What dating sites will freely admit there’s a global problem with romance scammers and offer up advice on how to spot and deal with those scammers? Should we place bets on what sites actually respond to the challenge?
Month: February 2015
Enough is enough!
Seriously, I’m sick of people ignoring the facts the site’s phone numbers are for the media or law enforcement only and the time in the UK is NOT the same as the time in the USA. Next person who wakes me up in the early hours of the morning by calling me because they don’t […]
The Kyle Files
So finally they showed the preview for the episode of “The Kyle Files” to be aired on Feb. 12th that talks about online scams. It also features yours truly as a part of it. Here’s how it happened: A few days after the Sun article on baiting was published, I received a call asking if […]
Spam.
Much as we hate scammers, spammers are becoming just as much of a pain to us lately. Our blogs are overflowing with spam messages trying to get posted. We do our best to moderate every comment, and 99% of them are spams.
See an example of a secret shopper scam below.
From: “Richard Locke” <Mholtz42@aol.com> Subject: Job Offer Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”x8f5HIAanTLhGX33vCKe1eoKSKAHLf=_O90″ MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: richardlocke10023@gmail.com Hello, I am Richard Locke, Recruitment Specialist with Sights On Service Inc.“We have a mystery shopping assignment in your area and we would like you to participate”. Secret Shopper® has been in business since 1990. We are a charter member of […]
I’ll be charging for my autograph soon.
Was contacted today about some more TV stuff related to scams. Maybe one day I’ll actually make some money from this 9 year hobby of mine
It’s all about balance.
This is related to several conversations I’ve had with people recently about what we do on the site. Helping people is a good thing. It’s undeniably a good thing. When you know you’ve stopped someone from sending money to a scammer, it warms the heart. However, it’s also incredibly hard to do. We speak to […]
January stats.
January saw over 150,000 unique visitors come to our site, and over 1.3 million page views. That’s around a 20% increase on this time last year. We’re expecting those numbers to continue rising.