In 2015, Tim McGuinness, Ph.D., founded SCARS™, which is led today by an extraordinary group of leaders who know firsthand the devastating effects that scams can inflict on victims. SCARS™, a Worldwide Non-Profit Cybercrime Victims’ Assistance, Support, and Advocacy Organization focuses on the support of relationship scam victims worldwide; and the detection, deterrence, and eventual elimination of global online scams in all its forms. Their principal goal is the assistance of traumatized scam victims to aid in their recovery and avoidance of future victimization and to educate the public about socially engineered cyber-enabled crimes in all their forms to prevent further cybercrime. They are here to help victims become survivors! Additional BIO information available at 
From the Summer 2021 Issue
The Psychology of Cyber
The Subtle Sabotage of Blame in Cybersecurity and Online Safety
Author(s):
Tim McGuinness, Ph.D, Director , SCARS - Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams Inc.
We All Do It, We All Blame Someone for Something Sometimes it is justified, sometimes there is cause, and it is very hard to remove it from your vocabulary – but it is always destructive. We recently heard a cybersecurity training professional tell a story about motivating a corporate team to do better with cybersecurity. … Read more
