Any regulation to protect consumers from internet frauds?
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Absolutely.  There are quite a number of laws preventing internet fraud, a few of them federal.  A large number of internet frauds originate overseas (places such as Nigeria), but even these are being prosecuted by U.S. authorities.\n\nIf you suspect that you were the victim of an internet fraud, you can contact the United States Secret Service or the FBI.  The web site for reporting these frauds is http://complaint.ic3.gov.
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illegally on the internet somewhere
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banning a website: restricting access to the website via search engines or location of website\nshutting down a website: withdrawal of domain name and/or resource links so no-one can access it anymore\n\n\nboth actions are extremely difficult to perform, since there are no laws (yet??) to enforce either action. see 'sources' below for news about possible laws in the future\n\n\nfor now, complaints to the host site/provider can be effective - as long as there are valid reasons for the 'ban', as well as enough user support behind the complaints
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The greatest strength of the internet is that no-one can control the content.  The issuing of site names is controlled by a number of organizations, but the actual content of sites is not (there is just far too many pages for anyone to check).\n\nMuch of this content is hosted in countries where regulators look the other way. \n\nControl can only be done by getting companies to stop hosting such sites, or, by use of filters by your internet provider or on your own computer.\n\nA number of financial istitutions currently have an initiative to refuse to process payments to such sites.  However, that does not help with the huge numbers of free sites or sites using other payment schemes.\n\nWhile there are very, very few people who would disagree with banning child pornography sites, the problem then becomes where do you draw the line?\n\nChina is seeking to control access for political reasons.\n\nCertain other countries seek to impose controls for religious or cultural reasons.\n\nMany large corporations would like be able to ban content that infringes their trademarks or intellectual property.  Again it is easy to sign up to banning counterfeiting or piracy, but how do you stop the banning of legitimate consumer complaints? \n\nIts a very difficult line to draw.
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That is certainly a danger.  Fraud is a serious problem and Internet crime is one of the fastest growing crimes out there.\n\nEven if you do recognize the name of the company, they could be "phishing" which simply means using a domain name that resembles that of the company but is different from the real one via:  a common misspelling, an extra/missing hypen in the domain name, etc.\n\nMoreover, crooks like to trick you by making your status bar show something else than the actual URL when you hover over the link, and then change it in the address bar upon your arrival.  Yes, they can do that, unfortunately.  Web browsers seem to have been created by people who think that people do not lie, cheat, or steal - or that such people do not use the web.\n\nThat being said, there are a few things you can do.\n\nLook at online consumer opinions sites.  One example is the epinions.com web site and there are probably others now too.\n\nYou can go to your library, and see if the company has a Dunn & Bradstreet (D&B) entry.  Go to reference section or microfilm/computer area of your local library to check this out. If you get stuck, ask a librarian or someone at the reference desk for help.\n\nIf you click on the order or the registration page, they should go into SSL mode.  At that point, any decent browser will let you check the credentials of the site.  Usually they call it the site certificate or something like that.  Look for that.  If they don't use SSL - hoo boy, do you really want to use their site even if they _are_ who they say they are?\n\nYou want to make sure the cert is good -  not expired, and that it is signed by someone you trust, like Verisign.  It's not an iron-clad garranty they are who they say they are, but it is something.  At least they have claimed it, and the claim has probably not been revoked - not if the cert is still valid and signed by a good/respectable CA.  I am presuming that if they scam a bunch of people and are using SSL, someone will gripe to Verisign or whomever.\n\nYou can minimize your risks, if you are unsure, by buying their merchandise from someone you already trust and do business with online.  For instance, Amazon.  They have been around for a decade and carry a huge variety of products.\n\nAlso, you can use payment intermediaries with some sites.  Like, I just now notice that Apple's iTMS web site says at this moment that if you buy an iTunes gift certificate with PayPal, you get up to 25 Free Songs.  PayPal is pretty popular.  Lots though not most web sites accept payment via Paypal. In some ways, maybe most ways, it is more secure than your credit card.  That is that the worst you can probably be out is the amount of the purchase.  They don't ever actually get to see your credit card when you use PayPal, I think.\n\nIt is a somewhat unstrustworthy world out there.  In some countries/cultures and neighborhoods, it is deemed perfectly acceptable to rip somebody off.  It is a big status symbol thing.  Obviously, law enforcement is lax/lacking in these areas.\n\nCredit card fraud is a huge problem, costing billions of dollars per year.  Be safe, protect yours.
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No. I have looked. Every at hoime internet job wants you to pay a registration fee or something, or at least give them credit card details. Anyone that asks for all that isn't genuine. I honestly don't believe that there is a genuine one.
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no. The internet is too big to make any seriously enforceable law. There's too many users to keep tabs on all of them, a lot of what's objectionable isn't hosted inside your country, so you couldn't prosecute anyway and more than anything: there's so much money invested in the internet, enough to kill regulations stone dead.\n\n...now. Maybe it would be useful to point out that you can catch some of the people who download things, and some of the trollers. But if trolling is illegal in the States, and I troll you from my computer in Fiji, I'm going to get away with it.
