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0xEF ◴[] No.41199904[source]
I hate that it kicks off with "DISCLAIMER: This is not my work. I would never and don't condone illegal hacking of scammers"

You know what? I do. We all should. These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked. I am tired of toothless authorities like CISA and the alphabet agencies in the US doing next to nothing about it unless some YouTube scam baiter does the work for them. Scammers destroy people, not just financially, but emotionally as well, even driving some victims to suicide. As far as I am concerned, any wannabe hacker out there should be using these scammers for target practice.

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jsbisviewtiful ◴[] No.41201617[source]
> These scammers are awful people and deserve to be attacked.

Some of them are being held prisoner and are being forced to run these scams under threat of torture. There was a Search Engine episode about this in the last year.

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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[] No.41201700[source]
John Oliver did a great segment on it.

I won't link to it, because he seems to piss some of the folks, hereabouts, off.

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1. gosub100 ◴[] No.41202755[source]
since he only pokes fun at one side, it's hard to tell what the truth is.
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2. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[] No.41202815[source]
This was 100% apolitical. A lot of his stuff is, and his team really does their homework.

The stuff he says before the main story, tends to be quite political, but the main story, itself, is often apolitical.

3. Take8435 ◴[] No.41203743[source]
This is anecdotal and not at all representative. He points out issues on both sides. It's not his fault "one side" tends to warrant that kind of scrutiny so often lately.
4. CyberDildonics ◴[] No.41203871[source]
What is the 'other side' to people being scammed that you think he should have covered?
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5. tedunangst ◴[] No.41205684[source]
There's always the possibility that they weren't scammed.
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6. CyberDildonics ◴[] No.41205817{3}[source]
They being all the people john oliver reported on?