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Type of site | Finance |
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Available in | English |
Founded | 1997 |
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]
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]