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Scammer tricks YouTuber who exposes scams to delete his anti-scammer channel

This one is hard to unpack, and painful to contemplate.

The Tech Support Scams YouTube channel has been erased from existence in a blaze of irony as host and creator Jim Browning fell victim to a tech support scam that convinced him to secure his account – by deleting it. —The Register

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