Sucker list
A sucker list is a list of people who have previously fallen for a scam such as a telemarketing fraud, lottery scam, high-yield investment program, get-rich-quick scheme, or work-at-home schemes, or, as used by charities, someone who made a donation. The lists are usually sold to scammers or charities.[1][2][3]
After the list is sold, the victims may be called by scammers promising to recover the money they lost or the prize or merchandise they never received, in an advance-fee scam.[4][5]
An early example of sucker lists is mentioned an 18 November 1929 article in Time which described a list of people who contributed to a lobbyist fund.[6]
Yet another usage was described in the movie Sucker List, a part of the 1941 United States series Crime Does Not Pay. The subject of the movie are fraudulent racetrack touts, who, in particular, used to call people known to be in deep debt and give them false tips.[7]
See also
- Trigger list
References
- ^ Brenoff, Ann (July 27, 2017). "How A Billion-Dollar Internet Scam Is Breaking Hearts And Bank Accounts". HuffPost.
- ^ Palmer, Kate (May 16, 2015). "Are you on a charity sucker list?". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "Reloading Scams: Double Trouble for Consumers". Federal Trade Commission.
- ^ Holdren, Wendy (April 7, 2019). "BBB warns of "sucker list" scams". The Register-Herald.
- ^ "Refund and Recovery Scams". Federal Trade Commission.
- ^ "Sucker List". Time. November 18, 1929.
- ^ "Sucker List (1941)". IMDb.
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confidence tricks
- 1992 Indian stock market scam
- 2G spectrum case
- Advance-fee scam
- Art student scam
- Badger game
- Bait-and-switch
- Black money scam
- Blessing scam
- Bogus escrow
- Boiler room
- Bride scam
- Charity fraud
- Clip joint
- Coin-matching game
- Coin rolling scams
- Drop swindle
- Embarrassing cheque
- Exit scam
- Extraterrestrial real estate
- Fiddle game
- Fine print
- Foreclosure rescue scheme
- Foreign exchange fraud
- Fortune telling fraud
- Gem scam
- Get-rich-quick scheme
- Green goods scam
- Hustling
- Indian coal allocation scam
- IRS impersonation scam
- Intellectual property scams
- Kansas City Shuffle
- Locksmith scam
- Long firm
- Miracle cars scam
- Mismarking
- Mock auction
- Moving scam
- Overpayment scam
- Patent safe
- Pig in a poke
- Pigeon drop
- Pork barrel
- Pump and dump
- Redemption/A4V schemes
- Reloading scam
- Return fraud
- Salting
- Shell game
- Sick baby hoax
- SIM swap scam
- Slavery reparations scam
- Spanish Prisoner
- SSA impersonation scam
- SSC Scam
- Strip search phone call scam
- Swampland in Florida
- Technical support scam
- Telemarketing fraud
- Thai tailor scam
- Thai zig zag scam
- Three-card monte
- Trojan horse
- White van speaker scam
- Work-at-home scheme
countermeasures
- Avalanche
- Pig Butchering
- Carding
- Catfishing
- Click fraud
- Clickjacking
- Cramming
- Cryptocurrency scams
- Cybercrime
- CyberThrill
- DarkMarket
- Domain name scams
- Email authentication
- Email fraud
- Internet vigilantism
- Lenny anti-scam bot
- Lottery scam
- PayPai
- Phishing
- Referer spoofing
- Ripoff Report
- Rock Phish
- Romance scam
- Russian Business Network
- SaferNet
- Scam baiting
- 419eater.com
- Jim Browning
- Kitboga
- Scammer Payback
- ShadowCrew
- Spoofed URL
- Spoofing attack
- Stock Generation
- Voice phishing
- Website reputation ratings
Ponzi schemes
- Aman Futures Group
- Bernard Cornfeld
- Caritas
- Dona Branca
- Earl Jones
- Ezubao
- Foundation for New Era Philanthropy
- Franchise fraud
- High-yield investment program (HYIP)
- Investors Overseas Service
- Kapa investment scam
- Kubus scheme
- Madoff investment scandal
- Make Money Fast
- Matrix scheme
- MMM
- Petters Group Worldwide
- Pyramid schemes in Albania
- Reed Slatkin
- Saradha Group financial scandal
- Secret Sister
- Scott W. Rothstein
- Stanford Financial Group
- Welsh Thrasher faith scam