反诈骗者以彼之道还施彼身

Scamming the Scammers Scambaiting is one way the fed-up masses are dealing with a flood of fraud ● By Rachel Sugar F or me the texts come in waves, weeks without any, then a deluge: “Hello! ignore it, on a good day; on a bad day it’s enough to drive you to the brink. I’m Sophia with Amazon’s talent acqui- sition team.” She explains that there’s a “versatile part-time role” available and for “1-2 hours a day” I could earn “$200- $540 daily.” “Vigilantism arises in two circum- stances,” says Jack Whittaker, a crim- inology lecturer at the University of Surrey, in England. One is when there are reports of sensational crimes—that’s how you get pedo-hunters, for example. …