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Alhough I shouldn't derive my enjoyment from others' suffering, I do on this capture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du6acZ-PZQ8

The long and short of it, the Indian scammer ends up setting a SysKey password and a bios password on his machine. He's using his bosses' machine, and it appears to be the domain controller.

The scammer ends up crying and screaming at the guy and out of terror and rage, ends up hanging up.

Normally, I would be like "I feel bad for this guy". Nope not at all. Bloody scammer got what he deserved - a taste of his own medicine.

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My bullshit detector is bothering me.

- Scammer volunteers the information that he's "using his supervisor's computer". This increases the emotional satisfaction of watching the video but seems unmotivated.

- Scammer sounds like he's suppressing laughter at one point.

- Scammer follows the guy's instructions in the first place and continues doing so.

- Some of his lines seem to have an oddly flat affect, as if he were doing bad acting.

- Scammer doesn't actually have an Indian accent, is pretty clearly just pretending. They try to fake the grammar stuff but can't pull off the subtle mispronunciations.

This is incredibly fake. The end REALLY drives it home.

Maybe in the US it is not considered racist to mock an Indian accent but elsewhere it is.

I agree. The mocking because of being Indian is not cool. But harming scammers; I have a hard time not deriving enjoyment out of that.

It's probably wrong.. But these people are extra-legal. The US can't touch them. The Indian government doesn't care... and they bring in US money to their country along with tax revenue.

It is great to see this problem highlighted but herein we have found a line that some people find hard to walk. Real shame this person [whose voice is in the video] has created such a distraction.

True that. And that dead (and removed) comment was by "Asooka".. Seems like a slur to Maurya Ashoka. Some times, things like that will also catch me.. was just wrong, but couldn't put my finger on it until now.

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