Scam Dollars
A small site about how money gets separated from people.PATTERNS
Patterns are the repeatable moves that appear across many different scams, regardless of era, platform, or technology.
They are not tactics in the tactical sense. They are shapes — ways of framing risk, borrowing authority, or guiding someone toward a decision that feels responsible at the time.
Understanding the pattern matters more than recognizing the surface details. Those change constantly. The structure does not.
- The Diagnostic Trap
When uncertainty is reframed as a problem you can solve by handing something over.