Showing a Craigslist scammer who's boss using Python

I would have kept this on a near permenant loop because chances are, this idiot is using some cloud based database to store all of this and making sure that you waste both their time and money by racking up huge costs is a good way to punish them.

Awesome hopefully this person can say "poor me poor me I am a scam" smh Python at its finest.

One of these days when I get good enough at Python, I’m gonna try out stuff like this haha

😂. Too bad i never learn Python & bad in programming. 😅.

Keep it up. I feel better now you got a scammer. Thank you, John.

Catching scammers is the best way to learn Python, great job!

Now, T H R E A D S

I love how it takes this man 5 minutes to ruin someone's day.

GOD this is amazing.😂

I just love how you're like "well ... Lets just go ahead and do that" haha 🤣 scammers get everything that's coming to em, no mercy lol

It's great to see somebody fighting individual scammers, but as an engineer, wouldn't it be better to find a way to fight scammers in general?

Seriously, thumbs up for what you are doing, that's just my observation.

i am a beginner can someone please explain what he did ti the scammer ?

Im love that content man maybe do some series with scamming scammers 😂😂

The scammer seeing a bunch of emails getting logged in just 2 minutes: interesting

Loveit

Absolutely need more

And then he just filters yahoo from the data

Cool video, but i was just wondering, doens't the scammer get your real IP and system info when only visiting the site and secondly arent the POST requests you send just coming from your ip so the scammer could actually do some mean stuff with? Or just delete all the requests from your ip?

You should use a context manager for opening the file.

Thank you very much for this
I was getting this Phishing Email trying to get me to enter my credit card number, so instead I just sent them 10000 fake numbers & insulted them 10000 times

Love your videos. My favorite are when you use your Python skills to punish scammers. I searched your content and didn't find one on Facebook Marketplace. Scammers are running rampant on Marketplace and FB just doesn't care. The scams are so easy to find it's obvious FB is not actively policing marketplace listings. And even when reported, they don't do a good job investigating.

The scam I'm referring to is listing items for sale on hacked accounts. The scammers will create dozens, in not hundreds, of listings to sell an item they don't own all over the country. Then they scam interested buyer who respond. When reported FB may remove the listing if it's been reported by others... but that's about it. They don't look at the seller account to find the other listings. If you report the profile they take a cursory look and move on because these are legit accounts with friends, and postings that were often created years ago.

Which leads me to my request.... finally.

Would you consider working your Python magic on FMB scammers? I can provide the targets or show you (as if you need my help) how to quickly find them on FBM. Alternatively, can you point me to some tools or instructional resources to do it myself? Currently I fight these F---ers by manually reporting every single listing on the hijacked account. This takes forever but eventually, after getting over a hundred reports for the same seller, FB sees the scam and shuts down all of the listings. But if I could automate this I could do a much better job.

Any help would be appreciated so much. THX!

This is amazing! I started learning python years ago and stopped. Never had a real need for it...until now!! Starting to learn again asap and devout my life to these causes. haha.

Impressive skills.

I've never heard anyone reffer to regex as magic. "hell on earth", "wtf is this monstrosity" and "omg no way i'm shoehorning that thing into my code"; sure but magic? I guess that's why you're the engineer man and I'm not lol

Good work. I was hoping for some SQL injection. To borrow a phrase from Muslim culture, I wanted to see rivers of blood. ;-)

That's fun to do, but base the password off a word or slang, with random case, numbers and length, not many folks use random gibberish. Randomize email domain. This makes it harder to sift out invalid data... unless the idiot is also capturing ip addresses.. then they see a butt load from the same IP coming in all at once and just regex them out. Ideally, if you jumped ip addresses each time, this would make it much harder to sift through. ;) VPN?

What is that tool that you used to get the site data?

loved it!!!!

This is awesome!

Epic stuff! Improve coding skills while also potentially saving victims from scam . Blew my mind!! Wow

Love it!

Pretty sick. I learned a tiny bit of Python and this was great 🎉

Very cool and educational. I want something like this for phone scammers😂

I love it. Wish I could do what you did. I owned a business and I get daily scams texts.

Nice! To make it even better, the e-mail domains could be randomized, passwords could be less random (there are too many special characters in them), maybe some longer then others, and you could space out the rate in which the info is sent.

I wish you could do a vid on getting money back from being scammed by sending it through zelle to a bogus party.

Thanks, i just dumped all the yahoo addresses with 8 char pass...🙄

Pretty awesome how you can do something like this so quickly and easily in Python. One of the reasons I love the language.

Which text editor does he use?

Nice
Going to start to do the same in powershell (:

I like da video very awesome man am just a kid with NOOOOO knowledge with codingggggggg too bad I only know print :(

That's clever. What if they collect the IP address of each login? Is it possible they do, or are they too dumb to think of that?

I think this is my new favorite channel...

My apartment complex made us register times to use facilities during Covid. They released the availability to register for gym/spa/exercise room EXACTLY 7 days in advance, and they all got booked immediately through the UI- it was very competitive. So, I back-engineered the site and wrote a python script to sign up for whatever future gym times I wanted. It never failed. I love to see other quality abuses of python!

SUPREME trolling 🫡🫡

You forget threads

You really showed him. Wow, you are quite the man…

Make the password length variable. He can drop passwords, which are 8 char long once he realises the truth

You know, even almost 5 years later I still use this video and what it taught me. Thanks Engineer Man!

I don't know dick about code writing. But watching corn cob that ahole was one of the best things I've seen.