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How to verify a website is who they claim to be

.org are presumably for "non-profit organisation" in the past, and is more widely accepted as non-commercial in nature. However, that does not imply that all .org sites are who they claim to be. In fact, anybody can register a .org domain name ...

Comments and Forum Posting Guidelines

These guidelines will be placed in this blog post for now. Forums has been closed off for now. What will be deleted: 1) Claim that XXXXXXXXXX company is a scam, with no further details, reports or reference. 2) All sorts of spams. 3) Sarcastic re...

Thinking Out Loud: Some similarity between scamming and hacking

Scammers 1) Exploit your weakness. (feelings of greed, desire and love) 2) Builds up your confidence. (fake story, testimonial, success, etc) 3) Harvest from victim. 4) Continue to "milk" you dry, as long as you still believe. 5) Cover their track...

Closing Down of Comments on Specific Reports

We are closing down the comments on the report of mustuniversity.com, as there seemed to be some individuals who are posting remarks about another company that was not mentioned in our article. Please take your complaints elsewhere as we do not se...

Featured Reports and Updates

We will only be posting selected updates on the front page Featured category. These reports are mainly those that we think would benefit most people generally and to spread information quickly. Other scam mails, including lottery and 419 scams hav...

Common keywords and phrases used in Scam Mail version 1.3

Below is a quick list off my mind. So if you have serious business to contact hotscams.com, please do not use these words/sentences or we would mistaken it as a scam mail. If anyone is designing a database solution to screen off 419-type scam mail...

Its not MY company

We keep getting emails from readers such as this one: "i got letter from shellpetroleum development co  letter date wed, january 2010, in this letter i was a Winner of 2,800,000,00. Is it true letter from your company? "please take any action for ...

University Accreditation and Diploma Mills

We have included a new category with information linked to the US Department Of Education. We have also provide a very convenient link for anybody who would like to check if their "university" is accreditated or were they scammed.  So there would ...

How did you know a scammer posted a comment?

We deleted a comment at the MustUniversity.com thread. 1) He tries to post illogical comments to suggest that it is not a scam, with no evidence or concrete facts. 2) He tries to have a "chat" with another scammer in the same comment thread. We al...

Dealing with Complaints

Recently one of our customers happen to get his money ($10,000) back from vendor which we would not mention here. This was after a complaint report was posted, and after about 6 months, the vendor decided to return the cash. There was no explanati...

Anti-Scam Guide is updated.

There has been quite a bit of new information lately, and we have just updated our anti-scam guide (click link).  

How to Contact Us

The following are the methods of contact us: 1) For questions or reports regarding scams, please use the contact us form. 2) For any other issue including official dealings, please email us directly using your webmail or email client. Do not use t...

Fake Names

How many times must we educate people that names stated on scams are mostly fake names. An exception are names reported in the news that are real names, and we are not going to hide that. So if you find any names inside here belonging to anyone yo...

Who signed me up for Twitter?

Anyway, I would like to say thank you, but I hope we can find time to "Twit". What is Twitter anyway? Micro/mini-blog? Small Talk? It reminds me of the Yell function or chatters on many sites, and the only reason I can think of which leads to its ...

Advertising in Comments

We keep getting comments from a particular visitor that writes rubbish but with a link to some member's website. If you are the one reading this post, then I am talking to you. Deleting these comments is as simple as one click away, so its easy fo...

You Have 6 Minutes to Share This Or...

How often do you receive an email that insists that you MUST forward it ASAP before something happens to you? We received alot, but we did not always spend the time to read it all. Nah, nothing would happen to you. I don't believe in curses transm...

The Future of Scams

This has been a rough year for me and updates have been slow. However, we are slowly changing from our posting of traditional "419 scams" to other scams. Yes, 419 scams are probably the most widespread scam known. The value of money lost in all 41...

Been busy again... ouch

Yes I know that we have been slacking on the update on this website. It has been a busy month, sorry I mean months. We have received hundreds (or thousands) of mails and I hope to clear them up asap.Any volunteers? We need help!! SOS!!!Just kiddin...

Scammers posting Comments on Our Site

I have been spending some time figuring and tracing the source of some particular individual who posted at our website. Some are spammers. We don't accept any postings that has a link to any website. We read out comments and if any got through pre...

Comments Approval

Recently I have been busy at work, but will resume updates on this website soon. Sorry for the disruption. We would like to reiterate that this is a free site and we are independent publisher of scams and related news. We are not paid by any parti...

Social Networking and Scamming

After reading our website, many of you may start to think that it is no longer safe to use the internet for sharing things, esp. your photos, names and contact information. Your name, photos, and contact infomration, may be used against you in sca...

Slow Updates Coming Up

Due to work, we will not be able to post as many reports until end of May 09. However, we will continue to find the time and read reports and publish selected (esp. critical) posts that may help the public prevent themselves against scams. Please ...

Changes in 419 and Lottery Scam Section

From today onwards, we will quick-post the reports submitted to us. This will help to save time and include as many as possible in our website.Basically, all 419 scams are all the same. The scammers would come up with a story to explain that there...

Word of Thanks from our readers

We would like to express that we are happy about what we have done here. It is not easy to update this website everyday, after a tiring day of work. But we feel great when we received many good comments:A K Naik: "I have received two emails about ...

Link Exchange with HotScams.com

We are currently accepting new link exchange with other blog sites. In order for us to include your website for consideration, it should have at least a Google pagerank of 2. Although pagerank is not really important to us, we find that this minim...

WARNING: If you received any email or anything by hotscams.com

If you received any email or any issue that points back to hotscams.com, it is a SCAM.Some scammers and hackers are using our domain name as their identity (e.g. email address) when they perform their act, so that it will appear that it was relate...

Regarding Authors and Submissions

We have been receiving quite a number of scam reports but we are overwhelmed with the numbers. Some of you have even sent via Comments form in the hope that your submissions will be approved for public release.In order to shorten the time and ease...

Ok Ok I am SORRY!

Ok, I need to apologize (again for the umpth time) that I have not been reading my emails and updating this website.I am really sorry because this website started out in anger because of all those stupid emails that we received each day esp. the 4...

Scams and Recession

The frequency of Scams tend to rise during a recession, mainly because there is a growing new group of people who are short of money and dreaming of making quick bucks. There will be more online scams including the usual 419 scams, lottery and lov...

HotScams Holidays

We are currently away for holidays and we will resume our hot scam business in Jan 09. Please continue to submit any comments, questions, articles, mails, complaints, etc. If you are pissed off with scammers and needed someone to listen to you cur...