 Hello and welcome! I'm going to start running a script I have created here and I'm going to talk about it. So my wife's parents, my in-laws, they had an issue a couple of weeks ago, of course they didn't call me where, I hate to make you sound bad, my mother-in-law was on her computer, clicked on a link on Facebook that led to one of those fake pop-up your computer is infected with a virus site call this number. She called the number, downloaded the software, gave them access to her computer, luckily she stopped when they asked for a credit card number and said I need to talk to my husband. But then she proceeded to wait three hours till he got home and they run their own business and this was on their company computer and she left the scammers logged in for the three hours apparently. My in-law came home, luckily told her, you know we're not giving these people money which is good he learned that because he fell for the same thing like a year, year and a half ago. I get a call from him asking me, telling me that he got this pop-up and yes, if I give them access to my computer, how do I know they can't come in later and do stuff? And I said to him, I said you don't. I go once someone has access to your computer they can do, it only takes a couple seconds for them to set up, you know, where they can come back in later on and he goes what if I change my password? I said you didn't give them your password, well first of all, I said don't call them. He goes I already called them. I said oh no it's a don't do that and he's like well they're actually already working on my computer, he had to repay them, give them his credit card number which is really all these people are after, they're for the most part they just want your money, they're not looking to mess up your computer, they're going to make it look like they're doing stuff, run the tree command, all that sort of stuff, they're in most cases not going to do, they might look at your personal files so some guy over in India looks at your photos and stuff and that's not a jab, you know, someone's going to complain that I said that but a majority of these scammers are from India, that's just fact I'm not saying anything about the the Indian people or their country just that a lot of these scammers are from there, anyway he had already given them access, already given this credit card number and now he's concerned that they're going to get in later and I said can I just change my password to make sure they go back in, I go you didn't give them your password did you? He goes no I go well if they got him without your password this time why do you think they need your password next time? Yeah so luckily he seems to have learned and hopefully my mother-in-law learned and not to harp on her, I mean they're, I don't, let me put it this way hopefully she's learned, I love my mother-in-law she's very sweet and hope she doesn't watch this video which she probably won't ever and I might have told the story before but I'm pretty sure me my wife pretty sure my mother-in-law doesn't know how to hang up her phone because my wife constantly gets voicemails from her that are her saying hey give me a call I'll talk to you later and then it stays on where you can hear her talk in the background for it's it's three minutes long whatever the cutoff time is usually like three three-and-a-half minutes four minutes something like that it's just her you can tell the phones like on the counter in her pocket you know wait we don't listen to what she's saying but you can see that it goes out for that long but after a couple seconds you realize oh she she didn't hang up and so my wife talks to my mother-in-law on the phone one day and says okay bye and then she sits there and realizes her mother-in-law doesn't hang up the phone and she goes mom mom she starts on the phone she goes oh hi I didn't realize you were still there she goes my wife goes mom do you know how to hang up your phone and my mother-in-law gets embarrassed very easily and she's very you know apologetic about stuff she's like oh she didn't say that she didn't but she's like I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong she's like no there's a rip and she's trying to and she's just so embarrassed and saying sorry and she still doesn't and that was like two years ago and she's still will leave these three minute long voicemails that are nothing anyway that's just a little background on these people anyway that I I love when I see these fake pop-ups because they're so ridiculous and but I feel bad for people who fall for them because both my mother-in-law and my father-in-law said oh when you get them you can't close them and yeah you can they're in the web browser these ones are talking about and and they have fake little X's but you can still close the window not there's there's no way that it can prevent you from doing that so I recently was watching some videos on YouTube of a guy who messes with these scammers and he mentioned a website let me a split my screen here actually let's split it the other way and I'll open up the script I wrote that I just ran on the one side of the screen there and in here is a simple little script so the website is scammer info it's forum where people can post information about different types of scammers and in there there was a section called fake pop-ups and for people post links to these fake pop-ups mostly it's that and and other information about these fake pop-ups just to one of the people you know and stuff like that and so I wrote this script which goes to that fake pop-up section of this scammer info website grabs the URL for each post and then it pipes that in and loops through each one and it looks for any URLs people have posted so now we're going to be the pop-up sites but it will go through the first couple the most recent posts and give you the URLs and as you can see some of these I found interesting was this this fire RTC is a website where you can do SIP voiceover SIP or voice over IP calls through a web page you can create an account there a free account they have paid accounts but you can sample it and it's pretty cool because they asked for an email but I don't even think they check the email if they did you just use you know a fake email but then you can make phone calls and I guess text to I didn't even try that and record it and a lot of these guys will post the recordings of the messing with these cameras so that's what these are and here's a YouTube one that's probably someone posting them messing with us some of some of these of them posting when they're messing with scammers other ones where if you see the word technology in there or support it let's let's just go to one okay so I'll go to like this Firefox support here and right here you can see that it isn't one pop-up ones but it's the scammers website that they