419Legal’s “Scam Alerts” Raise Awareness about Email and Internet Scams

419Legal’s “Scam Alerts” Raise Awareness about Email and Internet Scams

419Legal.org’s new “Scam Alerts” feature provides information about the top daily and monthly searches for various types of email and online fraud. Viewers can easily display the Scam Alerts on their own websites in order to spread awareness even more effectively.

Salt Lake City, Utah (Advertiser Talk) 11-Aug-2009 — Various types of Internet scams have multiplied exponentially within the past few years, but 419Legal works to make the Internet a safer place by raising awareness about online fraud. In addition to hosting and moderating a forum in which people can ask questions about questionable emails, 419Legal now provides a feature that warns against the newest and most common scams. Members and visitors can quickly examine each day’s and month’s top searches for particular scams in order to discover what should be avoided.

419Legal administrators track which online scams are searched for most frequently, research these potentially fraudulent schemes, and summarize the relevant information in the site’s Scam Alerts section, which is attached to the home page’s header. In order to warn and protect as many people as possible, the website provides an easy way to copy the code for the Scam Alerts so that other websites can easily display them too.

The site is dedicated to informing people about online scams such as 419 emails, which originated in Nigeria but are now conducted all over the globe. These emails proclaim that their recipients will receive large sums of money after first paying small processing fees or other associated costs. The term “419″ refers to Section 419 of the Nigerian Criminal Code, which prohibits obtaining valuables under false pretences, because these schemes take their victims’ money but fail to supply the promised payouts. Numerous permutations of these emails and other types of Internet scams deceive and defraud millions of people every year.

Anyone who uses the Internet or receives scam emails will appreciate 419Legal’s straightforward, easy-to-use site, which was designed by Photoshop Gurus and programmed by Script Installation Services. The website also archives scam letters, email spam, and other fraudulent schemes so that members can search for information about any dubious online enterprises. Additionally, members can discuss any potential scams in the site’s open forum. Visitors who are concerned about spyware and online dating scams should peruse 419legals partner sites which keep users up to date on dating scams and Spyware Alerts.

Although the site endeavors to increase awareness about online scams, it does not currently conduct official investigations. 419Legal provides advice and information about reporting fraud and advises visitors who are already involved in scams to inform the proper authorities.

419Legal.org was established in 2004 as a forum in which members could discuss suspicious emails. The website provides important information about online scams in order to prevent its members and visitors from becoming victims of fraud.

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