Busting the Scammers - The World Wide Investigation | 7NEWS Spotlight
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- In Busting the Scammers we go inside the scamming epidemic costing Australians, and people across the globe, millions. Led by Walkley-award winning journalists Ross Coulthart and Steve Pennells and reporter Denham Hitchcock, 7NEWS SPOTLIGHT takes viewers across the globe to expose the overseas scammers peppering us with phone calls and texts designed to steal our cash. We even manage to intercept two scams in real-time, saving the victims thousands.
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My heart goes out to the lady battling with cancer and what a relief to see her get the help!
❤same here!❤
Watched Jim browning for years on TH-cam. He is an inspiration, mentor and hero to many. Not all heroes wear capes.
Jim Browning is a legend I’m glad you guys got him to do a story with you.
ya, he is known as the father to scambaiting
He is brilliant. A name I share with many people
@@australiamyway
Me too, and I'm Australian too.
@@australiamyway😊
Yeah he does great work.
Pleasant Green, Jim Browning, Scammer Payback, Karl Rock, trilogy media & more are all doing a collab at the moment.
They are all legends!
Scambaiter is one of the better ones he hacks them and destorys the network not just wasting their time
Scammerrevolt too . He cusses at the scammers in Hindi too . He adds insult to the injury .
We know them all
Yes I follow all of them. I love what these scam baiters do. Scammer Payback Channel and Triology Media. Pierogi Art and Ash and Jim are awesome people.
And Kitboga👍
These scammers are sickening! To target a cancer patient is pure evil. Kudos to Jim and to all scam baiters. ♥️
Here's another scam I heard about: NEVER answer your phone with a "yes". Apparently, it can get recorded and then your voice can be used to reply yes, and somehow it can result in a scam.
I agree.They are pure satanic.Catch them all and return money to victims with interest.
Jim is a good guy. But he seems to imply that all Americans adhere to cavet emptor. We don't of course.
Why would they care what your going thru ? They are only after your money nothing else...
Its evil and a very low thing Someone can do to someone. I hope God punished them.
Do more stories about scammers please, it's pleasing to see how they get caught, how scared they are once they know that busters know who they are, and the way you save ppl's life like that woman is so heart-warming, gets me tears! Thank you for being good ppl!
I'd like your team do the job on scammer boss too. Some of them are big chinese mafia operating along Myanmar-Thailand, Cambodia-Thailand boder, luring local people to work in their companies. The work includes scamming, prostitute, gambling, human trafficking, rare species trafficking, etc.
Finally I was so excited waiting patiently for this video ,Jim Browning you rock
I recognised his voice right away...
@@21_f_aus lmao same
@@Iuffycs me as well because Jim Browning was also in a Mark Rober video
@@MEMENUMBER ^
I could listen to Jim all day. THE MAN THE MYTH THE LEGEND. Please support his channel!
jim...the whole world know what you are doing for the people...we really appreciated for your work...tons of blessings is upon you...
God smiles at your voice….❤
I'm a scam baiter here in Canada 🇨🇦 I'm glad Jim is a big part of our army! Go Jim Browning!
Do you stream your calls ? I love watching scam baiters, I try to learn something from all of you. 🙂
What's the name of your channel I'll subscribe x
subscribe🇨🇦🇨🇦
Your a scam baiter but you have no content? Sounds like a scam to me 😊
Love to you from Aus
Jim Browning! He is simply the best!
What drives me crazy is that they have call centers, offices and cubes just like legitimate businesses and Indian government is fine with it.
it should be clear then government supports them fully and also provides them protection. Poor india using such tactics to grow its economy.
@@anifnaveed6931 Indian government doesnt support them, its just the local law enforcement is corrupt. the scammers bribe the police and they leave them or protect them. How is the scammed money gooing to grow Indian economy?
Gives your country's very bad reputation. Why nobody wants to visit there. Disgusting. Con artistry in your culture. Hell is waiting.
@@anifnaveed6931 I don't know about 'poor India'. Corruption and class division is part of their culture, everybody takes a slice from police up to highest government, and until that is addressed the country gets no sympathy from me. The people, some of them I do feel bad for, but the country? It needs to get it's act together.
Their gvmt is totally corrupt, so is their police.
Jim browning is a legend. I always fallow his videos, his knowledge to take down this people is appreciated so much.
There is a whole army of us fighting the scammers .. Even the small youtube channels are fighting as hard as the big ones ....
Keep up the good work fella.
Thank you for the work you do!
