Earlier this summer several of our users reported seeing $29.95 charges on their credit cards from a bogus outfit calling itself the Scripts Store. Usually these discoveries result in little more than a handful of card-cancellations (see this recent story), but this one is different.

This time a user (MGD) in our scam busting forum dug deeply into the scam, and found the Russian and American scammers involved did not do a very good job covering their tracks. According to the user, the crews behind the operation stopped charging cards shortly after our user complaints began attracting search engine attention (the power of Google at work).

Some of the scammers even posted in the thread, trying to deflect attention away from the scam itself. Unfortunately for them, the billing interface script and other logs tell the tale.