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  1. Aktueller traderepublic #scam via SMS. Nur anrufen wer die Kriminellen ärgern möchte. #scambaiting

    Achtung: Trade Republic meldet eine verd{chtige Anmeldung aus der T~rkei. Bitte sofort 03092104308 kontaktieren.

  2. Day 3

    Well firstly, I messed up some of the tags for Day 2...
    my-place.social/display/e59937…
    One slightly annoying thing that I forgot on my journey, usb... I could not plug in the phone into the car... it insisted on using some non existing network and would disconnect my network connections.

    Anyway, Day 3 though... The only thing of note is, I ran into some issue with #peanutbutter ... I don't know exactly what happened... but I had to do a hard reset due to peanutbutter working but not taking inputs. For all the months I've used peanutbutter.. this is a first. I'm chaulking it up to a random fluke.

    Speaking on battery... I'm spoiled. As a #pinephone refugee, I was used to paying extra attention to battery usage. Which is why I've always really dug #tui software (it has zero about how neat I find them as well /s). So, as I turned off suspend for my journey, I plumb ass forgor to turn it back on today... and ish was actually fine... like I used only like 50% of the battery with zero suspending. I didn't do a lot but my activities today:

    GPS to a place around the corner
    Spend most of the day chatting on #weechat #gomuks and mms/sms. I kept tabs on my M$ apps for work via web apps as well as made a few replies. That said, I missed zero calls (fuck scammers and promote #scambaiting ), I had zero sms or mms get stuck in the modem. We'll see how tomorrow goes with suspend on.

    #sxmo #postmarketos #pixel3a

    (hopefully i dont fk this up)
    @linuxphones @linuxphones.ml

  3. I realised yesterday that @kitboga , who is a famous "scambaiter" is able to do his entertaining videos by exploiting the same human flaws that the scammers use themselves.

    Mainly, that after you are on the lure and start trusting the scammer (or kitboga) on any level, you brain will make it very hard to remove the trust as long as the other side does not do or say something to you which will want you to reduce trust.

    Scambaiters like Kitboga and the old 419eater exemplifies and does this for great entertainment and for a good cause, mainly imposing cost on the scammers.

    But if you listen to the first episode of Economist's Scam Inc you will hear examples of how it goes the other way.

    Later in the series they discuss how the scammers have playbooks which allow them to industrialise the scamming, and it made me think about the similarly to how kitboga built his bot network. Find a working playbook and just scale up.

    I don't have a point with this I think, it's just a reflection and something I want to think about more. Humans have not evolved for this world and it's causing lots of societal problems.

    #scambaiting #scambait #economist #scaminc

  4. I pretended to trade #cryptocurrency, getting insincere tips from a mysterious “assistant”, until no amount of #generativeAI fakery could convince “her” that I was following her advice. Stay vigilant out there, friends.
    weill.org/2025/04/09/fake-cryp

    #personalFinance #scams #scambaiting

  5. Zur Abwechslung eine sinnvolle Anwendung von KI: betrügerische Call Center Agents beschäftigen.

    youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&

    #KI #AI #scam #scambaiting

  6. 🎣 Ah, the noble art of scam-baiting! Our hero bravely navigates the treacherous seas of romance fraud, valiantly wielding #sarcasm as his only weapon 🏆. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left with the real question: who’s the bigger con artist — the scammers, or this guy wasting our time with his self-righteous escapades? 🙄
    bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/sec #scambaiting #romancefraud #humor #conartists #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🎣 Ah, the noble art of scam-baiting! Our hero bravely navigates the treacherous seas of romance fraud, valiantly wielding #sarcasm as his only weapon 🏆. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left with the real question: who’s the bigger con artist — the scammers, or this guy wasting our time with his self-righteous escapades? 🙄
    bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/sec #scambaiting #romancefraud #humor #conartists #HackerNews #ngated

  8. 🎣 Ah, the noble art of scam-baiting! Our hero bravely navigates the treacherous seas of romance fraud, valiantly wielding #sarcasm as his only weapon 🏆. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left with the real question: who’s the bigger con artist — the scammers, or this guy wasting our time with his self-righteous escapades? 🙄
    bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/sec #scambaiting #romancefraud #humor #conartists #HackerNews #ngated

  9. 🎣 Ah, the noble art of scam-baiting! Our hero bravely navigates the treacherous seas of romance fraud, valiantly wielding #sarcasm as his only weapon 🏆. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left with the real question: who’s the bigger con artist — the scammers, or this guy wasting our time with his self-righteous escapades? 🙄
    bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/sec #scambaiting #romancefraud #humor #conartists #HackerNews #ngated

  10. Wegen #Onlinebetrug verlieren Menschen jedes Jahr viel Geld – manchmal ihr ganzes Vermögen. Häufig kann die Polizei diese Betrugsfälle nicht aufklären. Sogenannte #Scambaiter nehmen es mit den kriminellen Banden auf und gehen - teils mit illegalen Methoden - gegen diese vor.
    «Rec.»-Reporterin Anne-Sophie Galli hat einen von ihnen getroffen und ihm über die Schulter geschaut.

