Does anyone know much about those account recovery scammers who claim to be hackers who can help you recover lost social media accounts or hack your ex?

[malwaretech@infosec.exchange]

Does anyone know much about those account recovery scammers who claim to be hackers who can help you recover lost social media accounts or hack your ex? Are they individuals/small groups or large organizations like the call center scams?

There's a couple who've been using my real name to scam people and I'm annoyed enough to take out a couple of low level scammers, but not yet annoyed enough yet to spend time dismantling an entire foreign organization.

[jimdirect@mstdn.social]

@malwaretech

The thing which flabbergasts me a lot is that americans always seem to think hackers are automagically foreigners.

It's pretty silly thinking 320 millions inhabitants from the same geographical area are automagically all honest people.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@Jimdirect @malwaretech Hackers are not inherently dishonest, though...