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Making the Internet Safe – for the Real Crooks

May 21, 2003

No doubt the Internet scams U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is targeting are a threat to living happily ever after on the Web. No doubt they're far more than just a nuisance. But this is feel-good law enforcement -- the equivalent of rounding up street-level drug dealers while the Colombian cart...

U.S.: Identity Theft Complaints Skyrocket

January 23, 2003

Instances of identity theft nearly doubled in 2002, topping the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's list of consumer complaints and accounting for 43 percent of the agency's fraud reports. In fact, identity theft ranked as the number one complaint for the third year in a row, with 161,819 reported insta...

FBI: Auctions Spur Lion’s Share of Net Fraud Complaints

April 10, 2002

More than 40 percent of all reported Internet fraud complaints stemmed from online auctions in 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a report covering complaints received during the year. But auction fraud cost an average of just $400, compared with a $5,000 average loss from a scam i...

U.S.: E-Commerce Is Fertile Ground for Fraud

May 25, 2001

Adding to the recent flurry of Internet fraud news, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) told Congress on Wednesday it received over 25,000 Internet fraud complaints in 2000. Testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Eileen Harrington of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Pr...

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