Best Youtuber: JIM BROWNING vs JIM CHAPMAN

Jim Browning is the Internet alias of a London-based software engineer, YouTuber, and grey hat hacker from Northern Ireland whose content primarily focuses on scambaiting and exposing scam call centres. A software engineer by trade, Browning began looking into scammers after a relative lost money to a technical support scam. He has since carried out various investigative scam baits, in which he infiltrates computer networks run by scammers claiming to be technical support experts or posing as US IRS agents, through the use of remote desktop software and social engineering. Such scams have involved unsolicited calls offering computer services, or websites posing to be reputable companies such as Dell or Microsoft. Browning was featured in a March 2020 episode of the British documentary series Panorama, in which a large-scale technical support scamming operation was infiltrated and extensively documented by Browning and fellow YouTuber Karl Rock. The two recorded drone and CCTV footage of the facility in Gurugram, Haryana and gathered incriminating evidence linking alleged scammer Amit Chauhan, who also operated a fraudulent travel agency called "Faremart Travels'', to a series of scams targeting computer-illiterate and elderly people in the United Kingdom and United States. During a private meeting with his associates, Chauhan was quoted as stating that "We don't give a shit about our customers", expressing apathy towards his victims. A number of call centre agents under his command were recorded laughing at a British man who admitted to suffering from depression while being conned into paying for a non-existent computer problem. They were also recorded conning a blind woman with diabetes into paying to fix a bogus computer virus. Although Chauhan denied the allegations in a phone interview with the BBC, he was subsequently arrested along with his accountant Sumit Kumar in a raid after the exposé was aired.

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James Alfred Chapman (born 28 December 1987) is an English YouTuber, model, and writer. Chapman began posting videos on his YouTube channel in 2010, and released his first book, titled 147 Things, on 5 October 2017, and is currently a monthly contributing editor for British GQ. Chapman graduated from the University of East Anglia with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, he planned to do a master's degree, but decided not to continue in order to pursue his online career. Chapman created his first "j1mmyb0bba" YouTube channel (now known as simply "Jim Chapman") in 2010 where he produces videos on men's fashion and grooming. He was part of the 'YouTube Boyband' that raised money for Comic Relief and was featured in The Guardian. He has recently been the face of Hugo Boss watches in their latest campaign. Chapman is influential through social media. As of 1 July 2016 Chapman has over 2.5 million subscribers to his main YouTube channel and over 159 million video views. He has over 1 million subscribers to his second YouTube channel. He has over 1.8 million followers on Twitter and 2.2 million on Instagram. Chapman has done a number of collaborations on his channel with other YouTubers, including: Marcus Butler, Alfie Deyes, Louise Pentland, Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, Zoe Sugg, Joe Sugg, Louis Cole, Caspar Lee and many others.

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