RSN™ Insight: Why We Do What We Do?
Many have asked why we do not post more photos of scammers on our Main Facebook Pages? (Here & Here)
Updated November 2018
The Reason Is Actually A Simple One – But It Has Several Parts:
1) Facebook prohibits harassment or bullying of other people. Ironically, scammers are people, and as such the approach taken in exposing them can get you in trouble with Facebook. This is a fundamental violation of Facebook’s Community Standards.
This is Facebook’s sandbox, and to do good we have to be aware of what they permit and what they don’t. We do present some scammers that are reported through RomanceScamsNow.com and Anyscam.com (from SCARS). But we limit this to comply with Facebook’s requirements.
2) We can show you an endless stream of scammers – but it will be impossible for you to see them all – OR – we can help you understand what scamming is and how to avoid it.
We Can Hand You A Fish, Or Teach You How To Fish!
3) We employ our workforce to provide avoidance education and victim’s support. As the only actual business in the anti-scam world (other than SCARS which is an NGO/Non-profit) – RSN (which is a unit of PerfectReputations®) invests its employee’s time and resources for the maximum good, and a never-ending stream of stolen faces is not a good use of the limited resources we have available.
4) We have other pages where we do show many more scammers and you are encouraged to take a look at these – through all of the above still applies.
If you want to see and help report then join our SCARS Anti-Scam Army™ here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RSN.Army/
Other RSN Facebook Pages Displaying Scammers – these are just a few of the dozens we publish:
- Fake Profiles & Stolen Faces on Facebook
- Fake Facebook Pages on Facebook
- Fake Military & Soldiers on Facebook
- Female Romance Scammers on Facebook
- Men & Male Romance Scammers on Facebook
- Reported Real Romance Scammers on Facebook
- West Africa Scammers on Facebook
5) The scammers we do show are reported to Anyscam.com and RomanceScamsNow.com (report them here), and other SCARS Data Reporting Network locations. But reports have dropped off dramatically in 2017, largely due to scammers focusing on other types of scams.
6) We believe it is healthier for victims to focus on understanding and recovery, rather than an endless stream of hate directed at stolen faces. Most anti-scam amateur groups (and in fact all of them are) have no real idea what they are doing. So their default is to post the faces, even though there is little real value in doing so. and evidences that it is actually harmful to the victim’s own recovery. They are welcome to do it, but the result is that their pages get taken down by Facebook, and their hate then gets focused on other groups doing good work. Anything to fuel the hate and rage they have for anyone that contradicts them.
So in the end …
We do what we do because we believe it contributes more in the long run. Focusing on avoidance and support help people who have been victimized. Focusing on public and governmental policy, education, and enforcement helps harden society against socially engineered scams and fraud.
We Hope You Agree! Please Share Your Thoughts In A Comment Below?
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FAQ: How Do You Properly Report Scammers?
It is essential that law enforcement knows about scams & scammers, even though there is nothing (in most cases) that they can do.
Always report scams involving money lost or where you received money to:
- Local Police – ask them to take an “informational” police report – say you need it for your insurance
- Your National Police or FBI (www.IC3.gov)
- The Scars Worldwide Reporting Network HERE or on www.Anyscam.com
This helps your government understand the problem, and allows law enforcement to add scammers on watch lists worldwide.
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Visit our NEW Main SCARS™ News & Information Facebook page for much more information about scams and online crime: www.facebook.com/SCARS.News.And.Information
To learn more about SCARS visit www.AgainstScams.org
Please be sure to report all scammers HERE or on www.Anyscam.com
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Everything you do RSN is greatly appreciated. Recognizing scammers and blocking and reporting on your site is more meaningful then going to the local Police Station. Thank you for all your support and education and information you provide to so many victims through this website.
You are very welcome! Our employees love hearing from people like yourself. Thank you
Hi
In your previous post, that some of the Western Union Branch are involved in this type of fraud is there possibility that they will be persecuted and that they will be liable for all this crime that the Scammers use their business to commit fraud to the victims?
THERE IS LITTLE CHANCE OF THAT. AFRICA IS NOT THE U.S. OR EUROPE. JUSTICE SYSTEMS DO NOT WORK THE SAME.
First, I would like to thank you for educating like myself to be on alert regarding the scammers that are online and the dedication you all put into to help us. ‘Keep up the amazing job, all the works your doing will not be in vain, I’m happy that there is someone out there willing to help as we know nowadays hard to find’.