Scammer VS Linux User... Scammer Can't Figure It Out!

[@SRevolts]

Thank you everyone for the support on the video! Check out part 2 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6GQnnaAmJ2tsM0

[@JPs-q1o]

No Linux user is low IQ enough to view CNN. That should have been the scammer's first clue.

[@jeffmcdonald4225]

My favorite thing to do is to tell scammers my computer is a Commodore 64. Then I'll ask them how to get on the Internet.

[@johnwilliams9914]

I've got a C64 t-shirt, it's the nerdiest thing I own 🙂

[@namewithheldbygoogleforsec673]

i tell them i have a Commodore 64, too. I also tell them I have an 1980 Atari 800. 😂🤣

[@SynK-R]

haha nice 1. I would ask for help to get on internet on a Sinclair ZX81. 😆

[@christiangonzales7429]

👏👏🤣🤣

[@nerifterafrnam4682]

So Spectrum 48 is obsolete ? 😪

[@ThatoneNB12]

So basically just install Linux on your grandparents PC to stop scammers.

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

Indian here, and that's exactly what I do. Linux is perfect for non-power users who don't care about upgrading their ageing computers.

[@spartanbeast3575]

@@rexsceleratorum1632 much less bloat, better security, runs well on lower-end hardware.. lots of benefits that are useful to old people

[@breakfast7595]

My Dad bought a HP laptop and after a year or two it became so slow it was practically unusable, I installed Ubuntu on it, probably about 6 years ago, and the only thing he ever needed help with was installing Adobe. Besides that I haven't ever heard a complaint from him about it. Most people just want to get on the internet and won't have an issue with Linux

[@PawanKumar19324]

Do i am the only one who use it on a good pc I have ryzen 5 5600g ​@@rexsceleratorum1632

[@Wol-gx6qj]

@@spartanbeast3575 Plus grandparents are not gaming anyways so Ubuntu will be fine for them, just preinstall the applications they want and set up a firewall, and they are basically immune from scammers

[@Queue3612]

Sets username to "dellpc" "what computer to you have" "its an HP" LMAO

[@soluna2252]

Another trick is call rename administrator account to user and user Account to administrator, they will try to get into the administrator account but if they manage they only gain access to the user which will have a lot less privileges. Obviously this isn't anywhere remotely as effective as switching to Linux.

[@dominik2327]

I like how this is KDE Plasma riced to look exactly like Windows 11 to make it even more confusing

[@wooshbait36]

🤓👍

[@hellowill]

It's Wubuntu... LMFAO

[@spartanbeast3575]

@@hellowill yeah and Wubuntu official website says their distro uses KDE Plasma.. 🤦‍♂

[@RenderingUser]

​@@hellowill I really hope it's not. Wubuntu is a security and privacy threat

[@Laihoistheman]

@@RenderingUser i mean i gotta assume hes on a virtual machine

When you say you're an "IT person" but you're a "Windows person"

[@W.A.-Linux]

[@silverscalederg8632]

they mean clown because they have a movie about the IT department it's about a clown

[@Cons00mer]

"I.T" - Indian Telemarketing

[@jeremysmith54565]

I learnt so much about OS with doing various things in Linux its unreal, far more than I ever did with Windows lol. I'm not even going to mention FreeBSD or the like *nix OS's as they're generally referred to as, my routers PFSense which is like a very customised version of FreeBSD, though forget which version of FreeBSD its based on, is more like UNIX just with some quirks lol.

[@emmaccode]

most IT people are, in fact, windows people. Linux is more-so associated with software developers... Usually an IT person works at a facility, which likely uses windows computers. In some cases maybe Linux servers, but they are still probably using winduhs. But yeah, to me it is kind of like " how far could you possibly go..." Like how could you ever develop without a terminal? Or bash? Just crazy.

[@narsister]

They really don't know much about computers.

[@nerifterafrnam4682]

but... but... but.... they´re " technittians " ?!?

[@victor1655]

To be fair i have been at that end before, all they ask you when you apply for the job is if you can hold a conversation in english if yes youre in. when i got the job all i knew about computers was how to turn it on and open word , create a new document and then write an essay XD. the tools they give you are limited and you get a notepad with a bunch of commands for when you have to instruct a customer and if they go off the manual even a bit at first you panick and start looking for a supervisor to help you out. i didnt learn anything really until i got my first pc, and i have been exploring linux a bit but i still am a newb at managing the console so i have to google a lot of stuff still.

[@spartanbeast3575]

@@victor1655 pro tip: ask Google Gemini or ChatGPT how to do that stuff, they've been tremendously helpful for me so far, they show you step by step and all you need to do is describe your problem.

