THE MAN WHO SCAMS THE SCAMMERS
Jim Browning is not his real name, rather a secret identity. Working in IT by day, by night he’s a virtual vigilante, hunting cyber criminals.
In response to endless spam emails and robocalls telling us we’re experiencing difficulties with an online banking or shopping account, Browning decided to fight back. He lets himself be scammed then turns the tables.
If they’ve hacked into his machine, he can hack into theirs; find out where they’re from, call them by their real name – even have pictures of them displayed as his desktop background to give them a shock when they try to illegally take control of his computer.
Browning makes videos of his crime-fighting exploits and has hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube. His videos are bizarrely fascinating. The scams are often ingenious, and it’s easy to
