As online shopping grows, scam artists stalk the Net
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The hunt is on. As more shoppers scour the Internet for holiday deals, they're also being stalked -- by scammers.
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Online crooks are quickly enlarging an already vast sales and distribution network to propagate spam and send malicious software in hopes of infecting millions of computers worldwide, according to a new report.
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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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Online crooks are constantly switching tactics in an attempt to invade your PC. Be on guard for these latest sneaky tricks.
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Spammers have become enthusiastic adopters of technology designed to spot and stop them.
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Your credit card information is coming under more frequent attack on the Internet than ever before. A study by Symantec Corp. says electronic commerce has become the favourite target of computer hackers.
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It's a case of the professional fraudsters scamming the amateurs with a phishing tools supply site.
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The holiday season typically brings a surge in the number of fraudulent online orders, and smaller online retailers are being hit especially hard this year.
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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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Scams that use spoofed Web sites of banks and other trusted bodies pulled in a majority of U.S. surfers, a survey has found.
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Secure shopping websites have made it much more attractive for consumers to spend billions of pounds on the web.   But many shoppers are ignoring basic internet security procedures, opening themselves up to online fraud.
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Vendors and researchers have detected various new trends at play in online retail shopping this holiday season, such as shoppers' increased use of search engines and comparison shopping services to make better informed buying decisions. Not all trends are encouraging, however, such as a disconcertingly high percentage of shoppers willing to buy from spammers.
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Consumer advocates are turning their attention to scam artists who market computers to people with low incomes or bad credit.
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Hardly an hour goes by without Thomas Serafin or one of his cyber-sleuths checking what eBay has to offer.
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The traditional credit card marketer is going dot-com.
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As growing numbers of Americans turn to the Internet for holiday shopping, experts warn that online dangers such as fraud and identity theft are increasing as well.
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Online recommendation systems are growing up -- and the spammers, fraudsters and thieves are moving in. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine.