Kristo Vaher

Posts Tagged ‘scams’

You don't mess with the Internet!

I have been hit with numerous cases of Baader-Meinhof Phenomena recently. It was only couple weeks ago when I read about a man, who replied to one of the scamming e-mails and successfully turned the tables by making the scammer handwrite the entire book of Harry Potter for handwriting examples. Turning the table is the most suitable description, for the methods that were used are not only similar, but exactly the same as what the scammers use to bait their victims.

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Scamming

Scamming – method of obtaining something of value from another party with promises of greater rewards later on – can be considered among the oldest tricks not only within mankind, but also in the nature, whenever one attempts to exploit another for reward. There are multiple forms of scamming, from internet to real life encounters to other forms of correspondence. This is usually achieved by methods similar to magicians, often with sleight of hand and misdirection, both of intents and actual actions and often employing psychological means such as manipulation or variety of NLP (the controversial Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques. The true intent is always hidden and with the help of ‘impersonal internet’, world wide web is a rich soil in which one can plant the seeds of scamming.

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