Around March 2023 a group of scammers embarked on a campaign of offering “Life Time Listing” for small businesses on Instagram (Facebook-owned) and “Business Verification” for $399 (AUD). They used Stripe as their payment processor and unfortunately they are still active there as of 13 June 2024. Their initial websites were: australianbrb[.]com (Registered on&at 2023-03-27T01:50:47Z) ...

How to use OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) to verify an “opportunity” in minutes??? I heard about Mr. Henry Joel, who was willing to invest $10,000 in a start-up business, without asking for anything in return, because he liked the business as it appeared on Facebook. Sounds good? Too good. The Facebook profile looks promising (sarcasm), ...