Welcome back to the Perfect Scan. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

Cyberspace is teeming with criminals who are constantly coming up with new lies to steal your money.

Many work is part of an organized crime gang. We talk about them every

week here at the Perfect Scam. But there's also a small group of people who work tirelessly on their

own who try to distract, frustrate, and even catch these cyber criminals in the act.

Digital Vigilantes.

None is more famous than a man who goes by the name Jim Browning.

He sits in his home office day and night, setting traps for criminals,

then publishes the results on a YouTube channel so we can all learn from his investigations.

He even hacks the hackers, sometimes taps into the video cameras in their boiler rooms

so we can see them in action, committing these crimes.

What Jim Browning does is dangerous, so we wouldn't want any of you to try it.

But there is so much we can learn from his work,

and my recent conversation with him too,

so we wanted to share it again.

Here it is from our archives while we prepare all new episodes of the Perfect Scam, which will come soon. Thank you for dialing support. How can I help you? Oh yes I've got got a problem on my computer. It seems to be locked. There's a warning message. Can you help?

What is the warning message? Can you please read for me?

Yeah, it says security warning, Microsoft warning alert and that says

something about Facebook logins and credit card details. All right so you don't need to worry about that. I will help you.

That call you were just listening to. That's not a customer support call.

You're listening to a scam.

You probably received a call that sounds something like this.

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