[@micha-8659]

They gotta fix the wiruses

[@RicardoMontania]

I mean they're Indian... They country with the most public defecation...

[@jonr3671]

As a full time Linux user this was great and I approve! I love how the shell prompt says "dellpc" but you told the scammer it was an HP Desktop. lol

[@christiangonzales7429]

It was rumoured during Windows 11's initial release that Win 11 was going to be Linux based in order to support virtualization of Android apps. The way SR set it up here is how Windows 11 probably would have looked if it actually were Linux-based.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@christiangonzales7429 That's a really dummmmmb rumor. Windows would never be based on a Linux kernel. The most they'd ever do is WSL or similar.

[@christiangonzales7429]

@@encycl07pedia- I agree. It was never true, but many speculated that. I just wondered how Android apps would be able to run on Windows 11 when it is not even a Linux-based OS. Microsoft would never dump their own framework to go with Linux!

[@UncleUncleRj]

@@encycl07pedia- Except Microsoft does have a Linux-kernel based version of Windows in their private server repositories, and they've talked about it before.

[@Smaxx]

For a moment I thought that was the moment he realized there's something wrong, but didn't… In the scammer's defense, you could just have transferred an old drive or account, though.😉

[@cattfishh7331]

Scammer: Can you open microsoft edge? Him: Sure! *Opens Google Chrome*

[@wolfrig2000]

It's not even worth using Microsoft Edge to waste other people's time, let alone your own! Haha

[@espinita.]

Same thing

[@DaGo314]

@@wolfrig2000 Edge is better than Chrome though

[@QWERTIOX]

​@@DaGo314"chromium with ms bloat is better than chromium with google bloat"

[@sakitoshi]

i use edge on windows and fedora. it has better memory management than chrome and firefox.

[@danwic]

I tried this with a raspberry pi. Team viewer is available for it, and he connected. Couldn't figure the damn thing out 😂

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

I hope you had the pi on a separate VLAN/guest wifi, because you never know. I mean, I'm in India and I could go into tech support too.

[@boltez6507]

Dude better not do it again,you never know.

[@jongeduard]

@@boltez6507 A virtual machine is really what you always want.

[@ryanwalker4660]

so you tried this with hobbyist equipment and they couldn't figure it... did this need testing?

[@urpaljesus392]

What are th risks ?​@@rexsceleratorum1632

[@silentios7336]

It says Ubuntu everywhere 🤣🤣🤣, they clearly don't read.

[@Batwam0]

Neofetch says Host: VMware Virtual, that’s a bit of a giveaway this isn’t even a real machine!

[@xanderplayz3446]

He really should have modified /etc/os-release to say “Windows”

[@barryram2605]

they don't know what Ubuntu is

[@lifeisstr4nge]

Cause they're idiots

[@nico1337]

Yeah but he only showed the neofetch output after the scammer got disconnected. Where does it say Ubuntu elsewhere?

[@Bunny501]

Linux protects your loved ones from scammers

[@Nothing-f8z]

Until they learn how to use Linux

[@LordHonkInc]

@@Nothing-f8z Yeah I'm not holding my breath until that happens xD

[@VolpeJosesk]

Scammers are often trained with a script to use Windows GUI and environment, so minor changes even on Windows itsel can break their script. Linux fragmented as it is with too many DEs would never be possible to scam with a act script, they would need to actually learn social and technical skills to scam.

[@VolpeJosesk]

Taking that scammers are often unemployed people with very few computer knowledge hired by criminal organizations in poor countries with big populations (usually India), that's not a easy thing to happen

[@VolpeJosesk]

However, see that it was still enough to make the user run code and let them have remote control (even worst he ran it as root), the potential it has for them to end the call after noticing it's Linux and just start injecting spywares on a Linux machine is big. Wayland is the only thing that can mitigate this breach in this scenario, but they can still scam the user to allow the spyware to get the screen and input or they can just access the terminal remotely.

[@bw4265]

"..and what exactly were you trying to do on your computer when you got this error?" "I'z jus tryna recompile my kernel."

[@Platinum_XYZ]

hahaaha

[@forlexer]

when a car thief can't drive manual

[@boam2943]

or doesn't know about the parking brake :P

[@Bigdog302V8]

Funniest thing i ever heard was a millineal carjacker tried car jacking a guy with a much older car at gunpoint then gets in the car, only to find out too late it has a three speed manual with a column shift transmission, aka "three on the tree" and had absolutely no clue how to drive it only to have a cop that was nearby see this then forcibly apprehends the would be carjacker that had no clue whatsoever know how to drive a Stick! This scammer probably felt as stupid as that carjacker!

