OK, I'm a newbie in this stuff. I just watched a couple of videos on youtube where a guy indulged Indian (evidently) scammers pretending to work for Microsoft, and another guy who pretended to work for the IRS. ScammerRevolt is the youtuber's handle on the first video. He had a virtual machine going and the scammer got him to install Teamviewer, which evidently is a two way street. Thus, the hunted was able to fuck with the scammer's machine and he merrily deleted shit off his machine unbeknownst to him. Meantime, the scammer was totally unaware that the hunted was on a virtual machine and evidently immune from attack. ScammerRevolt explained that since Teamviewer was the intermediary, deleted files didn't go to Recycle Bin but are permanently deleted.
The 2nd video with the IRS phony was strictly telephone, the hunted pretending to be concerned about the call he'd gotten asserting that he was under IRS investigation.
Got the idea to check this stuff out from Mayne's recent thread talking about Youtube videos on scammer backlash.
So, how does a VPN differ from this? TIA...