A Web Cadre Turns the Tables on African Scam Artists
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For some, replying to Internet scams is a rewarding hobby. They call themselves scam-baiters, and they have started taking justice into their own hands.
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Â A group representing online merchants said it helped the U.S. Department of Justice hunt down online scam artists, in an sweep of online criminals dubbed "Operation Web Snare."
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A coalition of Internet and finance firms along with law enforcement agencies was launched in a bid to halt the growing number of online scams that lure consumers to fake websites to obtain personal and financial data.
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A potent new program circulating on the Internet embeds itself on a user's computer and either overwrites saved bookmarks or redirects the victim from the intended banking site to an authentic-looking fake.
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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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Scam site purports to sell iPhones but steals personal data and infects the user's PC.
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Rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Educate customers or lose them.
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Junk e-mailers are using free Web pages to disguise spam sources, manipulate search engines.
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An Alabama man works frustration with an attack on his employer's Web site into a full-time career of catching phishers and online fraudsters.
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The schemes have included unsolicited e-mail messages seeking money and a phony Web site capable of depositing a virus on computers.
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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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As more and more middle class Indians seek a spouse online, verifying a suitor's claims has become big business
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After analyzing a variety of common e-mail scams, a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara reports that even world-wise, skeptical computer users can be fooled.
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Anti-social networking The growing popularity of Web 2.0 as a venue for viruses, pedophiles and other online nasties made it only a matter of time before sleaze oozed to professional networking sites, and sure enough, an Australian security firm is offering a detailed postmortem on an attempted Nigerian banking scam on Ecademy.com.â¦
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Disguised con artists want your personal information -- and you may be offering it to them.
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Would-be borrowers in the U.S. and Canada are being bilked out of thousands of dollars by unscrupulous online lenders.
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By Chandra Devi  HOAX and scams are getting bolder these days leveraging on high speed technology to get faster and more results.