Today I want to talk about charity scams. These are scams that rely on a person’s kindness. For all the “scams rely on a person’s greed” talk, this is one scam that is 100% not about that. In fact, it won’t work unless the person is willing to give freely for no reward. The best […]
Month: December 2014
What can everyone do to help?
This one is very simple. Not everyone wants to bait or do victim support. We understnad and appreciate it’s not for everyone. However, everyone can help by either getting the word out or posting up any scammer emails they get. The more the information is put “out there”, the more likely people are of finding […]
I’m often asked if I were ever the victim of a scam.
Short answer, no. Long answer, not online and luckily I didn’t lose a large amount of money. Back when we were first married, my wife and I wanted a new TV for our house. We saw an advert (a full 2 page spread advert to be exact) in the local paper for an auction and […]
If you didn’t enter it, you didn’t win it.
Did you buy a lottery ticket this week? If you did, then good luck and please remember your old pal Wayne if you win the big one. If you didn’t then of course there’s no way you can win. It’s the same with the internet. No matter how many emails you get claiming the opposite, […]
The “YouTube police”.
One trick used by blackmail scammers is to write to their victims claiming to be from YouTube and telling them they need to pay a fine for their video appearing on the site. Now obviously, reading that statement from an objective point of view it’s obviously a lie. However, put yourself in the other person’s […]
DDoS attacks
We’ve had several DDoS attacks lately. Luckily they haven’t taken our site down, but we do have very good DDoS protected hosting. It’s more expensive, but as we can see, it’s well worth the cost. Crazy as it sounds, we actually like getting them. It shows us that we’ve upset someone enough for them to […]
Nine years today I started this journey.
On December 5th 2005, I discovered the world of scambaiting. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. Since that day I’ve baited thousands of scammers, spoken to thousands of scam survivors, written three books, appeared on TV, had my ugly mug shown in the national newspapers, been a moderator and admin on several antiscam […]
The sharing of information HAS to be a two way street.
Here’s a form we received recently: Your name. This will not be made public. It is just for our own records.*: ghjkj Your location. This will not be made public. It is just for our own records.*: ghjkjlkö Your email address. This will not be made public. It is just for our own records.*: gjhklk@jhkjl.com […]
If it can be used, it can be abused.
Scammers will use anything they can to make their scams appear more legitimate. This includes abusing many legitimate services. For example, Western Union offer a service where people can be sent money if they lose their ID/get robbed. To do so, the person sending the money gives the person collecting the money a test question […]
Pot, kettle, black.
Remember that this comes from a scammer profile: A note to all online Cheater ,Joker, and boys who derive pleasure from reeling women in building up false hope then crushing them ,you know who you are…am not here for you, you’re not welcome. This is actually a common scammer trick to warn off other scammers. […]