On 27 September 2024, one post went out into the world: "Fraudsters Like Weekends Too!" One picture, one fraud angle, and one simple bet - fraud awareness does not have to be boring to be useful.

Two years later, this is post number 95.

This one is different. No new criminal technique to unpack - just a moment to look back, say thank you, and explain why the series keeps going.

What two years built:

📅 A lasting rhythm - The early posts found their cadence, then Mondays became the home of one practical fraud angle at a time. Plain language, minimal jargon, and a backlog that still runs years ahead.

🌐 A permanent home - In June 2025, whatfraudsterslike.com turned a stream of LinkedIn posts into a searchable archive. The content stopped disappearing down the feed and became something people revisit and explore.

🎬 From pictures to motion - The series began with simple illustrations. Short videos now give every theme a little more life, because useful information still has to win attention before teaching anything.

🗂️ A structured library - Articles are classified by attack technique, risk profile, technology, industry, and target where relevant. Instead of scrolling endlessly, readers find the angle they need.

📈 Reach, honestly measured - Server analytics project more than two million requests a year. That is not two million readers: automated traffic and scrapers account for most of it, while the human audience is far smaller. At one point, 91.5% of requests were geolocated to China. I like to imagine we are quietly making some language model marginally better at recognizing fraud. You are welcome. 😅

🛡️ The archive became a target too - Automated scanners did more than read. They profiled pages, searched for common weaknesses, and hammered the server, so the site gained automatic blocking for abusive scraping and probing. A fraud-awareness website developing its own little abuse-prevention system feels almost too appropriate.

Why this exists:

Let me be clear: this is not a money-making machine. Quite the opposite. Its most reliable output is the disappearance of free time I did not really have. 😉

But the hours are worthwhile when the work reaches the right people: fraud professionals who fight these schemes every day, people who rarely think about fraud, older people targeted through trust and impersonation, and younger audiences navigating digital spaces full of fake offers, account theft, and manipulation.

Awareness is one of the most accessible fraud controls we have. It should be free, clear, practical, and genuinely hard to ignore.

Where this goes next:

The Monday rhythm continues. The videos get sharper. The archive becomes easier to search and use. Reader questions keep turning into articles, and the backlog guarantees that fraudsters have supplied us with plenty more material.

Thank you for reading, questioning, correcting, and sharing - and yes, even for the scraping.

Here is to year three. 🎉