Fraud Fighters: Hackers expose illegal call centres and phone scams (Marketplace)



We track down and confront alleged Canadian money mules who allegedly funnel money from thousands of victims of scam calls to organized criminal kingpins abroad. Our Marketplace producer teams up with hacker Jim Browning, who tips off our investigators to phone scams in progress. Watch as our team interrupts the calls and stops vulnerable victims from losing money. This special one-hour finale of Marketplace’s 49th season reveals the inner workings of a multi-layered, sophisticated scam.

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41 thoughts on “Fraud Fighters: Hackers expose illegal call centres and phone scams (Marketplace)”

  1. I used to received these calls everyday, and I stopped them by saying: I didn’t know that the IRS here in the USA are hiring only middle eastern people only, and eventually they stop; but I know it was because of Jeshuah Hammashia our Messiah shalom🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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  2. Oh my goodness! People please tell the elderly, tell everyone you know, when people call you, text you, email you that don’t recognize…hang up, do not open the text or email. Immediately delete the text or email, and let a trusted relative or friend or care taker know. Second, family/friends install some type of malware on your parents phone that detect scammer calls/unknown calls,texts,emails.

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  3. i got scammed for money to pay my light bill on 8/8/2022 i would like to get in touch with "Jim Browning" to give him the Info so he can track these people down and stop them.

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  4. We truly need to come down on phone scam's with the Full weight of the law ,enough is enough, these scumbags are getting Rich off the backs of hard working struggling Americans,I thought we were the Diamond of prosperity,how when what ever we save is being stolen by these phone scammer's,we need an old Brooklyn approach,nag em tag em and take em for a Ride in a Cadillac trunk 😛They do have something to say and that is too 😞We need to go to the far end of the world but we need an agreement world wide to stop this,!

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  5. We used to get 30+ calls a day. Because of this we answer calls then block them. We do not do transactions over the phone ever. Or on the internet. Unless we initiate purchases and then only with those we trust. We added our name to do not call list as well. Especially those that sound very trustworthy.

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  6. It's always the boomers getting scammed. Always🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤣
    Like how do you believe the government for example.. wants you to go buy Google play cards for a payment you have no proof you owe in the first place.
    I'm surprised these types of ppl have money at all.. all you'd have to do is panhandle in front of them and tell them you owe me 1 million bucks and they'd probably pay it lol

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  7. All I keep seeing is double masked people outdoors, ugh! Other than that I'm glad you're investigating this. Good for you for having the superstar Jim Browning on this show.

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  8. I was in America and I got a phone number. I would get random calls about house insurance and all that stuff. I thought it was very strange because cold calling or robo calls aren't really a thing. But everyone thought it was normal.

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