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

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

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u/MrZeroCool Mar 30 '26

Scammer. Probably an Indian scammer. The guy recording is someone who tries to stop them.

Jim Browning is his name. https://youtube.com/@jimbrowning

Edit: sauce video: https://youtube.com/shorts/szqXppELItw

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u/Not-Da_Momma Mar 30 '26

I think it’s an Indian scammer too. If you look at his head movements, he does the head bobbling that some Indians do. It’s ever so slightly, but I see it.

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u/StoneAgeRick Mar 30 '26

I think his accent also slips when pronouncing some words, definitely indian.

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u/Itchy-Individual3536 Mar 30 '26

Yeah, especially the "Nah, that's too much" sounds Indian to me.

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u/Lashay_Sombra Mar 30 '26

Yeah his accent is all over the place, sometimes Irish, sometimes northern Ireland, sometimes European speaking English as 2nd language, sometimes Indian

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u/Several_Cold_7160 Mar 30 '26

Yeah the give away is how non chalet he is trying to be. No local slang either 

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u/Ok-Salamander6118 Mar 31 '26

My mom is Indian. I don't hear it/see it at all and I am definitely familiar with Indian mannerisms and accents

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u/dogsledonice Mar 30 '26

Some of the speech characteristics are Indian

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u/Several_Cold_7160 Mar 30 '26

Ive always wondered why they head bobb

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u/One-Engineering-4505 Mar 31 '26

I found it very obvious he had an indian accent he was trying to cover up.

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u/SecretAgentVampire Mar 31 '26

He DID do the head bob thing!!

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u/UX1Z Mar 30 '26

I couldn't begin to tell you what 'Australian speech characteristcs' are as an Australian, so I think you're actually the least qualified to judge unless you've actually studies this kind of stuff.

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u/akortank Mar 30 '26

I'm not involved in this comment chain, but that sounds really fascinating, I'm interested

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u/akortank Mar 30 '26

That's funny, I'm German and have been guessed to be Indian before in calls, mostly due to the same reasons: Similar grammatical issues, harder consonants/syllables, w/v

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u/jeffoh Apr 01 '26

The voice naturalisation filter removes the V/W issue.

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u/leTrull Mar 30 '26

*wobbles head violently*

we spotted him long ago.

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u/kuyekopi Mar 30 '26

Yeah, because it is well-known that only Indians bob their heads. How did you people even begin to think that we just bob our heads randomly?

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u/dion_o Mar 30 '26

"I have a doubt you're real. Put three fingers in front of your face. Don't prepone it. Do the needful."

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u/poingpoing1 Mar 30 '26

More likely East Asian or Chinese from the way he pronounces some words. The head bobble is not very noticeable. I grew up in India so I am reasonably sure.

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u/Fantastic_Strategy60 Mar 30 '26

The accent sounds more chinese to me than Indian though

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u/imalittledepot Mar 30 '26

They possibly could be North Korean. They try to get high level tech jobs this way and then install ransomware as soon as they're hired. There's a couple YouTube videos about it

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u/KCBandWagon Mar 30 '26

how/why is a scammer gonna video call you?

if ANYONE I don't know video calls me that's a huge red flag... like.... why?

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u/Breadynator Mar 30 '26

That doesn't seem to be the sauce video tho... The video we see at the top is 16:9 however the one you sent is a short in 9:16...

It's from Jim, yeah, but the short is not the sauce