Consumer Fraud Reporting - Free Consumer Protection Information About Scams

What is Consumer Fraud Reporting?

Consumer Fraud Reporting is an online service to warn consumers about specific types of financial scams via the internet.

We also provide information on how to spot the different types of scams. To keep up to date on the types of scams in global circulation we stay in regular contact with overseas consumer agencies.

Consumer Fraud Reporting is not a government agency or affiliated with any government; we only act as an information exchange to help raise public awareness about scams and to help to bring them to the attention of the proper enforcement authorities. Unfortunately, we do not have enforcement powers over local or overseas scams; but we aim to help you to find the proper enforcement agency!

What Sort of Scams Do We Report On?

• Prize and lottery schemes - emails tell you that you have won a prize in a contest you don't remember entering, but you have to pay fees or give them your bank account details.
• Money Transfer / Bank account scams, such as letters, emails or faxes notifying the recipient that the sender requires help in transferring a large sum of money through your bank account (for reward) usually from Nigerian and Dutch sources.
• Phishing - fake emails and fake websites pretending to be your bank, credit card company or other agency, and asking for your private account information.
• Astrology and psychic schemes sent from an overseas based psychic, clairvoyant or astrologer offering fortune telling books, reports or a talisman for a fee.
• Email Spams - Endless unsolicited help in enlargening your penis, buying cheap drugs, software or losing weight.
• Wham - Web Spam - You click on a link in Google looking for some information and you go to a website that has nothing but more links to other websites... and lots of advertisements.  You've been whammed!
• Hoaxes and nuisance scams - Bill Gates doesn't want to send anyone to Disney World, least of all, just because you send an email to 20 friends...

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