13 Jul 2025 - AJ
I honestly struggle to come up with a good title for scams I run across most of the time.
Technically, one version of this scam - the driveway construction version - does have a name, the Tarmac Scam. But I wanted to cover both the driveway kind (and its variants) as well as the post-disaster ones, because they’re essentially versions of the same scam. Also, I’m far more familiar with the post-disaster cons as they’re the ones you see a bit more often in my country.
But it’s not the only one I’ve had trouble with. Some do have common names - see the Pig-butchering scams that I have yet to cover. A lot of people call a certain long-running scam Pegasus (after the spyware), but there have been many forms over many years, so while I call it “Pegasus” on my pages, it’s been under many titles for its very long lifespan.