[@Vicki_Benji]

Defeated by Linux. 🤣

[@ryanwalker4660]

most people are, literally most people don't know how to use anything that isn't their primary PC or smart device, you just described most of the population on earth...

[@Vicki_Benji]

@@ryanwalker4660 very true. I have used Linux, but I've also been using a home PC for decades.

[@attilavs2]

@@ryanwalker4660 Most people barely know how to use their primary PC

[@jbecPRO]

Tux just got you! 😈

[@kimochi33]

I install LinuxMint on every crappy computers that my old relatives ask to fix. Installing whole Linux Mint literally takes less time to fix and clean all the bs bloat. Scammerproof. Idiotproof.

[@MyouKyuubi]

Lmao! If it works, it works! :3

[@syahfiqalarby6175]

Am currently doing it for my relatives too, but i think i lack in social competence cuz i cant im tired of explaining how this thing installs stuff differently and such

[@bhutchin1996]

I like the Cinnamon desktop but hated having to install repositories for snaps and flatpaks on Linux Mint. Nowadays I use an Arch-based distro with the Cinnamon desktop.

[@MyouKyuubi]

@@bhutchin1996 You don't need to install flatpaks on mint, though? Only snaps. Mint is literally just de-snappified ubuntu... if you want snap, just install ubuntu.

[@evanperes7382]

The biggest give away is that an old texan man is looking for news from cnn XD

[@LOLI_]

☠️

[@ProdDeity]

Had this happen to me over 15 years ago. Scammer couldn't believe I didn't have a Start button on my computer. He got real angry wtih me and ended up cussing at me before he hung up.

[@boam2943]

Yeah. I told mine "Look at that. The virus must have took it" :D

[@caroline1724]

"we'll connect your computer to a secure microsoft server" does it with zoho, completely unrelated to microsoft

[@faf0]

Old people still fall for it

[@SilverKnife0311]

I love this... Make more like this. Only downside is you have to find a scammer dumb enough. They are out there.

[@bradmiles1984]

Most scammers are that dumb, they work off a script and if you make them deviate from it at all they are lost. Most of these scammers work out of big call centers in India. The authorities over there do nothing to stop it and don't care. It's one of biggest industries over there sadly.

[@spartanbeast3575]

@@bradmiles1984 the Indian version of mafia, basically

[@bradmiles1984]

@@spartanbeast3575 Yeah, the local police usually on the take. Only time things happen is when there is massive attention like when Mark Rober did his video.

[@spartanbeast3575]

@@bradmiles1984 or if it's a small group who hasn't yet paid off the police.. but usually even if an arrest is made it's all for show and the goons get released a few days later (what I saw from other videos, I could be wrong)

[@thiesenf]

Isn't ALL scammers equally dumb???

[@SoundJudgment]

'Windows Defenderf?' On a Linux machine?? Interesting message. 😂

[@joe-skeen]

sudo apt install windows-defender Totally not a virus

[@Lampe2020]

Window$ Defender actually has a Linux version, but I've never gotten it to work (I tried just out of couriosity). I think the error was that I doidn't have a onehundredfourtysomething dollar license.

[@lucyinchat]

ClamAV is pretty much all you need as an average user.

[@Meatball2022]

Should have said “Linux defender”.

[@pohodovejrybar5918]

@@Lampe2020 fr

[@rianray7565]

On tomorrow's episode of Are You Smarter than an OS? Scammers vs. Red Star

[@markwilson3326]

Scammers vs gentoo installation

[@spartanbeast3575]

scammers vs Arch Linux 💀👌

[@pohodovejrybar5918]

i need to see that 💀

[@Butterscotch_96]

@@markwilson33263 day scam

[@أنسصديق-ع4د]

scammer vs linux from scratch

[@Maddin1313]

"I tricked a scammer into installing Arch for me!" Imagine.

[@Cyrission]

do tell the end results

[@HrLBolle]

Try again but with the most hardcore distro still available, which might be Gentoo

[@ralfbaechle]

In England me and friends used to receive loads of scam calls. We're all Linux software guys and barely know how Windows spells. We had a great time wasting those scammers' time for the common good. Most fun was when the caller claimed my Windows machine had been hacked. Suuure, thanks for warning me. I don't have Windows so the hacker must have installed it. That's serious ;-)

[@schmidt_sadi]

I felt him when he was trying to Ctrl + V in the Terminal 😂

[@adonian]

I almost died 😂

[@ainzer2903]

Lmao. 100% never on Linux kernel

[@encycl07pedia-]

This was good for a laugh. If your goal is to waste their time, you need to be as incompetent as they were: type the wrong letters, follow directions wrong, ask weird questions, etc.

