The SCARSSCARS SCARS - Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams Inc. A government registered crime victims' assistance & crime prevention nonprofit organization based in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. SCARS supports the victims of scams worldwide and through its partners in more than 60 countries around the world. Incorporated in 2015, its team has 30 years of continuous experience educating and supporting scam victims. Visit www.AgainstScams.org to learn more about SCARS. Victims’ Assistance & Support Model

SCARS Is The Only Crime Victims’ Assistance Organization With A Focus On CybercrimeCybercrime Cybercrime is a crime related to technology, computers, and the Internet. Typical cybercrime are performed by a computer against a computer, or by a hacker using software to attack computers or networks. Victims, And The Only One With Proven Recovery Solutions For ScamScam A Scam is a confidence trick - a crime -  is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust through deception. Scams or confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, or greed and exploiting that. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men' - criminals) at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')". A scam is a crime even if no money was lost. Victims.

All of our groups are pieces of a larger puzzle.

They are the funnel that can lead victims to support and assistance, but not everyone is ready for a real support groupSupport Group In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic, such as romance scams. Members with the same issues can come together for sharing coping strategies, to feel more empowered and for a sense of community. The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks. A support group may also work to inform the public or engage in advocacy. They can be supervised or not. SCARS support groups are moderated by the SCARS Team and or volunteers. – they need to learn and work through issues before they are ready.

• STAGE 1: We start with our RomanceScamsNow.com website & main Facebook pages – this is the entry point to scam victims assistance
• STAGE 2: Our Educational Groups on Facebook are the next stage – these are a light version of support mixed with scam knowledge and avoidance education. They introduce support concepts and providing generalized support to victims at all stages and genders
• STAGE 3: Exposure & Reporting groups on Facebook allow victims to work out angerAnger 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. and feel in control – but it does not work for careless victims.  It requires attention to detail, and may be more traumatic for some victims – most victims will skip this stage
• STAGE 4: Support GroupsSupport Groups In a support group, members provide each other with various types of help, usually nonprofessional and nonmaterial, for a particular shared, usually burdensome, characteristic, such as romance scams. Members with the same issues can come together for sharing coping strategies, to feel more empowered and for a sense of community. The help may take the form of providing and evaluating relevant information, relating personal experiences, listening to and accepting others' experiences, providing sympathetic understanding and establishing social networks. A support group may also work to inform the public or engage in advocacy. They can be supervised or not. SCARS support groups are moderated by the SCARS Team and or volunteers. on Facebook – allow victims to recover in the support group setting – we require that all victims go through our Educational Groups prior to entering a Victims Peer to Peer group – this allows our staff to evaluate each person for the readiness and suitability for a support group
• STAGE 4A: We also have a Family support group for friends and family members – again all members must go through the Educational groups first
• STAGE 5: Lastly we also have confidential support through the messenger interface on our main SCARS Facebook Page. This is a crisis intervention stage and where we identify at-risk victims for supplemental assistance
• In addition, we offer email support – but this is low urgency – questions can be asked by people not using the websites or Facebook
• We also offer the SCARS STEPS individual self-paced recovery program on our website for those that want to go it alone
• Plus, we have the largest romance scam related library on our RomanceScamsNow.com website as well, for self-paced learning for victims at any stage

This is the SCARS overall support model

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