2024-10-18
11 分钟We talk to Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, about joining forces with a popular YouTube scambaiter.
If you spend enough time on YouTube, you may have run across this character who goes by the name Kitboga.
Scammers hate him.
This scammer thinks Im about to send him $455,000 worth of bitcoin, but I typed the wrong wallet address.
Hes a YouTube star, but hes famous for this kind of wild thing.
He posts videos of himself spending inordinate amounts of time with scammers, and his schtick is he does everything he can to frustrate the hell out of them.
So if you kind of suck your thumb for a second, kind of like a baby, I'll transfer the money right away.
Are you kidding me?
He gets scammers so upset, they sometimes just give up on the scam altogether.
Don't send it.
No, don't send it.
The art of infuriating scammers until they give up or even just wasting their time, has a name.
It's called scam beating.
And apparently people love watching scammers get their just desserts because Kit Boga has millions of fans, including the chief security officer at Kraken, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
His name is Nick Prococco.
We got together with him, I think, about a year ago or so and started to help him in his, in his pursuits.
I'm Deena Templebresden, and this is click.
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And today we sit down with Kraken CSO Nick Perco.
He's joining forces with Kip Boga to do this very simple thing, drive crypto investment scammers crazy.
If you just give me every third letter and number first, and then every second letter and number first, and then, you know, so on.