[@spartanbeast3575]

"you will do an extensive scam of my PC? how long will that take?" le scammer: 😨no no sir scan not scam

[@MrDannyloco]

Yes, this is the best part, stalling is so rich

[@ryanwalker4660]

no they just need to not call at all, none of these led anywhere and time could be spent doing something productive.

[@Xevf]

Reminds me of someone's "Left click or right click?" questions every time he had to click on something 😂

[@jnawk83]

​@@ryanwalker4660if you don't call them, or you don't waste their time enough, then some innocent gets through to them instead, and gets scammed.

[@tonykeltsflorida]

This was so funny. It reminds me of the real Microsoft fans that always say bad things about Linux without knowing anything about it.

[@pip5528]

Apparently "CD.." does work that way on Windows but not in Linux. I didn't even know you could have no space on Windows and presumably DOS because I was always taught to have a space. I think of it as a command with an argument, not all one big command.

[@zaitarh]

I always run into that, when i use linux, just like the scammer 😂 One of the nice things about the windows cmd. (CD is of course a command on windows too, but you just don't need spaces. Special built-in command, i guess)

[@UnbelievablyBased]

He didn't even know enough about Windows to try DIR, which wouldn't work because it would need to be ls instead.

[@pip5528]

​@@UnbelievablyBased Dir does work on Linux but LS is color coded.

[@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut]

I always add an alias so I can use cd.. on Linux lol

[@Time4Technology]

It depends on the shell. In Fish, for example, ".." is a built in "cd ..".

[@Loaded4Bear-gi8yt]

As their last resort they’ll say, “we will fix the issue from this side. Goodbye”

[@barowt]

The way the scammer says "Right" , when he is waiting frustrated as crap makes me chuckle

[@kacperoo29]

Next time you can add "& disown" and close the terminal. This will detach the ran process from it.

[@RenderingUser]

My aah been using nohup like an idiot the whole time

[@destiny_02]

​@@RenderingUsernohup is still better if connected over ssh, disowned program will terminate on ssh connection termination while nohup will continue to run on remote server.

[@RenderingUser]

@@destiny_02 ah I see

[@commander3494]

@@destiny_02 for ssh'ing I would recommend tmux. Just look up a cheat sheet for the few keybinds youll need, and youll have a terminal session that will always keep running and can be reattached to anytime by just running tmux a

[@FeuerGame]

i just run things in screen

[@Queue3612]

3:57 "Where you using Google Chrome or were you using Microsoft Edge?" Mozzila Firefox: 💀

[@ryanwalker4660]

it's called a web browser

[@IAm-zo1bo]

What? ​@@ryanwalker4660

[@LambentLight00]

Opera GX: 😔

[@Queue3612]

@@LambentLight00 Opera GX is chromium, it will function near identical to chrome. Actually, it was only a few years ago that Edge became a chromium browser.

[@rian0xFFF]

@@LambentLight00 no Opera Gx on Linux

[@hoherspatz9573]

"is this a chromebook or a homebook" xDDDD such a benchode scammer

[@kugelblitz1557]

Is it spelled with an E? I don't speak it, I collect insults that people won't recognize, and I've never seen it spelled benchode. I've always seen it benchod.

[@ryanwalker4660]

they went with common products, seems logical

[@grining747]

​@kugelblitz1557 it's spelled as Banchod...First time seeing someone spell it with an E

[@Breach-Clear]

I'm indian, I'd say it usually written as behenchod or bhenchod, I have NEVER seen another dude write it as banchod

[@draco_lich]

​@@kugelblitz1557 i dont know why im telling u this, but the insult basically means sis fucker, behen means sis in hindi, nd chod (d as in 'th' in though, not 'd' in dough) you can spell behen as behn, ben, bhen, or whatever it just means the same thing also, please dont use these words as insults, they mean bad things to people who actually care about their family

[@zulumika1]

This KDE Plasma looks pretty nice! The resemblance is quite decent. I would consider giving that to seniors who are too often targeted by scammers.

[@JeanPierreWhite]

Its Wubuntu

[@ovi1326]

You can probably just give them a default plasma. Consider whether you'll be able to service it sometimes (if they might need a printer, some windows app, anything that's not in the default repos)

[@MasterHigure]

You say you didn't expect the support software to have a Linux version, but Linux is actually really big in India, so Zoho, being an Indian tech company, would be stupid not to support it. I also love how he's stumped after 'cd..' doesn't work when all you need is a space. If he had ever ran a single terminal command that wasn't spoonfed to him through a manuscript, he would know this.

