Friday, November 04, 2022

Fart spray, Glitter Bombs, mice, roaches, purloining scammers files, naming names--these are mirthful and effective measure--but only marginally effective. Pierogi of Scammer Payback disrupted a call center for, I think he said, twenty days. Admirable, helpful work and a serious outcome for the scammers. But the operation targeted by the Jim Browning-Mark Rober team was back scamming on a reduced scale the next day. Some arrests have been made but not of the Big Enchilada of the Godrej Genesis building, Rajesh Gowenka. India is hopelessly corrupt and Gowenka is too big a fish for the Indian gendarmes tackle. Pierogi seems to have been most effective, he had one owner of a call center tell him that he had "ruined" his business, but may we to our profit (and to the serious unprofit of the scammers) combine concepts and tools of these three Heroes? Would not a sprinkler system, surreptitiously installed, remotely activated, in a call room have fried the scammers' 'puters? Or an electrical surge? With the physical access that Mark's agents had, could they not have placed miniature sprinklers unobtrusively under the hoods of the carrels in which the scammers did their scams? Miniaturization is the hallmark of the tech revolution, no? It is hard for me to believe that there is not a half-pint miniature water dispenser available on the prank market when there is something as complicated as a Glitter Bomb. What was the cash value of the Glitter Bomb to our ends? Merriment and that is not to be undervalued; but, boy, a small water container over a computer capable of release by remote and you've taken out a $1000 computer. Just thinking.