Business & Personal Gift Card Scams – Don’t Pay For Anything With A Gift Card – How Scams Work!
BEC ScamsScams 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. - Don’t Pay For Anything With A Gift Card How Scams Work! Business Email & Phone Gift Card Scams A SCARS Insight Look, Your Boss Isn’t Emailing You About A Gift Card It's A 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. Did you get an email from your boss asking [...]
How to Do a Reverse Image Search From Your Phone – Anti-Scam Tip
How to Do a Reverse Image Search From Your Phone Courtesy of PC Magazine Google's reverse image search is a breeze on a desktop, but what about when you're on a mobile device? Google, Bing, and others have options. A SCARS Anti-Scam Tip [...]
Inside Those Stolen Photos! Metadata!
Inside Those Stolen Photos! Metadata! When you take a photo with your camera, the image itself isn’t the only thing that’s recorded. Other information like the date, time, camera model, and a host of other camera settings are also captured and stored within the image file. Learn about [...]
SCARS™ Anti-Scam Tip: Confrontation & The Scammer Dodge
SCARS™ Anti-Scam Tip: Confrontation & The ScammerScammer A Scammer or Fraudster is someone that engages in deception to obtain money or achieve another objective. They are criminals that attempt to deceive a victim into sending more or performing some other activity that benefits the scammer. Dodge Scammers are professionals and have developed techniques to stay connected with their victims at moments of crisis. An example of this is this comment left on our site by a victim. We present it to illustrate a point: I was chatting with [...]
Scammer Techniques: Fake Video Calls
Scammer Techniques: Fake Video Calls A SCARS Insight Confirming Recorded Videos In Skype & Video Chats Almost Every Day Victims Claim They Had Real Video Chats With Impersonated Soldiers, Engineers, Diplomats, and Adult Video Stars They were completely convinced that the video was [...]
SCARS™ Scam Warning: Blackmail Scam Messages
SCARS™ Scam Warning: Blackmail Scam Messages WE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE THROUGH ONE OF OUR WEBSITES: Your computer, email and smartphone are hacked. We have all your photos, personal correspondence and access to bank accounts. On June 3, we will post on the Internet and send to all people who you [...]
RSN™ Anti-Scam Tip: African & Greater Middle East Phone Country Codes
RSN™ Anti-Scam Tip: African & Middle Eastern Phone Country Codes African & The Middle East Phone Country Codes Many times scammers will claim to be in the Middle East or Europe or any country, but they will give you an African phone number at some point. It is [...]
RSN™ Anti-Scam Tip: 3 Simple Rules
RSN™ Anti-Scam Tip: 3 Simple Rules Spotting Fake Profiles Is Child’s Play With 3 Simple Rules WHAT IS THEIR CONTEXT Who are they? What are they? Where are they? INCONSISTENT WITH THE CONTEXT What is odd? What is out of place? What should not be there? MISSING FROM THE CONTEXT What [...]
RSN™ Anti-Scam Clue: Social Media Friends
RSN™ Anti-Scam Clue: Social Media Friends When you look at a Facebook Profile and you suspect it might be fake, look also at the FRIENDS. NOTE: real people don't let strangers look at their friends (usually), so if you are not yet this person's friend, and you can see all [...]
TIP: GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS SCAM
URGENT GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS SCAM WATCH OUT FOR RESULTS FROM: Palate Press - palatepress.com THIS ENTITY IS GAMING GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS AND SAVED SEARCH ALERT TO INFEST THEM WITH SCAM RESULTS. DO NOT CLICK IF IT IS THIS ENTITY: Palate Pres - palatepress.com They may appear under other brands and [...]
ANTI-SCAM CLUES YOU CAN USE!
SCAMMERS CHANGE: FACEBOOK RED FLAGS You all have friends and family in your Facebook Friends List, right? We all like to change things up a bit from time to time too, right? Scammers change their profiles in unusual ways that can help you identify them as a scammer. Real people [...]
The New Nightmare!
Facebook Now Competes With Western Union and MonneyGram This means Scammers will soon be switching to Facebook Money Transfers and You Are Screwed! Facebook recently launched a new money transfer service through Facebook Messenger. It's not bad enough that they want to know everything about your whole life, now they [...]
Online Money Scams – Scam Basics
Online Money Scams - Scam Basics Money Scams Come In A Variety Of Types Here are some of the basic types Fraudsters Gain Your Trust - Then Steal Your Money Portions Reprinted from Western Union They use any means to contact victims—telephone, snail [...]