[@MunyuShizumi]

For some reason, cd.. is valid syntax in DOS/Windows. At this point they probably have to reimplement the quirk each time for backwards compatibility.

[@hyper_lynx]

​@@MunyuShizumi Is it not just an alias for cd .. ?

[@MunyuShizumi]

@@hyper_lynx Essentially. Technically it should be invalid syntax since semantically "cd" is the command and ".." is the argument, there should be whitespace between.

[@DoveringFifths]

I was using linux for the first time recently. Cd.. didnt work so I put a space, but then I thought it had always had a space on windows/dos. It's a good thing I read the comments here.

[@jrrall]

I'm not shocked that a team of offshore scammers can't figure out linux. Source I've been working in IT for 22 years.

[@Smaxx]

I wonder if anyone of them would click a button "change ui language" in situations like this, if there would be one…

[@Butterscotch_96]

I’ve only been on this planet for 15 and I’m also not surprised. Even me, a literal teenager, know more about Linux than them.

[@MyouKyuubi]

most scammers are from India, the literal capital of Linux... He really should know how to recognize a linux console when he sees one. xD

[@Smaxx]

@@MyouKyuubi I wouldn't expect any of these guys to be "savy" enough to do anything outside their script. I'm always impressed how fast some scammers are to use syskey on Windows (although feels as if that declined, or channels no longer feature them?).

[@CodAv123]

If you accidentally ran something in the terminal and want to keep it running after closing the window, press Ctrl-z to pause the process, then type "bg" to continue it in the background, followed by the "disown" command to not have the shell kill it when you exit it. Or start it via "nohup &".

[@CodAv123]

If your command runs longer than expected and you want to do something, e.g. shutdown the PC, when it's done, you can also press Ctrl-z, then use the "fg" command to bring it back to the foreground. You can add any other commands after it via ; or &&/|| to run it depending on the exit code. fg will forward the actual process exit code to the shell when it ends.

[@metalfyregaming2468]

I'm running Linux as a daily driver and I got called by a so called MicroSoft scammer once and kept him on the phone for about an hour before he figured it out. Good times! :)

[@pv2xeek]

He didn't even get to see the "ping" easter eggs in the konsole history

[@robert8]

Never underestimate a Linux...

[@jacobuserasmus]

I've been using linux for years. My favourite is if they phone me to tell me I have been using an illegal copy of windows. And they actually try and reference a serial number. Funny ...

[@windestruct]

The Windows 11 theme was made so good even I thought for a second that he actually ran Windows and had a linux terminal extension installed... until I saw the selection not being the Windows one

[@JeanPierreWhite]

It's Wubuntu

[@kipchickensout]

The fact he didn't notice that it's not even Windows, I mean after looking for a few seconds it's obvious looking at the symbols, fonts, the missing animations, etc. but the fact there's linux commands and tools.. xD

[@rompis.a]

A lot of these operators don't understand computers really. They just follow a few sheets of paper that goes, "First greet the 'customer', then say the hook line and tell them to do X. After connected, open program A and type in zxywvu. If somethingsomething happens, proceed to step 5, otherwise, see page 7."

[@Lila_UrarakaYT]

Ah yes, official Microsoft employees always use 3rd party programs, its not like remote support is already a native feature or anything

[@yesyouareright9800]

You will never be a woman by the way

[@Lord-Sméagol]

All the scammers in the office are probably crowded around wondering why their scripts aren't working :)

[@iusearchbtw69]

The only purpose of KDE riced windows 11 distro is for trolling lmao 😂

[@1994CivicGLi]

Wubuntu gaming

[@rompis.a]

​@@1994CivicGLiProbably not a good idea, man. Wubuntu fools websites into giving you Windows version to download, when sometimes there are native Linux version available that runs better. Even when that's not the case, just use Proton, Lutris or Wine.

[@Tenajeh]

"He is tripping right now" Yeah, so am I! Seeing your Ubuntu distro spicked with Edge here and One Drive and Copilot and whatnot and then even the fricking Ascii Windows Logo from XP age in your system info! :D :D :D

[@mitchese1]

can you replace netstat or whatever comand(s) they typically run with a batch file that just prints something like "Everything is OK" then when they run something like 'netstat' and expect a scary output, it would just say something nice that it's all good

[@drstefankrank]

bash scripts named like that in the users bin folder which is included in the path as first priority. Also the "tree" command they use to pretend having a scan running should output some not expected things for them.

