A YouTuber, known as the "Scambaiter," infiltrated a scam call center in India, where scammers pretended to be US federal police, scamming people with a fake story about a Mexican cartel hacking and stealing identities. The Scambaiter gained access to the call center's security cameras and computers, gathering evidence of the scam, including the location, shift times, and scammers' identities.
The Scambaiter collaborated with the police to plan a raid, but the call center relocated, discrediting their proof and ruining the plan. However, another YouTuber, Jim Browning, had an insider in one of the new offices, and the Scambaiter used this opportunity to scare the scammers by showing them footage of their own call center. As a result, all 40 scammers shut down their operations.
The Scambaiter also partnered with NordVPN to promote internet safety and security, highlighting the importance of protecting oneself from hackers and scammers.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The scam call center is located in Zirakpur, Punjab, India.
2. The call center is operating in an apartment-like building in the south of Zirakpur.
3. The building is located on VIP Road, behind the Chandigarh City Center shopping mall.
4. The call center has 20 scammers working there, 17 males and 3 females.
5. The scammers pretend to be with the United States federal police, specifically with the Customs and Border Protection agency.
6. They use a fake story about a Mexican cartel hacking and stealing identities to scam people.
7. The scammers use cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin, to receive payments from their victims.
8. The scam involves the victim withdrawing cash from a bank and depositing it into a cryptocurrency ATM machine.
9. The scammer then sends a QR code to the victim to scan and transfer the money to their own wallet.
10. The call center is part of a larger operation that includes around 10 scam call centers in Punjab and Delhi.
11. The operation is running the same script and has been investigated by another YouTuber, Jim Browning.
12. Jim Browning had access to one of the offices on the fifth floor of the same building and had been investigating the group for several months.
13. The scammers relocated to a new office, which discredited the proof document and ruined the plan for a raid.
14. The new office has around 40 agents and is the largest one in the operation.
15. The scammers were scared off by showing them footage of the inside of their own call center, and all 40 scammers shut down their machines.
16. The call center has been shut down, and there has been no activity from it since.