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There are a few Twitch streamers doing this. I saw one that had a VM set up with all sorts of fuckery built-in to mess with them.


Yeah one guy has sound effects (such as driving for going to the store to buy the gift cards) and voice modification set up.

There was a video that he kept the scammer on the phone for 6+ hrs then at the end when he was giving them the apple cards was "confused" and redeemed $20000 dollars onto "her" "own" account to send them a computer all on a vm where they could watch her putting in the cards codes and go through the checkout but the control software "was broken" so they couldn't interfere.

edit: Youtuber/twitch streamer is mentioned below, Kitboga


Obligatory kitboga mention: https://twitch.tv/kitboga. The dude is a genius at baiting scammers and his stream is family-friendly as far as I know.

Then there is Jim Browning on YouTube.... I’ll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/le71yVPh4uk


Yea, some of those are hilarious to watch actually. I can't sit there for that long. But I would say on average I can easily waste 10 minutes of someone's time while still getting work done on my side.




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