Good 'effin grief - Criminals on CCTV: Scammers caught red-handed

[malaise]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-51660982/criminals-on-cctv-scammers-caught-red-handed
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Hundreds of thousands of people fall victim to scams in the UK every year.

Many are run from criminal call centres abroad, where teams of fraudsters operate around the clock.

One man in the UK, who goes by the name "Jim Browning", decided to do something about it. He hacked into a call centre in India from where scammers target their victims.

Jim gained access to the recorded scam phone calls as well as CCTV footage exposing the scammers at work.

What Jim did was illegal - but he says he wants to stop the fraudsters, and he passed his footage on to BBC Panorama.

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What they are doing is also illegal

[MagickMuffin]

1. Fighting Fire with Fire

I'm glad Jim is exposing these call centers, they deserve it.

[malaise]

2. I think this was the first one exposed

[MagickMuffin]

3. My elderly neighbor got scammed out of $80,000

The Adult protective services came and took her away, sold her house and she was placed in a nursing home that her niece owns (and only took her in if she received medicare, some loving niece huh)

I didn't know at the time or I would have help her. She took out a reverse mortgage on her house. That's how the state took it away from her. These scammers were out of Jamaica.

I have no love for people who scam other people.

[malaise]

4. We have lots of scammers here

One called us and told me I had won the lottery - I told them to be very careful because the FBI was monitoring our phone - he hung up

[MagickMuffin]

5. Yeah, it's a huge problem

I like your response though. I'll have to remember it.