Saturday, May 9, 2020

How to spot scammers and bots

Introduction:
Scammers are the worst, they think that they are smarter than us and thinks we are the dumbest ever, or I think that anyways, there was evidence that proves that they think we are dumb. What's also the worst, they try to attack children the most, an example from this is from Roblox, except it can easily be determine if they are fake because their skin color was like green, red, blue, etc. and they had a block head, it really out stands from the rest. It seems they fixed that issue and seems they finally created a bot detector, which I actually suggested to them way before they added. Their is different from google's bot detector, they made it where the user must make the image right side up, which is perfect, as it is child-friendly. 

So let's begin on how to spot scammers and bots. Scammers and bots are a little bit familiar, depending on the type of bot, all bots are actually bad, some bots helps you find things over the internet, that is how Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo, etc. works. So if you think they just do it manually than no, it is quite a little laughable because of how many search results you can get, it would probably take them over maybe about 500-1000 years, working non-stop just to put all those results in a database. They use bots to do all the work to put those results in a database. So bots and scammers are similar, bots usually work for scammers by luring in prey to either get them to buy something useless or take everything away from them, such as cash or someone's house of the sort. So I'll describe some methods to detect these things.

  1. Patterns and similarities - Usually when a scammer wants to take something or just want to make money off something from a mass populated site, they usually will make duplicates, most of the scammers won't want to create every single account and set the data and make them personally send people private messages, sending them links to somewhere to scam them from, so they make bots to create a lot of accounts and go to people simultaneous and send them messages. This patterns are usually easily identified when they use duplicates of them.
    • To detect the pattern look for similar text and false accusations, such as if they claim they are "admin", most website prevents this false accusations by giving an actual admin something to show they are an admin. Youtube also does something similar for popular people by saying they are verified.
    • All scammer bots usually will use almost the same method, so if you had old experiences with them than you could easily detect who is a bot or not.
  2. Don't judge a book by it's cover - Most important thing is to not judge a book by it's cover, some people might just lose their account to a scammer and the scammer will use their account as a bot so they could trick people more easily.
    • If anyone ever tells you that you won something and send you a link, just don't believe them and think you actually won something, because guess what, you most likely didn't.
  3. Survey's - Uhhhh, the survey system, which they claimed it is to prevent a robot and see if you are human. Survey's can in fact easily be cheated with bots using a specific algorithm. Google's reCAPTCHA is smarter than the survey system and when someone try to sign up for those survey's, it doesn't work, I know many people who tried but failed, saying incomplete still, even if you finish it the so-called survey.
  4. Website's Free Currency Giver - It isn't actually how you can tell if it is a scammer but like to point out that they never work, I tried it before for Roblox and than just told me to complete a survey, stupid...I learned that I should just earn it the right way as there is no easy way.
That is all the ways I know of how to spot a scammer, if there is another way to spot a scammer that I haven't added up their than please don't hesitate to say, I'll try to put it up there as well.

Their isn't much to put here as there is nothing much to say about it except for some details and how to spot a scammer. Hope you enjoyed reading this.

Sources:
Own Experiences

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