My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
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My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
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Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#2A bit of a missed opportunity with the war in Ukraine. He could have expressed pro-Ukraine sentiment and the (most likely Russian) scammer could have echoed them back and possibly be caught in a FSB dragnet.
Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#3Thanks for this great example of how much metadata can work against the person generating it.
And I also want to thank the author for the wiki regarding the identification of the MUA by the Message-ID, that was a nice new detail I didn't know :)
Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#4A bit of a missed opportunity with the war in Ukraine. He could have expressed pro-Ukraine sentiment and the (most likely Russian) scammer could have echoed them back and possibly be caught in a FSB dragnet.
Its also important to get the maximum engagement from the scammer. Text produced is work and time. This is the only thing you can cost them, so its time to engage chatgpt and have them stuck in a telenovella.
Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#5A bit of a missed opportunity with the war in Ukraine. He could have expressed pro-Ukraine sentiment and the (most likely Russian) scammer could have echoed them back and possibly be caught in a FSB dragnet.
It was probably a Chinese slave in a Myanmar boiler room.
Romance scammers and “pig butchering” scams are usually run by Asian gangs. Nasty folks.
The “good” news, however, is that AI is likely to make a big impact, here, and reduce the need to kidnap poor folks.
Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#6I thought gmail doesn't disclose sender's IP address? Or I was wrong? This is not good for privacy.
Also, for fingerprinting you can obtain a GPU model via WebGL (helps in detecting a VM), and probably can scan for known browser extensions by trying to fetch extension-specific URLs. Some sites also scan ports on the localhost by trying to connect to them to find out which software is run.
Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#7A bit of a missed opportunity with the war in Ukraine. He could have expressed pro-Ukraine sentiment and the (most likely Russian) scammer could have echoed them back and possibly be caught in a FSB dragnet.
It was probably a Chinese slave in a Myanmar boiler room. Romance scammers and “pig butchering” scams are usually run by Asian gangs. Nasty folks. The “good” news, however, is that AI is likely to make a big impact, here, and reduce the need to kidnap poor folks.
Ha, with AI scammer traps (e.g [1]), it'll be AI lying to other AI, trillions of CPU cycles wasted accomplishing nothing other than speeding up the destruction of the planet.
I suppose one can then declare the mission accomplished: zero scammers left on the planet.
Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#8I've never quite understood this sort of anti-scammer content and what its appeal is to readers. There are a million YouTube videos and other articles out there that explain, analyze, as well as mock[1] and denigrate scammers - who are essentially modern day slaves [2].
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E [2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/human-trafficking-vie...
Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#9A bit of a missed opportunity with the war in Ukraine. He could have expressed pro-Ukraine sentiment and the (most likely Russian) scammer could have echoed them back and possibly be caught in a FSB dragnet.
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Re: My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster
#10I've never quite understood this sort of anti-scammer content and what its appeal is to readers. There are a million YouTube videos and other articles out there that explain, analyze, as well as mock[1] and denigrate scammers - who are essentially modern day slaves [2]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E [2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/human-trafficking-vie...
It’s a form of “justice porn”. You’re right that these scammers are victims themselves. But seeing how they treat vulnerable groups (particularly less tech savvy, trusting, older people - which may well be your mom one day) is absolutely fucking vile.
Also, some anti-scammer YouTubers are legitimately very skilled and entertaining to watch. Kitboga is the first that comes to mind. He has all these voices, characters, sound effects - and takes scammers on quite some adventures. Pretty funny.