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Who makes fake websites? Jack Whittaker has long been involved in helping victims of pet frauds, which advertise and sell pets that don’t exist. These are run from Cameroon, and no surprise the same scammers advertise lot of other goods that they never deliver. Jack interviewed many people in Cameroon who make the fake web pages these frauds use, and it is fascinating. His thesis, here, also explains why it is not easy to take down these web sites, since they use hosting and domain name services that are at least complicit.
Where are we with scammers using Western Union & Moneygram to get money? Both companies have been sued the FTC over allowing their services to be used by scammers to get money from victims, often with agents who were either scammers themselves or were complicit. It appears that these enforcement efforts have been largely successful. I’ve not seen a report on losses through either company for several months. Now the frauds often send people in person to pick up the money or have them use Bitcoin ATM’s.
