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Folks, it's been a while since I've posted here and I thought I'd bring you up to date.

Firstly, here's a link to a podcast I did for the 'Easy Prey Podcast' with Chris Parker - I hope you find it interesting.

So why have I been so quiet? Well, the big news is that I've been collaborating with Mark Rober. If you don't know of Mark, just google him and think 'Glitter Bombs for packet thieves!' Needless to say that certain money mules in the USA won't know what hit them. There will be a video on this soon.

In addition, I've been working with the vendors of the most commonly used Remote Access Tools which are abuse by scammers. Specifically: TeamViewer, AnyDesk and shortly ScreenConnect, UltraViewer, Supremo, AweSun and Alpemix. I'm going to try to get them to implement some measures to better detect fraudulent use and to eliminate the 'Black Screen' function. This was removed recently by TeamViewer, but they reintroduced it as part of their free Chrome add-in. Not good.

I do intend to release a video this month, ahead of the collaboration video with Mark. Of course you will be first to see it!

If you're a gold+ patron, there will be a Zoom meeting this Sunday 13th December at 21:00 GMT. I'll send an invite shortly.

Thanks again for your continued support.

Jim

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Scam Baiting with Jim Browning - Easy Prey Podcast

"If you sound legitimate you can be believed. Literally anyone can fall for these sorts of scams." - Jim Browning Click To Tweet Most of us have received that call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft Tech Support saying that there is an issue with our computer that they want to help us resolve.

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Ryan Hamm

Ahhh, so this is what Mark is doing with his glitter bomb Mk 3. Sweet!!

Cameron Creekmore

This collab is going to be great! God bless you, Jim

John P

I was just thinking earlier that I hadn't heard anything from Jim for a while. I'm gonna listen to the podcast now.

Pistachio

Thank goodness, I was getting worried, wondering if the scammers found you 🙃

MetaleX music

I always look forward to your posts! Hope you are doing well! Can't wait to listen to this podcast! 🤟😎🎸

JManke

To think legitimate businesses use these remote accesses, right alongside scammers. And both for day to day operations, just mind blowing. Looking forward to this video, too. Keep up the great work, and hope you and yours are safe and well during this time!

Puchi

Love your stuff Jim. I was wondering if you have any advice against SIM swap scam? I heard of it shortly ago and think it's scary as fuck. Take care!

Rich ODrobinak

Jim, very good and informative interview

BRIAN THOMPSON

im a big mark roper fan since his porch pirate video. Congrats, his following is stratospheric...

Gl1tch

Awesome!!!!

lostcosmonaut

Strange, the embedded player on EasyPrey's site only plays on my center audio channel. (Checked out my system, everything is fine on my end.) For anyone else having this problem, they've included a download link and the mp3 plays just fine.

Hyperballad Eyes

Good for you Mr. Browning! You are fighting the good fight!

Gergely Tuskai

No rush Jim. I prefer you take as much time as you need and actually do damage to scammers and than make a video when it is over. Stopping scammers is more important.

Stephen Brown

Thankfully you are still going Jim. Brilliant and looking forward to your uploads.

Luiz Guerra

Great as always Jim! Looking forward for that update!

Mike

As long as you continue to protect good people I will never complain.

Alison Ball

THANK YOU Jim for this video! My own mother was nearly a victim of the refund scam you showed, just yesterday. The only thing that saved her was that her wire transfer company (Knightsbridge) refused to wire to a Thai bank. Otherwise, she would have “returned “ the $30k that the scammer made it look like he had put in her account. By sheer luck the wire transfer company stopped it. I am so happy to support your work!

JimBrowning

Seemingly he's a fan of what I do. Which is great because I'm a huge fan of his channel. There will be a very interesting video on some of the scammers who make their victims send cash through the post. They deserve much worse than a glitter bomb of course!

JimBrowning

So gald to hear that Kingsbridge were on the ball here. Almost all Indian scammers seem to be using Thai bank accounts. I'm not sure why this is... perhaps the laws are more lax there. Anyway, so glad that this was stopped in time. Jim

BRIAN THOMPSON

Delightful thinking of what Mr Roper might scheme. Have no idea what it will be, but the thought of your two minds at work on this puzzle, is cause for cheer. I confess to having images of piles of scammers strapped to a giant trampoline, with a semi truck hanging 50 feet above them. Just a thought if you two are spitballing...

heather

I'm the mother mention in Alison Ball's comment - I have all the details of the Thai "transfer", is that info useful to you?? their account No. name, address etc.

Aaron Symons

Awesome stuff! Have you ever thought about collaborating with the likes of Trilogy Media, IRLrosie, Scammer Payback, Deeveeaar and other similar YouTubers - all together - in order to pool resources between you all? Individually, you all accomplish a lot, but I feel you may be able to accomplish even more together. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks :)

Purushotham Kotha

Hello Jim, God bless, great work. As you realized many Indian police are corrupt and /or indifferent to your great work. But, here is an effective strategy. Police are afraid of the Press and news chanels.Especially the local TV stations which report these criminal activities fiercely, fearlessly and very promptly. I really recommend sending all the material you are sending to the police simultaneously to local Tv stations of Delhi, Calcutta and other cities. Once the police see these reports they are worried that local public will street protest and once in a while kick the police in public to shame them! Please try this asap. Good luck and God bless.

Sue Sickles

I don’t understand what the purpose of even having the black screen functionality anyway - how could it possibly be anything but sketchy?

Vic King

Sue some old ppl don't know mate there normally old ppl like me but ive been on the net since it started on ICQ and IRC on internet relay chat .Jim will fix these buggers merry Xmas to you from aussie

Josh

It has its uses but should be reserved for paid premium subscriptions that can be traced back to a person. If I had an office with multiple computers and I wanted make changes to my office PCs, I could do so and not have the monitor showing everything happening. Maybe I'm accessing files that I don't want the employees to know a hidden directory for install files. But honestly, it's not needed 99% of the time. For a tech support situation, it's not needed.

Sue Sickles

Very interesting, thanks 😊