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Scammers humiliated themselves for Kitboga's fake call center

Boing Boing·Grant St. Clair·about 1 month ago
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Image: Brian A Jackson / shutterstock.com Captchas, right? Sure, they're ostensibly for security, but it's annoying having to decipher a series of squiggles just to post a comment or read an article. They could always be worse, though: what if they weren't just text or images? What if you had to look right into your webcam and make a funny face before you could do anything at all? For a few hours, that was the reality for a few phone scammers. In the scambaiting game (the art of deliberately wasting tech scammers' time and doing a good job of it), few people get more creative than Kitboga , who also streams these sessions live to an audience watching along in real time. When the latest crop of scammers called his fake call center to try to withdraw their "hard-earned" funds, they were hit with just one more obstacle: a simple face-captcha. Easy enough, right?…

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