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
Gainsborough is a market town and inland port in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the town was 20,842 at the 2011 census, and estimated at 23,243 in 2019. It lies on the east bank of the River Trent, 18 miles north-west of the county town of Lincoln, 15 miles south-west of Scunthorpe, and 35 miles east of Sheffield. At one time it had important trade downstream to Hull, as the English port furthest inland – over... Show more 55 miles from the North Sea.
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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