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July 2018
RSN Editorial: What Is The Answer To Scamming?
Editorial: What Is The Answer To Scamming? The first thing we all need to understand is that there are practical limits to what can be done right now. The answer to scammers is not arresting them, [...]
Advanced Scammer Techniques: Cold Reading
Advanced Scammer Techniques: Cold Reading A SCARS Insight Scammer Use Many Advanced Techniques Cold Reading Is A Scam Information Gathering Technique! Cold reading is a set of techniques [...]
RSN™ Guide: Small Business Cybersecurity
RSN™ Guide: Small Business Cybersecurity YOUR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Be More Vigilant Online For small business owners, business growth is the name of the game. It’s important to establish a cybersecurity protocol early that can grow [...]
Urban Legends: Yahoo Is Shutting Down
Urban Legends: Yahoo Is Shutting Down Yahoo was recently purchased by Verizon In the process of reworking Yahoo, several changes are taking place. Unfortunately, there are a number of people spreading false rumors about this. [...]
Requests For Removal Of Scammer Reports
Requests For Removal Of Scammer Reports We recently had a victim request that we remove a Scammer Report from our website. Of course, we have no direct knowledge if the person was a scammer or [...]
RSN™ Guide: Scammer Fake Profiles
RSN™ Guide: Scammer Fake Profiles A site visitor recently asked about the methods scammers use for fake profiles. A Typical Fake Profiles Will Have: Are all the photos stolen? How do they choose which photos [...]
Scam Survivor
SCARS' Scam Survivor's Medal Are You A Scam Survivor? For All of You Who are Scam Victims You are Truly a Survivor and a Hero! We Salute You! We present to each of [...]
RSN™ Psychology Of Scams: Stop Thinking
Stop Thinking And Just Let Things Happen This is a bit of a conflict. You need your brain in gear when dealing with scammers, but you need to stop overthinking about what happened. Rely more [...]
Losing Control
One of the great challenges of being a victim is losing control. It seems like the scammers control everything - your thoughts, your actions, your emotions, and your reactions. However, as time goes by, you learn [...]
Latest Trend In Scammer Photos!
Latest Trend In Scammer Photos! "Help I Have Been Arrested And Am In Jail!" Yeah, right! These are photoshopped porn stars - on TV series photos. As if Ghana had jails like this!
Psychology of Scams: The Trauma of Victimization
SCARS™ Psychology of Scams: The Trauma of Victimization Provided by the National Center for Victims of Crimes SCARS is registered with the NCVC as an online crime victims’ assistance and support organization Overview The trauma of [...]
GETTING THE PERSON BACK THAT YOU ONCE WERE …
GETTING THE PERSON BACK THAT YOU ONCE WERE ... One of the things many recovering scam survivors state as a goal is to get the person back that they once were. Many of you have [...]
ATTENTION SCAM VICTIMS FROM NEW ZEALAND
ATTENTION SCAM VICTIMS FROM NEW ZEALAND A Scam Victims Research Study is being conducted by the University of Auckland, New Zealand, with the support of SCARS™ This study has been reviewed and formally approved by [...]
This Is Insane! Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech
This Is Insane! Facebook flags Declaration of Independence as hate speech By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 4, 2018 In the week of America’s Independence Day, the algorithms of Facebook decided that the [...]
Happy Birthday America
Happy 242nd Birthday America Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Continental Congress declared that the thirteen [...]
FTC Halts Online Marketers Responsible for Deceptive “Free Trial” Offers
United States Federal Trade Commission Goes After Online Fraud FTC Halts Online Marketers Responsible for Deceptive “Free Trial” Offers A federal district court has granted the Federal Trade Commission’s request to stop a group of [...]
RSN™ Guide: Knowing Your Enemy
RSN™ Guide: Knowing Your Enemy In order to effectively fight an enemy, you have to understand them. We monitor the media in Western Africa for these insights - how scammers live, how they think, and [...]
How Can We Ever Trust Facebook?
How Can We Ever Trust Facebook? Steve Jobs was an admired figure in industry, not just because he built a big company, but for the integrity that he brought to it. By contrast, Facebook is a [...]
RSN™ Guide: A to Z of Online Fraud
RSN™ Guide: A to Z of Online Fraud Most people now have access to the internet. We use our home computers, phones, and other devices to shop or bank online, keep in touch with friends [...]
Scam Victims Still Do Not Report
Scam Victims Still Do Not Report One of the leading causes of governmental disinterest worldwide in Romance Scams is the simple fact that only a small percentage of these crimes are reported. Only 3% [...]
Diabolical Things Nigerian Yahoo Boys Do To Get Wealthy
Diabolical Things Nigerian Yahoo Boys Do To Get Wealthy At Least They Think They Work! According to the Bible, The love of money is the root of all evil. This part of the scripture points [...]
Nigerian Men Who Marry White Women For Visas
Nigerian Marriage Scams For Money & Visas Nigerian Men Who Marry White Women For Visas Nigerian scammers who marry women just to get visas and immigration papers. From the Nigerian Press: It's a fairly common [...]
Scammer Deportations From The U.S. By I.C.E.
Scammer Deportations From The U.S. Do we want the global scamming cartels setting up shop permanently in the United States as they are in Europe, Asia, and Latin America? In the War in Scams both [...]
The Fraudsters Didn’t Even Ask For Account Or Password Details
The Fraudsters Didn't Even Ask For Account Or Password Details Victim of sophisticated banking con reveals how she was tricked into transferring £4,000 to scammers Catherine Downey was duped into giving away £4000 by phone [...]
June 2018
Nigerian EFCC Partners With The FBI To Fight Yahoo Boys
Nigerian EFCC Partners With The FBI To Fight Yahoo Boys Sources ins Nigeria are confirming that the acting chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said that the trends in global security [...]
