Scams: Notes & Tools
Notes and fun demos The entries below outline the writing and tools I am developing.
Notes & guides
Scams, fraud, and deception
A working map of scams, fraud, and deception: definitions, concrete examples, and ambiguous cases that shape how we study and detect scams.
I encountered a scam. What next?
An interactive decision guide covering money sent, information or credentials shared, and device access granted. Follow the branches to find your next step, with links to official US resources.
Tools & demos
Scam Daily
A tool built on our Better Business Bureau (BBB) scam-report crawler, with daily updates and daily, weekly, and monthly views. It will automatically select and summarize noteworthy reported incidents and recent trends.
Scams across the US
A temporal and spatial visualization of different scam types across the United States, with views by location and time period to explore patterns in reported cases.
External resources
Tools by other teams that are relevant to this work.