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by reinhart1010 1578 days ago
> Once spammers fear for their lives, they will stop.

I've seen many Indonesian scams which utilizing many Blogger/Blogspot websites (which are definitely ugly) and phone numbers. Even though the government enforced all cellular phone numbers to be registered under a valid ID, this still not actually stop them to scam more people.

One of these scam sites is https://berkahmy-pertamina.blogspot.com which was published this year (see RSS/Atom feed for details) to impersonate Pertamina (national gas/petrol company) to run classic lucky draw scams.

Let see how many SIM cards you can count in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi4BlFXAnvI (at 3:30 and 8:40). This is from an actual Indonesian TV show about police investigation and was taken before the regulation was passed by the government.