After A Scam, You Will Have Questions

Here is our advice for new victims:

• 3 Steps For New Victims
• A Scam Victim’s Checklist
• Next Steps – Protect Your Financial Identity
• 4 Steps To Controlling Scam Victim Debt
• After-Scam Reality Check!
• Keeping Secrets Increases Trauma
• Understanding The Hard Times After The Scam
• From Victim To Survivor
• In A Victim’s Own Words
• How To Explain It To Others
• Victim Coping Strategies
• Getting Closure

Why Do We Separate Information?

We help victims in different stages of recovery, and not all information is suitable for new victims. We separate it so that you can find the information you are looking for without additional traumaTrauma Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter your sense of security, making you feel helpless in a dangerous world. Psychological trauma can leave you struggling with upsetting emotions, memories, and anxiety that won’t go away. It can also leave you feeling numb, disconnected, and unable to trust other people. Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety or other emotional shocks, but any situation that leaves you feeling overwhelmed and isolated can result in trauma, even if it doesn’t involve physical harm. It’s not the objective circumstances that determine whether an event is traumatic, but your subjective emotional experience of the event. The more frightened and helpless you feel, the more likely you are to be traumatized. Trauma requires treatment, either through counseling or therapy or through trauma-oriented support programs, such as those offered by SCARS. if you are not ready for it.

Never Be Afraid To Ask For Help!

Only about 1/3 of scam victims will effectively recover from their experience.

2/3 are lost to anger and rageRage Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, trigger, hurt or threat. About one-third of scam victims become trapped in anger for extended periods of time following a scam. A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion that triggers a part of the fight or flight response. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically. Anger can have many physical and mental consequences. While most of those who experience anger explain its arousal as a result of "what has happened to them", psychologists point out that an angry person can very well be mistaken because anger causes a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability. (including vigilantism), or some form of denialDenial Denial is a refusal or unwillingness to accept something or to accept reality. Refusal to admit the truth or reality of something, refusal to acknowledge something unpleasant; And as a term of Psychology: denial is a defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality. or mental illnessMental Illness Mental illness, also called mental health disorders, refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking, and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and addictive behaviors..

Don’t be one of them! There is no shameShame Shame is an unpleasant self-conscious emotion typically associated with a negative evaluation of the self; withdrawal motivations; and feelings of distress, exposure, mistrust, powerlessness, and worthlessness. in asking for and accepting help!

If you are looking for local trauma counselors please visit www.PsychologyToday.com/us/therapists/trauma-and-ptsd (U.S. & International)

After A Scam, You Need To Recover

We Offer Several Free Recovery Programs

On Facebook:

• SCARS Recovery Support Group | English
• SCARS Foro de Educacion e Informacion | Español
• SCARS Grupo de Apoio a Vítimas | Brasil
• SCARS Wiederherstellungsunterstützungsgruppe | Deutsche
• Stand Up Speak Up – By Debby Montgomery Johnson

On The Web

• SCARS Scam Victims’ Forum Website www.ScamVictimSupport.org

How To Contact SCARS

• EMAIL: Contact@AgainstScams.org
• FACEBOOK MESSENGER: m.me/SCARS.SocietyAgainst.org
• PHONE: SCARS is not able to provide phone support at this time
• ADDRESS:
  Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams Inc.
  3901 NW 79th Ave Suite 245 #2288, Miami, Florida 33166 U.S.A.