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Advance Fee Fraud/419
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Phishing, Identity Theft
Job Scams
Auction Scams

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Scamdex is a Huge Archive of Scams received by Email. - 'Get Rich Quick' Scams, Spoof Websites, Bogus Lottery Winnings, Spoof Emails from Banks, Messages from African Dictators (and their wives) and all other Identity Theft and Internet Fraud.

Scamdex aims to make Internet users aware of the evil people who are trying ever more ingenious ways to steal your Identity and Money. Scamdex is the leading free repository of world-wide scam emails!


Many organizations do not have clear, concise scam and phishing reporting instructions. They hide behind the small print that warns people not to fall for scams but then fail to have a customer-driven reporting system so that scams (such as fake websites) continue much longer than they need to. We report on ways in which Web Services such as Free Email (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo), Chat (AIM, ICQ, Skype), Social Networking (YouTube, MySpace etc) and Auctions sites (eBay, Yahoo) are (ab)used by scammers to defraud citizens billions of dollars annually.

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The Scamdex Email Scam Archive


Scamdex sorts it's huge FREE archive of email scams into five classifications:
  1. 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.
  2. Lottery Scams: Payment is required to get your huge unsolicited lottery winnings transferred into your country/bank account. There are no 'winnings' .
  3. 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.
  4. 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!
  5. 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!.

There is crossover between the basic types, for example, most use counterfeit checks/cheques at some stage and one scam may morph into another or even present several types at one time.

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Last Update: Mon, 05 May 08 23:11:38 -0700
CategoryCount
Advance Fee Fraud/419 19205
Lottery Scams 16750
Phishing, Identity Theft 5476
Job Scams 3499
Auction Scams 1506

There are a total of 46436 Scams in the Scamdex Database



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Scam-Baiting - Our Position

Pic of a Pile of Gold Bricks - Not waiting in a vault for you!Scam-Baiting is the practice of corresponding with scammers to waste their time and/or make them look foolish. Scammers are often seasoned criminals who may have contacts in YOUR country too. Often scam-baiting has a racist element which Scamdex finds offensive.

Latest Scam News Image A BBC report says that online frauds are becoming more sophisticated.

Of the 1% who had lost money through phishing, 53% were not compensated by their bank, the AOL survey found. A further 11% say they are still waiting for compensation.


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