Fraud Guides – Investment Schemes, Internet Scams And Consumer Fraud


Learn how to detect and avoid fraud, identity theft, internet scams, consumer ripoffs, con jobs and investment schemes by educating yourself. Fraud Guides is here to help!

Americans lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fraud. Billions more are lost world-wide to con artists touting the next great investment idea, guaranteed loans and diets that can’t fail. These con artists or scam specialists do not discriminate between the rich and poor, the young and old, nationality or race. They target the well educated, so-called smart individuals as well as those with less education and sophistication. Their greed knows no bounds.

Use our consumer fraud information to steer clear of consumer-related scams and ripoffs.

Find out how scammers turn your greed against you by visiting our investment scheme section.

Avoid internet scams and protect yourself and your family by learning the tricks scammers use on the ‘net.

Learn the tricks car dealerships, car repair shops, and insurance companies use to separate you from your money.

Visit our Lemon Law Resources section for comprehensive information about your state’s Lemon Laws.

What’s worse than getting ripped off by a scam? Getting conned by a tax scam then going to jail for tax fraud!

Learn the tactics used by shady telemarketers to rip off consumers.

Find how and where to complain or file a report if you’ve been the victim of a scam.

Fight Fraud with Knowledge

Fraud Guides exists to inform the public about scam artists and their tactics so that hopefully you can recognize a scam before you become the victim of one. Most scams are tried and true schemes that have been around for years if not centuries. Once you learn how to recognize a few you will realize how similar most of them are whether they occur on the internet, over the phone or in an ad you respond to in the newspaper.

Arm yourself to fight fraud!

It all begins with educating oneself about fraud. Fraud Guides is here to assist those attempting to do just that. These pages are going to examine several of the investment and consumer scams that have existed for quite some time, several for centuries or more. One would think that after so much publicity and discussion of ongoing scams in both print media and television that people would finally stop falling for these tricks.

Alas, we humans are not smart at times as greed leads our emotions and faults our decision making process. We’ll do all we can to provide the information you need to avoid scams. The rest is up to you!

Living Trusts

Living Trusts can be a useful way of protecting yourself and your beneficiaries but scam artists out to make a

Inheritance Scams

If you receive a notification in the mail from an “estate locator” saying that there is an unclaimed inheritance waiting

Check Fraud

Even though the use of personal checks has declined in recent years, check fraud has grown causing more merchant than

Gift Card Fraud

Be careful when selecting gift cards for your friends and loved ones. Crooks have learned how to exploit this popular

Consumer Credit Fraud

Credit Fraud and Identity Theft can happen almost anytime or anywhere to the unwary consumer ID theft is at an

Credit Card Validation Code Scam

When someone calls claiming to work for your credit card company, don’t even think about divulging your validation code

Improving Credit Score

Understanding the importance of your credit score and how to keep it high can save you a lot of money

Credit Card Fraud

What do you do if your credit card is lost or stolen? Discovering and reporting the theft immediately lets you

Debt Elimination

Credit Card Debt Elimination companies lure victims by promising to not just consolidate credit card debt but completely wipe them
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