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Here we:

  • discuss examples of scams and how to avoid them
  • highlight loopholes/vulnerabilities
  • guidance on during and after been scammed: how to mitigate the losses and get better
  • sharing tools and other resources on how to avoid been scammed

Todo

Foundation

  • lies and scam: how lies exists in our world and their relation with scam
  • distinguish between loopholes and vulnerabilities
  • distinguish between scam and fraud
  • what's ToS and how do a general person manage them
  • how does our current infrastructure help reduce risks and damages

Ideas

  • Can the generally authenticate things being scammers, for example a government?
  • grey areas: when something is a scam and is not
  • borrow money: impact and its relation with scam

Development

  • best way to do multi-langue repo and how to sync between languages
    • add zh-CN support
  • finance assistant tool
    • budget control
  • scam assistant: a bot that are easy to access, efficient on stopping scams and mitigate losses
  • anti-scam: proactive strick, browser extension, etc.

Examples

  • telecom fraud
  • deep-fake

Cryptocurrency

  • Is Bitcoin a scam?
  • Relation between scam and Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency in general.

Resources

  • what we can learn and apply from the book "Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Rip-off Artists"

Project Management

  • Add fact check references.

loopholes / vulnerabilities

online exchange

Upwork: payment shown on the platform are not secured

  • Upwork is not a financing platform!
  • Escow payment are the most secured one, bonus are not protected.
  • Even escow the most secured one are not guaranteed: suppose Upwork can't get the money eventually and there were violation of ToS involved, Upwork can refuse the payment directly.

after been scammed

  • Don't be shame of it, everyone has their vulnerabilities. You are the victim. Speak it loud!