Busting the Scammers - The World Wide Investigation | 7NEWS Spotlight
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2022
- In Busting the Scammers we go inside the scamming epidemic costing Australians, and people across the globe, millions. Led by Walkley-award winning journalists Ross Coulthart and Steve Pennells and reporter Denham Hitchcock, 7NEWS SPOTLIGHT takes viewers across the globe to expose the overseas scammers peppering us with phone calls and texts designed to steal our cash. We even manage to intercept two scams in real-time, saving the victims thousands.
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Jim Browning is a legend I’m glad you guys got him to do a story with you.
ya, he is known as the father to scambaiting
He is brilliant. A name I share with many people
@@australiamyway
Me too, and I'm Australian too.
@@australiamyway😊
Yeah he does great work.
Pleasant Green, Jim Browning, Scammer Payback, Karl Rock, trilogy media & more are all doing a collab at the moment.
They are all legends!
Scambaiter is one of the better ones he hacks them and destorys the network not just wasting their time
Scammerrevolt too . He cusses at the scammers in Hindi too . He adds insult to the injury .
We know them all
Having watched the videos by Pleasant Green, Jim Browning, Mark Rober etc., this documentary feels like an Avengers-level collaboration to bust these scammers and protect the vulnerable folk they prey.
You’re all doing God’s work
Check out RUclipsr Scammer Payback. He has millions of views. He deletes their files. These scammers are evil! 🤬🤬
Agree, amazing work , we got to beat these evil scammers.
Jim Browning has a video about this on his channel now.
you mean they are doing the work our useless governments and police refuse to do
Check out Kitboga also.
My heart goes out to the lady battling with cancer and what a relief to see her get the help!
❤same here!❤
These scammers are sickening! To target a cancer patient is pure evil. Kudos to Jim and to all scam baiters. ♥️
Here's another scam I heard about: NEVER answer your phone with a "yes". Apparently, it can get recorded and then your voice can be used to reply yes, and somehow it can result in a scam.
I agree.They are pure satanic.Catch them all and return money to victims with interest.
Jim is a good guy. But he seems to imply that all Americans adhere to cavet emptor. We don't of course.
Why would they care what your going thru ? They are only after your money nothing else...
I'm a scam baiter here in Canada 🇨🇦 I'm glad Jim is a big part of our army! Go Jim Browning!
Do you stream your calls ? I love watching scam baiters, I try to learn something from all of you. 🙂
What's the name of your channel I'll subscribe x
subscribe🇨🇦🇨🇦
Your a scam baiter but you have no content? Sounds like a scam to me 😊
Love to you from Aus
Watched Jim browning for years on RUclips. He is an inspiration, mentor and hero to many. Not all heroes wear capes.
What drives me crazy is that they have call centers, offices and cubes just like legitimate businesses and Indian government is fine with it.
it should be clear then government supports them fully and also provides them protection. Poor india using such tactics to grow its economy.
@@anifnaveed6931 Indian government doesnt support them, its just the local law enforcement is corrupt. the scammers bribe the police and they leave them or protect them. How is the scammed money gooing to grow Indian economy?
Gives your country's very bad reputation. Why nobody wants to visit there. Disgusting. Con artistry in your culture. Hell is waiting.
@@anifnaveed6931 I don't know about 'poor India'. Corruption and class division is part of their culture, everybody takes a slice from police up to highest government, and until that is addressed the country gets no sympathy from me. The people, some of them I do feel bad for, but the country? It needs to get it's act together.
Their gvmt is totally corrupt, so is their police.
Finally I was so excited waiting patiently for this video ,Jim Browning you rock
I recognised his voice right away...
@@21_f_aus lmao same
@@Iuffycs me as well because Jim Browning was also in a Mark Rober video
@@MEMENUMBER ^
I could listen to Jim all day. THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND. Please support his channel!
Do more stories about scammers please, it's pleasing to see how they get caught, how scared they are once they know that busters know who they are, and the way you save ppl's life like that woman is so heart-warming, gets me tears! Thank you for being good ppl!
I'd like your team do the job on scammer boss too. Some of them are big chinese mafia operating along Myanmar-Thailand, Cambodia-Thailand boder, luring local people to work in their companies. The work includes scamming, prostitute, gambling, human trafficking, rare species trafficking, etc.
jim...the whole world know what you are doing for the people...we really appreciated for your work...tons of blessings is upon you...
