{"id":502,"date":"2009-03-25T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-03-25T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:54:14","slug":"bobbear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2009\/03\/bobbear\/","title":{"rendered":"Who or What is BobBear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my infrequent callouts to other websites that\u00c2\u00a0 (like Scamdex) were\u00c2\u00a0 created out of the blind fury experinced by seeing bad people taking money from good people, I have another site for you to take notice of.<\/p>\n<p>But first, a recap:<\/p>\n<p>When Scamdex started in 2004, there were very few sites about scams and Internet fraud; we felt there was a need to educate people and, using the power of Search Engines, set out to make it easy to check on emails and websites.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the field has\u00c2\u00a0 grown &#8211; lots of Government-funded sites have sprung up, large Internet organizations\u00c2\u00a0 have (finally) acknowledged that fraud does happen and now devote precious pages to warning their customers\u00c2\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">&#8220;it&#8217;s not our fault, please don&#8217;t bother trying to sue us&#8221;<\/span> &#8220;there are unscrupulous people out there so please don&#8217;t use Western Union to but Laptops from Nigeria&#8221; etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But still Scamdex and the many other privately run websites continue in their (often one-manned) struggle against the odds and so to one of these: &#8216;<a title=\"Bob Bear Money Laundering and Reshipping Fraud Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbear.co.uk?scamdex\" target=\"_blank\">BobBear&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-503\" style=\"width: 63px\" class=\"wp-caption right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbear.co.uk?scamdex\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-503\" title=\"bear_teeth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bear_teeth.gif\" alt=\"Bob Bear Website Logo\" width=\"63\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Bear Website Logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobbear.co.uk\/\">Bobbear.co.uk<\/a> is a voluntary, non-profit site dedicated to providing information on <\/small><small>fake companies offering<\/small><small> part-time, work from home<\/small><small> job <\/small><small> scams, in particular money mule or money transfer fraud, aka &#8216;payment transfer agent&#8217; scams and the related reshipping fraud or &#8216;parcels agent&#8217; scams. They also provide victim advice and support. If you receive a suspect spam offering you a job or find a website offering fraud jobs then please send them (and us) a copy.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Please support them &#8211; you know it makes sense!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my infrequent callouts to other websites that\u00c2\u00a0 (like Scamdex) were\u00c2\u00a0 created out of the blind fury experinced by seeing bad people taking money from good people, I have another site for you to take notice of. But first, a recap: When Scamdex started in 2004, there were very few sites about scams and Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,10,90,25,16,15,12],"tags":[99,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}