Posted by admin | Posted in credit | Posted on 22-10-2009
The internet is of course an excellent invention by modern standards. Arguably the single greatest technological invention in man’s history.
However, the internet is from an innocent medium. So it is important to all Internet users that they should be alert against fraudulent dealings online. Recently the IC3 has disclosed the record of 2008 concerning Internet Fraud. This rate is 33% higher than the previous year.
According their report Columbia is in top position about fraud dealings, than Nevada and Washington state. The FBI got different types of complaints. Non-delivery complaints were 32.9%, auction fraud was 25.5%, Credit card fraud 9%, Confidence fraud 6.2%, and Nigerian lottery fraud 2.8%. The total dollar loss from all 72,940 cases of fraud referred to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies was $246.6 million, with a median dollar loss of $931 per complaint — up from $239.1 million in total reported losses in 2007.
Most of the fraud has occurred by email scam. The scammer sends an email to the client to send detailed information including Full name, address, credit card number etc. The Nigerian lottery scam sends an email saying that you have won a big amount of money from and overseas lottery. To get your money to you they will ask you to send some processing fee to transfer your money to your account.
Recipients are told that if they do not comply with the FBI’s request for information, they will be prosecuted or suffer some other financial penalty, the IC3 report concludes. “In some cases, recipients are led to believe that they will become the subject of a terrorist investigation if they fail to cooperate. How to protect yourself from lottery or any other greedy offers? If any email comes about your lottery winning news simply avoid it and send a complain to IC3 office. Mark the email number as a spam message and filter it with an auto deletion option. Internet Fraud is a growing concern among the Internet users. The best way to protect it do not believe anything easily and do not be greedy.
Try to read IC3 report sometime. The latest news about Internet fraud is listed there. How can the FBI help? The FBI should publish this kind of Internet fraud news to the daily newspaper, they can declare it through TV and Radio channels. They can request all countries Governments to follow the same method to protect against Internet fraud in their respective countries. Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL can also help the Internet users from Internet fraud. They can send email alerts about Internet fraud to all of its free email clients and warn those private server owners where these fraudulent messages come from.
Before purchasing anything online do your due diligence and check the company’s age, record, and complaint boards etc.
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