We’ve all heard it. That same TTS lady saying her spiel about
IMPORTANT SECURITY MESSAGE. YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN LOCKED UP. YOUR IP ADDRESS WAS USED WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT TO VISIT WEBSITES THAT CONTAINS IDENTITY THEFT VIRUS. TO UNLOCK THE COMPUTER PLEASE CALL SUPPORT IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN OR RESTART YOUR COMPUTER. DOING THAT MAY LEAD TO DATA LOSS AND IDENTITY THEFT. THE COMPUTER LOCK IS AIMED TO STOP ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. PLEASE CALL OUR SUPPORT IMMEDIATELY
and all.
but what if we had other voices involved? I propose, for no reason in particular, that we start making parodies of this and, for the tech savvy among us, injecting them into poorly maintained servers running the webpage.
Ideas include funny accents, ASMR, and outright screaming. Or we could just take down the sites like responsible scambaiters and have a good chuckle all to ourselves.
If you feel so inclined, do what you will with the script (make sure to enunciate all the typos) and post a link as a reply.
I'm looking forward to seeing the monsters I've inspired.
So you propose we illegally hack “poorly maintained sites” and run annoying, pointless, fake adds on them that are neither educational nor useful? Or take down those sites? On what planet is this a good idea?
BTW, these scam adds already are a parody. Many of them can hardly be improved upon to make them even funnier or more ridiculous.
First off, not real sites. Specifically the popup sites. I’m not malicious @Vertigo#89939 , jeez.
I purposely went from "hack the sites" to "take them down" which is what we're supposed to do (via reporting them to their domain admin). I was just thinking back to Jim or Bob or whoever it was replacing the phone recording with one that specifically said it was a scam, but that served a purpose that this does not. I advocate responsibility in scambaiting and the last thing I want is for more people to be scammed.
But the lady saying it replaced with spongebob while patrick does weewoo in the background would be kinda funny. right?
Ok, I misunderstood. What Jim Browning did was awesome. But he had infiltrated the call center and replaced the voice message at the source. Taking down the popup hosts, Im not sure that is going to be as effective or even possible given but obviously I do not object to anyone trying 