– With unemployment high and rising, more people are streaming onto the Web in search of jobs – but running into costly scams. Like job seekers, criminals are after moneymaking opportunities online. And they’re setting increasingly sophisticated traps to prey on the desperation of the jobless, whose guards are down amid eroding savings, swelling debts and calamities like foreclosure and bankruptcy.
– An internet diet guru says she’s lost 200-pounds on her diet program but her clients say they got ripped off big time. A Riverside County court will decide the fate of alleged internet scammer, Heidi Diaz, who launched a very successful diet program called “Kimkins” that is said to have duped over 40,000 people and even major nation publications.
– “To begin with, we thought that the sellers we found on the Internet were simple swindlers, who extorted money without providing the product announced,” Drori said. But some of the traffickers were genuinely dealing in endangered species, including animal heads and hides for use as trophies, he said.
– According to Sean Paul and Luis Corrons two security researchers at PandaLabs, who have recently compiled a study paper titled “The Business of Rogueware,” cyber criminals are reaping almost $34 Million every month by selling bogus AV (antivirus) software also called scareware or rogueware to unwary computer users, as reported by MXLogic in the end week of July 2009. This seems like a worthy case for a further investigation. Stay tuned.
– Researchers at BitDefender, an IT security company, report that phishing e-mails have reached 7% of the total spam messages, while the number of people duped with phishing attacks is 55,000 each month. Describing phishing spam, experts say that they are attempts to get e-mail recipients into revealing their private data like banking login details.
Most Scam Victims Unemployed – Abu Dhabi: A recent study has revealed that most victims of phone and e-mail scams are unemployed or economically challenged people. [...] “Most victims of such scams are either financially stumbling or unemployed, while the criminals are trained teams, and each member plays a carefully planned part to con the victims,” he said.
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