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This scammer is about to find out that his computer's locked and his webcam is open.
Scammer Payback traps a scammer by hacking his system, exposing his tactics, and frustrating his attempts to steal money.
Key Takeaways
- Scammers use remote access software to control victims’ computers but can be outsmarted.
- Reversing the scammer’s connection can expose their identity and tactics.
- Persistence and technical knowledge are key to fighting back against scammers.
- Scammers often use fake websites and forms to steal money.
- Awareness and caution can prevent falling victim to such scams.
Summary
- The video shows a scammer named David Ashton who pretends to be from Geek Squad trying to scam a victim.
- The victim reverses the scammer’s remote access connection to hack into his computer and webcam.
- Despite internet issues, the victim maintains control and explores the scammer’s files and fake website.
- David tries to manipulate the victim into filling out a fake refund form and promises to call back.
- The victim frustrates David by ignoring calls and texts while monitoring his webcam and computer activity.
- David had previously locked a lady out of her computer after she hung up on him.
- The victim locates David’s physical location in Okhada, West Bengal, India.
- The video ends with the victim locking David out of his own system and warning viewers not to get scammed.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Setup
- 00:25Calling the Scammer and Initial Interaction
- 01:05Scammer’s Fake Website and Scam Process
- 02:34Internet Issues and Filling Fake Form
- 03:24Scammer Plans to Call Back
- 05:32Monitoring Scammer’s Webcam and Locking Him Out
- 06:58Locating the Scammer and Exploring Files
- 11:38Final Payback and Closing Remarks
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
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But I'm sure about the wild moves you will hear. You want to give it a try?
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Give it a try and join [screaming] me on my side. Look at him. He doesn't know what to do.
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Well, we gave him a few options. He could match the position in this photo we already got of him. He could try and guess our secret password.
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Jesus, at what page? Oh, he's trying it. Why is he trying it? Why is he doing it?
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Or he could just give up. Look at his shirt. It says giving up. But no matter what he chooses, this guy's screwed. So, let's get started by giving him a call to see if we can hack his system.
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Hello. Hello, can you hear me fine? Hello. Can you hear me? What happened? Yes, I can. Yes, I can hear you, sir.
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Yes, is it Mr. Larry David? Yeah, this is Larry David. Yes, sir. The call has been transferred to me and I was trying to like talk to you, you know.
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So, right here, we've just been transferred to David Ashton. He's the closer for a group of scammers who pretend to be Geek Squad. Now, throughout this call, we've been having internet issues. But we're about to turn that into an advantage.
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Okay. Do you need to reconnect on the computer to me? Yes, yes. I'm just trying to get the connection better.
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Yeah, if you need to reconnect back in, that's fine. I can tell you the new passcode. I think there's a new passcode or something.
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Okay, tell me the passcode. What we're talking about here is connecting via remote access software.
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This is a tool that David can use to see what's on our screen and even take control of our computer. Now, this is a standard part of the scammer playbook.
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But what David doesn't realize is that connecting to us is a trap. As soon as he does, we can reverse the connection and hack his system. And despite the internet troubles, we're able to do this flawlessly.
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What's up? Got him. Got him again. Perfect. But we don't want to show our hands quite yet. Instead, we're going to quietly dig through his computer to see if we can find anything juicy. While we do that, we'll let David take us through
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his scam process, which at this point means we're going to go to his fake website. However, it's right here that David's going to say one of the most out of pocket things we've ever heard from a scammer.
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Okay, finally, we just got the connection. I'm trying to open up our web server, okay? You don't do anything, just wait.
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What is a web server? Our Geek Squad cancellation page, you're going to see that. Just wait.
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Okay. [music] What do you see on your screen? Geek Squad, there's a guy that looks Yeah.
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like he's got a beard. It says Look, look over here on the top, Geek Squad cancellation.
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on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. On the top. Yeah, is that you? No, no, no, sir. That's not me. That's the page.
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Okay. Okay, I thought that was I'm not Okay, David. Yeah, let's move on. Now, at this point, the internet issues we mentioned earlier are getting significantly worse, and our systems keep getting disconnected.