[@lootria]

​@@drstefankrank tree just prints out ascii art of a tree, or asks for arguments first and then prints out ascii art of the tree saying that back to you like its cowsay

[@DanDart]

The contents of ~/bin/tree should be: echo Scammer detected, reverse engineering connection... sleep 5

[@BlackSun404]

No need for that! You can just create aliases, so when they type those in, you can make it do whatever you want it to. You can literally define that in a new line inside the ~/.bashrc file: alias netstat="echo 'Everything is fine'" And it'll do that, that's all that's needed. =D Also adding "& disown" to the command to connect, will allow the shell to be closed without killing the connecting process. Both making the "Windows" look cleaner, and avoiding the pitfall of them stumbling over the killswitch. =D

[@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut]

What's the difference between & and & disown?

[@yuyomatapuerco]

10:35 How on earth did you rope Norm Macdonald into that phone call bit? Did you brought him from the dead or something? 🤣🤣

[@YT_Watcher]

Sad that he's so professional in the call yet he's working as a scammer.

[@spartanbeast3575]

all part of the act

[@ryanwalker4660]

well technically a professional career is anything that you get paid to do for a living so they aren't wrong

[@RonLarhz]

​@@spartanbeast3575 Not really. Most scammers would have already been cursing. And this dude still acted professionally. He could legit be doing legit call center but he chose scamming.

[@DemiSupremi]

@RonLahrz To be fair. Legit jobs in India might as well be slave labor camps.

[@Zuk789]

About 75% of the Indian youth population are software engineering graduates or have engineering background from good colleges but due to overpopulation and politics there is a nationwide unemployed and these young, hungry and skilled folks tend to get manipulated by scam centre lords put under a debt trap. ​@@RonLarhz

[@user-lx9jm1wo3h]

Bro said it was an HP but it says DellPC in the search box. lol

[@jnawk83]

And both were lies, even if only partially, it was a virtual machine.

[@prodego1]

Adding a "&" after a command will make it run as a background process allowing you to close your terminal without killing it.

[@spongythecake]

Was thinking the same thing. Probably need nohup also in case they restart the plasma shell or tty

[@fuhreaks]

Alternate title: Why you should give your grandparents a linux distro

[@MyouKyuubi]

But trick those grandparents into thinking it's windows though... that adds to the magic!

[@misantrope6267]

I'm not gonna dig up my grandparents for that 🤔

[@ryanwalker4660]

that would be a horrible idea

[@fuhreaks]

​@@ryanwalker4660 Why? What would be so horrible about it?

[@ryanwalker4660]

@@fuhreaks permissions for one...

[@furistasTedis]

18:34 I think scammer is double questioning his life at this point 😂😂😂

[@Lampe2020]

7:52 Do _absolutely NOT_ run every single command with sudo! Only use sudo when the command needs it to function, which it absolutely doesn't need for pulling a file from the internet!

[@nathnaelwondisha6649]

i think it is a vm or clean install he doesn't care about

[@livinghypocrite5289]

@@nathnaelwondisha6649 Yeah, it is a VM. You can see it is vmware in the neofetch window he opens, when the scammer got disconnected.

[@Straycatstrat10]

The && starts a new command. So, the sudo command was just marking the file as an executable, and the && said the next command would be to start it. If it was && sudo ./Connect, then the Connect app would have been opened as sudo. However, he could have just removed the && .... part and opened it directly through Dolphin to prevent the potential of closing it by closing Konsole.

[@Lampe2020]

@@Straycatstrat10 I know that && starts a new command (which is run in the previous command returns 0). But still, downloading the file to your own home dir and then setting the run permission on it doesn't require root permissions. And wget gets data directly from the web, so if it has an RCE exploit (unlikely but not impossible) and you run it with sudo the damage potential is much greater than if the attacker only has your privileges and not root. So you should never get used to prepending every command with sudo. Principle of least permission or whatever it's called.

[@Straycatstrat10]

@@Lampe2020 My bad, I didn't notice he ran wget as sudo, and I thought you had to run chmod as sudo. Yeah, running wget as sudo is not a good idea. I thought you were saying not to execute the connect program as sudo and thought you were misunderstanding the entire command. My apologies!

[@Point.Aveugle]

On the taskbar there is the multiple desktops; maybe it functions like win 11 does and you can basically hide apps running to prevent what happened.

[@BlackSun404]

No need, just adding "& disown" to the command to connect, will allow the shell to be closed without killing the connecting process. Both making the "Windows" look cleaner, and avoiding the pitfall of them stumbling over the killswitch. =D

[@vladimpaler9274]

I didn't know that you had another channel!! This video just popped up in my recommendations and of course I immediately subscribed.

