Fighting White-Collar Criminals

Scams and Schemes
Don’t Get Collared By White-Collar Criminals

01/27/06

Seems you can hardly catch the news these days and not come across a story about identity theft, public corruption, mortgage fraud, stock manipulations, money laundering, and countless other schemes and scams engineered by criminals with a lust for money—what’s commonly called “White-Collar Crime.”

How is the FBI fighting back? And what can YOU do to keep from getting scammed yourselves?

We’ve got the answers on our newly redesigned White-Collar Crime webpage.

For example, here you can:

• Read up on interesting FBI cases—involving everything from investment fraud to moving company scams...from Spanish lottery schemes to celebrity memorabilia fraud and staged auto accidents.
• Test your fraud awareness and get tips for avoiding Nigerian letter or “419” fraud, advance fee schemes, “Ponzi” schemes, and other common frauds.
• If you’ve been cheated, learn about the rights and services available to you as a victim and how to report crime tips to us through your local FBI field office or our Internet tip line.
• Get details on our major white-collar crime programs and initiatives and learn more about our related efforts to combat public corruption/government fraud, Internet fraud, Hurricane Katrina frauds, and money laundering.
• Visit the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel and find a treasure trove of fraud statistics, trends, and other information.

P.S. If you want to learn more about how to protect yourself from terrorism and other kinds of crime, be sure to visit our Be Crime Smart webpage.