Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Payback
Mark Rober3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2022-2024
120.3M views · 4 years ago · demo · evergreen
Mark Rober and collaborators build glitter bomb traps and other pranks to fight phone scam call centers, and share evidence about the operations.
Offered as a satisfying example of fighting back against scam call centers.
23:14Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
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8:11Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates
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22:11Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates
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15:59Glitter Bomb 2.0 vs Porch Pirates
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18:21Car Thieves vs the Almost Final GlitterBomb 5.0
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11:44Building Glitterbomb 1.0 with Mark Rober
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43:44Scammers Wanted $3,000 - They Watched Me Spend It All
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7:09This Arcade Game is a SCAM (I have proof)
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22:32I Trapped 200 Scammers in an Impossible Maze
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![Spying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/le71yVPh4uk/hq2.jpg)
16:18Spying on the Scammers [Part 1/5]
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0:52Did you see that ludicrous display last night ?
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4 comments from Hacker News
> My second thought was the majority of this type of fraud is probably from foreign impersonation, not Americans. There's an industry for it in India, because they can source english call center workers there fairly easily. The youtuber Mark Rober ran into a couple of US mules for these sorts of scams while working on one of his prank videos, and decided to team up with some other youtubers to troll some of these companies in India. The video on it is worth watching: ▶ this video
Anecdata of 4 call centers, yet no one in this video really seems like someone that being exhorted to do crime ▶ this video
I think the definition of cyber crime is what is important here. I think there are huge buildings with call centers in India dedicated to cyber crime. Thousands of people. Nothing to do with tech skills. Here is Mark Rober basically bringing the war to their shores with incredible pranks: ▶ this video
I thought this was pretty great: ▶ this video My favorite part is when the guy uses the scammers real name and she panics.