We’ve been working on making a few changes to the front page of our site.  Our two main links are now much more prominent, and we also have links to some of the media articles we’ve been featured in.  Still a few things to do, but it’s already looking better than it used to.

Recently we’ve started seeing more and more Ivory Coast scammers switching to blackmail instead of their usual style of refugee scam.  This is a concern for us, as they’re more likely to continue trying to contact the victim than the Moroccans or Pinoys.

If someone you’ve only ever met online asks you for money, odds are it’s a scam.

Many people have become frustrated over the number of scammers on dating sites.  Some even feel there are no real people looking for love online anymore, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.  Yes, scammers are a major problem, but if you educate yourself on the ways to spot them then it’s possible to […]

This is a common trick used by scammers to appear to be in another country.  They register an internet number that appears to be in another country, but are in fact nothing more than premium rate numbers they can access via a browser.  The most common one we see is the UK +4470 (or 070) […]

This one is easy.  They send it to themselves, either by emailing themselves and adding all their potential victims to the BCC list (blind carbon copy – no one else can see the details of the others emailed), or by emailing themselves at a different email account.  Here’s an example: Subject: PAYMENT SOLUTION, From: Us […]

When you receive an email with a link claiming to be from an official company, hover your mouse pointer over the link and look at the bottom of the browser page.  You’ll see the link appear there.  If it doesn’t match the location it’s claiming to go to, it’s very likely a phishing link used […]

So let me introduce you to the core group of volunteers who run this site.  Firstly, my name is Wayne and this is my site.  I joined the antiscam community in December of 2005 as a baiter after stumbling into it purely by accident.  Since then I’ve switched my focus from messing with the scammers […]

We all see the term “419 scam” thrown around, but where does it actually come from?  Its roots are in the Nigerian criminal code, specifically section 419.  Below is that section, as taken from http://www.nigeria-law.org/Criminal%20Code%20Act-Part%20VI%20%20to%20the%20end.htm 419.         Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of […]

Over the past 2.5 years we’ve dealt with tens of thousands of cases of online fraud.  One scam in particular we see more than any other, and that’s the blackmail scam.  Through those cases, we’ve come up with the best solution to deal with it.  However, we still get people who ask for our help […]