# 📚 Glossary > [!caution] 🚧 Page still under construction! 🚧 > More terms, plus refinement of the terms below, will be added soon! ## 🦹‍♀️ Scammer Generally speaking, a scammer is an individual or entity who deliberately uses deception, dishonesty, emotional manipulation, or fraudulent methods to trick people into giving them money, personal information, or other valuable things. Scammers operate in various ways, such as posing as legitimate businesses (e.g. artists), impersonating authority figures, or creating fake scenarios (e.g. "_oh no, my cat is ill and needs medicine_") to exploit victims. ^scammer The above definition is quite generic, and for the purposes of this project, we have a narrower scope. You can read more about what we consider scamming, and what kinds of scammers we track, here: [[🦹‍♂️How we define a scammer]]. ## CAPTCHA [CAPTCHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA) stands for "_Completely Automated Public [Turing test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test) to tell Computers and Humans Apart_." It is a type of security measure used to distinguish between human users and automated bots. Common CAPTCHA methods include asking the user to identify letters in distorted text or select images that match a certain description, ensuring that a real person (rather than a computer program) is accessing the service. ## Verification Process