Fraud Database: every scam type, how it works and what to do
Encyclopedia of scams and frauds: how each one works, warning signs, who is targeted, prevention and what to do if it happened to you, for the US, Brazil and worldwide.
- Account takeover via credential stuffing — Identity theft
- Advance-fee loan scam — Banking fraud
- AI voice cloning scam — Social engineering
- Business email compromise (BEC) — Business fraud
- Card cloning / skimming — Banking fraud
- CEO fraud / executive impersonation with deepfake — Business fraud
- Charity and disaster scam — Social engineering
- Check fraud / check washing — Banking fraud
- Courier card-swap scam — Banking fraud
- Fake auction scam — Shopping scams
- Fake bank call-center scam — Banking fraud
- Fake crypto exchange / wallet drainer — Crypto
- Fake delivery / delivery-fee scam — Payment fraud
- Fake DMV scam (traffic fines and vehicle tax) — Payment fraud
- Fake investment / Ponzi-pyramid scam — Investment scams
- Fake job / paid-tasks scam — Job scams
- Fake job / reshipping mule — Job scams
- Fake lawyer scam (lawsuit and court-payout) — Social engineering
- Fake online store scam — Shopping scams
- Fake or tampered boleto scam — Payment fraud
- Fake Pix receipt / scheduled Pix scam — Payment fraud
- Fake QR code scam — Payment fraud
- Fake relative on WhatsApp scam — Social engineering
- Fake vacation rental scam — Shopping scams
- Ghost-hand remote-access scam — Banking fraud
- Gift card scam — Payment fraud
- Government impersonation (IRS/SSA) — Social engineering
- Grandparent / family emergency scam — Social engineering
- ICO / token presale scam — Crypto
- Marketplace scam (fake listing and fake buyer) — Shopping scams
- MFA fatigue / push bombing — Business fraud
- Money-mule recruitment scam — Identity theft
- Online betting and gambling scams — Investment scams
- Pig butchering — Investment scams
- QR code phishing (quishing) — Social engineering
- Ransomware extortion of small businesses — Business fraud
- Real estate wire fraud — Payment fraud
- Romance scam — Social engineering
- Rug pull and memecoin pump-and-dump — Crypto
- Sextortion — Social engineering
- SIM swap — Identity theft
- SIM swap — Identity theft
- Smishing (toll and delivery texts) — Social engineering
- Social Security impersonation and unauthorized deductions scam — Social engineering
- Synthetic identity fraud — Identity theft
- Tax-authority phishing / 'irregular tax ID' scam — Identity theft
- Tech support scam — Social engineering
- Vendor / invoice fraud (bank detail change) — Business fraud
- WhatsApp account takeover (verification code) — Identity theft
- Winning-ticket con and fake kidnapping scam — Social engineering