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Old Nov 30, 2007 | 09:14 PM
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good advice. We need to be careful about this, because scammers try any and every way to make some free bucks.

Also, the lottery scams, "Fundraiser" scams, and Orphanage scams.

The lottery scam being where someone tells you that you won whatever lottery and all you need to do is send money to cover some fees and taxes, and they will send you your winnings.

Fundraiser scams get you to send money to a charity or something, and its not really a charity.

Orphanage scams, (or similiar, my dad gets a lot of these by email), you get contacted in someway to help sponsor a child, or a sick person, and send money to them. Or someone is dying and they want to give you a million dollars to give to a charity, so send them the $5000 western union fee and you will get your million dollars, etc.

Dateline NBC is did a piece on this called "To catch a con-artist", where they get in contact with con-artists and mess with them, similiar to the "To catch a predator" series. A lot of useful information on protecting yourself.

Warnings/stickies should be posted and also the chance to contact an Admin if a problem occurs or is detected. I'd say put some option to contact special investigators or police or something, but I think that would be over the top and could get tremendously out of hand.
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