Welcome to HotScams.com - Discover, Detect and Avoid Internet Scams

Keep up to date on the popular and pervasive attacks and scams.

Report Any Scams!

HotScams.com is an international anti-scam website for reporting, sharing and dissemination of scam info.

US: Report internet crime to US gov (FBI): IC3
US: Report consumer-related complaints: FTC reporting page.

UK: ConsumerDirect
UK: Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
UK: Report at Action Fraud (supported by NFA and Attorney General’s Office)
UK: Report to UK Police

Australia: ScamWatch
Australia: WA Scamnet

Don’t get fooled by online shopping scams and 3rd party Apps!

Watch this video from CNN.com below!

Submit a Scam Report for our Readers!

Please use our Contact Form for all submissions.

Submit new reports using the link above. If it is approved, your posts will get published on the front page. We will publish a separate report by itself if necessary.

Popular Scams

These are popular scams that you need to be aware of.

Latest Scam News

Hot Stories

419 Scam: Do you want an ATM Card with $1.6million?

419 Scams

I wish to use this medium to inform you that your full Payment of USD$1.6M (One Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars) from CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA have been RELEASED and APPROVED for onward transfer to you via an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw all the USD$1.6M in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day is USD$5,500 Only

News Digest

Various Scams

HotScam.com search and reports the hottest scam, news, videos and reports on the internet - lottery scam, inheritance scam, pet scam, lover scam, phishing scam, commercial scam, job scam and more scams

Watch Out for Counterfeit Chips

Various Scams

HotScam.com search and reports the hottest scam, news, videos and reports on the internet - lottery scam, inheritance scam, pet scam, lover scam, phishing scam, commercial scam, job scam and more scams

More Ponzi Scammers

Various Scams

HotScam.com search and reports the hottest scam, news, videos and reports on the internet - lottery scam, inheritance scam, pet scam, lover scam, phishing scam, commercial scam, job scam and more scams

VERY URGENT ATTENTION (for US$20 million) !!!

419 Scams

Return-path: [frank_odile15@hotmail.com]Delivery-date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:09:04 -0600Received: from [65.54.246.211] (helo=bay0-omc3-s11.bay0.hotmail.com)    envelope-from [frank_odile15@hotmail.com]    id 1HE9D6-0006Ng-

Spams in Foreign Languages

Blog Posts

We know everyone is so desperate to make money online, and one of the bad thing that has happened to mankind is the creation of spam emails. Such a tactic has become so widespread that foreign languages are used without regards to whom they are sending the emails...

Never Respond to Lottery Scams

Blog Posts

We have received some emails where our visitors have responded to lottery scammers with their personal information. Please, never, ever reply to any email that claims you have won a prize. What is worse, if you send money over to them, there is nothing that we can do....

Craigslist Fake Check Scam: When you get more than what you asked

Blog Posts, Business and Commercial Scams, Complaint Reports, Distress Scams, Fake Check Scam, Internet Scams, Is this a Scam, Job Scams, Just for Fun, Knowledge Sharing, Latest Scam News, Lottery Scam, Most Commented, Phishing Scam, Piracy and Replicas, Ponzi and Pyramid Scams, Scam News, Spam, Submit Reports

HotScam.com search and reports the hottest scam, news, videos and reports on the internet - lottery scam, inheritance scam, pet scam, lover scam, phishing scam, commercial scam, job scam and more scams

419 Scam: Chinese Scammer from Taiwan has $25million

419 Scams

This Taiwanese scammer doesn't sound "chinese", as he cannot even get the names correct. Is he Mr Huang, Huan, or Shong Hua...!? The names seemed to get shorter... Another 419 scam, the money and story is fake! ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: MR HUANG To: Sent:...

Black Money Demonstration

Black Money Demonstration

Black Money Scam

Paul showed how easy it is to scam a group of people in public, into believing that they can buy a chemical to remove the black ink on some 'real money'. In order to convince the crowd, he demonstrated the use of the chemical on a real (really real) money. The actual...

How Do You Know You Belong Online?

New To The Internet

No matter what the technology is behind your home business, you are going to have to figure out eventually if you have a market that should be online, or one that is going to be best locally served. There are home businesses that work well online, an

Job Scam: http://www.workcircle.co.uk/Nigeria

Blog Posts, Business and Commercial Scams, Complaint Reports, Distress Scams, Fake Check Scam, Internet Scams, Investment Scams, Is this a Scam, Job Scams, Just for Fun, Knowledge Sharing, Latest Scam News, Lottery Scam, Most Commented, Phishing Scam, Piracy and Replicas, Ponzi and Pyramid Scams, Scam News, Spam, Submit Reports

We saw this on our ad and decided to investigate by visiting the site (we typed in the web address on our browser). The page has been removed as we write, and the ads could be down soon.

Have a Scam Report?

Please use our Contact Form for all submissions. By submitting a scam report, you agree to the possibility that we may post the report on the site. You may also provide feedback on any individual post with our User Comments.

Submit a Report

Visit https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/scam-alerts for information on the latest scams.

HotScams.com is maintained by NoLimitMedia.com and is hosted at Prime-UK.com