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Now it says I don't As soon as I connected you, now it says I don't have internet access.
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And that's not only frustrating for us, but also David himself, because he knows that later on he's going to need to take control of our system to pull off some sensitive manipulation. And if the internet messes that up, his whole
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scam's going to fall apart. So, as we go to fill out his fake refund form, [music] David says this.
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Okay, listen to me very carefully. I want you to fill up the form, [music] but then you're having a bad internet.
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I'm just going to, you know, uh run the security thing for the internet so that [music] from tomorrow we're going to start the cancellation, it'll be done. What time can I call you tomorrow morning?
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Like 12, if you could. And if I don't pick up, just send me a text.
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Uh, is it possible for you to call you around about 10:00 in the morning? Would that be okay, David?
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Sure. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, then I'll call you in the first morning. You I I believe you can see my number in your phone, right?
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Yeah, I have your number in there. So, right now you do one thing. You turn off your computer and keep it, okay?
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Now, we don't have to be on a call to access David's computer, so this actually works out well for us. But David's obviously annoyed he's going to have to wait till tomorrow to steal our money. So, before we go, we're going to
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take advantage of that to see if we can really frustrate him. Okay, and the question the the question I was going to ask you um are you familiar with text message?
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Yes, yes, I can send you a text message, no problem. If you don't it is, it's a way It's not like email, it's like a shorter version of email.
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No, a text message like I I know about it, sir, no problem. Okay, all right, just making sure.
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I can send you. Okay, okay, okay. So, I'll do one thing, so Larry my name is Larry David, I'm just making sure you have that written down on the account.
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Yes, Larry David, yes, that's correct. Okay, okay. Okay, so I'll do one thing, I want you to take rest and make sure no picking up any unknown phone calls when you don't know the number, okay?
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Are those hackers? [music] Are those hackers that are doing that? Because I Exactly, exactly, sir. Actually, don't have the net, otherwise I would have showed you a lot of things, but I promise tomorrow I'm going to uninstall those hacking things and even show you
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how this happened and from that where this getting affected, don't worry. I'm going to get your work done tomorrow, okay?
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All right, no, I appreciate that. I hope your boss gives you a raise because you seem very You're a good worker what you're doing, so I don't Yes, I do, I I I do, I give my best.
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Yeah, no, you do you do your level best. And like I said, if I if I [clears throat] might be sleeping in or getting coffee or something, but Yeah, no problem, if you don't pick it up, I'll leave you a text message on
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your phone. I'll call you back as soon as I get back, but I'm not going to pick up my phone tonight, I'm not going to I'm not picking up my phone, I'm not going on the computer, I'm just going to sit at
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the TV, watch the news, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem, sir, I'm I'm with you, no worries with that, I'm with you, okay?
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Okay, all right, son, I appreciate your help, then I'll ring you tomorrow. Much, sir, well appreciated, it was actually nice talking to you, person, okay? Thank you.
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to you. God bless, all right, cheers, bye-bye, take care. What was that? Bye. Bye.
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And with that, David went away for the rest of the day. So, let's go to the following morning. Now, of course, David tried calling and even sent us some of those text messages he just learned about, but we're not planning on calling
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him back because we're busy trying to see if David has a webcam. Yes, he does.
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Woo! Very handsome man. Look at that handsome guy. Don't quit. His shirt says don't quit. You can't make this up. Cena. Oh, he just looked at the camera.
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And he just didn't do anything. Don't quit. Yeah, don't quit. You might actually want to quit. Now, prior to this, David was trying to scam a lady, but luckily she hung up before David could steal anything. So, in response, [music]
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David did something disgusting. He locked her out of her computer, so we're going to have to lock him out.
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Yeah, 100%. We'll lock him out. He's being the worst. Yeah, don't quit. Oh, shut down.
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He was looking at that camera. He goes [laughter] David shutting down here means there's no chance for a scam to go through, but we still want to keep an eye on him in case he comes back. So, while we're
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doing that, let's take a bit of time to find out more about this guy, starting with his location.
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Where do you think that he's located, Seven? Okhada, West Bengal. He is in Okhada, West Bengal, India.
