Is-This-A-Scam: Identify Internet Scams and Hoaxes

Next time you receive a home business proposition or some lottery prize email and unsure if it is a legit offer or a scam check it on Is-This-A-Scam. It’s a Custom Search Engine built by Jason Morrison from Google Search Quality team. The engine runs a quick search across 100 major anti-scam and anti-fraud sites including forums and government agency websites.

To use the website, simply paste email contents into provided field and hit “Search”. Is-This-A-Scam will search for the email contents on anti-frad websites and present its findings.

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2009-08-22 01:10:34

Another great site which has been around forever is http://www.snopes.com — easy enough for my mother to use.

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