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Unless your ISP has informed you of a limit, I wouldn't worry about it.   Check their "service conditions".  \n\nGovernment?   YIKES, are we worried about a conspiracy?   Watch out for the Black Helicopters in your neighborhood. \n\nBut your personal ethics should come into play...  "thou shalt not steal" should come into mind.\n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
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If you want to know...sitename/scam  in your search engine.\nSounds like you need some legal information.  Try looking here\nhttp://legaldocs.blogspot.com/ \nGod Bless you
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The answer to your question is ''The Internet Crime Complaint Center" or IC3. It is a partnership between FBI and NW3C. \nRead more here:\nhttp://www.ic3.gov/\n\nAlso read this important thing:\nhttp://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/internetschemes.htm\nhttp://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm\n\n\nThese scams are known as Nigerian 419 scams. Use the relevant links on these websites to lodge your complaint.
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Prosecuting fly-by-night copanies that are often illegal anyway and operating in some dar backwater is not without difficulty.\n\nWhat folks are doing increasingly is getting a litt eprogram (or browser add-on) that lets you visit a site and repeatedly hard-refresh from the site.\n\nIf you have an unlimited bandwidth deal with your ISP, then just set a few browsers going in background, each repeatedly loading a page from the spammers website. Just ** one ** person can pull a few gigs overnight depending on connection speed. The spammers have to pay for the bandwidth.
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every move we make in the internet is recorded to our provider's database for a long period, so yes it is possible but i wouldn't worry.\nThey cannot put us all to jail :):)
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This is probably not legitimate, and is probably an example of online fraud.
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A problem is your "Thesis". Your paper should address a central research question, and your thesis should express a reasonable answer to that question. For instance, regarding your topic, a typical research question can be: "How can identity theft be prevented by consumers, organizations and anti-fraud agencies?". Your thesis or problem can be: "Research shows that identify theft are prevented by incorporating anti-fraud laws, educating online consumers and updating website securities. However, several issues are still unresolved: (1) Are anti-fraud laws effective? (2) Are online consumers responsive when they are being educated? (3) Are there any growth and improvements in online securities?" \n\nThose were just examples. Read through your book and find out more about research problems and thesis. \n\nOn the other hand, if you want custom help, visit www.mywritingassistant.com.
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Contact scambusters.com to report internet fraud.\nNot sure what country you're in, but I would suggest contacting Scotland Yard in England. Try Google or another search engine for their contact information.
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You have begun to ask the question that riddles the worldwide scope of Policy leaders for twelve years now. I cannot believe that anything should change directly affecting our personal use. There presently is monitoring systems located within each server that handles broadband traffic. There are new programs designed to establish a set of Super Nodes that create a sub field within the 'Internet' to handle traffic and material. This connection would run multiple times faster than even T3, and provide access to your home PC from your mobile PDA, laptop etc. This would be available with a secure 'network' one that could be highly monitored, but reach as wide of the horizon. A change like this needs to be developed before any true Policing of the Internet can be possible, I believe.
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You know, I'm glad you ask that question.  Very glad.  Because I suspect this group of users know more about what NOT to believe in on the Internet than the average Joe.  They are in fact here, in front of a keyboard and monitor not all that different from your own, in most cases.  Probably newer than mine, in almost all cases.  So it goes.\n\nI would not, if I were you, waste time trying to find out whether there does exist a single, or maybe even two or three, "get rich quick" or "get rich easy" schemes that actually would be consistent with both your ethical values and your talents.  Better you should concentrate on a better use for your computer literacy.  Build a project of your own, a respectable attempt at taking advantage of the breakthrough we have here in communications which we call the Internet.\n\nYahoo! routinely corrects me whenever I neglect to capitalize Internet, and I think I have finally groked that they are right.  It does deserve a capital letter, out of respect for what communication can do for LEGITIMATE efforts to make money, removing any need to pursue someone else's near fraud or at least contemptible taking advantage of the naive.  If you want to play fair in business, you go on the Internet and present what you have honestly and honorably, whether it be goods which you photograph clearly and sell individually on eBay, or its your own business and your own web page, small business never was easier and more diversified IN A STRUCTURED WAY than before the Internet taught us all how to search branching tree formations for whatever we want.\n\nThe magic of a search engine is magic enough to conjure gold for everyone, if used honestly and fairly.  And with respect for security measures that guard that honesty and fairness.  Forget being able to prosecute afterward; security is a very important part of the Internet, and needs to be respected, upgraded, and used for the benefit of the ones who want to play fair in the marketplace.  The better we get at detecting and discouraging the frauds and cheats, the better we can all do honest business.\n\nLike book publishing, for a non-random example.