Right, time for a rant! We have a page on the site that gives my contact details, including both UK and USA numbers so that law enforcement or the media can contact me. On the page it clearly states that it is ONLY for those purposes, explains that all the the calls are transferred to […]
Month: January 2018
Monkey see, monkey do.
We often talk about how we can tell where a scammer is from simply by format the scam takes. For example, if a scammer uses a photo of a modelesque female and asks for money to pay the translation agency they’ve been using to help them communicate then we can assume with a great degree […]
It’s not us that need convincing.
Every now and again (today being the latest incident), someone comes to the site, says “XXXXXX is a scammer. They were acting suspicious.” and expects us to allow that report to stay. Here’s the problem with that. There’s no actual scam proof. Nine times out of ten, it’s pretty obvious to us that the profile […]
The exception that proves the rule.
Today I read the story of a woman who was catfished that ended with her and the person whose photos were stolen falling in love. All very sweet you may think, but it causes a big problem for us. People will see this and think the same can happen to them. Let me make this […]
Let’s stop pretending.
We live in a world of double standards. When a woman is raped, there will be voices blaming her for the clothes she wore or for her way of being. “She was asking for it”. On the other hand, if the woman is a celebrity, there will be enough fuss for society to do something […]
If we’d have said it, no one would have believed us.
There was a story on the Daily Beast’s website today about sextortion and the – in my opinion at least – complete incompetence shown by the law enforcement person in charge of the investigation. Here’s the sad thing about it. Nothing in the article surprised us. I was in contact with the reporter thoughout the […]
What can banks do to help fight Fraud?
I report the bank accounts that are received by Scamsurvivors.com and are being used to commit Fraud to the holding banks. Sometimes it’s as easy as looking up the bank, grabbing an E-mail address, and sending an E-mail. Other times it’s a struggle to say the least. I have some banks that I have to […]
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to get scammed again.
I remember in the days we had our live help room, people would come in and say “I’m so stupid”. My reply would always be “Falling for a scam doesn’t make you stupid. Not learning from your mistakes and falling for it A SECOND TIME however…..”. Today we had an instance of someone getting scammed […]
Sextortion facts and figures based on form submissions.
I have just done some research using information from the last 88 sextortion forms received. Why 88? Simply because I rename the CSV file every few days to let the software create a new one and stop the database getting too big and slow. Each file is labeled with the date it was saved, so […]
A few small words that make a world of difference.
This was at the end of one of our sextortion report forms today. We’re glad to help, and always love to hear feedback like this. From now I can sleep at night. Thank so much. God bless you.