The Securities and Exchange Commission

[thepennyking]

Some good links about stock scams, frauds, and other deceit and how to avoid them.
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Exposing fraud, confidence games, scams, rip-offs, swindles, rackets, shell games, deceptions and flimflam.
http://www.flimflam.com/
http://www.steroidworld.com/scam.htm
From the fraud bureau. Need help????? http://www.fraudbureau.com/
http://www.fraudbureau.com/investor/101/
http://www.realityatthesec.com/Gary_Goodenow/home.htm
From the SEC
http://www.sec.gov/consumer/cyberfr.htm
http://www.sec.gov/investor/online/pump.htm
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/internetenforce.htm
http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml. This link to report scum, errrrr scammers
Canada's version of the sec!!!!! http://www.bcsc.bc.ca/default.asp

How to avoid being scammed
t.com/http://www.fool.com/specials/2000/sp000223fraud.htm
What to do if you are scammed. It talks about the value of posting on message boards to let others know about the scam.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/
http://www.fool.com/specials/2000/sp000223fraud8.htm
How to do your dd on a company
http://www.archive.org/
http://www.fool.com/school/13steps/stepeight.htm
Electronic Privacy Information center
http://epic.org/
A journal of foreign policy, finance, ethics, and culture
http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com/2002_10_13_rittenhouse_archive.html#85575991
The name speaks for itself.....
http://www.americanpolitics.com/
African 419 email scam letters, report them here.....
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION PRIVACY INITIATIVES
Educating consumers and businesses about the importance of personal information
privacy. Includes an online form to report identity theft.
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html
Our Mission:
To provide useful information to investors that will enable them to effectively identify, fight and end securities fraud. Each section contains basic information about securities fraud as well as links to additional resources.
http://www.endfraud.com/
NEW YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL
REPORT ON MICRO-CAP STOCK FRAUD
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/investors/microcap97/report97a.html
The Consumer Sentinel is a partially public Web destination packed with a pile of information about fraud on the Internet.
http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel/
Great list of various scams of all kinds,,,,,,,,http://www.adminresources.com/psa/
Tired of junk email, and the scams that come with them??????? Email the gumperment @ [e-mail] !!!!!!!!!!!!
Ian's OTC FRAUD/BBX board....... http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1523
Identity Theft sitehttp://www.fightidentitytheft.com/index.html
Fraud and scam searchers................
http://www.securitiessleuth.com/
Internet Sites of Interest to Investors
http://www.epl.ca/Investors/Bookmarks.htm
"The #1 Publication on Internet Fraud"
http://www.scambusters.org/
This is the official website of the National Association Against Naked Short Selling
http://www.nakedshortselling.com/
This website is dedicated to exposing Agencies and Individuals who are using the Internet to defraud persons seeking friendship or a partner abroad, especially in the CIS and Eastern Europe.
http://www.scamalert.freeservers.com/index.html
http://www.quatloos.com/
All the current Online Fraud news
http://onlinefraud.newstrove.com/
http://www.fraud.org/welcome.htm http://www.fraudsandscams.com/index.shtml
Scammer phone callers
http://www.phonebusters.com/Eng/index.html
Federal Trade Commission Complaint form. This site and the one below must not allow hot linking, just cut and paste the addy in your browser.
https://rn.ftc.gov/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
econsumer.gov Complaint Form
https://www.econsumer.gov/imsn/wimsnery2$com.main?p_lang_seq=1
The offical internet blacklist!!!!!
http://www.blacklist.com/
Rip Off report!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.badbusinessbureau.com/
http://stocklemon.com/index.html

WE ARE TAKING BACK OUR STREET!
http://www.our-street.com/home.htm
Site telling of some of the bullchit ways of otc trading
http://www.betrayedinvestor.com/Naked.htm
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