Vishing Scumbags and the Password-Giving Morons Who Deserve Them

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when you think the cesspit of humanity couldn’t get any more shallow, some cybercrime wankers calling themselves “SLH”—probably a bunch of spotty teenagers in a basement or, worse, actual organized criminals with business cards—have decided to turn the social engineering dial up to eleven. These absolute shitsticks are offering $500 to $1,000 per fucking phone call to recruit women to pose as IT helpdesk staff and trick your brain-dead users into handing over their credentials.

Five hundred to a grand. Per call. That’s more than I make in a week of dealing with you lot clicking on obvious phishing links and asking me why the “coffee holder” (it’s a CD tray, you absolute walnut) isn’t working anymore. And these scammers are specifically targeting women because, apparently, your average corporate drone is more likely to trust a female voice when it comes to resetting their password for the seventh time this month. Fucking pathetic.

The modus operandi is classic vishing bullshit: call up some gullible middle-manager who still uses “Password123” for everything, sound professional and slightly sympathetic while claiming to be from “IT Support,” and watch them happily hand over MFA codes, VPN access, and probably their firstborn child’s blood type if you ask nicely enough. And now these criminal fuckwits are specifically recruiting women because some marketing wanker in the criminal underworld ran the numbers and realized it boosts success rates by thirty percent. Christ.

Here’s the part that makes me want to introduce my keyboard to someone’s forehead: this shit works. It works because your users have the security awareness of a concussed goldfish. You can send them to all the training seminars you want, make them watch those godawful animated videos about “being cyber-smart,” and they’ll still fold like a cheap deck chair the moment someone with a pleasant voice and a sense of urgency calls them up about their “compromised account.” The only thing compromised is their fucking common sense.

And don’t get me started on the gender angle. The fact that these scamming bastards have figured out that sexist stereotypes work in their favor—because half the workforce still thinks women in tech must be helpdesk kittens rather than threatening hackers—just proves that stupidity and bias are a security vulnerability you can’t patch with a firewall. You’d need a cattle prod and a personality transplant for that.

So yeah, some criminal enterprise is out there with a recruitment budget that would make HR weep, hiring voice actors to sweet-talk your employees into digital sodomy. And while you’re reading this, Karen from Accounting is probably reading her credit card number to someone claiming to be from “Microsoft Support” because they sounded very nice and professional.

We’re doomed. Pass the whiskey.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/slh-offers-5001000-per-call-to-recruit.html

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Speaking of vishing, I once had a user who fell for a scammer claiming to be me—ME!—calling to ask for their password to “fix the server.” The user gave it to them without hesitation. When I found out, I enacted my own special brand of revenge: I “accidentally” CC’d their entire inbox to the CEO, including their personal emails about their Irritable Bowel Syndrome support group. They don’t take calls from unknown numbers anymore. Or talk to me. Result.

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