Scams, Phish, and Fraud

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About Scams, Phish, and Fraud

Did you get an email telling you that you've won or inherited a boatload of money? Did you get an urgent email saying that you have to go to your bank or an online sales site to correct your financial information? Does your national government say you've got a tax refund coming, yet they don't appear to have your financial information already so they are asking for it? Does the login page for that place you go all the time look different today? It could be because someone's trying to pull a fast one on you.

The purpose of this group is to post screenshots or photos of scammers at work, so that the unfamiliar can learn what to watch out for -- and the experienced cybernauts can laugh at bad grammar and poor page layout. Please obscure any personal information such as URLs or email addresses that may point toward you, your employer, or innocent bystanders (like a Joe's Bank phish hacked onto Fawcett Plumbing's website should have "fawcettplumbing.com" partially blitzed -- enough that it's obvious this isn't really JoesBank.com). If the image is an email or something else where being able to read it matters, you should set the permissions for the image so that it can be viewed at full size.

Fake pharmacy and "bodily enhancement" ads/sites allowed if they are G-rated! Edit them if necessary! This is a public and family-friendly group, okay? Contribute as many images as you want, just make sure they are on-topic and 'depersonalized', and share the knowledge with others!

Phishing (spoofing a financial institute's website) was the original thrust, but other forms such as money mule (seeking people to exchange currency for international businesses), 419 schemes (alerts to a large sum of money that some official wants to deposit into your bank account), not-legit online pharmacies and too-good-to-be-true medicine ads, good ol'-fashioned promises of love backed by a pretty face, and any other swindles you see on the web or in your email box are all welcome here.