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GLITTERBOMBING a Scam Call Center w_ Mark Rober
Former NASA engineer Mark Rober spent 18 months planning the ultimate revenge on scam call centers. The result is a 26-minute masterpiece of engineering meets vigilante justice.
In May 2022, Rober released a viral video documenting how he and fellow YouTubers Jim Browning and Trilogy Media targeted four scam call centers in Kolkata, India [citation:1]. The operation was extensive: they hacked the centers' CCTV feeds, recruited reformed scammers as sleeper agents, and smuggled in contraptions rigged with glitter bombs, stink bombs, cockroaches, rats, and smoke bombs [citation:5][citation:6].
The team used a water bottle filled with military-grade fart spray, bathroom soap that dyed hands blue, a lunch box containing 100 cockroaches programmed to scatter, and a fake package that exploded into a pound of fine glitter with simultaneous fart spray release [citation:4][citation:6]. All of this was captured on the hacked CCTV cameras.
The result was chaos. Multiple call centers temporarily shut down. Rober estimates they prevented approximately $2 million in fraud during that period [citation:6]. Perhaps most importantly, after the video went viral, Indian police raided one of the exposed centers and arrested 15 scammers [citation:10].
Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because sometimes justice comes with glitter and cockroaches.
In May 2022, Rober released a viral video documenting how he and fellow YouTubers Jim Browning and Trilogy Media targeted four scam call centers in Kolkata, India [citation:1]. The operation was extensive: they hacked the centers' CCTV feeds, recruited reformed scammers as sleeper agents, and smuggled in contraptions rigged with glitter bombs, stink bombs, cockroaches, rats, and smoke bombs [citation:5][citation:6].
The team used a water bottle filled with military-grade fart spray, bathroom soap that dyed hands blue, a lunch box containing 100 cockroaches programmed to scatter, and a fake package that exploded into a pound of fine glitter with simultaneous fart spray release [citation:4][citation:6]. All of this was captured on the hacked CCTV cameras.
The result was chaos. Multiple call centers temporarily shut down. Rober estimates they prevented approximately $2 million in fraud during that period [citation:6]. Perhaps most importantly, after the video went viral, Indian police raided one of the exposed centers and arrested 15 scammers [citation:10].
Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because sometimes justice comes with glitter and cockroaches.
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By Trilogy MediaFormer NASA engineer Mark Rober spent 18 months planning the ultimate revenge on scam call centers. The result is a 26-minute masterpiece of engineering meets vigilante justice.
In May 2022, Rober released a viral video documenting how he and fellow YouTubers Jim Browning and Trilogy Media targeted four scam call centers in Kolkata, India [citation:1]. The operation was extensive: they hacked the centers' CCTV feeds, recruited reformed scammers as sleeper agents, and smuggled in contraptions rigged with glitter bombs, stink bombs, cockroaches, rats, and smoke bombs [citation:5][citation:6].
The team used a water bottle filled with military-grade fart spray, bathroom soap that dyed hands blue, a lunch box containing 100 cockroaches programmed to scatter, and a fake package that exploded into a pound of fine glitter with simultaneous fart spray release [citation:4][citation:6]. All of this was captured on the hacked CCTV cameras.
The result was chaos. Multiple call centers temporarily shut down. Rober estimates they prevented approximately $2 million in fraud during that period [citation:6]. Perhaps most importantly, after the video went viral, Indian police raided one of the exposed centers and arrested 15 scammers [citation:10].
Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because sometimes justice comes with glitter and cockroaches.
In May 2022, Rober released a viral video documenting how he and fellow YouTubers Jim Browning and Trilogy Media targeted four scam call centers in Kolkata, India [citation:1]. The operation was extensive: they hacked the centers' CCTV feeds, recruited reformed scammers as sleeper agents, and smuggled in contraptions rigged with glitter bombs, stink bombs, cockroaches, rats, and smoke bombs [citation:5][citation:6].
The team used a water bottle filled with military-grade fart spray, bathroom soap that dyed hands blue, a lunch box containing 100 cockroaches programmed to scatter, and a fake package that exploded into a pound of fine glitter with simultaneous fart spray release [citation:4][citation:6]. All of this was captured on the hacked CCTV cameras.
The result was chaos. Multiple call centers temporarily shut down. Rober estimates they prevented approximately $2 million in fraud during that period [citation:6]. Perhaps most importantly, after the video went viral, Indian police raided one of the exposed centers and arrested 15 scammers [citation:10].
Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because sometimes justice comes with glitter and cockroaches.