@@dbfisher5555 I been behind in new content due to work but thank you so much
@@mehallica666 Thank you
Thank you dearly ❤️
You still get some awesome people in the world who really care about their fellowmen and love to help where they can. May God bless them and also with great wisdom to do their work for humanity. Their rewards will be great at the right time.
Well done 7news spotlight for helping scammed victims 🙏
It made me cry when she said she got it all back. God bless you all. Fantastic work. ♥♥♥
Excellent production. I wish you would do more stories on scammers and share here. Thank you so much!
I really wanted that episode to b longer there is so much more they could of put in the episode but still the episode was so good when it aired last Sunday
totally agree Razz
There's more to come, I'm sure.
Oooooh my goodness! Sick people, how terrible, scammers are robbing people here in Indian too. In different ways. I'm messaging you from India. I'll share this video to all my contacts. 😪 This is really bad.
I must thank you all too. Cause these scammers are robbing alot of people here in Indian too, but in different ways. Horrible. 😪 Robbing people of their hard earned money.
Jim B and Kitboga are my favorites. Music is a Rainbow is a lot of fun too.
What amazes me about Jim (aside from his incredible IT abilities) is how calm he stays when he’s trying to intercept a scam. Just listening to it makes my heart rate go through the roof!
I love that people and businesses are fighting back against these scammers. This is my new favorite thing. ❤️
Thank you to all those who help victims! Jim Browning, Scammers Payback & all the others not named. 👏🏻
Same here! I follow Romance Scammers and Online Scams -channel. British woman wastes scammers time, her videos are great 😄
now we need to get the banks more involved. i saw a program interviewing some bankers and all they did is make excuses of why they weren't doing better. one interviewer even said to one of the bakners reminding him that the public bailed them with billions of dollars and shouldn't be giving back and we got more crap and excuses.
I love Jim Brownings voice…watch him all the time…he has educated me
I'm from Kolkata, India. I know this place sector 5 very well and little bit this scam industry. This is very unfortunate to see. Local police take their share and allow them to run few giant call centers here. Police and administration should be blamed first.
PM Modi should start a new and clean anti corruption force to clear the old Police out first - then start catching all of these criminals and make sure these scammers are punished - I would love to be in charge and deal with these scammers!
They will not escape my punishment!! Lol
I have lived 3 years in India and i have crossed scammers / con men of all kinds ....its part of your culture unfortunately .
Thanks 😊 for revealing your address I am coming to kidnipe you ❤ ❤ ❤
@@BlueHopi144 true, Just like how racism, sexism and religious fanatism is a part of American culture.
@@BlueHopi144 yes lets put an entire country of 1.4billion people into one colour where every state is different from one another and has different languages. So just because they are not scamming any Indian people that's why they are running them. You can always come to India and file a court case against these scammers then you can take this into legal custody
Magnificent work Channel 7.
You fellas coordinating all over the world deserve a Pulitzer Prize in investigative Journalism.
Great Investigation..I appreciate the lengths this team went to investigate. Plus the Aussie law enforcements agencies that are taking this serious and really taking time to hunt these scammers down. Also many thanks to all the scambaiters around the world who spend their time making the scammers suffer!! 😊
I got scammed through a phishing website on Facebook. Went through a company allegedly to 'get my funds back' (the name of the company). Turns out i would have had to pay $7000 to retrieve $3,300. That would have been a scam in itself. Thankfully, the bank saw through it and flagged as suspicious. They also stopped my card and issued me with a new one.
🖐🖐🖐Glad for you guys helping to sort out these criminals !!! I am from South Africa...
Australian companies need to stop using India call centres. It's very confusing when I have to call Australian company's then its gets transferred to Indian call centres. Not been racist i just get paranoid when ever I get a call from Indians. Or the multiple scam sms here in Australia
You seem pretty racist. Because one Indian is a scammer doesn’t mean all are. You just have to be smarter.
Being😐 grammar!
Yes, all very true mate, I have a lot of experience dealing with them during the past.
These people smile at you while they try to scam you..
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Wow man seeing Jim just makes me so excited.. this guy is a true legend 🙌
I hope you will continue this line of investigation...to the gentleman in Belfast, and to your entire crew, nicely done!
Jim is a legend his work is invaluable, what a cracking video..
This is so amazing!!! So glad I can be a part of taking them out!
I'm so glad u got to watch this I know Take is watching right now
Hey I’m a subscriber!!! Lol
@@khonphet7059 hi! ❤️
Cj your amazing.
