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Fake Website Claims to ID People with STIs

January 30, 2010

An article in the Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases warns against a fake website claiming to list the names of people with sexually transmitted infections. The site, named whosgotwhat.com, claims to be a national database of names that is searchable for a fee. If your name is on the list, you can pay $20 to have it removed.

Due to HPPA patient privacy laws, among other regulations, the names of persons with any kind of illness are kept confidential. If that weren’t enough to identify the site as fake, the acceptance of $20 to remove a name should be a tip-off. This is simply a scam designed to gather credit card information and play on the fears of people who have or who are falsely identified as having sexually transmitted infections. Don’t fall for the scam.

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Written by MDavis · Filed Under Sex, Honestly

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