quatloos.com

{{Short description|Anti-fraud website}}

{{Update|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox website

| name = Quatloos!

| logo = Quatloos! logo.png

| logo_size = 225

| logo_alt = Tony-the-Wonder-Llama and a pirate flag bracket the site name

| logo_caption = Cyber Museum of Scams & Frauds

| type = Finance

| language = English

| founded = 1997

| founder = Jay Adkisson

| website = http://quatloosia.blogspot.com/

}}

Quatloos.com is an anti-fraud website maintained by a non-profit corporation, Financial and Tax Fraud Education Associates, Inc.{{cite web |url=http://www.quatloos.com/general/backgrnd.htm |title=About Quatloos.com |work=Quatloos!}} It evolved out of a basic educational website on the topic created in 1997 by Jay Adkisson,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/best/2000/0911/030.html |title=Build Your Own Soapbox |magazine=Forbes |date=11 September 2000}} an attorney and stockbroker, who has testified as an expert witness before the US Senate Finance Committee.{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jayadkisson/#1daa32177ad9 |title=Contributor Jay Adkisson Full Bio |work=Forbes}}{{cite web |url=https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/73551.pdf |title=Taxpayer Beware: Schemes, Scams, and Cons |work=Committee On Finance United States Senate |date=5 April 2001 |page=3}}

Forbes selected it as one of its "Best of The Web" sites in 2000. In 2003, it was featured in PC Magazine{{'s}} "Site of the Week" series,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2269522,00.asp |title=Site of the Week: Quatloos |journal=PC Magazine |date=13 June 2003}} 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.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwPCkCo67psC&pg=PA90 |title=Quatloos! |magazine=PC Magazine |date=20 April 2004 |page=90}} In the 2000s it was cited as an authoritative source for scams in the financial media,{{cite web |url=https://www.fool.com/taxes/2003/01/03/tax-scams.aspx?source=isesitlnk0000001&mrr=1.00 |title=Tax Scams |website=The Motley Fool |date=3 January 2003}}{{cite news |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-irs-is-getting-serious-about-tax-protesters-frivolous-claims |title=Let's get serious |website=MarketWatch |date=17 January 2008}} and by government organizations,{{cite web |url=http://www.insurance.ohio.gov/Consumer/Pages/STOLI.aspx |title=Consumer Alert: Stranger-Originated Life Insurance (STOLI) |work=Ohio Department of Insurance}}{{cite web |url=http://sins.senate.ca.gov/sites/sins.senate.ca.gov/files/2-27-03_fin_plan_or_fleecing_of_sr_back.doc |title=Financial Planning or Fleecing of Seniors? |work=California State Senate Insurance Committee]] |date=27 February 2003 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131033024/http://sins.senate.ca.gov/sites/sins.senate.ca.gov/files/2-27-03_fin_plan_or_fleecing_of_sr_back.doc |archivedate=31 January 2017 }} and had reportedly been frequented by employees of the US Justice and Treasury departments, as well as those of the US federal courts.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/25/technology/white-hats-take-to-the-web-to-dispel-anti-tax-schemes.html |title=White Hats Take to the Web to Dispel Anti-Tax Schemes |work=New York Times |date=25 March 2004}}

In 2010, the blog was moved from its original domain at Quatloos.com to a blogspot page.{{Cite web |title=Quatloos! |url=https://quatloosia.blogspot.com/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=quatloosia.blogspot.com}} The updates and activity on the site lessened over the next decade, with its final post in December 2022.{{Cite web |title=Quatloos! |url=http://quatloosia.blogspot.com/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=quatloosia.blogspot.com}}