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Mule Address A Method Used To Defrauf Merchants Scam Basics - A SCARS Series The Anatomy of a 'Mule Address' What is a Mule Address? A mule address is, essentially, a location where fraudsters arrange for the delivery of goods purchased with stolen credit card details. This location often takes the form of an unoccupied house or apartment, making it difficult for authorities to trace the illegal transactions back to [...]
Social Delivery - Buying Your Affection A Technique Scammers Use To Groom You How Scammers Work - A SCARS Insight Social Delivery Is A Scammer Grooming Technique In the realm of online romance fraud or relationship scams, scammers employ a calculated technique known as "social delivery" to establish rapport and cultivate trust with their unsuspecting victims. Social Delivery Through this deceptive method, fraudsters go beyond mere virtual interactions and take [...]
Food Fraud Affects All Of Us A New Scam You May Have Never Heard Of Is Everywhere! How Scams Work - A SCARS Insight Food Fraud Secretly Infiltrates Kitchens Across America Why are we Talking About Food Fraud on a Relationship Scam Website? Simple. This is a scam and it involves your trust relationship with your supermarket. If you are like us, you buy your food products at a place [...]
How Data Brokers find and sell your Personal Info to Scammers THIS IS WHY WE NEED NEW DATA PRIVACY REGULATIONS A SCARS Advocacy Insight The Situation Is Completely Out Of Control You Are Being Left On Your Own To Try And Stop It! Your consumer data is valuable to scammers and cybercriminals. Everyone just assumes that scammers and cybercriminals are just a bunch of dumb guys sitting on a floor [...]
New Scam Victim's Financial Survival A Guide for recent Scam Victims on managing their finances after a scam This is not intended to replace professional financial advice. Please see a licensed financial professional before acting on any financial decisions. A SCARS Guide After Your Scam, You Have So Much To Worry About, But Don't Ignore Your Finances! More Than Anything You Need To Survive This! This is Financial Survival! Tips [...]
An Updated Compendium Of Confidence Tricks A Collection of Scams & Cons A SCARS Insight Confidence Tricks And Scams And Frauds Confidence tricks and scams are difficult to classify because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark". Particular scams are mainly [...]
Pig-Butchering Scam / Sha Zhu Pan - Training Manuals Scammer Training Guides Reprinted From REDDIT - Originally Posted by "cannabiccino" Training Guides Scammer Use For "Pig Butchering" Scams Our thanks to "cannabiccino" for this valuable information. As we have said for more than a decade, scammers are organized criminals that work in larger organizations. They outsource many of their activities, including training. They buy scripts and tools for outside providers! [...]
Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2021 A EUROPOL Report A SCARS Special Report Cybercrime In The COVID Era The exceptional COVID-19 crisis has fuelled the increase of cybercrime in all its forms, while grey infrastructure serves to facilitate the proliferation of crime The IOCTA is Europol’s flagship strategic product that provides a law enforcement-focused assessment of evolving threats and key developments in the area of cybercrime. In previous versions [...]
Inhuman Attackers! What Are Bots? Understanding Cybersecurity A SCARS Insight Bots Are Everywhere! A ‘bot’ – short for robot – is a software program that performs automated, repetitive, pre-defined tasks. Bots typically imitate or replace human user behavior. Because they are automated, they operate much faster than human users. They carry out useful functions, such as customer service or indexing search engines, but they can also come in the form [...]
Emailed & Downloaded Photos May Contain Malware SCARS Scam Basics Don't Open That Photo Attachment The Dangers Of Downloading Photos From Stranger Emails Or The Web It Has Long Been Known That Image Files Can Contain Malware This can apply to photos sent via email or ones downloaded from social media or photo-sharing websites, even Google Drive (Docs). Remember that NOT everyone is what they seem, some are [...]
SCARS™ Special Report: Europol’s 2020 Cybercrime Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) Europol’s 2020 cybercrime report updates on the latest trends and the current impact of cybercrime within the EU and beyond. Source: EUROPOL So much has changed since Europol published last year’s Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA). The global COVID-19 pandemic that hit every corner of the world forced us to reimagine our societies and reinvent the way we work and live. During [...]
