Overseas scammers thought this Brisbane dad was “dumb” and easy prey. Little did they know he was playing his own game that would cost them massively.
Ben* seems like an ordinary Aussie, with a house in the suburbs of Brisbane, a wife and two kids and a long-term job in the IT industry.
But as soon as he clocks off from his 9-5 job, the dad spends most of his time in the evening fighting crime.
He is an online vigilante, making the lives of internet scammers a living hell.
“I’ve never been scammed but I do know a number of people who have,” the Queensland man, aged in his 50s, told news.com.au.
His vendetta began after a close friend was conned out of $6500 for a motorbike that did not exist.
Since then, for the past five years, Ben has gone after fraudsters.
“If (the scammers) are wasting my time, they’re not trying to scam some grandmother,” he told news.com.au.
“It is my mission at the moment to make their life a living hell, find their location, IP address etc and provide it to the contacts I have worldwide that also go after scammers so we can all troll the living hell out of the scumbag.”
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