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Hacker Catches a $25,000 Scam LIVE During Shawn Ryan Interview

Hacker Catches a $25,000 Scam LIVE During Shawn Ryan Interview

Source: YouTube · Shawn Ryan Clips · published Oct 13, 2026 · 15:23

Cybersecurity
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A scam-baiter intercepts a live tech-support scam targeting a 78-year-old woman, exposing a pending $25,000 wire transfer and dispatching law enforcement to stop it 0:04-0:15, 7:20-7:24.

Key Takeaways:
• The scammer coaches the victim to wire money to a bogus account under a fake name 0:38-1:08
• Tapping into the scammer's microphone and command prompt, the baiter captures her name and finds her address via a data broker site 1:28-4:28
• A Canadian law-enforcement contact dispatches local police to her home, guided by the scammers' own Bank of America lookups 5:22-5:43
• The scammer secretly browses her bank account via saved browser passwords; a $25,000 wire is pending and a second one is attempted 6:53-8:27
• Hosts stress how convincing these scams are for elderly victims—unsaved victims lose savings, homes, and sometimes their lives 11:08-14:03

This real-time rescue shows how fast tech-support scams escalate—and why viewers should never save passwords in browsers 6:53-7:09.

Sources:

  • 0:38 Scammer's wire-transfer instructions
  • 1:28 Command prompt access; victim info captured
  • 4:12 Address found via data broker
  • 5:22 Law enforcement dispatched
  • 6:53 Saved-password warning; bank account accessed
  • 7:20 Pending $25,000 wire discovered
  • 11:08 Impact on elderly victims

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This guy's doing an active scam. Well, there's multiple active scams. >> Really? >> Yeah. So, I'll show you just so you have an idea. >> I want you to get ready because now you may have to go outside your house. You may have to drive towards the local branch in order to make a wire transfer. So, meanwhile, I'm waiting for the account information. You can get yourself >> giving buy which means I'm giving like I'm getting the um buy is like bro and Hindi. >> Yeah. one of one of Bank of America branch in order to make a wire transfer because as I told you that it cannot be done online. >> So now I can't leave because I have to stop wire transfer >> as I told you that create under your name. So it should be a bogus account. It could be under somebody else's name. It it will be a random name or…