Check Their Weight!
Scammers Don't Seem To Understand Weights & Measures! Always look at the profile details, especially their weight! You may find surprises. For Example: This is a young woman from a well know dating website ... Jenifer Mares profile details: 28 / Female / Straight / single How tall are you? [...]
Spotting Scammers: Overly Religious – Anti-Scam Tip
Spotting Scammers: Overly Religious Scammer Lay On The Religion! A SCARS Anti-Scam Tip Scammers Believe In God! Or they would like you to believe that they do! Ok, a bit melodramatic, but Ghanaian and other West African scammers are virtually oozing God Fearing [...]
Essential Tools For Every Scam SurvivorSurvivor A Scam Survivor is a victim who has been able to fully accept the reality of their situation. That they were the victim of a crime and are not to blame. They are working on their emotional recovery and reduction of any trauma either on their own, through a qualified support organization, or through counseling or therapy. And has done their duty and reported the crime to their local police, national police, and on Anyscam.com From SCARS Publishing
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Self-Help Self-Paced Recovery Program Guide
LEARN HOW TO RECOVER ON YOUR OWN
This program is designed to help scam victims struggling to recover on their own and for those who want to understand the overall process. You can be using other resources, such as 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. counselingCounseling Counseling is the professional guidance of the individual by utilizing psychological methods especially in collecting case history data, using various techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and aptitudes. A mental health counselor (MHC), or counselor, is a person who works with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health. Such persons may help individuals deal with issues associated with addiction and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; stress management; self-esteem; and aging. They may also work with "Social Workers", "Psychiatrists", and "Psychologists". SCARS does not provide mental health counseling. or therapy, qualified 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., or completely independent – on your own!
The SCARS Steps program is a complete program and is provided for the purpose of helping scam victims to overcome this experience. Throughout this SCARS Steps Program, we speak about issues and challenges that a victim may have and help guide them through their recovery. But each person is different and it is important to understand your own reasons for being vulnerable to being scammed.
After the trauma of being scammed, you need to take steps to recover and move on. This may be an alternative to counseling in the short term, but we still encourage you to seek out professional help & support. Throughout this SCARS Steps Program, we speak about issues, challenges, defects, or problems that a victim may have in a generalized way.
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SCARS SLATE BOOK – Let Us Explain What Happened!
A Guide For Families & Friends Of Scam Victims
HOW TO HELP ROMANCE SCAM VICTIMS FOR FAMILIES & FRIENDS OF SCAM VICTIMS
This SCARS Publishing book represents a complete guide to help the families and friends understand how these scams work and how to help the victim.
The SCARS Slate Book should be purchased by family and friends to better understand what happened to the victim and the traumatic impact on them. But it can also be shared by the victim so that they do not have to explain to family and friends about the scam. This publication is to help others to help Scam Victims to make it through this traumatic experience and recover.
Each person is different and it is important to understand how relationship scamsRelationship Scam A Relationship Scam is a one-to-one criminal act that involves a trust relationship and uses deception & manipulation to get a victim to give to the criminal something of value, such as money! Click here to learn more: What Is A Relationship Scam? work and why people are vulnerable; to being scammed, how they were lured in, then groomed and manipulated. This understanding is essential in helping them through the process of ending the scam and then on to recovery. The SCARS Slate Book will provide the information necessary to help support a victim through this process.
SCARS RED BOOK
Your Personal Scam Evidence & Crime Record Organizer
ORGANIZE YOUR INFORMATION TO MAKE THE REPORTING PROCESS SIMPLE!
Helps you get and stay organized. This publication is to help Scam Victims organize their crime information. Complete this information before reporting to the police then bring this book with you
Before or after reporting to the police the RED BOOK gives you a dedicated tool to record all the essential facts of this crime. The Victim, the Scammers, the Money, and your Police interactions. Everything that really matters can be easily recorded for your immediate use and for the future!
As we have seen, money recovery/repayment programs can become available years after the scam ends and you need to keep all the details of this crime in case it is needed. We have also seen scammers being extradited to the U.S. and other countries, this will help in the event you testify or give statements, Additionally, this helps you have your information ready to qualify for victims’ benefits, compensation, or aid.
The Official SCARS RED BOOK is your way of recording all the important facts of this crime so that you do not lose essential information, Complete the RED BOOK then put it away with the confidence that you will have it if or when it is needed.
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