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He's right [music] near a candy store, the J Swall Sweets and Snacks. So, these guys aren't scammers, by the way. He's just right near there. I think it's in here, these apartments, the Shivam Apartment.
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So, the [music] Christopher Road is this road that we were on, so it's like down here, the Shivam Apartment that I showed.
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Yeah. And then it's like down here, down this road. [music] This is Christopher Road, and then it's like down here.
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But, we can do more than just track him down. With access to David's computer, we can go through every file he's ever downloaded. And some of these get pretty wild.
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How many wall I've never seen so many wallpapers. Anonymous hacker mail sit laptop. Anonymous hacker programming.
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Let's download that one. Now you see me, now you don't. Wait, like legitimately? Yeah.
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Stuart Little? Yeah. [laughter] So, David Ashton, I guess that's his folder. I'm going to just remove those real quick.
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Do you remember these movies he's got? Stuart Little, Hocus Pocus. I am going to remove this for him. His pirated movies. Loves to download pirated movies. Mortal Kombat. Going to remove that. You're welcome, Sony.
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[laughter] That would be fun to do like a Mortal Kombat like us versus him.
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Now, let's get back into the video and mess with these scammers. He's got his rent bill on his computer, by the [music] way.
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What if we have the name of the apartment complex? That's exactly what I'm thinking about.
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There's a female that he's charging rent to. Don't tell me he used the money to start a business. Let's see here. Okay, so this address is like 22 minutes away from where his location is. And then let's see if this 25 minutes away. Okay.
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So, he's renting out space, possibly. Prasanjit Biswas is possibly his name. Let me see really quickly if there's any other Wow.
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Very hacker. He's a hacker. Wow. Why is that a hacker? Two gloves with a gun and and of course he's got a Starbucks coffee. Got to have a Starbucks coffee. And you got to have the the fog and all that stuff
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behind. But sadly, not all the files are fun. Okay, this is the part that I don't like. No.
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$75,000 wire transfer. There's a wire transfer from January of this year. This guy stole $75,000.
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Tell me that's not another. That is another. He did another one of 49 49,000. Not that it's any better, but this wire transfer is 2025 for 49k.
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And then And then he's got one from January this year for 75. Oh, another one? Another one [music] for 59,000. So, this guy's done 49 last year. Just this year he's done 59,000 and 75,000. Since he is in
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West Bengal, we have the evidence of him scamming multiple people. So, this information will be sent to cyber crime police. You think that's something we could do in the next like hour?
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Okay. All right, sweet. Now, of course, we're going to get personally involved as payback for all this. But while we're going through David's stuff, we saw that he came back online. So, we decided to check back in on him. And while we're doing that,
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we're going to make a pretty risky move. [laughter] He's smoking [laughter] hookah. He's smoking hookah and watching TV. He's resting the hookah on his belly.
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[laughter] Oh, he looked at it. He looked He LOOKED AT IT. [laughter] HE looked at it twice. He did a double take. Oh my gosh. This guy sucks. He's stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Just sitting there. Oh, he's checking his own camera. Oh my gosh. He's looking at his own camera.
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Oh, exit out of quick assist. Uninstall Microsoft. Yeah, that's going to help. Yep. All right, he's good.
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Uninstalled Microsoft. His background is God is light. He's doing a couple of random clicks around on the screen connect. I say we end this guy like today.
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Agreed. But, the question is how? I think what we're going to do is we're going to lock his PC and then we're going to put up a thing and then we're of course going to make it don't quit at
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123. So far I have that figured [clears throat] out. I think it's like it should be like you have two options of like verification.
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Show your face or So, here's the plan. As soon as our virus activates, David's going to get a pop-up locking him out of his computer.
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And he'll have two choices. One will be matching the position he was in when we got the screenshot. Assuming the webcam stays uncovered, the pop-up will automatically open his camera. His other option is to guess our password, which
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is of course don't quit. Now, David did end up shutting down, but surprisingly came back online the very next day. So, we started preparing, but as we were doing that, we noticed something on his network.
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HP Deskjet 2300. Oh, we should print off his face on his printer. Yeah, I'll say do you want to try to It's the printer.
