• Advance Fee Schemes

  An advance fee scheme occurs when the victim pays money to someone in anticipation of receiving something of greater value—such as a loan, contract, investment, or gift—and then receives little or nothing in return.

• Business Fraud

  Business fraud consists of activities undertaken by an individual or company in a dishonest or illegal manner designed to be advantageous to the perpetrating person or establishment.

• Counterfeit Prescription Drugs

  Counterfeit prescription drugs are illegal, fake medicines that may be hazardous to your health.

• Credit Card Fraud

  Credit card fraud is the unauthorized use of a credit or debit card, or card number, to fraudulently obtain money or property.

• Fraud Against Seniors

  Senior citizens should be especially aware of fraud schemes targeting their lifestyle and savings and follow a series of tips to protect themselves and their family members from fraud.

• Fraudulent Cosmetics and “Anti-Aging” Products

  The Internet has given consumers widespread access to health and beauty products, including "anti-aging" products, that they do not know are fake.

• Funeral and Cemetery Fraud

  Regulations for prepaid funeral services vary from state to state, providing a window of opportunity for unscrupulous operators to overcharge expenses and list themselves as beneficiaries.

• Health Care Fraud or Health Insurance Fraud

  The FBI is the primary investigative agency involved in the fight against health care fraud, with jurisdiction over both federal and private insurance programs.

• Identity Theft

  Identity theft occurs when someone assumes your identity to perform a fraud or other criminal act.

• Internet Auction Fraud

  Consumers are strongly cautioned against entering into Internet auction transactions with subjects exhibiting irregular behavior or making odd payment requests.

• Internet Fraud

  Internet fraud is the use of Internet services or software with Internet access to defraud victims or to otherwise take advantage of them.

• Investment Fraud

  Investment fraud is an offer using false or fraudulent claims to solicit investments or loans, or providing for the purchase, use, or trade of forged or counterfeit securities.

• Letter of Credit Fraud

  Letters of credit frauds are often attempted against banks by providing false documentation to show that goods were shipped when, in fact, no goods or inferior goods were shipped.

• Market Manipulation (“Pump and Dump”) Fraud

  This scheme—commonly referred to as a “pump and dump”—creates artificial buying pressure for a targeted security, generally a low-trading volume issuer in the over-the-counter securities market largely controlled by the fraud perpetrators.

• Nigerian Letter or “419” Fraud

  Nigerian letter frauds combine the threat of impersonation fraud with a variation of an advance fee scheme in which a letter mailed, or e-mailed, from Nigeria offers the recipient the “opportunity” to share in a percentage of millions of dollars that the author—a self-proclaimed government official—is trying to transfer illegally out of Nigeria.

• Non-Delivery of Merchandise

  Non-delivery of merchandise is a scheme most often linked to Internet auction fraud, but also can be considered a form of business fraud in certain cases.

• Ponzi Schemes

  “Ponzi” schemes promise high financial returns or dividends not available through traditional investments. Instead of investing the funds of victims, however, the con artist pays “dividends” to initial investors using the funds of subsequent investors.

• Prime Bank Note Fraud

  The purpose of these frauds is generally to encourage the victim to send money to a foreign bank, where it is eventually transferred to an off-shore account in the control of the con artist. From there, the victim’s money is used for the perpetrator’s personal expenses or is laundered in an effort to make it disappear.

• Pyramid Schemes

  As in Ponzi schemes, the money collected from newer victims of pyramid schemes is paid to earlier victims to provide a veneer of legitimacy. In pyramid schemes, however, the victims themselves are induced to recruit further victims through the payment of recruitment commissions.

• Redemption / Strawman / Bond Fraud

  This scheme predominately uses fraudulent financial documents—often referred to as “bills of exchange,” “promissory bonds,” “indemnity bonds,” “offset bonds,” “sight drafts,” or “comptrollers warrants”—that appear to be legitimate.

• Reverse Mortgage Scams

  Reverse mortgage scams are engineered by unscrupulous professionals in a multitude of real estate, financial services, and related companies to steal the equity from the property of unsuspecting senior citizens or to use these seniors to unwittingly aid the fraudsters in stealing equity from a flipped property.

• Telemarketing Fraud

  When you send money to people you do not know personally or give personal or financial information to unknown callers, you increase your chances of becoming a victim of telemarketing fraud.

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