World Money Laundering Report Online: Due Diligence
In this section:
- Fraud alerts - includes frauds that come to our attention ranging from lottery scams, pump and dump and phishing to advance fee frauds and fraudulent "job offers."
- Dedicated private members' notice board for posting and discussion of frauds
- KYC information including OFAC, United Nations and major central banks' sanctions financial sanctions lists.
See ORDERS for details
FDIC warning on scam
Notice from FDIC re fraudulent emails - summary: E-mails that fraudulently claim to be from ViewPoint Bank Financial Solutions and the FDIC request that recipients provide highly sensitive personal information, including bank account information. Full text of notice below.
Spam scam offers profits from courts
A surprising scam tries to sell the concept of making a profit from court listings.
Avoiding Cashier’s Cheque Fraud.
Bank of England
The Bank of England sanctions lists are enforceable against UK regulated financial services industry and are influential in many Commonwealth countries and territories. The information in this section is reproduced under the Click Use licence issued to Vortex Centrum Limited and may not be further reproduced without authority from the Bank of England.
Phishing - fake websites
Phishing is the name given to the process of getting unwitting victims to visit websites that pretend to be the site of legitimate businesses - e.g. banks - in order to get personal details including log in details. In this section, we include the e-mails that attract visitors and details of some websites. Note: this section does not include fraudulent or copy websites per se.
"Job Offers"
If you want to supplement your income, this is not the way to do it. These "offers" are either attempts to commit fraud, or invitations to help in a money laundering scheme.
ALERT: "Shadow" website for World Money Laundering Report
World Money Laundering Report has discovered an unauthorised website using its name.
Huge spam promotes "stock newsletter"
One of the internet's most active spammers (he has a particular "footprint" that we recognise) is heavily promoting a stock boosting "newsletter."