One year old!

27 Jul 2025 - AJ

Calconncet is one year old today!

Actually, the registration is just a little older - it was registered on the 25th - but I set it up on the 27th of July, 2024.

I’m pretty proud of what I’ve managed to do. This isn’t a huge site or well-known. I do need to flesh out a lot of the pages! Real Life just keeps me busy, and I have a todo list for this site a mile wide.

But in the meantime, here are the top three scam information pages (not counting the hits by neocities, my webhost, and various search engines):

  1. The False Report scam, otherwise known as the “Oops, I meant to report someone else, go talk to this totally legit admin on Discord to straighten things out!” scam (instead of, say, talking to the actual support people. It is mostly seen on Discord and Steam, but at the time I had written it, it had also started showing up on Twitter/X.
  2. The Meta Copyright Infringement Scam, where you’re told that you’ve done some sort of copyright infringement on some business or fan site on Facebook or another Meta property, and you have to log in to request a review or your page will be nuked. Of course, they want the login to your account.
  3. The Booking-Whatsapp Travel Scam that has someone with inside access to booking[.]com’s system and whatsapp message you to convince you that your information is incorrect or incomplete, and they need you to enter information into a site. It may be to steal money, or to steal an account.

I actually did a good job with the false report scam, so I’m happy that this is the most popular one - at least from the limited analytics I do have for my site. I do have a unique perspective in that I do work in IT, so I know what access a fraud investigator working for these platforms should have - and what scammers wouldn’t have. I have less experience with Meta as while I have a Facebook account, I don’t have any pages, and while I’ve used Booking[.]com as a last resort myself, I’ve never used whatapp.

In regards to this week’s scam, Pleasant Green on Youtube covered the lawyer version of recovery scammers (he’s great, subscribe to him!) and that, combined with the fact that r/scams on reddit has an auto-mod post reminding people not to believe DMs stating that they can get your money back, made me remember that I had not covered that, so I have for this week’s scam.