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Internet Marketplace Safety
You listed your item on the internet, perhaps using eBay, it sold for the price you were looking for and now the time has come to get paid. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/ has been protecting the Postal Service, its customers and employees from criminal attack for over 200 years and they have [...]
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More on Identity Theft & Cybercrime
Of course society benefits from computers and the internet, but the flip side are countless criminal opportunities for identity thieves/cybercriminals. If we all have a good understanding of what cybercrime is, we can take steps to reduce the risk. Even if you do not buy goods or services online, you may still become [...]
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What to do if you’re a Crimeware victim
There is a continuous tidal wave of Trojans, bots, and phishing attacks swarming the internet each day and infections and identity thefts are happening to everyone and anyone. If you think you have been victimized by online fraud or crimeware, there are steps you may want to take to respond and recover from each [...]
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Vishing joins Phishing in Identity Theft
Many internet users are aware of phishing, but now there is another form of identity theft /crime that we should know about. It’s called “vishing”, and it uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones instead of a misdirected Web link to steal user information. Phishing is the illegal art of sending an e-mail [...]
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Pharming and Identity Theft
Pharming is pronounced the same way as ‘farming’ and is in the same ball park as phishing, but the similarity ends there. Pharmers depend on the same hostile Web sites and theft of identifying and confidential information to commit their crimes but are much more difficult to detect because they do not depend on [...]
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Bots and Cybercrime and Identity Theft
No one person can say for sure how large a role bots play in cybercrime today. Cybercrime will, at some point, make use of a botnet to do everything from spamming to hosting fraudulent Web sites. Internet security software giant Symantec has protected people from bots for a lot of years and has [...]


