What are some common internet scams? Example: click scams, international modem dialing, paypal fraud, pump-and-dump stock fraud, advance fee fraud. Nigerian 419, Spanish Prisoner, craigslist pay first scam. How do these scams work? How does the internet/web make this kind of fraud easier to perpetrate?
I don't know much about internet scams, so I'm excited to learn about them. When I was doing some preliminary research I found that internet scams can also be referred to as internet fraud, which is a more proper title. Internet fraud "refers generally to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more components of the Internet - such as chat rooms, e-mail, message boards, or Web sites - 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"(http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/internet/).
Here are some sites that I found:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/common-internet-scams.html
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/internet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud***
***Spanish Prisoner and Nigerian 419 examples of these
http://www.chiff.com/a/dotcons.htm
http://www.419legal.org/internet-scams-general-discussion/#
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