October 2016
SCARS Seminar – Miami Florida Oct 27
The Plague Of Online Fraud Every 5 Seconds Someone Is Scammed Online Online fraud is more pervasive and widespread than even the government knows. Everyone knows someone who has been scammed online. We invite you to finally understand the true dangers online and what you can do about it – to avoid, to recover, and to stop it! October 27, 2017 Thursday 6-8pm at Florida National University in Miami - 4425 W 20th Ave, Hialeah, FL 33012 Scams come in many different kinds and approaches and they lure in people from every walk of life from rich to poor. Avoiding scams online is [...]
September 2016
Government Agencies and Non-Profits Collaborate
Justice Department and Law Enforcement Partners Announce Civil and Criminal Actions to Dismantle Global Network of Mass Mailing FOR IMMEDIATE JOINT RELEASE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 WWW.JUSTICE.GOV Government Agencies and Non-Profits Collaborate to Launch Public Education Campaign The Justice Department, in coordination with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and other law enforcement partners, today announced wide-ranging enforcement actions – including criminal charges, economic sanctions, seizure of criminal proceeds and civil injunction lawsuits – along with the execution of search warrants to combat a global network of mass mailing [...]
August 2016
Facebook Openly Deletes Scammer Data
Today Represents A Pivot Point For Facebook Today is the day that Facebook Openly Acted To Protect Scammers on Facebook over the interests of their subscribers. The UNITED STATES CONGRESS passed the Communications Decency Act (specifically the Section 230) which protected companies like Facebook from liability for things posted by third-parties, such as scammers. However, on August 5th we have incontrovertible proof that Facebook has acted not only against the best interests of the public and their subscribers, but has also willfully purged information that exposes scammers on Facebook. It did this by removing all data about scammers from our [...]
July 2016
SCARS Officially Sanctions the Committee for Data Standards in Scam Reporting
SCARS Officially Sanctions the Committee for Data Standards in Scam Reporting An Official Statement by The Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams Inc. I am pleased to announce that SCARS – the Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams’s Committee on Certification & Accreditation has voted to formally sanction the work of this Committee for Data Standards in Scam Reporting, and has committed to adopting your standards when completed and support it as a foundation pillar in the Society’s work going forward into the future on delivering and reporting scams and scammers throughout the world. The Society looks froward to a long [...]
SCARS Officially Sanctions the Committee for Ethics in Scam Reporting
SCARS Officially Sanctions the Committee for Ethics in Scam Reporting An Official Statement by The Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams Inc. I am pleased to announce that SCARS - the Society of Citizens Against Romance Scams's Committee on Certification & Accreditation has voted to formally sanction the work of this Committee on Ethics in Scam Reporting, and has committed to adopting your standard when completed and support it as a foundation pillar in the Society's work going forward into the future. The Society looks froward to a long and lasting relationship with the Ethics in Scam [...]
July 2015
Welcome to SCARS
Welcome to the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams Updated February 28, 2019 The Society was formed by a group long time Anti-Scam Professionals under the leadership of Dr. Tim McGuinness, who has been fighting scams online for the last 25 years. As a businessman and co-founder of TigerDirect in 1985, he has seen first hand how online fraud has evolved and grown to epidemic proportions. In fact, it is now a multi-billion dollar industry supporting neither 100,000 online fraudsters worldwide. We thank you for your visit, and suggest that you become a member of SCARS - it is free [...]
