The worst online scams you've ever seen (aside from altmed)
Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 4:31 am
I thought I'd start a thread about this cheery, inspirational topic.
Aside from alt med stuff like homeopathy (which could fill an ocean), what are the worst scams you've seen on the internet?
We recently had a pretty nasty scammer on these forums trying to take advantage of vegans by fishing their e-mail addresses for spam under the pretext of offering a nutritional database.
http://theveganatheist.com/forum/viewto ... ?f=7&t=852
So that's pretty disgusting. What else have you seen out there?
It seems like scammers will exploit any community they think they can pretend to belong to, in order to gain trust, and then take advantage of it and rip people off (either in monetary terms, or by violating their privacy for profit).
Aside from alt med stuff like homeopathy (which could fill an ocean), what are the worst scams you've seen on the internet?
We recently had a pretty nasty scammer on these forums trying to take advantage of vegans by fishing their e-mail addresses for spam under the pretext of offering a nutritional database.
http://theveganatheist.com/forum/viewto ... ?f=7&t=852
So that's pretty disgusting. What else have you seen out there?
It seems like scammers will exploit any community they think they can pretend to belong to, in order to gain trust, and then take advantage of it and rip people off (either in monetary terms, or by violating their privacy for profit).