scammers

- The overall broadening on the Internet population tends to mean that anywhere scammers can scam, they will.

But that doesn't mean Gilette and Whole Foods are scammers.

With that logic what stops me and a million other scammers from creating shady unregulated taxi services?

And to your point, Craigslist is also a haven for scammers and therefore not as trust worthy.

It will inevitably go to $0, no matter how many of the scammers downvote this post so people won't see it.

This process has helped to avoid all kinds of scammers using my website to try to validate stolen credit card details.

Technology can't address the issue that the skills of scammers are primarily social [1].

Depends on the spammers and the scammers, and the strictness of the verification policy.

And those are the folks who arguably do the most damage on Facebook: spammers, scammers, etc, etc.

If you're worried that a scammer has caught you out for money laundering, you likely have bigger problems than just losing $300 to scammers.

Why phishing scammers are constantly emailing me with realistic looking fake sites?

I make sure the scammers and the phishers don’t abuse these internet virgins.

I think they present these scammers as "hackers" (or cyber criminals) only to scare some people, hoping they will buy (their) antivirus.

Realistically, "creative entrepreneurs" are going to have trouble when their operation is indistinguishable in every detail from "bucket shop scammers with fraud layered upon fraud", and a $20k fine is a super-cheap lesson.

There were cases in Poland where scammers would add "and I subscribe to X and will pay Y monthly" onto the cookie banners and then send invoices to customers (as long as they could get their address, e.g.

Scammers prey on people who want things so badly that they blind their instincts.

Scammers are professionals and in the field of scams everyone else is an amateur.