@@Pecanhead so are you! ❤️
Scammers have no heart, no sympathy for others!
No. They also know what they are doing. They are literally robbing.
@@australiamyway theft, pure and simple
The rage I feel inside, God forgive me for feeling murderous against these scammers. People of the world please pardon my feelings, but this got to stop as soon as yesterday. Let us all work together against these filthy greasy rats. Love y'all from these United States.
You are god, you're just unable to access your full being in this form, so there's nothing to forgive. God needs to experience evil in order to know it. The irony is, it's god doing the evil
No countrys should take in any indian immigrants until the indian govt does something about it
When I saw that young guy named karam I feel sorry for the person because I would not want to have that person's karma. I don't know how he moves about or sleeps at night Not to mention ultimate retribution
I know I feel the same.
We all feel the same about the scammer slugs 🐌
No need to apologise, nor, ask God’ to forgive you for your, “righteous anger” …
Kind regards from, Ireland 🇮🇪
How can they live with themselves doing this to a person who is both elderly and terminally ill? Disgusting! 😤
i believe they do like ALL SALESMAN do it.
They work late and they work hard. i believe they have weekly or even daily Hype like meetings. They high five each other and whoop-whoop themselves and write the new high record on the dry erase board.
@@jlockwood65 Which means everyday they scammed people, day and night
If the police in the countries weren’t dirty, they might actually do there job! It’s heartbreaking these evil people exist.
Their
And the guy said, "If the police would pull their finger out and did proper policing..."
The police are corrupt. Bribery is a way of life in India.
Right
Evil people always existed - its just an old construct preying on the weak links in our society . if more people were educated properly , scammers would have 60% less chances to succeed . let's explore the different root causes society in general has maintained over decades to explain the scam phenomenon . The biggest scammers is the Central Banking system owned by the Rothschild & Rockefellar families ....there are many documentations about their history & lining them to many world wide events .
Heartless , sick , domed evils , what a rotten world.
Very happy to help. Good job everyone 👏
good job fella
@@David-og7di cheers.
This is a BRILLIANT piece! I am very sceptical of main stream news outlets but when you do stories like this, this restores a little bit of faith that you can do the right thing from time to time. But...the obvious frustration that I could see your reporters experience when trying to assist the victims, is NOTHING in comparison to what multiple people or heroes that do this not even as their job, but as their LIFE!
They need more recognition & more support in general but especially from the government's of the countries that are being targeted. If the government of the source of the scams isn't doing anything (or enough), then there needs to be a JOINT/Collaborative effort to SHAME & PRESSURE them into doing something.
MORE CAN BE DONE!
"If the Indian police actually did proper policing"........!?
As though it "akshually" needs saying but, the Indian Police are "akshually" in on the scamming.
There have been quite a few raids. The problem tends to be the local police. The main issue actually is the indian job market not providing nearly enough employment compared to the number of people graduating in comp sci courses and similar education. While the grand majority doesn't go into scamming the temptation is significant. I fear that without fixing this underlying issue this industry will continue to thrive even if you get the indian police on board and well funded.
The police is just as corrupt! They are paid off.
I never answer the phone from a number that is not on my contact list. If it's genuine they will leave a voicemail.
I don't either
Good! Glad to see someone do something about these criminals!!!
Creating awareness is key to reduce scams
Jim Browning your awesome. A inspiration to all of us scambaiters.
Do you do it too? You legend xxoo
@@queenofthebutterflies5212 thanks appreciate it. We do it for all of you and those who have fallen victim to scammers.
Great work. Covering real news over the Kardashians.
it makes me smile to work with jims team, great work
Telecommunications services providers should do more and even do a ad campaign about telephone scammers... they need to push the message out on scammers so people can avoid getting scammed
I had two active numbers claiming to be the ATO, I spent 24 minutes playing with him, I told him my name is Jim Browning, after taking all my false details down he passed me on to a "closer" to get me to pay what I owed, the penny finally droppped after he recognised the name.
The first guy was clueless.
Jim Browning rocks.
Jim Browning played a massive part in this happening, he had waited 2 years for either the UK police or kalkuta police to act so instead he asked for help to get this guys antics out there
Jim is in this documentary, woo hoo. I got here from his video on this
Jim not only did this for Network 7 in Australia, he did it for CBC in Canada as well a few months ago (check the CBC News YT channel for the Marketplace hour-length episode).
Remember that CBC is a Government Owned entity, so they have a bit more pull there, even if Canada's Law Enforcement authorities haven't "pulled their weight" for their Citizens.
