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Jortboy3k

I catch scammers because I imagine they won't be able to feed there family this month

I don't claim to be a saint, to be fair probably not a great human being, although a few would disagree with my sentiment.

I work with computers, I dabble a little bit in everything related to data, I like to work through messy data and tell a story with the information given.

I've recently just had this bug to catch phishing scammers online, specifically for fake jobs and also immigration like visa status and green cards.

I've caught a few big ones, finding the source of where they are located, the usual shit, IP, Servers and web hosting the basic stuff, finding multiple networks they use and then reporting it to the correct departments and watching there websites and servers get shut down because one thing about scammers in this space is that they are lazy POS's, no hard work in there bones the little maggots.

What I've come to realise about myself is... I get the biggest kick knowingly or unknowingly stopping them because I imagine this is the only way they can make money for there family or to put food on the table for there family and me stopping them from being able to do that makes me want to catch more scammers.

I genuine don't know why this is the case it just so happens there situation and my skill set seem to just align perfectly.

Will I continnue to expose these scammers, 1000%, will the reason change?? I hope so!

Posted Dec 13, 2025, 10:45 AM UTC

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