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Oh my god, he has it. It's actually there. IT'S ACTUALLY THERE. [laughter] OKAY. Is it color too, do you think? Is it color?
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Uh, let me check. Plain paper [music] type. Quality as best. Yeah, waste all the ink at that point.
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Fit picture to frame. It's literally going to fit the whole page. [music] Should we do front and back?
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[laughter] You have to turn on the mic so we if we can hear if it's in the same room, we can hear it print.
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gosh. Wow, he won't let me get to 199. Okay 199. Getting ready to print.
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Oh my gosh, printing page. Printing page. Oh, yeah. What was that noise? Was that a printer?
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But, while listening for the printer, we suddenly hear David himself. 1 2 5 8 5 Oh, he's scamming He's scamming someone right now.
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Oh, running now. 3 2 1 I'm going to do Oh, there it is. OH MY GOD.
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[screaming] HIS CAMERA IS ON. HIS CAMERA IS ON. IT'S ACTUALLY OPEN. HE'S LITERALLY OPEN.
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I DIDN'T know it was open. This is amazing. HOLD ON. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE CLOSED.
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This is amazing. [laughter] Look at him laying it down, dude. This guy is scamming Spread Eagle and his camera is open live. PC is locked.
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His reaction is going to be the most priceless thing. The live camera must watch what we see in waron.png to continue or enter the password below.
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Don't quit. Your PC is locked until now. He hasn't locked up yet. [laughter] It's open at this point.
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It's open, dude. Should we steal a Going up Walgreens over there. Which store are you going, ma'am?
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We'll see We'll see how quickly he realizes. I can't wait till this happens. If you can't find anything, just don't waste time. Just come out.
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I can't wait till he looks up. But I'm sure about the Walgreens you will get. If you want to give it a try, GIVE IT A TRY.
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[screaming] LET'S GO. LOOK AT HIM. HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. HE HAS it covered and he's freaking out.
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He's going. I'm not putting in your password. Put in the password. Covered it up. Come on. Unlock it, guy.
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Maybe he's stuck. He can't do anything. He's screwed. No, I didn't say THE MAGIC WORD.
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[laughter] OH, HE'S TRYING TO PUT IN A PASSWORD. LET ME SEE WHAT HE'S GOING TO TYPE.
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7860. He tried to put 7860 as his password. Oh, he just UNLOCKED IT. HE DID He unlocked it for a second. Did you see that?
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He tried [laughter] to test it. Did he test he He started to take the camera off.
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No way. Jesus at what Why is he trying [laughter] it? WHY IS HE DOING IT?
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WELCOME. [laughter] WHY IS HE TRYING IT? Does he not understand? You got to show your camera, guy.
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At this point, David just goes AFK before shutting the system down. But he's not done yet because just a few minutes later, he's back.
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Wait, he's back. All right, he thinks he's good. He thinks he's good. Oh, no, he's not good.
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There it goes. Go on to it, GUY. YES! IT SAYS giving up. Look at his shirt. Giving up. He had a don't quit and a giving up.
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Look at him. He's so ridiculous. He doesn't know what he's doing. This guy is a freaking [ __ ] But yeah, cover up the camera again. Again. Your PC's locked, dude. I can't believe this is happening again. Locked in the computer.
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He must really want this computer. He really wants this one because he's got all that pirated software.
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Oh, he doesn't have any. This makes my heart happy. Hacking makes me happy. You can go check out our Hacking Makes Me Happy merch. It's scammer payback. Put don't quit and you [music] get 10% off your order. This is pretty solid.
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Picture and picture right next to each other with the image [music] with the live one. And him trying to go like this and like move it a little bit. That printer was connected.
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[laughter] He was somewhere done dealing with the computer. He's going to go out and there's going to be 100 pictures of his face.
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We want to commend this guy [music] for not ever giving up on that password, trying multiple passwords. If he does [music] come back, we'll be waiting for him to take many more snapshots of that glorious face and expose this guy to the
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world. Don't ever freaking steal money from innocent people, hundreds of thousands of [music] dollars. He ain't going to scam anyone ever again. This is from your scammer payback saying don't quit and don't get scammed.
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