Helping consumers, merchants, banks, issuers and processors fight fraud.

Guide aimed at those new to the internet to help them learn about various types of email junk and how to prevent the spread.

A pdf file explaining how credit card information is stolen or traded. Discusses how some the black hats use web sites and Internet Relay chat (IRC) to coordinate their efforts and enable lesser technically skilled people to commit these crimes. Discusses methods of getting credit card information including attacking merchant sites, card validation, and card verification.

Details how dishonest people will try to steal your inheritance and savings using bogus investment schemes, telemarketing fraud, consumer scams. Their mission is to inform the public and law enforcement on the scope and workings of fraud.

A site dedicated to informing readers about scams so readers can protect themselves. Provides tips and articles.

Provides information defining hoaxes, describes how to recognize hoaxes, enumerates the cost of hoaxes and the risk from them, and recognizing chain letters. Also provides a history of virus hoaxes.

A list of hoaxes posted by Symantec. Email hoaxes are usually best ignored.