Scam-Lessons-Learnt
This website has a two-fold purpose:
(1) To inform people about how to protect themselves from all types of scam.
(2) To offer ways in which victims of a scam can use the experience to transform their lives.
The intent behind this website is to help those who have been victims of a scam, resulting in loss, trauma, and the turbulent emotions of grief, anger, depression, helplessness, hopelessness, despair, as well as desire for revenge.
The insights are an outgrowth of our own experience of being scammed and left wondering how on earth could we have fallen for it.
Having been victims of a financial scam, the website also represents our healing journey from darkness to light.
For us, reviewing and applying the principles on this website has resulted in spiritual growth. It has also spawned compassion for the countless other victims of scams worldwide.
Compassion is equally needed for the perpetrators, for in due time (either in this life or in their next existence), they will reap what they have sown, and experience the pain that they have inflicted on their victims — unless they have turned from their ways with deep regret and remorse over their actions.
The focus of this website — and which sets it apart from many other excellent scam-related websites providing comprehensive information — is on spiritual principles. These come mainly from two spiritual traditions: Christianity (supplied by Eva) and Buddhism (supplied by Alex). Nevertheless, the website also presents practical tips and information on how to avoid scams.
The spiritual principles from both traditions can help facilitate healing by reorienting the mind from dwelling on the pain, loss, helplessness, anger, hate, desire for revenge, and similar thoughts and emotions — to the higher perspectives of understanding, forgiveness, gratitude, compassion, and ultimately love, all of which are life-giving and health-conducive.
In the context of suffering from a scam, the following quote can be instructive and relevant: “Heartbreak and hope are not mutually exclusive. We can be angry and sad and filled with longing for something we cannot have, and simultaneously we can be grateful for what we’ve got — aware, for reasons we’d never choose, of what really matters and what doesn’t.” (Lennon Flowers)
The ideas and principles on this website have been applied — and are in the process of being applied — by the authors and found to be helpful. If consistently and repeatedly put into practice, we believe that they can also help website visitors to begin free themselves from their mental and emotional pain following a scam and restore their perspective toward greater well-being.
In closing, our heartfelt desire is that the information shared on this website will truly be of valuable assistance in both (1) being protected from scam and (2) helping those who have suffered from a scam. For those suffering the pain of loss due to a scam, may you each also discover precious intangibles, which in the long run could far exceed your loss. So let’s begin the journey …
Eva and Alexander Peck (December, 2022)
Note: Photos on this website were taken by Alexander Peck (unless otherwise credited) and may be freely downloaded. Header photo: Eva Peck.
If you have been the victim of a scam — as I have — take some time out,
perhaps in a natural setting,
to really think about life.
Let the experience of the scam be a catalyst
to transform your outlook on life from here on.
Ask yourself questions such as:
What is really important in life?
What is my purpose in life?
How can I use this experience to help others?
(Alexander Peck)