[@ilonachan]

oooh that plasma theme is delightfully devilish! Even I would probably do a double take at first (except I use KDE on my daily driver so the tipoffs would've been a'plenty) because like, who expects a linux user to go through the trouble of making all the icons and everything look like Windows? It's impressive that that's even possible!

[@katanah3195]

I've seen it done, but usually for really old versions of Windows, or for situations where Linux will handle the necessary tasks with far more stability than Windows but it needs to not confuse Windows users.

[@MyouKyuubi]

He actually just used a distro called "Wubuntu" though

[@camelCased]

I imagine the scammer googling "how to run cmd on hp desk computer" 🤣

[@piousminion7822]

Dude, I used to work for AOL tech support so I can confirm you nail the average, computer literate, joe almost perfectly. Actually, you're more coherent, but close enough. lol

[@Tenajeh]

"I want you to open MIcrosoft Edge" "Yah" *he lies and opens Chrome* "Is it open?" "Yah" *he lies again." :D

[@falconbmstutorials6496]

He even saw "Virtual Machine" in the terminal and didn't react at all ...

[@dwnsdp]

once he ran neofetch I was baffled by his stupidity

[@virtualix-yt]

Major PROS when using Linux: Can screw up a scammer

[@fancypants9914]

I don't even think this was pro level, this was just linux being linux

[@Spelter]

"He has no clue what to do" - and what is different to their normal knowledge? They just copy and paste scripts they prelearned from scripts and as soon as they would need real IT knowledge, they will fail.

[@miku]

wouldn't "cd.." also error out on windows? or is there some kind of whacky command autocorrection?

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

It works on Windows. It was one of the things I had to stop doing when I first started using Linux.

[@miku]

@@rexsceleratorum1632 fascinating. it seems kinda counterproductive to me to have that alias. it's misleading. people should know the proper format of how cli apps are used & not be taught snakeoil.

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

@@miku There are other major idiosyncrasies about the Windows CLI as well. Something I never managed to understand is why "cd C:\path" doesn't work if you are on another drive, and you have to type "C:" as a command to change to that drive first.

[@jnawk83]

​@@rexsceleratorum1632you can do it second. You get a CWD on each drive, at least it behaves as if you do in the poor shadow of a shell they give you there...

[@abiofficial-ws7pn]

I'm ashamed to say that I'm the same nationality as many of these scammers

[@MuhammadHosny0]

I am typing this as I eat a cow meat burger 🙏

[@PaulG.x]

I've done this with a Linux distro that looked nothing like Windows (Using GNOME DE) . And even then the idiot scammer did not cotton on to it

[@pepesito]

17:58 lol, first saying its an HP when the prompt says dellpc was hilarious, but then he asks if its a Chromebook or what and the neofetch just says Host: Vmware virtual 💀💀💀💀

[@Anthonyg5005]

I would run commands that you wouldn't want the other person to see in either ssh or screen, then they wouldn't accidentally close the connection

[@christiangonzales7429]

This was hilarious!! Next time you should do one like this but use Raspberry Pi for the OS.

[@RavenCap0807]

YES!!! That would be amazing!!

[@dpb9652]

omg this thing is making me laugh so friggin hard! I love it! 🤣 I am actually in a linux class right now, and its so entertaining!

[@dpb9652]

I really wish we could have seen the guys face! Haha

[@Nny_V]

this is why i setup linux on my grandma's pc, i made the gui look and function more or less like windows xp, and i have the main set of programs she wants to use right on the desktop. it's set to login automatically, but you need a password to do anything beyond what i've allowed and she doesn't know the password, so there's been a few times where she called to ask me and i asked why she wanted to know, and it turned out she was in a scam call from microsoft supposedly. i reminded her that she's really using linux and she hung up on them.

[@raifhol]

Great stuff as always!

[@SRevolts]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@kalaherty]

His confusion in the terminal just made my day :D

[@stuaxo]

Ha! Just scrolled to the middle, great work making it look this windowsy

[@steverichards1482]

turned out Murray Cuncher didn't do the each and every ting

[@christianhujer346]

I'm cracking up. I couldn't do this. This is way beyond my patience and my acting skills. Respect. And the comment section is gold, too.