SCARS™ Special Report: Deciphering the Lottery Scam Rings Another Kind Of Relationship Scam In Recent Years There Has Been A Shocking Increase In Jamaica’S Homicide Rate That Has Refocused Attention On Lottery Scams In The Caribbean Island Nation But it is not a uniquely Jamaican problem, with well-organized lottery frauds operating throughout the Americas, costing the United States hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars each year. The total number of killings in Jamaica jumped [...]
SCARS™ Crime Prevention Campaign: Avoid Fakes! All scam victims know about Fakes! Especially romance scam victims! Impersonations are a central part of the African / Indian scammer tool kit. But did you think about the other kinds of fake that you get scammed by all the time? YOU’RE SMART. BUY SMART. Don’t fall for fake products. Buy the brand and keep it real. The United States Patent & Trademark Office and the National Crime Prevention [...]
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Trump Signs Historic Order To Address Flaws In Communications Decency Act [UPDATED: Revoked By Joe Biden] A SCARS Insight This was an important step in the direction of protecting everyone online and holding tech and social media companies accountable. Unfortunately, President Biden revoked this order almost immediately on gaining the presidency! Thus serving to protect the tech companies and not the internet consumers! Revoked by President Joe Biden May [...]
God Help Millennials! Millennials Are The Most Scammed Demographic A SCARS Special Report Our Latest Generation Of "Adults" Are Being Scammed At Faster Rates And In Greater Numbers Than Senior Citizens Let's face it, Millennials think they own the online world - they grew up with it, they live it every second of the day. But this same absolute confidence in their mastery of everything Internet is also [...]
SCARS™ Special Report: COVID19 Coronavirus Scam Costs U.K. Victims Nearly £1,000,000 In One Month - Not To Mention The Impact Worldwide In the United Kingdom since February 2020, the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau has identified 21 reports of fraud where Coronavirus was mentioned, with victim losses totaling over £800k. Of the 21 reports, ten were made by victims that attempted to purchase protective face masks from fraudulent sellers. One victim reported losing over £15k when [...]
SCARS™ Scammer Methods: A Scammer's Primer - Part 2 A Guide To Help You Better Understand Why Scammers Do What They Do! Based Upon Actual Scammer Training Guides The Questions Scammers Have A Variety Of Guides They Follow To Learn And Expand Their Knowledge Of Scamming They use these guides to learn how to engage their victims and create moments to deploy hooks to begin the capture process. [...]
A SCARS™ Guest Editorial By Catherine Saori Usui The following is a Guest Editorial by Catherine Saori Usui - an Anti-Scam Victims Advocate living in Japan, A Professional Support Services Provider, An Aspiring Author, and A Romance Scam Survivor. Catherine plays a role in directly helping scam victims to recover, and is active in helping to build awareness of romance scams in Japan. She is also a member of the Society of Citizens Against Relationship [...]
SCARS™ Scam Basics: Too Many Facebook Groups All Scam Victims Have Asked Themselves How And Why They Were Targeted! Did You Ever Think It Was The Groups You Joined? [lwptoc] Facebook is a wonderous platform connecting half of the world - at least if you believe Facebook. The Reality Though Is Quite Different. At least half of all Facebook profiles are fake or fraudulent. Just imagine that, over one billion fake profiles! (See here ») [...]
SCARS™ Scam Basics: Soldier Impersonation Impersonations - Of Real Military People The practice of impersonating Soldiers for financial gain is common in scams online. When impostor accounts are identified, it is important to report the accounts to the host platforms. Twitter allows users to create parody, satire, newsfeed, commentary, and fan accounts that mimic organizations if they indicate that they are “unofficial” or “fan” accounts. On Facebook, they are not allowed and should be reported [...]
