I have been thinking about how I've been reading a lot of topics from scammers who give themselves away easily by saying they recover bitcoins and I've been wondering how are these scammers finding about Bitcointalk when some regular people have not yet discovered this forum on their own.
I know some scammers are intelligent people who read a lot and can discover this forum from their research while trying to gather information, but it is possible that some of the people we are referring to the forum are scammers, and we now also have to be careful of the people we refer to Bitcointalk.
Avoid referring the forum to friends and even family who we know have tendencies to become scammers, have affiliations with any known scammer, etc.
The best way to deter these motherfuckers away from the forum is not giving them attention besides the complaint and the call-out.
What I usually do when I see posts like these is straight up report it for fraud, as most of the time I don't really feel like going out of my own way and creating a special thread for them in the reputation section, it's redundant anyway. I don't make comments about how I can smell through their bullshit, how I think they are a scammer or whatnot. Starving them of the attention they crave and need is the best course of action.
Cause picture this, these people bank on the hope that some hapless little turd who's down in his luck is gonna stumble upon their thread and ask for their help. And because of the nature of this forum, posts with more comments get put on the front page of the board for everyone to see. If we keep commenting on posts like this, even if the comments were well-meaning and preventative, there's still some glue-sniffer out there who's thinking the risks of not trusting the blatant scammer on the forum far outweighs the amount of money that they could steal from them.
So making sure they don't get to these posts by not commenting and just reporting them is the best course of action, they don't get in the first page of the board, no idiot's gonna happen upon their posts, and they would move someplace else or get banned here.