY and then extort money from you to unlock the computer.

But some people have been setting up VM's, baiting the scammers and hacking them back.
These White hats will typically place a file on the desktop of these trap VM's... named something tasty and irresistible like BITCOIN WALLET or BANKING DETAILS which is actually a renamed R.A.T trojan.exe, The Fake tech support scammers will typically beeline for this file and steal it with a quick file transfer...

of course once they open it on their local PC they have opened a back door for the white hats to enter into their scammer PC and destroy them.

One guy got access to a Scammers Skype account (among everything else) then phoned the scammer on his smart phone, telling him that he just got hacked. The scammer didnt believe him until photo's of himself (private photos) started to appear under his own conversation feed on Skype on his smart phone during the conversation lol. The scammer did his nut, but by then it was too late. everything of his was compromised.

The White hats managed to aquire a complete list of all the scam targets from the scammers PC and then went about contacting them all to warn them that they where being conned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_support_scam

That's awesome! lol.

I had a friend who used to get a lot of these types of scammers contacting him for some reason. Thing is - he was a computer science major. He'd play dumb with them and string them a long for quite awhile - just wasting time - and then when he got bored he'd let them know the score. heh heh.

Still, he kept getting contacted... makes you wonder. heh.

 

[verminstar]

Always keep a whistle beside the phone and when yer sure its a scammer, talk low and garbled so they really get their ear pressed onto the phone before seeing how much puff is left in those 40 something lungs. Most the time they just hang up but now and then, someone starts ranting and screaming down the phone so I wind the dogs up by using the clicker which sends them doolollipops constantly barking.

Had one guy once who lapsed into a language I dont understand, but he went on and on fer over 5 minutes before I told him I was actually dead and he was talking to himself cos I wasnt real and just a figment of his imagination. Line went dead quiet after that fer a second before going dead.

Some people are just weird and cant seem to take the hint that apart from the house itself, I aint got a pot to pee into...my credit rating is so bad the only way Ill ever get credit again is if I get cryogenically frozen fer the next hundred years. This is why I dont have a credit card, and only keep a basic bank account because thats how benefits are paid nowadays, dont use facebook anymore after details were used against me in real life, and only use the internet fer gaming and .

Theres less to worry about when ye got nothing to lose so if someone is dumb enough to gimme a card, Ill max it before they realize their mistake cos...well why not? I would expect nothing less were I to give them a credit card...not my fault I dont issue cards, no idea why they so irate with me...people really are strange ^