Comment on Scammers PANIC After I Hack Their Live CCTV Cameras!
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 month agoI’ll definitely be downvoted for this too but I completely agree. There’s a fine line between entertainment at scammers’ expense and vigilantism for views. Publicly spreading the faces of people you’re accusing of a crime without any sort of trial is definitely the latter and has little direct impact on shutting down these operations. This video screams ego trip.
I used to watch Kitboga and they were much more ethical (at least when I watched). They’d lean heavily into the entertainment side, waste a lot of the scammers’ time which they then couldn’t spend on actual victims, and report/shutdown accounts as they came up which actually does directly impact their operation. Your scam call center still works if one of your workers gets their face posted online, it doesn’t if you have no bank account.
deafboy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That would be a sound argument if they weren’t doing the crime right there on the video.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 month ago
I suggest you read the next few words in that sentence which you conveniently left out of your quote, might help clear up any confusion.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s not a legal proceeding, he’s the (very capable) victim of a crime at that moment. It’s his experience.
It’s like if he had a security camera on his front porch and filmed porch pirates stealing his deliveries, then turned his sprinkler on
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 month ago
That argument doesn’t work, all you’re doing is pointing out the issues with vigilantism. He’s also committing a crime, are the scammers now in the right too since they’re targeting a suspected criminal?