Ireland battles internet scam
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Ireland will block calls to 13 countries, most of them tiny islands in the Pacific, to crack down on a new scam in which internet users&#39; log-on connections are secretly diverted through rip-off telephone numbers.
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An Internet browser feature meant to permit Web addresses in Chinese, Arabic and other languages could encourage online fraudsters by making scam Web sites look legitimate to visitors.
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The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams in the past two years, peers are told.
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Police are investigating a website that claims to be collecting cash on behalf of tsunami victims.
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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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Dublin - Ireland will block direct dial telephone calls to 13 countries, most of them South Pacific islands, in an effort to crack down on growing Internet scams, the country&#39;s communications regulator said on Tuesday.
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Ireland&#39;s telecom regulator said this week that is taking &quot;extraordinary&quot; measures to protect internet users from rogue autodialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges by suspending direct dialing to 13 countries, most
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Ireland has become the first country on earth to cut off direct-dialed calls to entire nations in a bid to crack down on Internet-based fraud.
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Information on individuals has been collected in a scam using e-greetings that appear to come from a secret admirer.
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Regulators are trying to prevent scams caused by software that computer users may not even know is on their PCs.
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The tried-and-true Nigerian e-mail scam is still going strong in Australia, and reported losses continue to grow.
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Net providers in the UK are resisting calls for them to police what customers do online.
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A British government minister may have thought he was keeping up with modern trends when he put a draft policy on the Internet, but was soon left red-faced when hundreds of pranksters defaced it.
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Internet providers are asked to help with the growing problem of teenage suicides in Northern Ireland.
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Trying to outlaw using fake information to open e-mail accounts or set up websites, some European nations could run afoul of privacy advocates. By the Associated Press.
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Alternative browser features protection against online scams.
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By Annys Shin  The Better Business Bureau network was the target of a "spoofing" scam last week in which thousands of businesses in the United States and Canada received e-mails encouraging them to download what is thought to be a computer virus.