Point being, I've been doing this for a long, LONG time. Time has passed, some scams have changed and some scam names have changed. That's what I want to talk about right now. It's happened a lot, but let's keep it simple and focus on one scam in particular to prove the point here.
Way back when, we had something called the "grandparent" scam. That became the "grandchild" scam, which then became the "hi mum" scam and so on and so forth. It's the same scam, just under a different name. I mean, it is LITERALLY the same scam. "I lost my phone, here's my new number", which leads the person into talking to the scammer. It doesn't matter if it's the "lost phone" scam, the "grandparent" scam, the "grandchild" scam, the "second cousin on my mother's side" scam, the "hi mum" scam or the "hey hey Hilary" scam, it's still the same damn scam. The media (and the antiscam community to a degree) giving it a different name doesn't make it a different scam. All it does is muddy the water and make it appear as if there's multiple scams when there's really just the one scam. Why do they do this? You tell me.... You'd think we would want to keep it as simple as possible to help people realise it's a scam and a well known one at that. Apparently it doesn't work that way though.
Take a look at the scam messages you receive, read through the text, look at the context of the scam and try to find the earliest reference to it you can. Find what it USED to be called and call it that. Don't make it any more confusing than it already is. KISS - Keep It Simple Scambaiters. Those who almost fell for the scam until they found your report on it will thank you for it. I'll thank you for it. That's all that really matters, right?