God smiles at your voice….❤
I'm from Kolkata, India. I know this place sector 5 very well and little bit this scam industry. This is very unfortunate to see. Local police take their share and allow them to run few giant call centers here. Police and administration should be blamed first.
PM Modi should start a new and clean anti corruption force to clear the old Police out first - then start catching all of these criminals and make sure these scammers are punished - I would love to be in charge and deal with these scammers!
They will not escape my punishment!! Lol
I have lived 3 years in India and i have crossed scammers / con men of all kinds ....its part of your culture unfortunately .
Thanks 😊 for revealing your address I am coming to kidnipe you ❤ ❤ ❤
@@BlueHopi144 true, Just like how racism, sexism and religious fanatism is a part of American culture.
@@BlueHopi144 yes lets put an entire country of 1.4billion people into one colour where every state is different from one another and has different languages. So just because they are not scamming any Indian people that's why they are running them. You can always come to India and file a court case against these scammers then you can take this into legal custody
There is a whole army of us fighting the scammers .. Even the small youtube channels are fighting as hard as the big ones ....
Keep up the good work fella.
Thank you for the work you do!
@@dbfisher5555 I been behind in new content due to work but thank you so much
@@mehallica666 Thank you
Thank you dearly ❤️
I love Jim Brownings voice…watch him all the time…he has educated me
Jim Browning! He is simply the best!
Scammers have no heart, no sympathy for others!
No. They also know what they are doing. They are literally robbing.
@@australiamyway theft, pure and simple
Jim browning is a legend. I always fallow his videos, his knowledge to take down this people is appreciated so much.
I had two active numbers claiming to be the ATO, I spent 24 minutes playing with him, I told him my name is Jim Browning, after taking all my false details down he passed me on to a "closer" to get me to pay what I owed, the penny finally droppped after he recognised the name.
The first guy was clueless.
Jim Browning rocks.
The rage I feel inside, God forgive me for feeling murderous against these scammers. People of the world please pardon my feelings, but this got to stop as soon as yesterday. Let us all work together against these filthy greasy rats. Love y'all from these United States.
You are god, you're just unable to access your full being in this form, so there's nothing to forgive. God needs to experience evil in order to know it. The irony is, it's god doing the evil
Once caught they should get the death penalty
I feel the same way but for me when caught , needs to be to put to death
No countrys should take in any indian immigrants until the indian govt does something about it
When I saw that young guy named karam I feel sorry for the person because I would not want to have that person's karma. I don't know how he moves about or sleeps at night Not to mention ultimate retribution
Magnificent work Channel 7.
You fellas coordinating all over the world deserve a Pulitzer Prize in investigative Journalism.
"If the Indian police actually did proper policing"........!?
As though it "akshually" needs saying but, the Indian Police are "akshually" in on the scamming.
There have been quite a few raids. The problem tends to be the local police. The main issue actually is the indian job market not providing nearly enough employment compared to the number of people graduating in comp sci courses and similar education. While the grand majority doesn't go into scamming the temptation is significant. I fear that without fixing this underlying issue this industry will continue to thrive even if you get the indian police on board and well funded.
Well done 7news spotlight for helping scammed victims 🙏
I love that people and businesses are fighting back against these scammers. This is my new favorite thing. ❤️
Thank you to all those who help victims! Jim Browning, Scammers Payback & all the others not named. 👏🏻
Same here! I follow Romance Scammers and Online Scams -channel. British woman wastes scammers time, her videos are great 😄
now we need to get the banks more involved. i saw a program interviewing some bankers and all they did is make excuses of why they weren't doing better. one interviewer even said to one of the bakners reminding him that the public bailed them with billions of dollars and shouldn't be giving back and we got more crap and excuses.
Jim B and Kitboga are my favorites. Music is a Rainbow is a lot of fun too.
What amazes me about Jim (aside from his incredible IT abilities) is how calm he stays when he’s trying to intercept a scam. Just listening to it makes my heart rate go through the roof!
Jim Browning played a massive part in this happening, he had waited 2 years for either the UK police or kalkuta police to act so instead he asked for help to get this guys antics out there
Jim is in this documentary, woo hoo. I got here from his video on this
Jim not only did this for Network 7 in Australia, he did it for CBC in Canada as well a few months ago (check the CBC News YT channel for the Marketplace hour-length episode).
Remember that CBC is a Government Owned entity, so they have a bit more pull there, even if Canada's Law Enforcement authorities haven't "pulled their weight" for their Citizens.
@@syxepop cool il have to check it out
Excellent production. I wish you would do more stories on scammers and share here. Thank you so much!
