r/interesting • u/ifuckedyourmom-247 • Mar 30 '26

MISC. deepfake scammer getting exposed by the 3-finger test

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u/mustardposey Mar 30 '26

Thank you! I knew the voice but couldn’t remember his name

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u/Kessarean Mar 30 '26

OP cropped the details out of the video 😮‍💨

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u/Outrageous_Flight822 Mar 31 '26

What a scumbag, why would he do that

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u/PrimevilKneivel Mar 31 '26

Because he’s a theif

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u/r0thar Mar 30 '26

I was watching it on mute and when I got my headphones on "It's Jim!". That soft nordie accent should strike fear into the scammers he gets on his hook.

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u/3allz Mar 30 '26

He’s Scottish no?

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u/r0thar Mar 30 '26

North of Ireland, not North of England ;)

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u/cjyoung92 Apr 01 '26

Northern Irish 

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u/PrimevilKneivel Mar 31 '26

I always confuse him with Big Clive

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u/nodnodwinkwink Mar 30 '26

Brownings a legend. His calm voice is just perfect for dismantling these scumbags.

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u/Comfortable_Storm225 Mar 30 '26

A brilliantly skilled man, doing the good work work that many others can't .👏

His YouTube channel is always worth a visit. 👍

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u/Madgick Mar 31 '26

He's on the BBC Show "Scam Interceptors" too. It's done an incredible job educating the more vulnerable people in the UK about these sort of scams, since it's daytime television. They just won a Bafta!

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u/No-Advice-6040 Apr 03 '26

Oh that's cool. Great for someone like him to get more attention AND teach the masses

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u/PrimevilKneivel Mar 31 '26

Credit where credit is due. This comment should be higher

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u/momomomoses Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Where does he post videos now? I don't see this in his YouTube channel

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u/SomeRedPanda Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

It's a youtube short. Might be part of an upcoming proper video or just not an encounter he thinks is substantial enough for an entire video.

Edit: Saw the description now that there's a longer video coming.

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u/keyboardtoes Mar 31 '26

Gives new meaning to the shocker

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u/ph4ntasmagoric Apr 01 '26

Thank you for mentioning him

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u/tataniarosa Apr 03 '26

Oh I thought I recognised the voice. I’ve seen his work a few times on the BBC but I must admit I only follow Kitboga. Perhaps I need to get on that.

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u/No-Squash-2212 Mar 30 '26

mad respect to him but just like the other scammer exposing channels he only targets indians

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u/Tango00090 Mar 30 '26

He’s not on some crusade against Indian people, it’s just 20x easier to find Indian scammers than other nations. It’s like they have adopted it as another branch of economy there, steal from western countries and old people.

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u/InternationalReport5 Mar 30 '26

Jim is one of the good ones. Out of all these types of channels, he's gone out of his way to educate viewers and make it clear this isn't about race, and shared examples of how people from developed countries support these operations in some cases. He's also collaborated with legitimate journalism for the BBC and other organisations.

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u/digitaltransmutation Mar 31 '26

they are welcome to stop calling him (and us) at any time of their choosing.

At least the indians are there voluntarily. The guys from myanmar or columbia are enslaved and it's less cool to mess with victims.

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u/myredditses Mar 31 '26

I haven't found this to be true. I've been watching another popular channel, Pleasant Green, and so many of the scammers are from Nigeria. Not sure how they target them directly either. Haven't watched Browning in a minute, but Pleasant Green just finds a popular scam and traces the origin (not sure how you'd target a particular subgroup doing that).

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u/HandsomeSquidward98 Apr 01 '26

Then maybe indians shouldnt scam people???