I am surveying the interest of a coordinated effort to take down one of the more extensive tech support scam operations.
With a great of help and support from the community, I managed to collect 100+ domain names belonging to the same group of scammers.
What I had in mind is getting together on Discord to target this scam operation by reporting their domain names to Google Safe Browsing, antivirus vendors and hosting providers. A coordinated takedown is well-known to be effective to take down malware C2 servers and phishing campaigns.
I calculate that one domain takes about 8-10 minutes to report on every platform it matters.
The goal of the takedown session is to get the websites associated with the tech support scammers blacklisted. As a result, the victims will see a red 'blocked' page when they stumble across one of the websites, which will break the usual phone script of the scammers.
If you are interested in a coordinated takedown session, please indicate your intent below or DM me on Discord (@IceMugger).
I agree Ice Mugger I think this company has to get brought down. They need to shut down right now because who knows the amount of scams they committed.
Of course I’d be willing to help, but I am unable to participate on Discord for some odd reason.
I tried via Web Browser and even the Desktop app.
The phone verification on Discord keeps saying "invalid phone number" and I can't get past that. I have a landline and a Textnow number, both can use text messaging. I don't wish to use my mobile number, as it is only for family, work and important incoming calls whitelisted to prevent unwanted calls.
So I seen "If you can't get past the Phone Verification, please DM a member of the Support team. Please understand this is to prevent spammers." I tried that too and got this message:
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ClydeBOT
Your message could not be delivered because you don't share a server with the recipient or you disabled direct messages on your shared server, recipient is only accepting direct messages from friends, or you were blocked by the recipient.
Only you can see this — delete this message.
Good stuff, I didn’t expect so much interest I will ask the admins to create us a new channel on Discord and will everyone updated. I had the 25 August (Sunday) in mind for the first takedown session.
I am willing to take part in an operation to take down those filthy scammers by flooding the scammer phone lines by calling them on multiple bobrtc tabs and also wasting their time by annoying them with soundboards containing audio such as monkey noises.
Also what are the last four numbers after @IceMugger ? I am on mobile and I don't know the last numbers and because of that I can't add you.
@grabscammersip#105007 hey what happened to the reply you wrote when replying to my request for a download link to the program you had or did it get removed?
