Author: wayne

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

In an update to the post HERE, I immediately wrote to the company to say the DVDs were fake and a day later had a reply feigning shock and claiming nothing like this had ever happened before. This despite the fact most of their reviews say the same thing. I showed them photographic proof and […]

I own several thousand DVDs and Blu Rays that are kept on various shelves and bookcases around the house. I’ve also made copies for our children to borrow when they were younger, knowing that if they got their hands on the original I’d never be able to watch it again. It’s fair to say I […]

I have a friend who, for the purpose of this blog post we’ll call Glen*. That’s not his name, but it is the first name of the person whose music I last asked Alexa to play, so it’s as good a name as any. Now Glen is a salt of the earth kind of guy. […]

This is a question we’re asked quite a lot by the media. The answer is pretty simple. We create accounts specifically for the purpose, then make their details available in the places scammers go to looking for lists of email addresses and wait for the scam emails to roll in. Sometimes I see that a […]

Less than 48 hours ago I was chatting to someone from the media on the phone. During that time I was explaining the ways that we can sometimes find the real identities of the scammers behind the stolen photos. One of our recent sextortion forms turned out to be about a different scam, and while […]