A few hours ago we had some fun with a scammer over the phone. Here’s the thing though, we managed to get both he and his wife to pray and sing church songs for us. They know the songs, they belt out the words for us, yet they still have no issue trying to steal […]
Gee, what a shock!
Doing a little searching today, I stumbled on this story: I can remember 7 years ago sitting in the BBC Radio studio in Swansea, doing interview after interview on various regional stations for several hours about this story. This was before any law enforcement agency had bothered to do anything about it, and most we […]
I’m not saying scammers are greedy, but….
Taken from https://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=88889 And the only fee needed now from you is $26,950 Note:Upon receipt of this mail you have 72 hours to send the said fees to procured the document to avoid final confiscation of the funds so you have to respond quickly to advise you with the information’s to send it to, What […]
“Cash Baiting”.
I was recently in a conversation that brought up cash baiting. Let me first explain what cash baiting is. It’s essentially baiting a scammer into sending you money. The person that does it may keep it or donate it to charity. Either way, cash baiting is wrong. I’m sure I’ve covered this before, but let […]
Ways scams change in the time of COVID-19.
Scammers will jump on any opportunity to steal money from people. 2020 and beyond has seen a huge rise in scammers altering their formats slightly to cater to this. The end result is the same, but the big news story is now mentioned and woven into the scam. Here’s an example of two emails sent […]
What a year that was!
2020 was – interesting to say the least. The two main things we’ll remember from it are the COVID-19 pandemic and the American election. Of course, as with any event, scammers were all over it and adding it to their formats. We even had one scammer who appeared to be writing his formats based on […]
Google Forms.
We try our best to keep a step ahead of the trends used by scammers as much as we can. We also like to report anything we spot, to help get the word out. This is one of those occasions. For the past week or so we’ve seen a huge increase in the number of […]
Baity McBaitface.
Most of what you see on the site is the serious side of what we do, but it’s nice from time to time to remember that some of us came into this from a different direction, and that’s the world of baiting. The oldest friendship here is Slappy and I, and that came about due […]
Do you think he’d approve?
This is something I’ve discussed before, but I’m about to post a scammer’s script onto our forum that’s brought it back to the front of my mind. Can you guess what I’m going to talk about from this? MAIL BOX isgoodtoknowgod@gmail.com We’re back to scammers happily stealing money from people while at the same time […]
The Corner Gas saga continues.
It looks like I’ve received a second set of fake DVDs. It’s not like it’s a cheap box set too, costing me around £85 with shipping and import fees. I’m in contact with the company behind the show, and hopefully there’ll be another update soon.