Quatloos.com

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Quatloos!
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Cyber Museum of Scams & Frauds
Type of site
Finance
Available inEnglish
Founded1997
Founder(s) Jay Adkisson
URL http://quatloosia.blogspot.com/

Quatloos.com is an anti-fraud website maintained by a non-profit corporation, Financial and Tax Fraud Education Associates, Inc. [1] It evolved out of a basic educational website on the topic created in 1997 by Jay Adkisson, [2] an attorney and stockbroker, [1] who has testified as an expert witness before the US Senate Finance Committee. [3] [4]

Forbes selected it as one of its "Best of The Web" sites in 2000. [2] In 2003, it was featured in PC Magazine 's "Site of the Week" series, [5] and was included in their 2004 feature on the top 100 undiscovered web sites, where it was recommended as a good place to learn about scams and fraud. [6] In the 2000s it was cited as an authoritative source for scams in the financial media, [7] [8] and by government organizations, [9] [10] and had reportedly been frequented by employees of the US Justice and Treasury departments, as well as those of the US federal courts. [11]

In 2010, the blog was moved from its original domain at Quatloos.com to a blogspot page. [12] The updates and activity on the site lessened over the next decade, with its final post in December 2022. [13]

Etymology

The term quatloos appears in an episode of Star Trek , although it may have been in use prior to this; it was the name of a currency used for betting in the episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion." It was chosen for the site as it has come to mean a "fictional currency," appropriate for a site that fights fraudulent money scams. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About Quatloos.com". Quatloos!.
  2. 1 2 "Build Your Own Soapbox". Forbes . 11 September 2000.
  3. ↑ "Contributor Jay Adkisson Full Bio". Forbes.
  4. ↑ "Taxpayer Beware: Schemes, Scams, and Cons" (PDF). Committee On Finance United States Senate . 5 April 2001. p. 3.
  5. ↑ "Site of the Week: Quatloos". PC Magazine . 13 June 2003. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "Quatloos!". PC Magazine. 20 April 2004. p. 90.
  7. ↑ "Tax Scams". The Motley Fool . 3 January 2003.
  8. ↑ "Let's get serious". MarketWatch . 17 January 2008.
  9. ↑ "Consumer Alert: Stranger-Originated Life Insurance (STOLI)". Ohio Department of Insurance . Archived from the original on 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
  10. ↑ "Financial Planning or Fleecing of Seniors?". California State Senate Insurance Committee]]. 27 February 2003. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017.
  11. ↑ "White Hats Take to the Web to Dispel Anti-Tax Schemes". New York Times . 25 March 2004.
  12. ↑ "Quatloos!". quatloosia.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  13. ↑ "Quatloos!". quatloosia.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
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