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Author: wayne
What to do if you are a victim of a scam
In case you are a victim of a scam or you were just targeted by a scammer, this is what you need to do. The following list doesn’t cover the blackmail scam/sextortion – for those cases the list can be found here: http://www.blackmailscams.com 1. Contact your bank and let them know you are a victim of […]
Scam victims are not stupid, no matter what you read.
As part of what we do here, we often read media stories about scams and the people who were scammed. Time and again we see people comment on how stupid the people who get scammed are. I’ve been doing this for almost 9 years, and I can honestly say that most of the people I’ve […]
Some behind the scenes updates.
Just 2 bits of news today. We’re working with Scamalytics and looking on ways to share data between each other as a way to get more scammer details online. Also, I’ll be in Manchester next month to meet with the owner of an Android app to discuss ways on helping raise scam awareness through the […]
Well, that didn’t take longer either did it?
And we’ve had our first spam comment. I’ve disabled all options to leave comments on the blog, as this is for information only.
A worrying trend with blackmail scams.
We’ve always said that we will not help anyone who knowingly continued talking to a scammer when they found out they were underage. That stand hasn’t changed, and never will do. I bring this up because of a tactic used by some scammers, where they threaten to tell everyone that the person was on cam […]
Some notes about the wrong things blackmail victims do.
Taken from http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=27124 Chasing blackmailers on chat sites and messing with them is the wrong thing to do for many reasons. 1. It exposes a recent victim to more trouble, if they do it. And the person doing it can hurt a recent poster or unknown victim. 2. It educates the scammers to be better at […]
Well, that didn’t take long did it?
Less than 24 hours and I’ve already managed to break the blog. I’m blaming it on an errant plugin. It’s all fixed now anyway, and the links to the posts work again.
Updated scam quiz.
This week we updated the “Am I dealing with a scammer?” quiz to give it a new look. You can see it at http://www.scamsurvivors.com/quiz/quiz.html#/
Are you dealing with a romance scammer? Here are some signs.
If you’re single and looking for love, you may decide to go online. Beware, as scammers are everywhere, looking for victims to fleece. Here’s some ways to spot if that cutie is real or a scammer: Does the name have “4real”, “2luv” or something similar? That’s very typical for the West African scammers. Are the […]