The question? How many different scammers contacted my fake dating profile on a single site in a single month. Multiply that by 12 and you’re looking at over 900 scammers a year. Remember, this is just for one profile on one site. It’s not even a particularly special profile. It’s about as ordinary and […]
Sometimes scammers really aren’t that smart.
If you want to see some of the stupid things scammers have said, check out www.stupidscammers.com
A typical example of a “dying widow” scam.
Dear Friend, Greetings In The Name Of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I am Evangelist Mrs.Chimezie Chimu a widow to late Richard Williams Jim, I am 53 yrs old, I am now a new Christian convert, suffering from long time cancer of the breast, from all indication my condition is really deteriorating and it’s quit obvious […]
Vigilante? Hardly.
Vigilante is one of those words we hear thrown around about baiters. It makes it sound so glamorous. In reality it couldn’t be any further from the truth. Most of what we do is in fact pretty mundane. Certainly I can spend the first 2 hours of the day doing nothing but copy and pasting […]
Something to be aware of when it comes to apps.
If you have an app that’s linked to your Facebook profile, then running it can reactivate it without your knowledge. This is of concern for those who have deactivated their FB accounts after being blackmailed. Best advice right now is don’t run those apps for 2 weeks, along with deactivating your social media accounts.
What is a “car wrap” scam?
You’ve all seen cars that are covered in adverts for various energy drinks or other products. This is called car wrapping, as you literally “wrap” the car in decals for the product. It seems like easy money, especially if you have a car or bike that would attract attention anyway. There are legitimate companies that […]
New site logo.
So today we put up a new site logo. It’s similar to the old one, but also completely different. “Why the change?” I hear you say. Simple. Size matters. Our old logo looked great on PC screens, but shrink it down for a tablet or mobile phone and it was kind of hard to read. […]
Will we be at the UK Dating Awards this month?
Um, no. We were asked to nominate ourselves, but then I read that to do so would cost us over £30. £30 to us is about 10 days’ hosting fees. We run on a very small budget that comes from ads and member donations. In fact, if they don’t cover the fees, then the difference […]
A busy day.
Yesterday was a long, but very rewarding day. I drove to Manchester to do some filming for a program to be shown on prime time UK TV in January, the name of which I still can’t mention. After that we met with the owner of “an online dating efficiency hub that gives users access to […]
Refugee scams.
The refugee scam is a mix of romance scam and trunk box scam. In these cases, the “woman” will have fled the country due to her family being brutally murdered or a wicked relative trying to control her after the death of her father. They will claim to be in a refugee camp, and in […]