this blog does not encourage scam baiting. the blog seeks to educate people on the patterns used by scammers so that people can understand and avoid them.scam baiting is dangerous and the Federal Bureau of Investigations stricty advises against it.
Scammers are really smart and have the convincing skill of a top sales man, they can sell snow to the Eskimos! They all follow a pattern a script and you can use this to detect if that person you chatting with is a scammer.
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE SCAMMED???
HE/SHE IS A SCAMMER IF......
They immediately want to get off the website and into YAHOO or MSN chat
This is especially true for paid social network sites like match.com, they use hacked credit cards to get into these sites, they know the true owner of the credit cards will terminate it anytime soon so they want you on yahoo or msn chat where they can continue communication with you, to tell you their lies and steal from you.
They want to view your webcam but will NEVER come on web cam.
This is because they use pictures they have swiped from the internet to make up their profiles. So that beautiful woman or drop dead handsome man is actually a another person! They give all kinds excuses for not being able to come online, the real reason is because they are not the people in the photos! This is the major way to identify a scammer, ask them to come on web cam, if the person is really who they claim to be they will do their best for you to see them, if they don't then you know you are probably dealing with a scammer.
They fall in 'love with you' or 'trust' you after just a short while.
They claim that love, fate, destiny or God has brought both of together and that you guys were meant to be together. They swear their undying love and they dO this just after two three conversations with you!!! They keep filling you with sweet words,poems, etc and before you know it you are hooked on their lies. They usually hunt on websites where people looking to get hooked up. They hope to get you in love TO MAKE IT EASIER TO STEAL FROM YOU.
They immediately want your address.....
Depending on the type of scam they ask for your address to:
Actually send you gifts such as chocolates, flowers, teddy bears as a show of affection. These gifts are often purchased with stolen credit cards. They hope to win your love with this to gain your affection and love opening the way for you to be scammed or...
They claim to have sent you an expensive gift item, like a diamond ring or necklace. They use a fake courier service they set up on the internet to make it look like thet sent you a gift, in reality they haven't sent you any gift. when you login to this fake courier website they may ask you for your credit card details or personal details to steal your identity and money, or the courier service will give you a call telling you that in the package was a large sum of money and that if you can send some money, often through WESTERN UNION, they will make sure your lover does not get into trouble with the authorities. THIS IS A SCAM!!!!!
They usually claim they are from the US or UK and have high sounding jobs, their favorite are jobs in engineering.
They want you to believe they are financially stable so that you feel secure, they give you this false sense of security to set you up. Because along the line they are going to send you an expensive gift or ask you for to borrow them them some cash for whatever excuse they come up with. They want you to believe they can afford to send you that gift or that they can repay any money they ask you for because at some point they always do.
The immediately start to tell you something sad that has happened to them.
If the scammer is a woman or using a woman's profile (sometime you think you are chatting with a woman but it is actually a guy on the other side) they immediately seek your pity and start to fill you with stories of how bad life has treated them, even though they barely know you! They make you believe you are going to rescue them and may ask you to send them some money so that they can escape to you,their true love. We all love a good fairy tale don't we?
They immediately want to send you money or expensive gifts!
They actually don't send you money or that expensive gift. They have already set up fake bank websites and fake courier services on the internet. When they send you money they give you a link to the fake bank site and see if the money they sent you has been deposited you check and wala! you name is there to receive a some amount of money, now they got yoU where they want you! The 'bank' now asks you to pay some bank charges so that the money can be transferred to your account, the only thing is that the money never comes and the 'bank' keeps asking you more money over and over again.
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