Top 5 Internet Scams

[DudeAsInCool]

PC World -Thursday March 10, 2005

Top Five Online Scams - By Dan Tynan

Complaints about online fraud nearly doubled from 2003 to 2004, according to a December 2004 report by the FBI (news - web sites) and the National White Collar Crime Center. Research firm Gartner estimates that nearly 10 million Americans were hit by online fraudsters last year--largely due to a wave of phishing e-mails seeking to steal users' identities.

The Top 5 scams are:

1. Auction Fraud

2. Phishing Scams

3. Nigerian 419 Letter

4. Postal Forwarding/Reshipping Scam

5. "Congratulations, You've Won an Xbox (news - web sites) (IPod, plas

Read more here:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...0&ncid=1729#123

[KiwiCoromandel]

The question you've gotta ask yourself: Of all the people in the world, why would a corrupt African bureaucrat pick me to be his accomplice?.......i wondered about that myself when i got my Nigerian 419 Letter......

[Redneck4sure]

The question you've gotta ask yourself: Of all the people in the world, why would a corrupt African bureaucrat pick me to be his accomplice?.......i wondered about that myself when i got my Nigerian 419 Letter......

Because you are special, Kiwi.

[Wolfie]

Lots of special people out there nowadays.

[Shawn]

If I had made the list it would have read:

!) iTunes

2) Napster

3) Walmart.com

4) Connect.com

5) Puretracks [purely Canadian music scam]

Most of these crooks are charging a dollar at the least.

[Wolfie]

You forgot KazaaGold.

[Shawn]

I consider them a lower level rip-off to any of these. Buy Kazaa gold for 20 bucks and you can download a thousand songs in the first month.

Do the same at any of the others and...