The Links x SLR Guide to Online Scams

Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? (Published 2021)
Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? (Published 2021)
Every year, tens of millions of Americans collectively lose billions of dollars to scam callers. Where does the other end of the line lead?
·nytimes.com·
Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? (Published 2021)
Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis
Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis
Drug dealers have used Snapchat to sell fake pills to teens, but these opioids are often laced with fentanyl, helping to fuel an overdose epidemic
·rollingstone.com·
Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis
Sextortion Scams Are Driving Teen Boys to Suicide
Sextortion Scams Are Driving Teen Boys to Suicide
Criminal gangs are posing as flirty girls on Instagram and Snapchat to torment high school boys, drain their bank accounts and push them to the edge.
·bloomberg.com·
Sextortion Scams Are Driving Teen Boys to Suicide
Billion-dollar scam
Billion-dollar scam
A sophisticated criminal network is using modern day slaves to con thousands of Americans out of their life savings
·cnn.com·
Billion-dollar scam
Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming
Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming
Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dollars. Those who resist face beatings, food deprivation or worse.
·propublica.org·
Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times.
·nytimes.com·
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
The Package King of Miami
The Package King of Miami
Matthew Bergwall was a gifted coder who could have gotten a job at any tech company. He decided to go in another direction.
·nymag.com·
The Package King of Miami
The sextortion scammers of rural India
The sextortion scammers of rural India
Authorities say scammers use burner phones and fake profiles to blackmail victims across the country.
·restofworld.org·
The sextortion scammers of rural India
The Romance Scammer on My Sofa
The Romance Scammer on My Sofa
A writer's quest to find the con artist in Nigeria who duped his mother.
·magazine.atavist.com·
The Romance Scammer on My Sofa
Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster
Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster
On a warm summer day in 2002, in Charlevoix, Michigan, Richard Joseph’s bad luck began. The lawyer, husband, and father of two was walking across the driveway with a bag of garbage when his bare...
·theverge.com·
Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster
The Tinder Swindler
The Tinder Swindler
Simon Leviev finds his victims on the dating app Tinder and then seduces them with travel by private jet, luxury hotels and expensive dinners.
·vg.no·
The Tinder Swindler
The Grindr Grifter
The Grindr Grifter
Daniel Spence was no run-of-the-mill conman. Could he be caught before taking over Northside Media, one of Brooklyn’s hottest companies?
·observer.com·
The Grindr Grifter