Internet fraud Internet fraud 419eater.com is a website dedicated to scam baiting by individuals who have turned the tables on 419 fraud con artists. These are people who use email to try to fool people into sending money with the promise of a large reward or request for assistance. While the majority of the scammers targeted are perpetrators of an advance fee fraud scam, there are others who solicit donations without promise of a return on investment. ...more on Wikipedia about "419eater.com"
Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates ** , is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from victims after making them believe they will get an immense fortune. Victims are requested to pay an upfront fee before their purported fortune is released. ...more on Wikipedia about "Advance fee fraud"
A bidding fee scheme is a grey area business model for online auction sites that allow them to make large profit margins on goods by charging non-refundable fees for bidding. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bidding fee scheme"
Click fraud occurs in pay per click online advertising when a person, automated script or computer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking on an ad, for the purpose of generating an improper charge per click. Click fraud is the subject of some controversy and increasing litigation due to the advertising networks being a key beneficiary of the fraud whether they like it or not. ...more on Wikipedia about "Click fraud"
Ensuring a valid identity on an email has become a vital first step in stopping spam, forgery, fraud, and even more serious crimes. An essential second step will be Ensuring the entity has a good reputation. Unfortunately, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) that handles most email today was designed in an era when users of the Internet were mostly honest techies who expected others to be equally honest. This article will explain how email identities are forged and the steps that are being taken now to prevent it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Email authentication"
Fraud has existed perhaps as long or longer than money. Any new sociological change can engender new forms of fraud, or other crime. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used to defraud people via Email fraud. Email fraud can take the form of a "con game" or scam. Confidence tricks tend to exploit the inherent greed and dishonesty of their victims: the prospect of a 'bargain' or 'something for nothing' can be very tempting. Email fraud, as with other ' bunco schemes' relies on naive individuals who put their confidence in get-rich-quick schemes such as 'too good to be true' investments or offers to sell popular items at 'impossibly low' prices. Many people have lost their life savings due to fraud. ...more on Wikipedia about "Email fraud"
Employment Scams, also know as Job Scams, are a form of Advance fee fraud scamming where certain unscrupulous persons posing as recruiters and/or employers offer attractive employment opportunities which require the job seeker to pay them money in advance, usually under the guise of work visas, travel expenses, and out-of-pocket expenses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Employment Scams"
The term Internet fraud refers to any type of fraud scheme that uses email, web sites, chat rooms or message boards to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to other connected with the scheme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet fraud"
A typical lottery scam is a scam email that tells the recipient they have won a sum of money in a lottery. The recipient is instructed to keep the notice secret and to contact an agent. After contacting the "agent", the recipient will be asked to pay money as fees, but will never receive any lottery payment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lottery scam"
P-P-P-Powerbook refers to a scam bait pulled by Something Awful Forums member MyNameIsJeff. After putting a friend's used Powerbook up for auction on eBay, Jeff received a response from a hacked account that was a poorly disguised escrow scam. Rather than ignore this response, he posted the information on the SA Forums accepting opinions on what should be done. One member suggested sending the scammer a three-ring binder poorly-illustrated to look like a laptop. Jeff obliged and used a Sharpie and broken keyboard keys to construct a crude facsimile of a Powerbook, which he then sent to the scammer. Several forum members investigated the address provided by the scammer, which turned out to be a barber-shop/internet cafe. It was thought that the members caught video footage of the package delivery, but this turned out to be a different package. After extended correspondence with FedEx, it was determined that the scammer had not paid taxes on the shipping. Another email was drafted and sent to the scammer which described the situation with the taxes. Soon afterwards, the scammer replied to the email and paid the taxes. The following Monday the package was delivered, but no further correspondence was heard from the scammer. ...more on Wikipedia about "P-P-P-Powerbook"
PayPaI was a phishing scam in mid 2000 which targeted account holders of the widely used Internet payment service PayPal using the fact that an upper case "i" may be difficult to distinguish from a lower case "l" in some computer fonts. Paypal sends account holders a notification email when they receive payments. Spam was sent out mimicing these payment notifications and indicating that the account holder had received a large payment and directed recipients to paypai.com through a link in the message. ...more on Wikipedia about "PayPaI"
In computing, phishing is a form of social engineering, characterised by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an apparently official electronic communication, such as an email or an instant message. The term phishing arises from the use of increasingly sophisticated lures to "fish" for users' financial information and passwords. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phishing"
Scam baiting is the practice of pretending interest in a fraudulent scheme in order to manipulate a scammer. The purpose of scam baiting might be to waste the scammers' time, embarrass them, cause them to reveal information which can be passed on to legal authorities in the hope that they will be prosecuted, or simply to amuse the baiter. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scam baiting"
Spoof Mail is email which appears to come from one source but is actually sent by another. It is often associated with spoof websites which mimic an actual, well-known website but are run by another party - usually with fraudulent intentions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spoof mail"
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A Spoofed URL describes one website that poses as another. It applies a mechanism that exploits bugs in web browser techology, allowing a malicious computer attack. Such attacks are most effective against computers that lack recent security patches. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spoofed URL"
A spoofing attack, in computer security terms, refers to a situation in which one person or program is able to masquerade successfully as another. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spoofing attack"
Stock Generation was a website that ran from 1998 to early 2000 and is now part of Internet lore as the longest-running, most infamous Ponzi scheme in the history of the Internet. Stock Generation allowed people to trade virtual companies using real money and promised enormous returns on investment. Located on an off-shore island in the Caribbean, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was unable to cite Stock Generation's founders and owners (members of the Russian conglomerate ( MMM) for securities violations. Finally, in 2000, the market crashed, which caused losses of at least $5.5 million to hundreds of participants. The SEC then sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that the "virtual stock exchange" was in effect a Ponzi scheme. The court ruled in favor of Stock Generation, stating that the site adequetely described the market as "a game" not an investment vehicle. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit later reversed the District Court and killed it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stock Generation"
In economics, Whitemail is an anti- takeover arrangement in which the target company will sell significantly discounted stock to a friendly third party. In return, the target company helps thwart takeover attempts, by 1) raising the acquisition price of the raider, 2) diluting the hostile bidder’s number of shares, and 3) increasing the aggregate stock holdings of the company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Whitemail"
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