This is a typical line from a scammer email: NOTE: IF ANY BODY CALL YOU OR SEND EMAIL TO YOU LOOK AT IT VERY WELL AS I DIRECTED YOU TO AVOID THOSE HOODLUMS NOT TO CONFUSE YOU. Basically, they don’t want you talking to any other scammer. After all, if you send that scammer money, […]
Month: November 2014
One ring scams.
This is a particularly clever scam that doesn’t even need any human interaction. Here’s how it works. Your phone rings once, then hangs up. When you check your last call, it gives a number you don’t recognise, so you call it. At this point you’ve just connected to a premium rate number and being charged […]
If you haven’t seen this yet, go check it out.
I strongly recommend people check out this thread on our forum. A lot of positive vibes going on there. http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=4509
Black Friday deal. 99% off!!!
This Black Friday, you can get a whopping 99% off any help on our site. Or at least you would if we actually charged for our help. We at scamsurvivors.com offer free, non judgmental help and advice every day of the week, every week of the year (even Christmas, Black Friday and New Years’ Day) […]
Why do we do this?
I was recently asked as part of a TV interview why I do this. It’s not as if we get paid for it, yet we give up hours of our time each and every day to help others who’ve been scammed. I’m sure I speak for all the volunteers on the site when I say […]
What’s God got to do with it?
Many scammers claim to be religious. Many seem to got to church. We’ve even seen the test questions and answers the scammers use have terms like “Question – God. Answer – is great”. Yet, they seem to conveniently forget the whole “Thou shalt not steal” bit in the Bible. Let me try to explain the […]
Wow! Just – wow!
This one didn’t even kiss me before trying to f*ck me out of my money. “send me 1000$, i will be with you this weekend and spend 7days…are you interested?” I have of course replied. More info if and when they write back.
It’s not just about the money, even if it is to the scammers.
Yes, scams cost people money. Online scams are estimated to cost people over $110 billion dollars a year. That’s a lot of money by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s not the whole story. Blackmail scams for example, leave people in a perpetual state of fear. People have taken their own lives because of […]
And THIS is why you don’t tell a scammer their details are on an antiscam site!
This from one of our blackmail forms: She’s already mentioned on your website. Maybe I should have not, but I sent her this link 5 minutes after the end of te conversation, she changed her face book profile. Tell a scammer they’re reported and of course they’re going to change the details. Now, […]
How to delete a private video from YouTube.
One thing a blackmail scammer will do is upload the video to YouTube, show it to you and then make it private. Public videos are easy to remove, and are usually gone within 10 minutes of a report being made. Private videos can be removed, but the process is much longer. Here’s how it’s done, […]