While
fighting my addiction, I made many poor choices when choosing a
treatment center. Hopefully, these questions will help you find a
treatment center that’s right for you.
I want to teach you how to choose a treatment center that’s right for
you. With so many choices out there, it may seem daunting to find the
right one. These are 10 questions that you should ask any rehab you are
considering joining. How
many therapists will work with me during my stay? If the answer is less
then 5, I would pass. It’s important to have a well rounded approach
with many therapists who specialize in different areas. This is a true
holistic approach and the only way to truly treat the whole person. One
therapist can’t do it all. Will I be allowed to use my cell phone and computer while in treatment? If
they say no, I would move on because this is most likely a disciplinary
facility and that believes in punitive type treatment. Besides, not
being in touch with family and work is only stressful and does not help
the healing process. Will I be forced to attend AA or NA meetings? If
you’re not a fan of the 12-steps, then you definitely want to avoid a
treatment center that is going to force you to go to these meetings. What percentage of your program is made up of group meetings? If they say
more then 30% of their program is groups, I would move on. The last
thing you want to do is sit in groups all day. This form treatment is
poor and outdated. |
Scam baiting is a form of Internet vigilantism, where the vigilante poses as a potential victim to the scammer in order to waste their time and resources, gather information that will be of use to authorities, and publicly expose the scammer. It is, in essence, a form of social engineering that may have an altruistic motive or may be motivated by malice. It is primarily used to thwart the Advance-fee fraud scam and can be done out of a sense of civic duty, as a form of amusement, or both.
A bait is very simply initiated, by answering a scam email, from a throwaway email account, e.g. one that is only used for baiting. The baiter then pretends to be receptive to the financial hook that the scammer is using.
The objectives of baiting are, in no particular order:
Keep the bait going as long as possible, thus costing the scammer time and energy.
Gather as much information as possible, so that the scammer can be personally identified and publicly exposed.
Ensuring the scams, and any names used, are easily found by search-engine spiders, as a preventive strategy.
The most important element of scam-baiting, however, is simply to waste as much of the scammer's time as possible. The idea is that when a scammer is preoccupied with a baiter who has no intention of falling victim to the scam, it prevents the scammer in question from conning genuine victims out of their money.