One thing that troubles me is the fact people take for granted things that are free. In particular I’m discussing the support we offer. We do this for free for a very good reason. How can you ask for money from people when they’ve just lost everything they have to a scammer. With the media, […]
Month: February 2015
Crime Without Blood.
Here’s a particularly powerful video I was sent the link to about romance scams. It’s in Dutch, but there are subtitles throughout.
Where are the scammers REALLY from?
Here’s a question. How many of the scammers that have been listed as being in the USA are actually in other countries, but using email accounts that show then in the USA? For example, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail will show the person as being in the USA if you check the IP address. However, […]
Who wouldn’t love 10.5 million dollars, right?
This is one of those weird things we see when it comes to scam emails. A large percentage of them offer the same amount, namely 10.5 million dollars. Why that figure? I have no idea. It’s not as if the money actually exists, so they could throw out any amount. Yet for some strange reason, […]
Happy Valentines Day.
Remember, love is around every corner. You just need to be aware of the dangers lurking there too. Stay safe when looking for love online.
Here’s last night’s Kyle Files for those that want to watch it.
Around six minutes in, under my pseudonym Wayne May on the Kyle Files discussing baiting and online scams.
Well, so much for that. What a wasted opportunity.
The Kyle Files has finally been shown. Despite promises that our site would be named, it didn’t get mentioned once. Neither did the fact we work as volunteers to help people who have been scammed. The whole point of agreeing to be on the show was to get out the fact there’s a place people […]
Just a small media update today.
I had a call at around 9am today asking if I’d be willing to speak as part of a phone in on scams for Radio Wales. The whole thing was short and sweet, but it did get the site’s name out there. Tomorrow will be the interesting one. How much of the interview I did […]
No, no, no and no!
We had a request today from a company with an offer to put ads on our site. The issue is that the ads would be for adult sites. We keep our site as work safe as we possibly can. Photos are cropped to remove any nudity, bad words are filtered and we do not in […]
70,000
Today we hit a milestone, with 70,000 posts on our forum. Here’s to 100,000