I really wanted that episode to b longer there is so much more they could of put in the episode but still the episode was so good when it aired last Sunday
totally agree Razz
There's more to come, I'm sure.
Oooooh my goodness! Sick people, how terrible, scammers are robbing people here in Indian too. In different ways. I'm messaging you from India. I'll share this video to all my contacts. 😪 This is really bad.
I must thank you all too. Cause these scammers are robbing alot of people here in Indian too, but in different ways. Horrible. 😪 Robbing people of their hard earned money.
Heartless , sick , domed evils , what a rotten world.
Scam call from India, is now common in Singapore also. Few months back, I used to get scam call almost everyday. If I am not busy, I chat with them and waste their time.
If the police in the countries weren’t dirty, they might actually do there job! It’s heartbreaking these evil people exist.
Their
And the guy said, "If the police would pull their finger out and did proper policing..."
The police are corrupt. Bribery is a way of life in India.
Right
Evil people always existed - its just an old construct preying on the weak links in our society . if more people were educated properly , scammers would have 60% less chances to succeed . let's explore the different root causes society in general has maintained over decades to explain the scam phenomenon . The biggest scammers is the Central Banking system owned by the Rothschild & Rockefellar families ....there are many documentations about their history & lining them to many world wide events .
It made me cry when she said she got it all back. God bless you all. Fantastic work. ♥♥♥
I never answer the phone from a number that is not on my contact list. If it's genuine they will leave a voicemail.
I don't either
Jim Browning your awesome. A inspiration to all of us scambaiters.
Do you do it too? You legend xxoo
@@queenofthebutterflies5212 thanks appreciate it. We do it for all of you and those who have fallen victim to scammers.
Australian companies need to stop using India call centres. It's very confusing when I have to call Australian company's then its gets transferred to Indian call centres. Not been racist i just get paranoid when ever I get a call from Indians. Or the multiple scam sms here in Australia
You seem pretty racist. Because one Indian is a scammer doesn’t mean all are. You just have to be smarter.
Being😐 grammar!
Yes, all very true mate, I have a lot of experience dealing with them during the past.
These people smile at you while they try to scam you..
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You still get some awesome people in the world who really care about their fellowmen and love to help where they can. May God bless them and also with great wisdom to do their work for humanity. Their rewards will be great at the right time.
How can they live with themselves doing this to a person who is both elderly and terminally ill? Disgusting! 😤
i believe they do like ALL SALESMAN do it.
They work late and they work hard. i believe they have weekly or even daily Hype like meetings. They high five each other and whoop-whoop themselves and write the new high record on the dry erase board.
@@jlockwood65 Which means everyday they scammed people, day and night
Great Investigation..I appreciate the lengths this team went to investigate. Plus the Aussie law enforcements agencies that are taking this serious and really taking time to hunt these scammers down. Also many thanks to all the scambaiters around the world who spend their time making the scammers suffer!! 😊
I got scammed through a phishing website on Facebook. Went through a company allegedly to 'get my funds back' (the name of the company). Turns out i would have had to pay $7000 to retrieve $3,300. That would have been a scam in itself. Thankfully, the bank saw through it and flagged as suspicious. They also stopped my card and issued me with a new one.
This is so amazing!!! So glad I can be a part of taking them out!
I'm so glad u got to watch this I know Take is watching right now
Hey I’m a subscriber!!! Lol
@@khonphet7059 hi! ❤️
Cj your amazing.
@@Pecanhead so are you! ❤️
Telecommunications services providers should do more and even do a ad campaign about telephone scammers... they need to push the message out on scammers so people can avoid getting scammed
Even the Do Not Call Registry does not phase the phone scammers from dialling your number and its insane. Thank you Jim Browning and fellow scam baiters for slowing down the scammers while the Cyber Crime division of various Police Departments across the globe does nothing about this while ordinary citizens are losing millions to scammers every second.
There’s a number of good apps now like RoboCall Blocker that will sift through all the spam numbers and automatically block them
The only thing the Do Not Call Registry does for you is to enable you to sue US based companies for violations of the Telephone Consumers Protection Act. I recovered $25,000 in 18 months from final expense insurance, insurance company lead generators and political robocallers. Once that happens you are put on the real Do Not Call list. However, this does not stop these assholes. They’re criminals and I still get a lot of calls from Amazon scammers and other scumbags. I insult them with Hindi slurs and waste their time. I’m not technically savvy enough to set up a virtual machine to let them look at bogus bank accounts. I steal their time which is fun
People just need to learn to block numbers they don't know I fear.
