Online sellers given fraud alert
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People selling items over the internet or through newspaper adverts are warned of a sophisticated fraudulent payment scam.
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Some internet traders are not complying with laws that protect shoppers who buy online, according to a new report.   The Office of Fair Trading found many eretailers had a "weak" awareness of the relevant regulations.
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The FDIC Friday issued an alert about an increasingly common e-mail scam designed to steal personal information and money from millions of unwary consumers.
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(InfoWorld) - Online consumers in the U.S. have had a million things to complain about. Literally. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that it received its 1 millionth complaint earlier this week. Launched seven years ago as a clearing house for reports of online fraud, the IC3 is jointly run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center. It passes on information to law enforcement agencies, and keeps track of trends in cybercrime. To date, it has referred nearly a half-million complaints representing almost $650 million in losses to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Crime has changed since the IC3 first opened shop, according to Donna Gregory, an FBI employee who is a supervisory management program analyst with IC3. "Most of the complaints we saw at the beginning were your typical non-delivery auction fraud," she said. "Now we are seeing more complex schemes, involving identity theft and issues where people are using anonymizers and are being affected by keystroke loggers... everything is more sophisticated now." Gregory couldn't say what the 1 millionth complaint was about, but she said thatÂ auction fraud and online financial scams are still the top problems. Auction fraud accounted for nearly half of the complaints received by the IC3 last year. Â ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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The FDIC on Friday issued an alert  about an increasingly common e-mail scam designed to steal  personal information and money from millions of unwary  consumers.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Consumers are bombarded with warnings about identity theft. Publicized threats range from mailbox thieves and lost laptops to the higher-tech methods of e-mail scams and corporate data invasions.
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It's new and improved. And it just nabbed $8,600. Miscreants have unleashed a new strain of a sophisticated Trojan that targets eBay users by feeding them spoofed web pages containing fraudulent information about high-ticket purchases, The Register has learned. It has already contributed to an $8,600 loss by one eBay member.â¦
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Italian authorities are bringing charges in a scam involving fraudulent e-mail to bank customers.
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We were wrong, but is eBay wronger? Comment Reg Developer recently published a story about listings on eBay that point users to phishing sites. We thought we'd uncovered a new security issue on eBay, but it turns out we were wrong.â¦
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InfoWorld - Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and Web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam.
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Job searching site warns users to watch out for fraud and says that its recent security breach "was not an isolated incident."
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Seen in wild for first time, malware cleans one victim out of $8,600 Miscreants have unleashed a new strain of a sophisticated Trojan that targets eBay users by feeding them spoofed web pages containing fraudulent information about high-ticket purchases, The Register has learned. It has already contributed to an $8,600 loss by one eBay member.â¦
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By Ben Goldby; James Green  Internet shoppers in the West Midlands have been warned to be on their guard after an investigation into eBay found the popular auction site is a prime target for counterfeiters.
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RSA reports that fraudsters are buying and selling stolen credit-card info in an online store that's apparently better-maintained than many legit e-commerce venues.
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If you get an e-mail telling you that you're under investigation by the IRS, take a breath before calling your lawyer. It's a scam.
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By KEVIN G. DeMARRAIS, STAFF WRITER  The Federal Trade Commission warned consumers Wednesday about a scam targeting families of military members.  A caller claiming to work for the Red Cross notifies an individual that a family member has been injured while on duty.
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