User:Scamdex
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[edit] About Scamdex
Scamdex is a website devoted to collecting, analyzing and indexing scams received by email and the dissemination of this information and other resources to inform the general public how to identify scams, how to avoid receiving them, how to report scammers and what to do if they are scammed.
Broadly speaking, 99% of all email scams fall into one of five types:
Advance Fee Fraud Payment is required to 'release' some much larger amount which is held by a third party. There is no 'millions', Mrs Abacha doesnt have the money either.
Lottery Scams Payment is required to get your huge unsolicited lottery winnings transferred into your country/bank account. There are no 'winnings' .
Phishing Official-looking emails from large internet banking and online services (PayPal, eBay, South Trust, US Bank etc etc) which ask you to 'confirm' some details. Always asks you to enter your credit card. The credit card details are used or sold on.
Auction Scams Basic scams mainly using eBay online autions to take either your money, or your property by subverting standard auction procedures. Watch out for 'Second Chance Offers' on auctions you did not win!
Employment Scams Employment is offered processing international payments. Certified check is paid into your bank account, you deduct your 'commission' and send on the rest. The check turns out to be a fake or you get prosecuted for Money Laundering!.
Based in Folsom and Sacramento, California, the website has been operating since 2004 and has an archive of 16,000 emails. [[]]
