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I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by boneitis »

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #48

You are all laughing, but I was just presented with an impossible captcha trying to login into my OpenAI account, that I pay $20/month for. To solve the captcha, I need to click the puzzle 80 (!) times, and if I make a mistake, I should start everything anew. That's totally not funny. Had to cancel the subscription. Anyway, Phind is faster and better quality.

This was my first thought. Commenters here are thoroughly entertained, but all I see are the efforts of people that mold the internet experience into what I have to deal with on a daily basis. They would make great additions to AI and CAPTCHA teams. /snark

It's pretty wild that my $20 subscription earns me a long string of puzzles. Sometimes I am forced to solve so many of the very-difficult-to-solve variety that I just give up and hope that, on another day, they only give me a couple.

I subscribed in the hopes that the utility of it would be immediate and without the SEO cesspool, but ultimately, I'm still losing that time (and paying for the privilege of) providing free labor for model training.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy »

netsharc wrote: post #87
TacticalCoder wrote: post #30

I love Kitboda's videos. The one thing that strikes me all the time is how arrogant, smug, full of themselves these scammers always sound. They do profoundly believe they're oh-so-intelligent and don't hesitate to make fun of the old people they (think they) are speaking to. Despicable scum of this earth. Thanks to Kitboga for fighting the good fight and it's great to see banks and crypto-exchanges immediately freezi…

In regards to the arrogance... I imagine they have to be like that in order to be able to sleep at night, they justify the scamming by saying (mostly to themselves) things like the West stole from the developing countries, so this is them stealing back, and they have to believe the victims deserve it so they can, I repeat, sleep at night. Another justification might be "Look at this stupid moron, I won't feel bad ste…

They scam many many people all day every day, why wouldn't they get arrogant about it?

your explanation seems overly complicated.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

dave1010uk wrote: post #51
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #48

You are all laughing, but I was just presented with an impossible captcha trying to login into my OpenAI account, that I pay $20/month for. To solve the captcha, I need to click the puzzle 80 (!) times, and if I make a mistake, I should start everything anew. That's totally not funny. Had to cancel the subscription. Anyway, Phind is faster and better quality.

What OS and browser are you using? Give me a couple of minutes and I'll get ChatGPT to write aa script that does it for you.

Then they will brick my Windows laptop and throw me in jail for Illegal Captcha Circumvention and Resisting Verification!

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by HappyTortoise »

michael_vo wrote: post #50

There should be a software product that protects our elderly by watching their bank accounts and listens to their phone calls. It’s so clearly a scam.

Tbf the bank thing is already a thing in a very limited capacity, but at some point the scammers figure out a bypass. The phone call thing is interesting but I wouldn't want an AI having all of my phone calls and it'll be hard to convince people to use it since everyone thinks they won't be scammed - better spend that time educating about scams instead. It'll also be much easier to bypass than the bank detection thing as a scammer can easily get access to the product.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #75
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #48

You are all laughing, but I was just presented with an impossible captcha trying to login into my OpenAI account, that I pay $20/month for. To solve the captcha, I need to click the puzzle 80 (!) times, and if I make a mistake, I should start everything anew. That's totally not funny. Had to cancel the subscription. Anyway, Phind is faster and better quality.

If you have multiple services that are suspicious of your CC transactions, someone might be trying to rob you.

Nope, CC is not in question this time. Captcha is before the password. Wonder if there is a youtube video somewhere We Made That sucker Solve 80-click Captcha!

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by rpmisms »

I know Kit through a friend. Played magic the gathering with him once. No difference between his persona and personality, one of those people made for the job. Absolutely great guy, too, nice wife and kids.

He also started off as a Web Dev. The fake banking websites are all his own work. Really clever stuff, ironically using phishing tactics to catch phishers.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by function_seven »

starik36 wrote: post #53
Wissenschafter wrote: post #12

I always wonder if Kitboga was influenced by comedian Phil Hendrie. I grew up listening to Phil on the radio and they have very similar styles. Love it, hilarious.

His first ever show on KFI with the fake station manager was the most confusing time in my life.

I delivered pizzas back when Phil was on KFI. There were so many late deliveries because I just couldn’t get out of my car until a commercial break.

RC Collins, Bud from Ojai, Margaret Gray, Bobbie Dooley, etc. All hilarious.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by yorwba »

klyrs wrote: post #67
binarymax wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this the guy who got a scammer to carve a wooden keyboard? Legendary

https://www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm This looks like the "scambaiter" actually scammed an artist into making some pretty sweet art under the guise of a scolarship. Am I missing something, or is this actual fraud?

If you read all the way to the end:

>> I was also able to discover the name and contact details of John's artist and managed to contact him to confirm he had indeed been paid for his work, although he wouldn't tell me how much he was paid!

But yeah, John got scammed.

Re: I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]

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Post by jwilber »

PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #92
netsharc wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In regards to the arrogance... I imagine they have to be like that in order to be able to sleep at night, they justify the scamming by saying (mostly to themselves) things like the West stole from the developing countries, so this is them stealing back, and they have to believe the victims deserve it so they can, I repeat, sleep at night. Another justification might be "Look at this stupid moron, I won't feel bad ste…

They scam many many people all day every day, why wouldn't they get arrogant about it? your explanation seems overly complicated.

I think they’re speculating about the sort of person who is drawn to that sort of job, how they justify that line of work, etc.
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