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Re: Blog archive.

Unread postby Wayne » Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:56 pm

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/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 a scam. Ask them to change your bank account details used with the scammer and ask also if is any way the bank can use to track the money and / or recover at least a part of the money sent.

2. Contact your local police with all the evidences you have regarding the scam and fill a complaint. More info you have about the scammer – more chances for the Police to find a way to nail the scammer or at least some of his accomplices.

3. Stop all the contacts with the scammer and all the people you were presented by the scammer. Unfriend them – if they are friends with you in any of yours online profiles and block them. Block them in any chat platform (Yahoo, skype etc) used with them to communicate. Do not reply to their emails if they sent you some – just delete the emails without even open it. Block their phone numbers in your phone.

4. Keep in mind that everything used with a scammer is compromised. The details you shared will be reused by the same scammer or another one in another attempt to scam you. Best thing to do is to change everything: the phone number you are using, the email address, the bank account details. By doing this, you avoid letting yourself targeted again.

5. Avoid any conversation with any person contacting you using the same email address / phone number / skype you were using with your scammer and / or talking with you on the behalf of the scammer.

6. Do not fall for the recovery scam. In many cases of a person being scammed or experiencing a scam attempt, sooner or later someone will contact the victim, claiming to be an official person (police officer, lawyer or similar) with the promise he can recover to money lost and he can put the scammer in jail. If this person will not ask for a fee to do it, he will ask for a fee to send the money after he will tell to the victim he arrested the scammer. It is just another lie, to get more money from the victim.

7. By keeping the contact with the scammer, even if he know you have no money to sent, he will try to made you an accomplice in his scam – promising he will send to you the checks he receive for his work and you can cash the check in your bank account, withdraw a part of the money to re-send that part to him and keeping the rest until his debt to you is paid. In fact, those money are received from other victims and the scammer is just covering his tracks using the first victim. The first victim become a “mule” and he / she may end up in jail for money laundering, while the scammer will be free to scam others in the same way.

Post the relevant details about your scammer on our forum. If you are not sure what elements from your correspondence with the scammer are relevant, try to forward all the pictures, documents and emails received from the scammer(s) to an Admin – our email addresses are on the site under every post we made.
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Re: Blog archive.

Unread postby Wayne » Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:56 pm

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 spoken to have been well spoken and articulate. Some have even been company owners, in high paying jobs or positions of authority. These are not stupid people. These are people with the skills and knowledge to work their way up in the world. So what does make a person fall for a scam? Simply put, it’s being unaware of the scam and how it works. Sure, to someone like me, most scams are blatantly obvious, but if you’re recently widowed and new to the online dating scene then why would you know about romance scams? Maybe they’ve heard the phrase “you can’t con an honest man”, so have no idea that some scams such as charity scams actually rely on the person being honest and kind natured. They could have heard of 419 scams, but have no idea what a phishing email is. Simply put, don’t assume that someone who fell for an online scam is stupid. Stop and think, “Maybe they just didn’t know that scam existed.” and ask yourself “How can we raise awareness to help make sure it doesn’t happen again?”
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Re: Blog archive.

Unread postby Wayne » Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:57 pm

A worrying trend with blackmail scams/sextortion.


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 with a minor. Just yesterday I closed down a video account of a scammer that was claiming that the person captured was on cam with a 7 year old. Imagine seeing that next to your name, and imagine the panic that would go through a person’s mind. The video is gone, but in it you could clearly see that the person on the other side of the conversation appeared to be very much an adult, not a child as they were claiming. If that’s not bad enough, if the video’s title is picked up by Google, all people will see is the person’s name and the allegation, not the video proof that it’s a lie. Luckily it’s a step that the scammers very rarely take these days, preferring to show them the video in Skype instead. It’s definitely something to be aware of though.
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Re: Blog archive.

Unread postby Wayne » Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:57 pm

Some notes about the wrong things blackmail victims do.


Taken from http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/view ... 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 their scam.
3. It stirs up scammers and makes them change their profiles, hurting present and future victims.
It ruins the work of the victims and staff here to warn victims by making the scammers aware that their details might be posted.
4. They cannot be traced to exact location, as they use internet cafes and mobile phones to scam, and use all fake details. They use Western Union which is untraceable. Arrests are impossible unless you are sitting in the cafe next to them as the scam occurs, which you can forget about ever happening. Police may have ways that you do not, so keep away from scammer accounts!
5. It can disrupt any behind-the-scenes police or banking investigations of the scammer and his associates, making the collection of evidence and arrests more difficult.

