THE VIDEO SHELF · phone scams
Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback
Mark Rober and collaborators build glitter bomb traps and other pranks to fight phone scam call centers, and share evidence about the operations.
Why HN readers recommended it
Offered as a satisfying example of fighting back against scam call centers.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mark Rober
- Topic
- phone scams
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I thought this was pretty great: [VIDEO] My favorite part is when the guy uses the scammers real name and she panics.
fossuser on Hacker News · 2022-07
In What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?I think the definition of cyber crime is what is important here. I think there are huge buildings with call centers in India dedicated to cyber crime. Thousands of people. Nothing to do with tech skills. Here is Mark Rober basically bringing the war to …
IG_Semmelweiss on Hacker News · 2023-09
In India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots> My second thought was the majority of this type of fraud is probably from foreign impersonation, not Americans. There's an industry for it in India, because they can source english call center workers there fairly easily. The youtuber Mark Rober ran into a couple …
jasonwatkinspdx on Hacker News · 2024-02
In FTC proposes new protections to combat AI impersonation of individuals
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