Internet Gurus Found Cheating The Public

By Author: Milford Walton
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Internet fraud is an ever-increasing form of criminal offense. With more and more companies and individuals conducting business transactions over the Internet, fraudulent solicitations and transactions using chat rooms, websites, email, message boards, blogs, and more, have become widespread. Internet Fraud is committed in several ways. The FBI and police agencies worldwide have people assigned to combat this type of fraud; according to figures from the FBI, U.S. Internet fraud is committed in several ways including email, websites, chat rooms and other online forms of communication. Police agencies and the FBI have people assigned to fight this kind of fraud worldwide.

Victims of escrow fraud are often shopping online for big-ticket items such as a used car when they come across a deal that is often too-good-to-be-true ? When the buyer and seller make contact, the seller recommends using a specific third-party escrow company in order to protect both of their interests. Victims of identity theft can call the FTC's toll-free telephone number, 1-877-ID THEFT (438-4338), to report the crime and receive advice on what to ...
... do. CRC counselors enter the victims' information about their experience into the Identity Theft Data Clearinghouse, which immediately makes the information available, through the Consumer Sentinel web site, to 174 participating domestic law enforcement agencies.

Credit/debit card fraud, computer fraud, confidence fraud, and financial institutions fraud round out the top seven categories of complaints referred to law enforcement during the year.? Credit Card Fraud charges may result from crimes such as, counterfeiting credit cards, using lost or stolen cards, and fraudulently acquiring credit cards through the mail. Another form of Credit Card Fraud is misappropriation, the crime of using a credit card number by itself to make purchases.

Users are tricked into disclosing their information either by providing it through a web form or by downloading and installing hostile computer software. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. These are forums that most online users should frequent. Stay away from forums that let any joker that comes by, jump in and possibly wreak havoc.

Phishing attacks are frequently carried out through e-mails and instant messages, which appear to be from a trustworthy source such as a financial institution or an e-commerce Web site. But once the recipient clicks on the embedded link, he or she will land on a fraudulent Web site set up for the purpose of obtaining sensitive personal information such as user ID, password, and credit card and bank account information. Phishing is a form of social engineering attack.

But one of the most hideous frauds perpetrated on the public is the Internet Marketing Guru who takes his Paypal or Clickbank account, turns it into an editable document, changes his actual earning's numbers by inflating them....then returns the page back to it's previous state and does a screen capture of the page with his new fake figures. All in effort to fool the unsuspecting hopeful marketer, with whom the so called Guru hopes to sell some worthless product. There is a video that shows how it is being done, for those who may not believe this can actually happen.

The video is available at the site listed under the author's signature if you wish to go see it. The Blog post is entitled 'Giant Rip Off'.