Scam baiting, also known as counterscamming, is the practice of feigning interest in a fraudulent scheme in order to manipulate a scammer. The purpose of scam baiting might be to waste the scammer’s time, cause them embarrassment, cause them to reveal incriminating information which can be passed on to legal authorities, waste the scammer’s money, [...]
Archive for the ‘fraud’ category
Sandy Hutchens Shows Appreciation to the Scam Baiters
March 22nd, 2010
Rip-Offs at the Pumps
March 11th, 2010
I stopped at a Kangaroo BP gas station, located at 1325 Main Street, Cartersville, GA. My truck’s gas gauge was on 1/4 of a tank. I use the mid-grade, which was priced at $3.71 per gallon. When my tank is at this point, it takes somewhere around 14 gallon’s to fill it up. When the [...]
Top 10 Retail Ripoffs!
February 8th, 2010
Sandy Hutchens at Ripoff Reporting thinks these are some great warning signs for consumers trying to stay safe from fraudsters.
1. The “Bait and Switch” Fraud – Management is the real culprit behind this deception; they advertise items at very low prices (usually below their cost), to drive customers into the store. The problem is they [...]