Fraud works

I’ve always been fascinated by spammers. They send millions of emails out in the hope that enough people will be duped into clicking on the link and visiting whichever site they are promoting or buying into whichever service they are selling.
The phishing emails vary in their complexity, but you would have thought that the majority of people would have learnt to be more cautious by now.
Unfortunately that is not always the case.
I still see people offering to send me their credit card details via email.
We still see credit card fraud.
We sometimes see paypal fraud.
How much money the fraudsters are making and how many scams are committed is hard to say, especially as people are unlikely to notice or report small amounts (scam a few thousand people for a euro – it’s a lot of money, but I doubt if the victims would notice it immediately)
In the last month I’ve seen the usual number of credit card scammers, with the hapless victims contacting us in some cases looking for more information. Apart from an IP address (belonging to a major ISP) there isn’t that much information that you can provide.