 Getting a hold of scammers, by the way, is not easy work, even if it is easy for them to get a hold of you. We made dozens of calls. Even if we could get through to someone, it was hard to keep them on the phone. That's not to say we didn't have some luck. After finding a number of an alleged scam call center, we did keep one guy on the phone long enough for him to admit to actually being a scammer. His reasoning? Yeah, I don't have money, buddy. I don't have a good job.