Well I guess everybody had a script kiddie phase but the thing is there is “some” “certain” people that flex real bad that they sound so funny, somewhere on the dark aisles of discord, I was in a server more of a gc its like 60 smthing ppl, I’m friends with most of them. Well this random guy started yapping abt cybersecurity I thought i met a fellow hobbyist he said he landed a deal with crowd strike (keep in mind he still in high-school I’m 16) ppl praised him but he did the stupid mistake of sending an screenshot of an email claiming to be employment (well it’s 99% ai generated and no company is mentioning the salary in the email) he said if he did well they will rise him from 10k to 50k per month (LMAO I CAN’T) I knew the catch but i went along with it I wanted to see how funny can it get and the shocking part like 20 ppl believed him. After that he sent a pic of his paypal business card (surprise surprise) ran a reverse image search it’s from threads. Ppl started praising him, he went crazier saying stuff like I have a team with tools that can hack governments. (I CRINGED), And told a girl he could hack her but he won’t (bro doesn’t kn what an RAT is)
I decided to intervene told him Heyyyy nice offer but what certificates do u have I’m tired of THM and hack the box what certificates do u recommend or labs ? He said the big 3 any skid would say (Harvard, google, Microsoft) not oscp, CEH, comptia. And he said ur a beginner if u train on thm. I said yeah (keep in mind I’m 0x6 on THM and close to 0x7) I kn not the best or highest but enough to be better than the “certificates” he has.
The thing is that is surprising me
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How did ppl believe him ? How do they not question the the 41k raise in a month? The clearly ai generated email. And an image and bad claims ? Are the general population really that bad at social and technical skill that they start praising him? That epidemic needs to end one of those skids will land in someone’s hand that will teach him a lesson.
If u curious no I didn’t expose him to the server left him so he can have some fun LOL