send you to after they scam you there after they you called and like oh yeah here's our website we're a legit company we can look at a few of these other ones so like this one or this one let's see one that says support Epson support and there's fake support sites to make their companies seem legit and they all want that with you and unfortunately today there's not very too many great examples here but let's go ahead and I will make this full screen look at one if it's just a funny-looking name like this one where it's just random stuff especially if it says Mac or Microsoft or Windows in the name that's going to be one of these pop-up sites so this is the worst virus of all most softwares is they apparently installed Mac OS on my Linux machine but I love the let me mute that but the way they have them talk and yeah look how small your my mouse cursor gets here let me make this full screen here and of course you try to click this X it now it's going full screen because your web browser can't go full screen without a click and once you click it's user interaction it can go full screen so you click that it's like oh no and I wish I had one that I was messing with the other day because it was the I can see it being difficult for some people to getting out of it because when you click on it full screen it actually put a the website top look like a Windows bar so you could try to click that X and it kept on wanting to pop up a Chrome extension site but here it's like if I keep clicking this nothing's happening if I escape it goes out of full screen mode you know if I click that again it goes back into full screen I just hit escape but apparently some people don't know that and this one actually does a pretty good job of staying in full screen mode the Windows one it did that and then like if I clicked anywhere on the page it kept on opening a new tab and going out of full screen mode which just ruins the whole effect and yeah this whole thing and the Windows one with the pop-up the the cursor that was a real pop-up this is a fake pop-up here I think it's hard to tell but the other one was a real pop-up but you couldn't click it because it made this fake mouse cursor so where you thought you were clicking on it because if I tried to close the window like that the tab like that like this it wouldn't close because the there was a real pop-up there let me reopen the glass closed tab so it was a little different so it's like to actually click on that I had to come off the screen and slowly go down to click on it close it but if I just clicked prevent additional dialogues from opening which they faked here they actually fake that so that you think that you click that already because this is not a real pop-up from my browser do you understand what I'm saying it's not a browser pop-up it's just some HTML modell or however you say it pop-up where the other one was using real pop-up so I couldn't close the tab without closing that so I had to click prevent opening but it's hard to click because it's a fake mouse that one I can see how it's hard to get out but it's so obvious that it's fake and then they would say oh yeah you restart your computer and we'll just start up again and and I'm like that doesn't make any sense that doesn't make any sense because it's just a website then I realize oh they probably have their web browser to open up the last page they had opened so they'd restart the computer open the web browser and pop up again yeah so I'm just talking here I know most of you know this it's great how I didn't even know that you could do this where they have this fake mouse cursor it comes out of the actual HTML window it's it looks like I'm up here looks like I'm clicking it but I'm not I'm actually clicking on the page it gets full screen but if I keep going so it's like here oh you think I'm okay but if I keep going up there's my real mouse cursor and I don't know to me and probably most of my viewers it's like so obvious that this is a scam well anyone hopefully I guess it's not obvious to everyone that scam but to us it's us a scam and it should be obvious how to get out of that I mean even if I'm here I hit control W and it's going to want to close it says you want to leave and I say yeah let's leave but a lot of people don't know that but on Windows machine alt f4 will close your browser but I guess closing your browser wouldn't be good because you reopen it and it will open that page again but it's just sad that people get taken in by this and actually that guy was watching on YouTube he does some great videos and he actually sometimes gets access to the scammers computer because they leave things open when he lets them connect to him and he's gotten people's contact information they free his contact and he'll call them and a lot of people go I know it was a scam I don't know why they call the people then but they were on their contact list but some people go oh well I don't know I had a problem my computer I called them and they fixed it so you know I paid the money but they fixed the problem but they were the problem anyway I wanted to just main point of this video besides just babbling on is I want to share this script that I created so if you go to my website and you click on software you can go to notes and in here type in scam and right here you can see this get your roll of scam pop-up sites this is the script that I just ran over here or you can just go to scammer.info and look through their forums there but I like to just very quickly be able to grab that sort of stuff actually I'm kind of curious what this talk one is here this Zippy share file let's see what that opens up oh it wants access to send me notifications you definitely don't want to click that on a site like this because then they can send you notifications repeatedly so let's block that that might be something that they click but why would you I don't know you need to read stuff this one isn't too bad they they want to give you notifications but it's like yeah this was easy but these are fun and and it'd be fun to like send these to people to mess with them but I'd be free obviously I wouldn't send it in email because then my also my email account will start getting blocked and wouldn't want to post it on Facebook because then my account might get blocked for posting spam but maybe text it to a friend and just see what they say but anyway that's my script very simple loops through the main page on that site or at least the pop-up section of that site then pipes that in and grabs all the URLs that are posted so interesting site check out the script you can like again go to my website and click on scripts and search that or here's the direct link I'll try to remember that in the description of the video but if not it's up on pay spin I do thank you for watching and I hope that you have a great day