Category Archives: Around the Web

Da Vinci Code Fans Targeted By Real International Conspiracy… Continue reading – It’s the shocking mystery hidden for a millennium: What will Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s next book be about? But, beware, truth seekers: Chasing the latest clues to the upcoming novel The Lost Symbol could expose you to a vast and secret conspiracy that’s been manipulating Google search results to push malicious software (fake anti-virus).

Today we have some feel-good news. A few of the stories making news today are about internet scammers getting caught.
Police nab Internet “fraud king” in France – Italian police said Friday that a man known through Europe as the “fraud king” had been arrested in France for swindling as much as euro500,000 ($718,000) out of tourists and other unsuspecting people through Internet scams.
Facebook ‘London’… Continue reading

Adding Insult to Injury: Online Scams Target Jobless… Continue reading – 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

Internet Scams Just Keep on Coming – Our Computer Crimes Unit just finished a three-month investigation in which a Naperville resident learned that nearly $20,000 was removed from his stock trading account. This was done by either a “phishing scam” or a Key logging trojan virus that was placed in the victim’s computer.
Scam targets prospective renters on Craigslist – How does renting a luxury home… Continue reading