This category contains all posts that are related to exposing all sorts of scams. Some stories are about Indian tech support scammers, others are about Social Security Administration scammers that robocall Americans in order to defraud them.
I’m still getting a lot of internet traffic, especially from India, many of those requests specifically from Chandigarh, where the America Geeks call center was located. I assume those visitors are ex-employees or otherwise remember the call center. For those of you, I have a special present today: I’m uploading Read more…
So today we received an email from Harry Chase <[email protected]> claiming that our forum Scammer.info is related to an unauthorized transaction on his credit card. At the end, there is a suspicious link, supposedly the credit card statement as a pdf file. The full URL is https://documents[.]faxapp[.]online/documents/0476052491/doc_statement_Jan2024.pdf First of all, Read more…
Remember PopupDB which is now a defunct website? That used to be the go-to site to find active popups until the developers sadly closed it down due to moving on in real life (to be fair, the Popup Generator is still working!). Don’t despair though, a new project is there Read more…
Scambaiting (or also: scam baiting) is the act of trying to detect and expose scammers who target individuals or businesses through various forms of fraud. The goal of scambaiting is to not only stop scammers from succeeding in their attempts, but also to gather information that can be used to Read more…
Scamadvisor.com is a website that provides information and ratings on the trustworthiness and reliability of online businesses. The goal of Scamadvisor is to help consumers make informed decisions about where to shop online and avoid scams and fraud. Scamadvisor uses a variety of data sources to determine the trustworthiness of Read more…
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) refers to the practice of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information that is publicly available and legally obtainable. This includes information from newspapers, websites, social media, radio, television, and other publicly available sources. OSINT is commonly used by governments, businesses, and individuals to gather information about a Read more…
Tech support scams are a type of fraud where scammers impersonate technical support representatives in order to trick people into paying for unnecessary or fake services. These scams can take many forms, such as phone calls, pop-up windows on your computer, or even fake websites claiming to be from legitimate Read more…
Scambaiting is a topic that is mostly covered by YouTubers and media outlets from time to time but did you know there are scientific approaches to it as well? As the final part of my Bachelor’s degree and probably the first scambaiter ever, I wrote my thesis about scambaiting. The Read more…
If you’re watching YouTube videos, you’ll often see your favorite YouTubers advertising various VPNs. Some YouTubers, like LinusTechTips, advertise multiple VPNs across their multiple videos. But are they really any good? Are your favorite YouTubers shilling those VPNs to their audience because they earn money – which I think is Read more…
English-speaking Microsoft tech support scam call centers based in Delhi, India, are pretty known at this point. But little research and investigation have been done in regards to non-English speaking call centers. We managed to hack a call center that targets German victims, with the scammers conducting the scam purely Read more…