Online Fraud Text Resources

[DIzzIE]

A few links to sites that contain information (from various perspectives) on a variety of cons...

House of Con Games
http://web.archive.org/web/20040625205905/http://www.geocities.com/king_grifter/

Scams
http://www.mazu.com/scams/index.html

Crimes of Persuasion
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/index.htm

Scam The World
http://web.archive.org/web/20030801172722/lockpick-nederland.com/textfiles.html

Scuzzy-elo's Files
http://freewebhosting.hostdepartment.com/s/scuzzyelo/

DIzzIE's File Archive
http://www.dizzy.ws

Maxim Cheater's Guide
http://www.maximonline.com/grit/cheaters_guide/

Parazite
http://pz2005.250free.com/files.parazite.org/files.html#crime (main site: http://www.parazite.org )

The Thai Gem Scam
http://www.geocities.com/thaigemscamgroup/Intro/Scam.html

Black Market Press
http://blackmarketpress.net/info_05.htm

Anarchy: Scams
http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/SCAMS/

CBEL Fraud Issue Resources
http://www.cbel.com/fraud_issues/

Scams and Rip-Offs
http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/scams_and_rip_offs/index.html

Scams & Rip-Offs
http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/scams/index.html

SWIPE Toolkit
http://turbulence.org/Works/swipe/request.html
[note: Not a fraud site per se, but contains links to forms to request "your" information from a variety of US data warehouses ;)]


Please only post relevant links to crime archives in this thread.

If a link is dead, try to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine ( http://www.archive.org/web/web.php ) to access an earlier version of the site. If that doesn't work, report the dead link.

[XxNeXuSxX]

Nice links but what can someone do with the last sight? What would it be "useful" for?

[DIzzIE]

A credit report, which requires some key items such as name, address, phone number, and social security number (and possibly some other info such as proof of residency, depending on what company one is requesting the report from), and also contains some key items (namely the names (and account numbers) of any organisations that the mark has taken loans out from, as well as other financial info such as the current balance in the mark's various accounts), is thus used as an intermediary step, as a continuation of the gathering of information on one's mark.

Once this information is obtained, the mark may receive an official letter next month from Firm X (from which he has taken out a loan, and is currently paying back...) informing him all about their new billing procedures :twisted:

The current wave of phishing expeditions has caused the old fashioned information theft techniques (which are admittedly more time consuming) to be largely overlooked. Yet, one can also think of this as leading to a very targeted phishing campaign...

[Thor]

Great info! I haven't even had a chance to look through all of the sites yet and I like what I am seeing. Thanks a lot :borladuck

[odin_dax]

Parazite archive moved to http://parazite.nn.fi/files.html

And I got a 404 from Scuzzyelo...

House of Con Games is gone too.


XE.com published an article against online frauds which involved investing in Iraqi Dinars, a scam on the MAZU website.