TL;DR: Misinterpretation and illiteracy played a bad joke on me.
Do you have any tips on how to explain to her what scambaiting is?
Context: I’m from Ukraine, and I got to scambaiting thanks to JimBrowning11 and many others. But, there was just one problem. My mother not believing what I do is right. I was calling a Microsoft tech support scam several minutes ago, and I got a call to a “tekneeshun” from “Maikrosoft”, asking me, obviously by the script. I have an American accent(because i was talking my whole life that way, and I have a pretty good results), and my mom overheard the convo from the toilet. For those who don’t know, in khrushyovka(soviet apartment block to solve housing crisis), toilet was located close to two rooms. And you can hear too well. I was talking quiet, to not wake anybody up(UTC +3, Kiyv 11:30 PM is 4:30 PM EST), answering those said questions. When the question: “wat wher u dooing an yor computa, sur?”, I answered: “Looking for news on Ukrainian war”. Nothing bad, right? It’s hot topic, so it makes sense. That’s where the mother comes in. She bursts in to the door asking who I was talking to(mic muted) I said a phone scammer. And she said to hang up. They started to call back. I said, that my wife said to hang up. I wanted to continue this, since I wanted to spend their precious time trolling and whatnot. But, my mom(я тебя очень люблю) said to hang up again. And as I was try to explain what I was doing(which was good on it’s own, although weak, i can do better), mom said that I shouldn’t calling anybody, since SBU(Ukranian NSA) listens on every phone call, since the Russian war. I tried to explain to her what TextNow is, but she didn’t listen. She said that I told them I’m Ukranian(Mom has very bad English. The level of “lOnDoN is tHe cApiTAl of BrEaT gRitAiN”). I told her, that’s not what I actually said. I said to the scammer I was looking up the news on Ukraine, because it was a hot topic. Mom was furious and paranoid, that I had to shut down, just because my mom misinterpreted scambaiting and Russian propoganda war. I tried to explain to her, that I was saving possibly many thousands of dollars of potential victms, but she didn’t care. She said, that I shouldn’t call the scammers, because Ukraine can block the number(she’s computer illiterate), and that I should shut down, because we can be marked as spies(what the f#$@?). And now I’m writing this gem. Maybe the number will be down, so I’m not giving it away.
As a Russian myself you should explain to her what you are doing, Try to avoid talking about the Ukraine war this is a big no no. The best thing you could do is play a Jim Browning video and translate it for her so she could understand what you’re doing. If the Ukrainian defense department is doing shit they should know what you’re doing and couldn’t care less. However you should use some other topics, most people use the common thing “I was watching P***” or something, Get creative if they ask what kind of P*** and you really wanna upset them tell them it’s Arab & you enjoy how thicc the Paki women are you’ll get instant anger but may cause issues at home so get creative.
The best thing you could do is as I said, show her a video and translate/give context to her so she could understand it. There’s other YT Channels that focus more on calling than reversing connections so it’s recommended you show her those instead of ones involving hacking as it will better your argument.
As for that I couldn’t tell you anything more as I live alone and never experienced this issue, Although my mother was busy for quite sometime before her death and after my father’s departure.
someone post this to reddit