Jim Browning
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364 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 25 Jun
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Sohini. Yes, tell me. Sohini.
Which side?
Is Mimi on your left?
It's coming through to me. I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure that's Susmita.
I mean, the moral bit is quite easy for me because I quite deliberately let the scammers attempt to scam me. I cannot and I don't have the technical expertise, shall we say, to arbitrarily hack into anything. I can't do it. I'm not able to do that. A lot of the people that you've spoken to on this podcast probably would be able to do that. I cannot.
I have to rely on a scammer connecting to me and trying to steal money from me. And that's the only way that I can ever access their computers. They have to try to steal money from me first.
I mean, I'm not... And I hate to be known as a hacker because that always has quite negative connotations. And I hate the term because it just has all of that baggage. But... That is true. And every single person that I feature on any video on YouTube has at some point connected to my computer.
And don't forget, scammers don't always make it clear that what you're typing out gives them access to my computer. because they will quite deliberately say just type this this on your command line when they when people question well what is this thing that you're getting me to download and run and it's in fact a remote access tool they will not explain that so
already there is a remote access connection, which is a sort of hacking attempt because the scammer doesn't make it clear to the victim. They are taking access of your computer and they are not making it clear. Obviously, they're scammers. And I just go a little bit further to say, well, OK, you're trying to
misuse my computer so internally I'm thinking you're now fair game for me to do the same to you so the only people and I've said this a number of times in other interviews as well the only people who could ever have a problem with what I do are the people who try to steal money from others okay and if they ever want to raise a legal complaint or whatever
please bring that on because what I will have done is record how I managed to get access to their computer. And the answer is because they were trying to steal money from me. Now, that's not a defense on its own, but it just means that if I ever have to defend myself for any reason, I have a good reason as to why I have access to their computer.
And it's just because of this theft that they're attempting.
The only complaints I've ever had are privacy complaints on YouTube. Scammers don't like their faces or voices or documents displayed on YouTube. And tough cases.
I have my email address on YouTube and a lot of people just simply email me saying, hey, have you seen this pop up or I've just had a phone call from this number and or I've had this email and it's a fake invoice or my grandparents have just been scammed to use the phone. I get all of that all the time.
But actually, in a lot of ways, I don't even have to use that because I'm on what's called a mugs list. So in the past, I have pretended to pay scammers because remember this bit where I say I actually need the scammers on? I give them fake information, including credit card details.
And if you work your way onto a list of people who they think they've scammed in the past, they will call you again and again. Those lists are like gold dust for scammers. So the end result of that is I get so many phone calls directly to my home phone number that I don't need anyone else's input. I'm already in the middle of a load of scans. And honestly, there's nearly too many to cope with.
So what do you have, like 16 different phones over there? I do, literally. I mean, I have one phone service with 10 different phone numbers in the UK and I have something similar with US phone numbers. I've dropped a lot of those recently from their number. It just, it has nearly got to the point where I just can't, you know, have an evening free of scam phone calls.
The way that I got access to the reverse access, I'll not go into that part in detail, but suffice to say that when I did get access, I got access to just one PC, and it was from a supervisor. And I was able to watch what that supervisor was doing. And one of the things that he was doing was watching CCTV. So I could see the IP address of the server that he was using.
It wasn't an internal server, it was an external one. And when he logged into it, he logged in with the username of admin. and a password of eight characters. And for the particular CCTV system that he was using, I did a Google search of what is the default password for this system. And would you believe they were still using the default password.
I guess you could call that hacking, but I could see the IP address, the username, and I just tried the default password and I was straight in. Admin123 was his password to protect this scam operation.
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