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Rock is also the world’s first person to identify the leaked unfinished version of X Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), for which 20th Century Fox sent him a letter of appreciation. He had also tracked down the person who leaked Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way‘ album in 2011. With his help, the New Zealand authorities had busted sales of pirated Michael Jackson CDs in the wake of the pop star’s death. Rock is aided by his education as a graduate diploma in Computer Science and work history as a cybersecurity expert in the music industry. BBC picked up the footage, promptly followed by raids from the Gurgaon police. In one such instance, Rock was the man on the ground while Browning hacked into the CCTVs. In early 2020, Rock teamed up with UK-based YouTuber Jim Browning and released videos exposing Gurgaon and Delhi-based scam call centres targeting foreigners. I realised how big the menace was, and that apart from the tourist scams, I should branch into scam call centres as well.” “Before that, my mum too had got a similar call and told me that she’d won all this money. “In the middle of nowhere, my grandma gets a call from India and gets scammed of Rs30,000,” he says. Rock shares a story of his grandmother getting scammed in Katikati, a small town outside Tauranga in New Zealand, by callers posing as tech support. What I’m finding now is that my videos are also helping Indians to avoid such scams and inform others.” But the thought that all Indians are street-smart is also wrong. “I bumped into a foreigner at an airport, and he said those were the most useful three words in India,” Rock laughs. Rock - who has been living with his wife Manisha in the Rohini area of Delhi for the past few years - has encountered touts in Haridwar, piracy scams at the Nehru Place tech market, fake Pashmina shawls in Connaught Place and emerged with fluent Hindi and a stern catchphrase “ Nahi chahiye ji!” Karl rock has travelled to all the states and union territories in India (Photo: Instagram/Karl Rock) He has long fulfilled his dream of visiting every state and union territory in India, and the travels and travails have been chronicled in a published handbook and a 17-lakh subscriber-strong YouTube channel. The blond-haired, blue-eyed 36-year-old - who has Haryanvi songs as caller tunes, begins conversations with “Ram Ramji” and peppers them with “haan”, “haina” and “nahi” - has become the modern-day Lonely Planet for India-bound tourists. However, as for Rock, it drew him further in. For a lot of foreigners, that first experience scares them away”. Thankfully, I called the hotel to confirm but what these guys are doing is hijacking ‘Adithi Devo Bhava’.
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The first time I arrived at the New Delhi airport, a taxi driver came up to me and told me that my hotel had burned down and I needed to go to another. “Trusting the wrong guy, giving incorrect change, overpaying at shops.
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“Oh man, I was getting scammed everywhere,” Rock, whose real name is Karl Edward Rice, says.