@@syxepop cool il have to check it out
Finally. Been waiting for this one. I wanna see these monsters get locked up.
I wanna burn sector 5 down to the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just like Nataraja, dance in a ring of fire!!! The mofo's😡
This is heart wrenching my heart goes out to these victims, I too got scammed by these heartless scumbags😡
Even the Do Not Call Registry does not phase the phone scammers from dialling your number and its insane. Thank you Jim Browning and fellow scam baiters for slowing down the scammers while the Cyber Crime division of various Police Departments across the globe does nothing about this while ordinary citizens are losing millions to scammers every second.
There’s a number of good apps now like RoboCall Blocker that will sift through all the spam numbers and automatically block them
The only thing the Do Not Call Registry does for you is to enable you to sue US based companies for violations of the Telephone Consumers Protection Act. I recovered $25,000 in 18 months from final expense insurance, insurance company lead generators and political robocallers. Once that happens you are put on the real Do Not Call list. However, this does not stop these assholes. They’re criminals and I still get a lot of calls from Amazon scammers and other scumbags. I insult them with Hindi slurs and waste their time. I’m not technically savvy enough to set up a virtual machine to let them look at bogus bank accounts. I steal their time which is fun
People just need to learn to block numbers they don't know I fear.
Do not call registry is a flippin joke
Where is the fbi cybercrime when you need them?
Having watched the videos by Pleasant Green, Jim Browning, Mark Rober etc., this documentary feels like an Avengers-level collaboration to bust these scammers and protect the vulnerable folk they prey.
You’re all doing God’s work
Check out TH-camr Scammer Payback. He has millions of views. He deletes their files. These scammers are evil! 🤬🤬
Agree, amazing work , we got to beat these evil scammers.
Jim Browning has a video about this on his channel now.
you mean they are doing the work our useless governments and police refuse to do
Check out Kitboga also.
Jim is a Legend!
If Indian law enforcement authorities won't do anything about these scam call centres, the solution is simple: no more work visas should be granted to Indians wanting to migrate to Australia. No more travel visas to Indians either. No trade with India. Only with such sanctions their government would take action against those who prey on the weakest of our society, and perhaps against the local cops who take a cut and keep it quiet too.
Unfortunately tho Australia brings in them people for our economy and we supposedly don't have enough skilled workers that we can get just from people born here.
how about for exisiting people from India?
Agreed
100 %
@@auzziegamer4661 They can always get skilled workers from other countries. Many other countries citizens wanted to work in Australia too. So, this is no excuse to get Indian workers only. They are not the only skilled workers.
Agreed
I LOVE Jim browning!
When I clicked this I was hoping he'd be in this. Crazy I've been following him since he had like 50k subs
Jim is always listening, Scammers!!! 🙂🙂
Thank you for this, wonderful work by everyone here. Glad to see Jim Browning get the support he needs and the attention this issue needs for change, but its all up to the indian police and Government
Thank you Jim Browning! Keep up the good work!
BTW, unfortunately, as I also understand from my Indian co-workers, the parents of a lot of the scammers know about their sons'/daughters' scamming activities -- as long as money comes in it does not matter how, apparently...So very sad 😞... It only takes a bit of compassion, conscience and empathy to stay away from scamming.
of course they know, lol. Most of the time, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. That's applicable to every culture, every time period. Common things being common.
This so awesome. There needs to be a lot more awareness abt this. These scumbags dont have a single cell of compassion in their entire body. Jim Browning is a freaking god. Thank God that he is on our team. We have some amazing scam baiters like Cj Tagow and Pleasant plus tons of others as well as awesome people like Razz, Verginya that do so much behind the scenes that never gets seen. This was masterfully done.
Evan you are kind there is an entire community working hard fighting scammers including you 🥰
Amazing production 👌🏻👌🏻
@@RazzTazzTX There needs to be a fire in sector 5!
Jim Browning is the only one to bring down these scammers for good. Jim Browning should bring this matter up to the Indian High Commissioner to the UK and scambaiter should get in touch with Indian embassies to explain these scam in India or the best is to get in touch with media outlets in India, UK, USA and Australia to bring down these scammers.
Lol. No he isn’t. I’ve seen way better that take down entire call centers.
but then how is the Indian government going to get paid, lol?
@@raphaellavictoria01
Right? The OP (bless his lil’ naïve/uninformed heart) actually thinks that their government has the will/desire to stop this, when this is intentionally being pushed from all countries involved, per a main UN agenda.
