#reporting scams

[zaldritzosrose]

PSA: Scam Alert

I know these have been going around so I thought I'd clue everyone in, just in case!

I received this comment on my recent fic and I'm on here enough to know this scam when I see it.

It is most certainly a scam and I know other people have run into the same issue but I wanted to highlight a new username running the same thing.

[romancescams]

How To Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams

How To Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams

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Reporting Scammers - How To Tell Your Story To Your Local Police!

Reporting Scammers – How To Tell Your Story To Your Local Police!

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Reporting Scams

Have you been contacted by a scam number or believe you have potential scam information and want Rinoa & their team to investigate?

Copy this form and fill it out on https://pastebin.com/ with as much information as possible.

Post your unique pastebin link in the #-scam-submissions channel for the team to investigate, or pass to a moderator here, and we can do that for you.

Copy and Paste:

Type of Scam:

Occurrence:

Phone Number:

Website/Link:

Additional Details:

Scam Types Examples

Refund, Amazon Refund, Tech sales, Tech support, Social Security, Government Grant, Vehicle Warranty, Phishing, & others

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How can I report scams?

Here is a guide to reporting scams https://www.scammer.info/d/35334-reporting-scams. You can sign up to this. Depending where you are based, you could report scammers to your federal police department if they are working internationally. Each country will have their own set up and will generally cooperate with each other to take down scams where they see it as viable to do so. Your local police will generally say they cannot help unless you have an actual victim. Police mostly like you to report crimes AFTER they have happened, and they are not specialists in fraud and how to prevent it. In USA you would report fraudsters to the FBI, in Australia this is the AFP. In the UK it will be the Fraud Squad, or the Serious Fraud Squad, dependent on the size of crime you uncover. If the scammers have infiltrated your bank, you would need to speak to the fraud department of your individual bank. Many banks are not trained to help if you speculatively report a possible crime, or will tell you that they cannot help if you are reporting a crime against a third party who banks with them. It pays to be tenacious and explain that you are scambaiting (even now some departments see this as vigilante-ism and are unwilling to take your information) and give precise details of the scam and who it is against. You may never hear from the Department again, and not know if your call was successful in preventing the crime. These are the pitfalls of reporting scams.

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How to Protect Yourself from Online Fraud by Reporting Scams

Prevention is better than cure. The email and web scams are so rampant and versatile in their approach that, you cannot know, when, how, where and by whom you will fall victim and lose money. But, if you resort to timely reporting to the proper authorities or accredited authorities, you can protect yourself from financial disaster. You should therefore be aware of how to start reporting scams.

How to Recognize Scams

The following are the preliminary indicators for reporting scamsPersuasive and alarming messages, and threat of closing of accounts; Bank or Credit Card

Assurances of money for little or almost nil effort

High sounding words that sound too good to be true

Appeal for donations to charitable organizations for any recent natural disaster

Distorted grammar and spellings in the message or texts forwarded.

Pressure and persuasion for an immediate buying action

Popular Scams

The following are some the popular scams that call for immediately reporting scams...

Lottery Scam

Messages, appearing to have been received in Microsoft Office will indicate that you have won a Microsoft Lottery. Just delete such messages and for more details, you can refer to “What is the Microsoft Lottery Scam”.

Reporting Scams with Name of Microsoft

According to Big Scammers, the email message may indicate that you have won a contest of Microsoft and that Microsoft needs you logon information or password. Such scams are often committed on the phone. You can get further information by referring to “Avoid Scams the Use the Microsoft name fraudulently”.

Rogue Security Software

It is also known as Scareware and appears to be beneficial from a security point of view. In fact, it provides no security. Rather, it generates and misleading alerts. At the same time, it allures you to participate in some kind of fraudulent transactions. You can confront such scams through your social networking sites, online advertisement, emails, pop-up windows or Search Engine results. You can obtain information for reporting scams from “Watch Out for Fake Virus Alerts”.

Steps for Reporting Scams after Victimization

In case, you have responded to a phishing scam and have passed on the financial or personal information, resort to the following steps

Make changes of PINs or passwords on all your accounts online that you believe to have been scammed

Advise your Credit Card Company or bank to put a fraudulent alert on your accounts.

Close the fraudulent accounts that have been opened in your name

Make a routine review of your credit card and bank accounts and take action on the unexplained charges

Theft Protection Tools

Window Internet Explorer, particularly, the Smart Screen Filter that warns you of potentially unsafe websites.

Outlook.com, a free webmail of Microsoft also uses the technology from Smart Screen. It identifies and separates phishing threats and other junk emails. For more information, refer to “Help keeping Spam out of Your Inbox”.

Microsoft Office Outlook evaluates each of the incoming message and verifies, if it includes suspicious characteristics that are generally found in phishing scams.

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Reporting Scams on Online Shopping

Reporting scams in online shopping is a crucial step in putting these malicious schemes to an end. One of the primary reasons that the government is constantly urging scam victims to report their experience is to help the government gather a significant amount of information that can be useful for creating an action plan to help them catch scammers or stop malicious schemes from operating.

According to the reports of the Better Business Bureau online shopping or online purchase is one of the top five scams that will continue to cause menace this 2017. Given this scenario, it is best that you know crucial information on reporting scams, so you can do your part in putting online shopping scams to end. The first step about reporting scams is to familiarize yourself about the different forms of the scam that you wish you report. To give you an idea about the different forms of online shopping scams, check out the list below:

Types of Online Shopping Scams

Identity Theft

Identity theft is one of the primary concerns of many online businesses. This form is one of the most common types of online shopping fraud used by scammers to defraud online businesses. Identity theft is committed by using an illegally obtained credit card information to place a purchase online. Often times, the online business owner have no choice but to suffer the losses from this type of scam.

Friendly Fraud

Based on the survey conducted on the top e-commerce fraud, friendly fraud ranks fourth in the industry. Friendly fraud is committed when a customer files for a refund or chargeback even after they receive their purchased product or service. Scammers who commit this type of fraud often use identity theft or stolen credit card information as an excuse to get a chargeback. In some cases, scammers may falsely accuse the vendor of non-delivery as another excuse to file a chargeback. This is even after they received the product.

Triangulation Fraud

Triangulation fraud is committed for three different purposes. The first purpose is to illegally collect credit card and personal information about the victims. This is conducted by setting up a dummy shopping site that offers in demand products at an affordable price. Unsuspecting who are lured into buying the product will be required to place payment using their credit card information, which will then be illegally obtained by the scammer.

The second purpose of triangulation scam is to use the credit card to place unauthorized purchases on behalf of the card owner. The purchased products will all be delivered to the original owner of the card. These purchases are often overpriced or are items that no one would really care to buy.

The third purpose is to use the stolen credit card information so scammers can pay for their personal purchase or transactions online.  

These three are just some of the most common types of online shopping fraud. Now that you are already aware about these malicious schemes the next step that you should know about is where to report them.

Reporting Scams on Online Shopping

FTC

FTC or the Federal Trade Commission is one of the primary government agencies that offer online complaint form for reporting scams. Aside from the online complaint form, they also have a hotline which you can contact in case you don’t have Internet access. To know more about this, check out the FTC website.

Econsumer.gov

The econsumer. gov website is also equipped with an online platform for reporting scams related to online shopping. Just visit their website and choose the online shopping category to start your report.

These two are just some of the primary government agencies that have platforms and a hotline for reporting scams.