Welcome to Think Jessica

Our 2012 "Silence of the Scams" information packs (which include a DVD) are now available to order individually or in bulk. Please contact us to find out how your agency, organisation or charity can raise awareness to scam mail and phone calls and support Think Jessica.

If you think people who fall for scam letters are stupid -

think again!

Criminals worldwide are sending millions of scam letters into the UK and hunting down the most vulnerable members of our society including the over trusting, bereaved, superstitious, socially isolated, depressed and those with age related declining mental health and dementia.

Scam mail is designed to shut down the normal thought process and dazzle the mind. A chronic scam victim is someone who is repeatedly taken in by scams they can only focus on the fictitious prizes, not the money they are sending to claim them. They do not understand modern technology or how it allows criminals to mass-produce mail and make it look like important and personally written correspondence. After replying to the first 'tempter' letter victims’ names are put on what criminals call 'suckers' lists. They sell these lists to other scammers all over the world. Bogus Lottery officials, solicitors, bankers, clairvoyants and other fictional characters work together. They send out mail which forms a delusional world and becomes a chronic victim’s reality. Criminals also use the voice of authority, swear vulnerable victims to secrecy and make threats to snare those from a generation that was built on trust and obedience. Associated phone calls have worried some elderly people into transferring their life savings to criminals abroad.

Right Now, silent victims are receiving 30, 40, 50 or over 100 criminal letters a day. Hundreds of posties have contacted Think Jessica and told us “we can easily recognise when someone is being targeted, yet there is no system in place for us to sound the alarm" Since 2007 Think Jessica has been campaigning for a common sense solution; a system which allows posties to flag up victims like Jessica, thus enabling help to be sent out and mail to that address stopped, redirected and screened by a relative or trusted person.

22,000 victims replied to one scam mail shot in one day and sent £500,000, this one Criminal gang was estimated by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to be making £35 million a year. They use this money to fuel the drug trade, human trafficking and other crimes!

20 pensioners in Cornwall collectively sent £350,000 to criminals who work in organised gangs!
5 victims of mail scams are known to have committed suicide!
The vast majority of those targeted, cannot recognise themselves as victims, therefore they never report the crime!
Think Jessica can get up to 20 reports of serious cases a day, of those who have emptied their bank accounts and/or sold their homes to keep up with the scammers demands.
Dozens of Catalogues scams which operate from overseas including Vital Beauty, Vitamail, Fredrich Mueller, Delices Gourmandises and Biotonic have been deceiving honest and trusting people for years. They guarantee a prize to those who order. The prize never arrives; instead the victim gets bombarded with more false promises and phone calls. Some of those targeted have spent over £40,000 on drastically over priced goods from the these fraudulent "companies"

Think Jessica "Silence of the Scams" posters are now on billboards across the UK.

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Silence is a Scammers Best Friend

For years this pensioner has been responding to scam mail and buying goods from criminals who tricked her into believing she was one order away from her ”guaranteed” prize. Criminals claiming to be clairvoyants “blackmailed” her into sending them ”protection” money. She has no family.

Victims are emptying their bank accounts.

The daughter of the victim who lives here is called Kathy; you can read her story on the "Your Stories" page.

Her mother has sold her home and sent the proceeds to scams. She is now living in sheltered accommodation. After years of constant arguments with her mother and unable to find any agency, organisation or age related charity who will help. Kathy has decided that she can do no more.