Do not call registry is a flippin joke
Where is the fbi cybercrime when you need them?
Wow man seeing Jim just makes me so excited.. this guy is a true legend 🙌
Great work. Covering real news over the Kardashians.
Very happy to help. Good job everyone 👏
good job fella
@@David-og7di cheers.
I LOVE Jim browning!
When I clicked this I was hoping he'd be in this. Crazy I've been following him since he had like 50k subs
I hope you will continue this line of investigation...to the gentleman in Belfast, and to your entire crew, nicely done!
This so awesome. There needs to be a lot more awareness abt this. These scumbags dont have a single cell of compassion in their entire body. Jim Browning is a freaking god. Thank God that he is on our team. We have some amazing scam baiters like Cj Tagow and Pleasant plus tons of others as well as awesome people like Razz, Verginya that do so much behind the scenes that never gets seen. This was masterfully done.
Evan you are kind there is an entire community working hard fighting scammers including you 🥰
Amazing production 👌🏻👌🏻
@@RazzTazzTX There needs to be a fire in sector 5!
it makes me smile to work with jims team, great work
Nothing is done about these scammers. Protect your self and the old folks in your family.
If Kolkata ever gets hit by some massive disaster like an earthquake, the rest of the world should turns its back and let them rot instead of rushing in with humanitarian aid like we always do.
If Indian law enforcement authorities won't do anything about these scam call centres, the solution is simple: no more work visas should be granted to Indians wanting to migrate to Australia. No more travel visas to Indians either. No trade with India. Only with such sanctions their government would take action against those who prey on the weakest of our society, and perhaps against the local cops who take a cut and keep it quiet too.
Unfortunately tho Australia brings in them people for our economy and we supposedly don't have enough skilled workers that we can get just from people born here.
how about for exisiting people from India?
Agreed
100 %
@@auzziegamer4661 They can always get skilled workers from other countries. Many other countries citizens wanted to work in Australia too. So, this is no excuse to get Indian workers only. They are not the only skilled workers.
Jim is a legend his work is invaluable, what a cracking video..
@1:20 "NO NO NO NO NO!" Only true fans of scam baiting would recognise that 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Comment if you know this episode
This is heart wrenching my heart goes out to these victims, I too got scammed by these heartless scumbags😡
Thank you Jim Browning! Keep up the good work!
BTW, unfortunately, as I also understand from my Indian co-workers, the parents of a lot of the scammers know about their sons'/daughters' scamming activities -- as long as money comes in it does not matter how, apparently...So very sad 😞... It only takes a bit of compassion, conscience and empathy to stay away from scamming.
of course they know, lol. Most of the time, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. That's applicable to every culture, every time period. Common things being common.
Jim is a Legend!
Finally. Been waiting for this one. I wanna see these monsters get locked up.
I wanna burn sector 5 down to the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just like Nataraja, dance in a ring of fire!!! The mofo's😡
Jim Browning is the only one to bring down these scammers for good. Jim Browning should bring this matter up to the Indian High Commissioner to the UK and scambaiter should get in touch with Indian embassies to explain these scam in India or the best is to get in touch with media outlets in India, UK, USA and Australia to bring down these scammers.
Lol. No he isn’t. I’ve seen way better that take down entire call centers.
but then how is the Indian government going to get paid, lol?
@@raphaellavictoria01
Right? The OP (bless his lil’ naïve/uninformed heart) actually thinks that their government has the will/desire to stop this, when this is intentionally being pushed from all countries involved, per a main UN agenda.
@@raphaellavictoria01
P.S. And to be more specific, of course I’m talking about the redistribution of our wealth.
Good! Glad to see someone do something about these criminals!!!
The whole world should get together and go after sector 5
Creating awareness is key to reduce scams
Jim Browning you are such a hero. Thankyou for using your expertise to get these cockroaches.
I have been watching him for months now and it won't stop any time soon because the Indian police have been paid off
I watch Jim browning.. He's pretty great! Same with kitboga and scammer payback!
Being a healthcare provider in oncology, this makes me livid! 😡🤬
My man Jim Browning!!! Doing God's work dishing out justice with these scammers!!! Keep it up!
Thank you for this, wonderful work by everyone here. Glad to see Jim Browning get the support he needs and the attention this issue needs for change, but its all up to the indian police and Government
Jim Browning is a legend. If you havent seen his RUclips videos, you should check it out
Jim Browning, our hero! I'm a fan boy. I wish I could do what he does. I basically just waste scammers time and insult them in their own tongue.
