I noticed that over the past year, tech support scammer numbers are becoming harder to find. ADAROSS is finding a lot fewer numbers than I remember a year ago. Also, my trick of slightly misspelling a common URL (youtuber.com, fecebook.com, gmaail.com, for example) isn’t having much luck anymore. Could this mean that tech support scams are ultimately becoming less common? Let me know your thoughts.
Um no. Have you seen my posts? And posts by Alphu/Ethical Kid as well? We still find quite a bit. The scammer pop-up designers might be getting a little more clever, but we still can find and expose them. Nothing to worry about.
You may be correct about the number of scam numbers showing up on the site to be “smaller”. The thing is the scammers are just getting smarter such as constantly changing numbers etc. The site still has lots of numbers but until we crack the code, for now, it will be slow.
I don’t condone doing this but the only way to constantly get numbers is to rat the “Admin” computer and constantly watch them change numbers and then consistently posting the new number on scammer.info.
This post is mostly untrue but I can see what you're talking about. Cheers
@DistrictWatching#97950 not a problem sir i can tell you each an everything to help u get more pop ups would u plz be sitting in front of ur computer an with one finger press the windows an with another finger press an hold the letter R key R as in romeo plz:grin:
jk jk lol
There isn’t as many pop ups as there used to be. 5 years ago, they were everywhere. You couldn’t even sites like Yiptube and Fecebook without getting a Windows alert warning. I haven’t gotten a tech suppoat call on my landline in months.
Prhaps not. My knowledge says, they (Indian scammers) are expanding to other countries too, specially Japan.
Two scam organizations come to my mind Echosoft/SupportHello and SaburiTLC (PremiumTechieSupport) in New Delhi general area.
Indian equivalnet of monstee.com, shows so many "jobs" openings for people wit Japanese, German and French language proficient. Once you dig deeper, you find our 80% of these jobs are for scam centers.
it not that there is less but there more quick to disconnect the number and popups are quite rare to find
1/2 years ago we would have numbers that lasted weeks i also vaguely remember a active tag on here
@JoeHimself5#97961 Most of what I have seen you post in the past 24 hours or so are dead sites, dead phones and undeleted files on the servers. Some of it leads back to bot networks of malware, other than a few active sites, most of them are down.
FLAGRUM, that’s funny since they ALL work when I find them and post them. Hmm.
I have posted some websites today but most of the scammers turn of there numbers within 10 to 15 min because of bulk and blank calling by our baiters.
ADAROSS is only looking for some set patterns but Bob has not been around to update it in a while. The patterns of the scammer warnings have shifted.
Tech Support scamming is just as fierce as ever.
The only thing I can tell you for certain is decreasing is the amount of IRS/SSA that is on toll-free. This was because of a single carrier called Grasshopper. Grasshopper has been dealing with major issues since they let so many scammers on to their client roll, and they have been double dipping by taking scammers money and then of course draining it all when we've been flooding the hell out of their scam-customers.
While that makes Grasshopper some nice coin, that also makes the scammers mad, and many IRS/SSA have left Grasshopper, only for tech support scammers to now come in and setup accounts with Grasshopper, which have also been given the same treatment with call flooding.
I think scammers have learned that Grasshopper VOIP is a quick path to bankruptcy.
I’ve heard a lot that tech supp popups are declining. Since I’ve been doing this for a whopping 7 months, I’m not in a position to comment on larger general trends, but if it’s before 7:00 PM on a weekday, It’s not that hard to load up a sketchy site and get one. You do need to know what you’re doing. For large corporations, they’ll have what’s called a domain budget, with which they buy as many near miss domains (youtuve.com) as possible and redirect them to the real site. Corps like fox will even register domains like foxsucks, foxstinks, etc, to foil people who dislike them. Your best bet imo is to find a bad video player (openload has been worse, but it’s still not an innocent pineapple) and spam it as much as you can. There will be porn. A lot of porn. Bad video players can also be easily found on porn sites. I won’t link any, but googling porn and going to the 7th page or whatever generally yields good results. This is more my and EthicalKid’s domain, but after you get one, you check your history to see which redirects are yielding good results and you abuse those further.
As more people become tech savvy and those who don't die of old age, tech supp scams will have more and more trouble staying up, but that doesn't mean they'll just go down. There are a lot of long term viable scams to run that the centers will switch to.
@TheRealBerts#97964 while I may be slightly guilty of number snatching directly from scammers, I already have cracked/assisted in cracking multiple codes. Bubbles shreds redirect links to pieces and Memefinder, while not my project, involved a good deal of me yelling at EthicalKid. A lot. He's kinda new to python. Also brief SO to Centorics who's done some behind the scenes work on perfecting what bubbles starts.
There's a reason we find so many numbers.
@drwat#97981 That is something I've seen. I watched and ended up stepping in to prevent a scammer from charging a German kid 3799 Euros. It'd be wise to expand our publicity to those locations. (lookin' at you NeeP) This is def not just a US/UK ordeal.
and, @FLAGRUM#98133 check a number less than 5 minutes after it's posted. They shut off numbers once they're flooded. That is the goal, yes? To shut them down?
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