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Kitboga on twitch [1] calls these scammers and pretends to be various characters and waste their time. He puts funny moments on youtube [2].

At the "end" of his calls he confronts them and tries to talk to them about scamming old people. Most don't take it too well...

[1]: https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw

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There's a very interesting two part episode of the podcast Reply All[1] where they delve into one of these tech support scams. Worth taking the time to listen to.

[1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance

This one's great because they actually fly to India and meet the scammers! Definitely worth listening to both parts!

Thank you for linking this podcast! I just listened to the two episodes, and man, that was some awesome journalism.

[Edit]: Styling and phrasing

These streams are great and kitboga is a great person. My theory on the matter is that many of these people go into phone support where they deal with very rude people (often westerners), so when they leave to do something else, the act of scamming people through tech support doesn't faze them as much.

Those people should find a new line of work that doesn't involve dealing with customers... Then they should go fuck themselves.

Not sure if he is part of it, but there is a large amount of people faking this kind of content on YouTube for those juicy views and clicks. Kind of amazing to be scamming with an anti-scamming vibe.

It surely seems impossible to fake at the scale he does it. I'm going to assume you have not seen much of it.

Not really would only take a few friends willing to play scammers to fake his content, and he had a lot of monetary incentive. Does he have long spurts of scammers not answering or ignoring him? Seems fishy if he never does and seems risky to base his streaming career on something he can't control. It's the same reason "prank channels mostly became faked since it's a safer income stream.

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