    3sat.de/gesellschaft/rec/rec-s

    #Scambaiting #Internetbetrug #Schweiz #Reportage

  11. BOTS & SCAMMERS ON FACEBOOK!!

    This is beyond annoying. Friend requests; love your book, can we talk; etc. So many of these comments and messages. What happened to social interactions with real people? For me, the platform has become pretty much useless.

    Anybody else notice the same?

    #bots #scammers #scam #scambaiting #security #Facebook #Facebooksucks #metasucks

  12. BOTS & SCAMMERS ON FACEBOOK!!

    This is beyond annoying. Friend requests; love your book, can we talk; etc. So many of these comments and messages. What happened to social interactions with real people? For me, the platform has become pretty much useless.

    Anybody else notice the same?

    #bots #scammers #scam #scambaiting #security #Facebook #Facebooksucks #metasucks

  13. I'm a few months late to the party on this story, but it restored a bit of my hope that AI chat bots can actually be used to help people not just extract money.

    In fact, this project does the opposite.

    Meet Daisy, the AI British grandmother that wastes the time of scammers.

    youtube.com/watch?v=RV_SdCfZ-0

    #scambaiting #AI

  14. I pissed them off with the angle that I was new to Linux because my friend installed it on my computer and I didn't know how to screenshot or even get to Firefox to look it up lmao
    #scambaiting #scamsandfraud #discord

    RE:
    https://kitsunes.club/notes/a1tovushcm

  15. Mit einer neuen und lebensechten „KI-Oma“ namens #Daisy will #O2 Scammern auf besondere Art und Weise entgegentreten. Daisy ist von einer echten Person nicht zu unterscheiden und kombiniere laut O2 verschiedene #KI-Modelle, die zusammenarbeiten, um betrügerische Anrufe sofort abzuhören und darauf zu reagieren. Sie sei so lebensecht, dass sie zahlreiche Betrüger 40 Minuten lang am Telefon halten konnte.

    Alle Infos: appgefahren.de/?p=369567

    #appgefahren #Apple #AppleBlog #iPhone #iPad #Mac #Mobilfunk #Scam #Scambaiting

  16. I’ve a new home for my #Scambaiting content, so it's time for a new #introduction
    I'm Sal or Salvador, a totally #Blind #Scambaiter from the US. Most of the time, I work a 9-5 job like many people. In my off hours, I enjoy hunting down scammer phone numbers to call, troll, waste time, and generally annoy them into hopefully ending operations. my content here will mainly be posts of my scambaiting video content, discussion of said content, news articles regarding scammer tactics, emerging scams, etc. I'm also just up for a good chat, so feel free to stop by and say hi. :)

  17. This is HUGE: #scambaiter #Kitboga has developed a tool with his community.

    It warns computer users in realtime in very clear wording when someone is trying to scam them through remote access tools, command line tricks or fake virus pop-ups.

    Simultaneously it sends a message to their "guardian angel" (like a family member) to warn them about the suspicious computer activity.

    seraphsecure.com/

    #nospon #SeraphSecure #scam #scams #virus #infosec #scambaiting #IT #computers #elderly #tech

  18. I used to spend hours talking to my mom. Now, some days I’m so lonely that I will spend an hour talking to a phone scammer. I’ve gotten pretty good at keeping them on the line. The current batch keeps trying to get me to buy a cruise to Mexico, and then I get 3 free trips to Hawaii. Lol. #phonescams #scambaiting

  19. 🎙️In episode 313 of the @sharedsecurity podcast, we talk about the world of scambaiting, discuss preventing social media account takeovers, and reveal how attackers can compromise network-connected wrenches with ransomware!

    Tune in now and stay informed!

    Watch this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/pDQY2ta35hA
    Listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast app: sharedsecurity.net/subscribe

    #Podcast #Cybersecurity #SharedSecurityPodcast #Scambaiting #AccountTakeovers #Twitter #X #SocialEngineering #Scams #Kitboga #ScammerPayback

  20. #shazhupan #cryptoscams #scambaiting #emptiness

    Today, I got a video call on Telegram from my scammer. She is the person, or at least is visually very close to, the person in all the photos I've been getting. It was clear from the white background and other factors that she was in an office , probably in a booth designed for such calls. She mostly wanted to talk about whether I had downloaded the wallet and if I was ready for her to "teach" me how to invest.

    I sent fake screenshots showing I had bought 2200 USDT (I bought 2 to get the proper layout for the balance screen). After it was done, I had the wallet addresses associated with this particular scam, and finally had the last of my IoCs. But I felt emotionally void. What a life these scammers must lead,.

    I cannot tell from demeanor whether the scammer is one of those who have had their passports taken away by the gangs that run these scams in Cambodia or if she was an entrepeneur. Her English was good and not accented, and did not match the English usage of some of the chat messages, so I have some indication that this is a farm operation.

    I will say that it appears at least one of the wallets involved in this scam, which is only a month or so old, has had$1.8 m worth of crypto flow through it. So there are still a lot of people falling for these scams, More to come as I get my report ready for publication.