Unofficial Office of Scambusting

There are already police who work to stop scammers, but they're part of other sections, working with tools intended for other purposes, and not focused exclusively on the problem of scammers. This half-hearted attempt is worthy but far from complete.

Operating from donations, but with legal blessing from the courts, this organization would raise scambaiting to a new level. A volunteer call center would contain hundreds of professional scambaiters and operators. They would make outgoing calls to scammers call centers and they would have a number to forward scam calls to. A common set of tools would make this process much more efficient, rigorous, and legally viable.

The organization would work with banks, hosting providers, VOIP and POTS companies, and law enforcement to track scamming call centers and investigate their physical locations and real personnel over time, such that it could be proven a company in one place was set up by the same person who started a different company in a different place. It would gather evidence and put together whole completed cases to hand to law enforcement/internal affairs for arrests, focusing on the ringleaders and corrupt officials who really make it happen. All laws of evidence and constitutionality in each jurisdiction would be maintained.

A second branch of the charity would focus on informing the public of the latest methods and lies scammers use. It would put up billboards and advertisements, run a large, stable web page, and talk with community leaders to get the word out not just about the well-known tactics but how scammers operate in general.