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Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
Mark Rober
Mark Rober sets up elaborate glitter-bomb traps to go after phone scammers, working his way up their chain of command, and ends with a scammer being arrested. He also points viewers to fraud-reporting resources and to scambaiter Jim Browning's investigation.
HN mentions it in robocall and scam threads as an entertaining look at how phone scams work and how vigilantes fight back.
4 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2022