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Fraud Fighter ‘Bobbear’ to Hang Up His Cape

Summary: Bob Harrison, a 66-year-old U.K. resident who runs bobbear.co.uk and bobbear.com, announced Saturday he will shut the sites down at the end of April after four years of chronicling and exposing fraud and scam websites. Harrison cited health and quality-of-life reasons, saying he spends roughly 15 hours a day on the site and worries about litigation from misclassifying a legitimate site, and he has received no offers yet from anyone to take it over.

What's compelling: Bobbear, which drew about 2,000 hits per day and was often among the first search results for fly-by-night corporations, was a working early-warning feed for money-mule recruitment and a forensic archive used by Krebs and by law enforcement tracking operations like the Devbill syndicate - and no successor has stepped forward.

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Fraud & Scams
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