SCARS™ Special Report: Where Do Scammers Scam Scam Victims? We Are Asked Every Single Day If Scammers Scam On This Social Media Or That One! While This list may not be complete these are ALL places where scammers scam on Social Media. In other words, everywhere! If you belong or have an account on any of these - then you are a target. We recommend that you close all social media accounts that you do [...]
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RSN™ Special Report: Cybercrime Hits $1.4+ TRILLION ANNUALLY Hyper-Connected Web Of Profit Emerges, As Global Cybercriminal Revenues Hit $1.4 Trillion Annually A Ground-Breaking Study, Commissioned By Bromium, Highlights The Emergence Of "Platform Criminality", Exposing Cybercriminal Links To Drug Production, Human Trafficking, And Terrorism Originally published April 2018 Bromium®, Inc., the pioneer and leader in virtualization-based endpoint security that stops advanced malware attacks via application isolation, today announced the findings of an independent study that looked into [...]
MoneyGram Or Western Union Tried To Warn You! How Many Of You Paid Attention To The Statements On MoneyGram Or Western Union? For your protection... MoneyGram is working to protect you and your family from fraud. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Valued MoneyGram Customer STOP! Please Read! MONEY TRANSFER FRAUD WARNING Answer the questions below to help KEEP YOUR MONEY SAFE: Are you sending money to the IRS or another government agency? Are you sending money, returning an [...]
RSN™ Fake Female Identity - Example Scammer Profile In Use: Angel O. Razzel Angel Russians Are Marching In Again! Except She'S Really From Ghana! Angel O. Razzel angel.razzel@yahoo.com IP:196.44.100.242 SERVER:196.44.100.242 COUNTRY: Ghana Angel's Profile Details: In the name of love Age: 32 Gender: Female Orientation: Heterosexual Country: United States Location: New York, NY Height: 4 ft. 7 in. Body Type: Slim/slender Ethnicity: White / Caucasian Hair Color: Blonde hair Eye Color: Blue Religion: Christian [...]
RSN™ Fake Female Identity - Example Scammer Profile In Use: Georgina - Ghana Africa Georgina Africa - probably stolen images Yep here's another Georgina Ghana Africa Her Details: this is a little about my self? Age: 33 Gender: Female Orientation: Bisexual Country: United States Location: Oley, PA Height: 5 ft. 6 in. Body Type: Average Ethnicity: Black / African descent Hair Color: Black hair Eye Color: Brown Religion: Christian / Catholic Astrological sign: Pisces Level [...]
Terrorism Connection - Al Qaeda DatingFrom The SCARS ArchivesTerrorists Also Use Online Dating Platforms "I was rather trying to meet girls online"Accused Al Qaeda plotter claims he was just "chasing women on the Internet"Accused terrorist Abid Naseer argued in court Monday that he never plotted to blow up random people in the U.S. and Europe, but was rather trying to meet girls online.Naseer is accused of training with Al Qaeda [...]
The facial recognition databases are coming. Why aren’t the privacy laws? Now that the US supreme court is finally considering cellphones, let’s get ahead of Moore’s Law and defend our new metadata The FBI estimates that it will store over 50m faces images by 2015 in a market that will be worth $20bn by the end of the decade – without regulation. Photograph: AlamyOnline dating is kind of like going on a shopping trip. But [...]
Philippines Scammers About Philippines Women Scammers and Why They Do It! How Scammers Operate - A SCARS Insight Philippines Scammers / Philippines (Filipino) Scammers Scammers from the Philippines After Ghana and Nigeria, the Philippines is one the largest sources for Dating or Romance Scams. The worst part is that these are typically real people using their real names and stories, not using fake photos or profiles. They simply want you to [...]
RSN™ Fake Female Identity - Example Scammer Profile In Use: Cinderela / Becky Page / Becky Ellis You will find more Bad Grammar on dating website profiles since it is less easy to copy and past on some. Cinderela / Becky Page bpage907844@aol.com - photo probably stolen Repeat Offender Scammer From Ghana. Nigerians are normally much more polished at fraud than Ghanaians. They have perfect use of language and are far better storytellers, but if you [...]
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