Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters
Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a town in the county of Northumberland. It is the northernmost town in England.It is located at the mouth of the River Tweed on the east coast, 2 1⁄2 miles south of the Scottish border. Berwick is approximately 56 mi east-south east of Edinburgh, 65 mi north of Newcastle upon Tyne and 345 mi north of London. The 2011 United Kingdom census recorded Berwick's population as 12,043. A civil parish and town council were formed in... Show more 2008 comprising the communities of Berwick, Spittal and Tweedmouth.Berwick was founded as an Anglo-Saxon settlement during the time of the Kingdom of Northumbria, which was annexed by England in the 10th century.The area was for more than 400 years central to historic border wars between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, and several times possession of Berwick changed hands between the two kingdoms. The last time it changed hands was when Richard...
Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands
A distraught teenager who claims to have been scammed out of $25,000 in a matter of seconds has issued a chilling warning. After scoring her first casual job at 14, Aurora Casilli has been dreaming of the day she would have enough money to buy her very own home.
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