[@TRUNKoMETAL]

15:15 the technical team meaning the bowl of hummus on his desk

[@poopdoesstuff1437]

curry not hummus

[@georgebangerter6777]

Nice setup you have, looks like a windows computer. I used to get regular tech support scam calls and used to do the same thing, it wastes hours of their time, and they hardly ever knew it was Linux, and they never were able to proceed with the scam. So many funny memories. It was fun loging into the machine via terminal remotely and crashing programs on the desktop. One of the remote access tools was wine supported but didnt fully work, so i had to tell them what was on the screen and control the mouse as they were not able to see/use it properly. Another time they were going through all the remote access tools and were able to remote access with one program but wanted to use Team Viewer and it kept going to the Linux download, so they asked me if it was a Linux computer and i just said it was a Dell. Another time they kept typing tree command, which was not installed, so i installed it and they later used tree. I also use a HDD and old hardware on VM, and also update the system when they get remote access so its very slow. These scammers have no idea about tech support. A good distro is Linuxfx and i think there is another one that is setup by default to look like Windows.

[@martinmatin6275]

linuxfx is from 98% stolen stuff and its pretty much a scam (ALL of the keys leaked TWICE)

[@Geno619]

Love your videos !!

[@SRevolts]

Glad you like them!

[@TheErixcode]

as a 20+ years Linux user here, I was surprised how they didn't recognized any of the names, konsole name , ... that was just cruel, lmfao

[@joe-skeen]

You need to map some bash aliases like cd..

[@AttiusTheGreat]

Do more like this PLS!!!!!! I love these videos man. Scammer meltdown xD

[@Extreme-PCIe-Cable]

21:57 I would love to know the backstory on why you're pinging the hub bro

[@mapkidd]

was about to comment lmao

[@glo0115]

You should have made some aliases for common windows commands

[@spartanbeast3575]

cd works on Linux just not with the 2 dots.. but the dumb scammer doesn't know that lol

[@TheHenirik]

@@spartanbeast3575 cd works with dots, if you use proper syntax with a space like "cd .."

[@thatdudeinasuit5422]

The only time I've ever actually had someone try to scam me via a call, when he asked what type of computer I had I told him I had a Zuse Z3.

[@TRUNKoMETAL]

18:37 sir is it possible that you are from the future and this is the programming for the T1000

[@Weightlossjourney24]

I started experimenting with Linux a few months ago. Bought a few books on it Linux it has learning curve that’s quite extensive😅

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

There is no learning curve if you're not a power user, provided you picked a distro such as Linux Mint or Zorin OS.

[@spartanbeast3575]

@@rexsceleratorum1632 correcto, Linix Mint imo is the most beginner friendly as it's really similar to Windows in a lot of ways

[@micha-8659]

There still is, with certain programs or drivers.

[@Silver-eb7zm]

No but every thing more complex than a frontend for spying is being seen as difficult 😂

[@aleisterlavey9716]

Wait for when you come to printers and Linux.

[@EvandroGiachetto]

Bottom line is: Linux kicks Windows's ass.

[@richard.d5121]

Very tricky S/R to get them way off that script😅 Great stuff S/R 👍

[@andreashanna6060]

This is just cool! Like your vid!!! Next time, if you want to execute a command without keeping the terminal open, try ./program & disown; exit The command will make your terminal process (bash or whatever shell you use) to disown the executed child process (./program) and then exit will exit the terminal, leaving the program you executed running.

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Man really prepared anydesk just in case 🤣

[@jameswatkins1297]

You would think that he would notice ThunderBird Mail icon in the top right, or the word "Konsole." This is Awesome.... Even the CLI is screaming LINUX...

[@MyouKyuubi]

yeah, also "PlayOnLinux" in the start menu, and "Super Tux 2" on the desktop, etc... And the system monitor not looking the way it's supposed to look... xD And file explorer called "Dolphin"...

[@midwestweirdo666]

You should do another Linux stream but make it look like Mac and call windows scammers and set up aliases for all the windows commands to echo "command not available in India"

[@jbreadnr]

I'm sure someone has already commented on this but you can launch that Connect script in the background and close the original terminal with: ./Connect & disown exit Because it doesn't need any arguments, you could also probably just launch it (double-click) from the file manager (dolphin or whatever is installed on that machine)

[@dingokidneys]

I wonder if you could get a remote admin tool to run on Haiku? I'd love to see their reaction to that.

[@UsernameDoesntCare]

as a linux user: dont run connect in terminal, double click it in dolphin after chmodding it either that or in konsole do ctrl z then bg and disown to make it run in the background

[@Deltalancer1]

Wish dolphin the master user was here to educate him.

[@owendytor3617]

why dumb Scammers are funny

[@thegeth4293]

can you do a computer with the NSA logo as the wallpaper and tell them its your work computer?

[@thebigdustin]

Next time run screen -S [whatever name you want], then run zoho and then detach it (ctrl-a D) so he can close whatever and it will stay running in the background.