There is no real way to mess with them to hurt them without endangering victims more in the effort. We ask you to think about the survivors here, the victims that the scammers have on the hook presently, and future victims of the scammer. Read this post also: http://www.scamsurvivors.com/forum/view ... f=3&t=66948 Closing scammer accounts and profiles is wrong too, except for YouTube, Google+, or other video sites.
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Re: Blog archive.

Unread postby Wayne » Mon Apr 04, 2022 8:58 pm

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 photos obvious modelling shots? Best to check them to see if they actually do belong to a model.

If you Google Image Search their photo, does it show up elsewhere, or with a different name/location/age? Did it turn up on a porn site? Did you find it listed on any antiscam sites? Scammers steal photos to use, so if you find it elsewhere it’s a good sign the person you’re talking to is a scammer.

Are their pictures of different people? Scammers quite often put pictures of people who are similar, but different in their profiles.

Is there an email address in their “about me”? Is it broken up, or disguised in some way in an attempt to bypass site filters? Again, common scammer trick.

Is their name backwards? I don’t mean yaM enyaW, but “May Wayne”. Is it two last names? “Smith Davies” for example is a typically scammerish name. Is it spelled incorrectly, such as Scoot or Marry?

Google parts of their “about me”. Does it show up elsewhere? Does it show up as having been used in scams already? Bad sign.

Read their profile carefully. Are there inconsistencies with their gender? Do they talk about the things they want to do for their, wife, then say something like “He must have……”? Scammers copy content and alter it to suit the gender of their profile, but don’t always fix every instance.

What about their location? “Alabama, Asia” or “Lagos, Canada” are more signs it’s a scammer.

Another mistake they make is to refer to themselves as “Native American” instead of “American”. If a blonde haired, blue eyed female claims to be “Native American” you can be pretty sure it’s a scammer.

Does their profile consist of nothing but a single sentence, repeated several times. Typically this is the sign of a Senegal refugee scammer. Likewise “Remember the distance or color does not matter but love matters a lot in life” will tell you the same thing.

Are they “but presently in xxxxxx for some reason”? Often this will be for a business trip or to collect an inheritence after the death of a parent.

Reading their profile, does it exhibit some of the common scammer speech patterns such as “am” instead of “I am”, “I will like” instead of “I would like”, “only child of my parents”, “by profession”, “God fearing”? If they claim to be caucasian then this is considered a bad sign. Claiming they have “black eyes” when the photo is caucasian should get your spidey senses tingling.

Does their profile have mixed case, especially when everything but personal details are in caps?

Are they coming up with excuses why they can’t appear on webcam? Scammers use stolen photos, so will avoid webcam chats in order to not reveal their real identity.

Did they claim to be a scamfighter/in law enforcement and ask you if you were scammed before? This is so they can claim to be able to get your money back and run what’s known as a recovery scam on you.

Are they claiming to be a soldier on service in a foreign country? Scammers will play the part of soldiers, and request you send money so they can travel to be with you or use a special phone to talk to you.

Does their profile cut off abruptly and mid sente

If they wrote to you, did they try to get you off the site and into Skype or Instant Messenger. Scammers know their profile will likely be deleted, so write to a number of people asking them to contact them off site.

Let’s say you actually wrote them. Did they start professing love way too quickly? Did they start referring to you as “my wife” or “my husband”? This is done to create a feeling of intimacy with the victim. Be very very suspicious.

If you know how to find the email headers and the originating IP address in them, then go whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup and see if they match the location they claim to be at. Be aware that some email providers such as Google will only show their IP address and not the IP address of the person sending the emails.

Finally, did they ask for money? The sole purpose of the scam is to empty your bank balance. The simple rule is, if anyone you’ve only ever met online asks you for money for any reason, DON’T PAY THEM. Don’t feel sorry for them. Don’t worry yourself thinking “what if they’re genuine?”. If they ask for money, walk away.
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