This was a great production and a lot of work went into it. I look forward to more stories. I know there is more coming.
There’s also a scam against Australia Post. If you get a message saying you need to pick a parcel up or that a parcel is coming, don’t open the text msg
YES YES JIM BROWNING X 7NEWS. I never even imagine this dreams do come true!
I JUST WANT TO SAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU FOR BRINGING JUSTICE TO OUR WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh when she answered the phone with the reporter omg goosebumps all over. Thank goodness they got her in time omf
An amazing documentary. Gave me the confidence to speak to the scammers and to ask them the questions about what they were doing, why they are doing this form of work and the consequences of their actions for not only the people they scam but about their own future. The two I have spoken are of Christian faith. I ask them how they are going to feel when they stand before their God to account to Him. One male scammer justified his actions due to no other work and a corrupt government (not sure if he was meaning his or ours). The other scammer, a female sounded ashamed. If you are going to speak with them, just be aware that they are worried about other scammers sitting near listening to them and so your questions might need to be yes/no questions and their answers might be quite simple. I followed the pattern of speaking to them that I heard on the show. I also dropped the line that I knew they were in Delta Four in Calcutta. Gave me credibility. Definitely think this documentary should be shown again. Thank you so much for doing it.
I love this video!!!! Everyone I watch on RUclips has teamed up and are working together to stop these fools.
I LOVE JIM BROWNING!!! So glad to see him here wow he's amazing glad he's getting the credit he deserves.
OMG this nearly happened to my daughter months ago, it has sent chills down my spine 🤬🤬🤬
Great piece about scammers!! Came here from jim brownings page.
Education and awareness is the key to preventing this from happening to more people. Please keep doing more stories. Scambaters are true heros!
Excellent video .. thank you for helping raise more awareness of this disgusting behaviour … lives are absolutely devastated by these scumbags
Love this!!!
Yes! ❤️
Both of you fight scammers every day🥰
It's soooòo good
Let's keep breaking them team
@@RazzTazzTX Razz here!!! Yes we do...with you ❤️
Can't their own bank account be compromised and hacked?
thank you jim for all you do. and thank you 7news for showing this.
Thanks to other you tube channels for fighting and/or educating about scams and scammers.
I'm sad for the victims.
Well someone should hold banks accountable without banks this scams would not happen.
The banks do have their eyes out for people, especially elderly people, who are withdrawing large sums of money. However, it is the person's money and the bank cannot keep them from taking it out if they insist.
Spreading the awareness, sweet!
Such evil people.
Amazing work !!! Great to see this 👌🏻👌🏻 with all my buddies
THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING OUR MOST VUNERABLE PERSONS FROM SCAMMERS🙏❤🙏❤!!! YOU ARE IN OUR PRAYERS AND WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOUR PROTECTION AS YOU CONFRONT THESE SCAMMERS🙏🙏🙏.
Glad to be apart of this community
yes very much so boba. too bad there isnt a community for trigger.
Bobafett! Good to see you here! Let’s get a scammer on the line!
wow best news report I've ever seen! And I love the deep dive into the scams
I think you guys are doing a great job. Would be nice to have more recent busts. Keep up the great job
Good Job guys!!!! Thank goodness! ❤️
If just one philanthropic billionaire would send an ex SAS team into India to kidnap these punks and show them a really hard time... I'd pay money to watch...
Omg Callum, I thought the same thing. I wish a team of Ex Special force kidnap those scammers and have them stand trial in America and Australia. Let them face their victims.
I love watching the bad guys get busted!
Thank you for all your hard work.
Always interesting watching Spotlight 😊
At last a great story well done 7 news . I watch and support all these guys on RUclips.
I told the scammers i did not have a computer and i never got a phone call again.
Amazing and excellent video, thank you
Sandra 🇬🇧🏴🇨🇦
Thank you for covering and working with scam baters. It does take a village to bring these scammers down. I call y'all the Avengers. Thank you and God bless.❤❤
Talk About Heartless..
Hats off to 7 News and Scam Busters..
Awesome video! Recognized and follow every Scambaiter on U-tube and Twitch! Kit,Scammer Payback, Jim,Modder paul,CJ Tagow Harvey etc! Great work all!😍😎
Love Kit
I was scammed when the screen of my laptop went to Windows. There was a phone number which I, unknowingly, rang. Yep, I lost $700. That's when I started watching these shows. I have since foiled 3 other scams! Thanks to these protectors.