Topics related to scams, scammers, and scambaiting.
Scam Baiting For those who didn’t know, scam baiting is a form of internet vigilantism used towards scammers (the bad guys) who try to take money from us with various scams like IRS impersonation scams, technical support scams, and other…
Scam Phone Calls There are millions of scam phone calls each year. The FTC reported there were 3.2 million complaints submitted to their ReportFraud.ftc.gov site in 2019. The number one fraud reported was “imposter scams”. This is where a scammer…
What Is Phishing? Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, credit card details, by pretending to be someone trustworthy. Typically done through emails & texts, phishing often directs users to enter personal information on…
