Scams Scam's Lexicon


Scammer's Scam Glossary


Scam's Lexicon
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Burn

Any activity done by a baiter that harms, annoys, insults or delays a scammer.Some baiter websites use this term to tell the scammer that they have been baited.

BTA

(Basic Travel Allowance) - One among the many fees that scammers try to collect from victims telling that they require them for sending the prize they have won.

Bait Thread

Written correspondence between a scammer and baiter.

Baiter

Short form of "Scam Baiter" is usually a person who uses any of a variety of techniques to irritate, harm, or waste the time of a scammer responding to fraudulent emails.

Bagman

Person used by the scammers to get the money.

Bait Number

The phone number that are used for scam baiting.

Business Opportunities (or Bizopps)

Methods that naturally engage excessive and speculative income claims and are in fact fake business undertakings.

Browser

Programs that permit a user to locate, examination, listen to, and cooperate with material on the Internet. Browser Hijacker - A familiar spy ware program that modifies your web browser's home page mechanically, even if you alter it back.

Browser Hijacker

A familiar spy ware program that modifies your web browser's home page mechanically, even if you alter it back.

Baiter Account

The email account used by the baiters to bait the scammers.

Badger (Badger)

A human being who baits baiters. Alike to how baiters bait scammers.

Bayesian Filtering

An arithmetical move toward to formative whether an email is spam, based on possibility deduction method found by English mathematician Thomas Bayes.

Blacklist

A characteristic of anti-spam software that permit users to assign IP addresses, province names, and person email addresses from which no mail will be acknowledged. This is at times termed as a "Static Black List" for the reason that the users define the list.

Block list

A publicized list, typically commercial, of IP addresses recognized to be basis of spam which is able to be used to make a set of connections block list to sort out mail initiating from these addresses.