Scammer Payback

Pierogi is the founder and creator of Scammer Payback, an anti-scam operation that investigates scam call centres, interrupts scams while they are still happening so that victims do not lose their money, and publishes scam-awareness education to millions of people.

Before Scammer Payback, he worked in enterprise security — responding to data breaches and defending organisations ranging from government bodies to hospitals and school systems against attack. He came to scambaiting for the technical challenge and the humour of it, and then realised something more useful: the skills were the same. What he had learned protecting large organisations transferred directly to going after the people who target individuals.