Quatloos.com

Quatloos.com is an anti-fraud website maintained by a non-profit corporation, Financial and Tax Fraud Education Associates, Inc.<ref name=quaabo>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It evolved out of a basic educational website on the topic created in 1997 by Jay Adkisson,<ref name=forbui>Template:Cite magazine</ref> an attorney and stockbroker,<ref name=quaabo /> who has testified as an expert witness before the US Senate Finance Committee.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Forbes selected it as one of its "Best of The Web" sites in 2000.<ref name=forbui /> In 2003, it was featured in PC MagazineTemplate:'s "Site of the Week" series,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In the 2000s it was cited as an authoritative source for scams in the financial media,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and by government organizations,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and had reportedly been frequented by employees of the US Justice and Treasury departments, as well as those of the US federal courts.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2010, the blog was moved from its original domain at Quatloos.com to a blogspot page.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The updates and activity on the site lessened over the next decade, with its final post in December 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name=quaabo />