Internet Scams

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 206,884 internet crimes were reported in 2007, with losses exceeding $240 million. One of the most common means of perpetrating an internet crime...

The good news is that more and more people are using online banking to track expenses, pay bills, transfer money, and monitor our balances. Online banking is fast, easy, and extremely...

A phishing email is a type of fraudulent email in which scam artists try to obtain your sensitive personal or financial information. Often, phishing emails contain real logos stolen from the...

Internet fraud and scams are on the rise. There probably are very few people who read this article who have not had at least a phishing email arrive in the inbox of their email account. According...

Phishing scams and fraudulent or “fake” emails are designed for identity theft by internet scam artists. These scams can be found everywhere on the Internet ranging from commercial websites,...

Phishing emails and websites are popping up all over the internet. The question is how do you identity a phishing email.

E-mail fraud is becoming a big problem. Almost everyone has received a fraudulen email at one time or another. If you've ever received an email request from a bank or credit card company or any...

VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT NOW! We've all received an email like this, shouting at us to update account information, usually replete with spelling errors. This is no ordinary spam, but a phishing...

Phishing is an illegal activity where sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, are acquired. Facebook and other social networking sites are frequently targeted. With a little...

Phishing scams have cost Internet users billions of dollars a year ($3.2 billion in the U.S. in 2007 alone, according to a survey by Garner Inc.), but the savvy e-mailer can avoid them. What does...

Do you use a credit card online? Do you throw old bills and transaction slips in the trash? If so, you could be the next victims of identify theft. Convinced it won’t happen to you? Every 19...

Be aware of fraud email hoaxes,“MAKE MONEY” and “Get Rich Quick” scams that can damage your computer, steal your identity, mess up your credit report and rob you of your hard earned money! Fraud...

It is evident that phishing scams are alive and well! Practically everyone has encountered some unsolicited email that has caused some concern. How can we be sure of the legitimacy of what we...

Phishing scams are social engineering scams used to steal valuable account information, credit card info and passwords. They are often cleverly disguised in emails coming from companies you often...

Phishing emails attempt to get you to give personal details such as your social security number, bank account number, PIN number and other information that could lead to identity theft. They are...

The practice of sending out unsolicited, unwanted junk email and junk postings came to be called "spam." Today, more than half of the trillion-plus emails that are sent and received are...

A phishing scam is a fraudulent email that looks legitimate and claims to originate from a reputable institution. It's designed to lure you into disclosing personal information, which often...

With identity theft growing at a staggering rate, all "official" emails must be treated with due caution. The IRS, for example, only uses email to answer questions about their website with...

The Internal Revenue Services does not send unsolicited emails to taxpayers. The IRS doesn't ask taxpayers for such personal information as passwords, credit card or other financial numbers. The...

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The Internet has made our day to day lives much easier in many ways. However, it has also exposed us to newer and technologically advanced scams. You need to know the most common Internet scams in...

Phishers do not just target emails anymore. If you use the features of Yahoo! Instant Messenger, you must learn how to protect yourself from a phishing scam. These scams look like links sent by...

It is no surprise that Internet customers are getting fed up with all the phishing that is happening in their mailboxes and online. Phishing is just another form of fraud, and it can ultimately...

Phishing is a new catchword when it comes to the Internet, but its real name is fraud! Anyone using a Web site in order to acquire the personal information of someone else, usually in the form of...

When people go phishing on the Internet, they are attempting to perform online fraud. Most of the time phishing takes the form of a bulk email. This message often looks to be from an established...

When someone refers to spoofing or phishing, they are really describing the act of collecting various forms of personal data using a fake email or Web site. Many times the phisher is looking to...