A recent installment of Trellix's Dark Web Roast highlights a Telegram job ad posted by a user identified as Derian in the UK Fraudsters channel. The ad sought "USA/CA (white sounding)" applicants for a fake Google Security Team voice-phishing operation, and it explicitly stated "NO SCRIPT READING" in bold—before printing the exact script callers were supposed to read. The script begins, "Good afternoon, this is [name] reaching you on behalf of the Google Account Security Team on a recorded line."
Trellix's threat-intel analysts note the irony, calling the "recorded line" flourish a "nice touch" of compliance theatre. The Dark Web Roast project, led by Trellix VP John Fokker, aims to "roast" criminals rather than glorify them, acknowledging that while these incidents are amusing, they represent real criminal activity causing significant harm.
The broader context is sobering: the FBI's IC3 reported $20.87 billion in losses from internet scams in 2025, and ReliaQuest found that criminal job ads seeking English-language social engineers more than doubled between 2024 and 2025. Google also reports that voice phishing surged to become the second most common method for initial access, and the top tactic for breaking into cloud environments. The Register's source is the only{