@@raphaellavictoria01
P.S. And to be more specific, of course I’m talking about the redistribution of our wealth.
I watch Jim browning.. He's pretty great! Same with kitboga and scammer payback!
There’s also a scam against Australia Post. If you get a message saying you need to pick a parcel up or that a parcel is coming, don’t open the text msg
Nothing is done about these scammers. Protect your self and the old folks in your family.
If Kolkata ever gets hit by some massive disaster like an earthquake, the rest of the world should turns its back and let them rot instead of rushing in with humanitarian aid like we always do.
The whole world should get together and go after sector 5
This was a great production and a lot of work went into it. I look forward to more stories. I know there is more coming.
Spreading the awareness, sweet!
They need to go after call center boss who owns the scammers call center
I have been watching him for months now and it won't stop any time soon because the Indian police have been paid off
Jim Browning, our hero! I'm a fan boy. I wish I could do what he does. I basically just waste scammers time and insult them in their own tongue.
Jim Browning is a legend. If you havent seen his TH-cam videos, you should check it out
Anyone who is labelled a scam baiter should wear that label proudly. Thank you for your service to the community
I love this video!!!! Everyone I watch on TH-cam has teamed up and are working together to stop these fools.
I’m sure Jim you getting all the blessings you deserve
Thank god for people like you
Jim Browning, you’re a superstar ❤
Excellent video .. thank you for helping raise more awareness of this disgusting behaviour … lives are absolutely devastated by these scumbags
Jim Browning you are such a hero. Thankyou for using your expertise to get these cockroaches.
I JUST WANT TO SAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU FOR BRINGING JUSTICE TO OUR WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this!!!
Yes! ❤️
Both of you fight scammers every day🥰
It's soooòo good
Let's keep breaking them team
@@RazzTazzTX Razz here!!! Yes we do...with you ❤️
Thanks to other you tube channels for fighting and/or educating about scams and scammers.
I'm sad for the victims.
Good Job guys!!!! Thank goodness! ❤️
I’m so glad that’s this criminal caught one at a time thank you for sharing
Awesome video! Recognized and follow every Scambaiter on U-tube and Twitch! Kit,Scammer Payback, Jim,Modder paul,CJ Tagow Harvey etc! Great work all!😍😎
Love Kit
Great piece about scammers!! Came here from jim brownings page.
OMG this nearly happened to my daughter months ago, it has sent chills down my spine 🤬🤬🤬
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@1:20 "NO NO NO NO NO!" Only true fans of scam baiting would recognise that 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Comment if you know this episode
Well someone should hold banks accountable without banks this scams would not happen.
The banks do have their eyes out for people, especially elderly people, who are withdrawing large sums of money. However, it is the person's money and the bank cannot keep them from taking it out if they insist.
PML when a scammer calls with an Indian accent and tells you their name is Trevor. That should be the very first red flag.
Education and awareness is the key to preventing this from happening to more people. Please keep doing more stories. Scambaters are true heros!
I LOVE JIM BROWNING!!! So glad to see him here wow he's amazing glad he's getting the credit he deserves.
Love these Heroes.. i hope you successfully win the way against scammers ... I am an indian ...
Can't their own bank account be compromised and hacked?
Scammer paybacks been getting them! Thank god for him and his team!!
Thank you for covering and working with scam baters. It does take a village to bring these scammers down. I call y'all the Avengers. Thank you and God bless.❤❤
If someone tricks you into giving them your bank details you should contact your bank right away. Thanks for sharing.
It isn’t done that way. Watch Jim browning. They do it via very devious means. Many people don’t know they are even scammed until it is to late
@@australiamyway TOO be sure.
I was scammed when the screen of my laptop went to Windows. There was a phone number which I, unknowingly, rang. Yep, I lost $700. That's when I started watching these shows. I have since foiled 3 other scams! Thanks to these protectors.
Would love to work alongside Jim Browning in taking down scammers. Wonder if he goes after other criminals such as gangs or people that are corrupt? 🤔
Talk About Heartless..
Hats off to 7 News and Scam Busters..
I told the scammers i did not have a computer and i never got a phone call again.
This makes me want to be a part of the people fighting these scammers 😡😡
I saw this last Sunday when it aired
Channel 7. I advise you to run this story more frequently on your free to air Channel. Too many calls are still getting through
Please catch these scammers as soon as possible. It almost happened to me. So sorry for that lady who was left devastated and bankrupted. There is a God and she will recover. Thank you for the videos. Keep the public informed.
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