The sadest part of all this is that the scammers get educated on the scams faster than the general public and it isn't even close. Before I stumbled upon this site I had never heard of 90% of the scams listed on here. The only ones I was somewhat familiar with where the fake lottery ones, and that's just because they seemed fishy to me and not because I heard from them from anywhere on the net or TV. Education truly is the key to stopping these scams. The scams themselves don't change all that much, just the places the scammers hit and the stories they use so if the government, SVU, and others spread the word on how to spot the red flags then it should not be all that difficult to stop these scammers.
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