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| lthough the "Nigerian Advance Fee Scam" has circulated across North America for many years, it continues to be one
the highest median dollar loss Internet scams around. According to the FBI's 2004 Internet Fraud Crime Report,
the average dollar loss for Internet users who reported being victimized by the Nigerian Advance Fee Scam
was $3,000. Only Internet check fraud scams had a higher average loss ($3,600). |
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| It may look like an e-mail from Coca-Cola but it's definitely not "The Real Thing." There's an e-mail in circulation, allegedly from a Hong Kong-based Coca-Cola sales and marketing manager, that promotes
a sweepstakes to win a Mercedes-Benz ML Jeep convertible and $800,000 cash. The problem? There is no such sweepstakes and there is no such car as a Mercedes-Benz ML Jeep convertible. It's a
phishing expedition, using the trusted Coca-Cola brand as bait, designed to obtain personal and financial information from victims. |
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| As the number of people using online banking services continues to grow, so does the increase in the number and the variety of Internet-based bank fraud scams.
Below are a couple of actual examples. |
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| The Social Security Administration has received reports of an e-mail message being circulated with the subject "Cost-of-Living for 2007 update" and purporting to be from the SSA. The message provides
information about the 3.3 percent benefit increase for 2007 and tells the e-mail recipients to update their personal information or their account will be suspended indefinitely. They are then directed to a phony
site designed to look like the official Social Security website. |
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| Question: Sometimes when I open a web page that contains information I'm looking for it has ads that flash brightly or contain silly animations. Other times a site
will have annoying music. I turn down the volume and try to ignore the ads but is there a better way to deal with pages like this? |
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| Modem hijacking, also referred to as dialer hijacking or Internet dumping, is a form of fraud that targets dial-up modem users. The scam itself isn't new, but many Internet users may not be aware of it or know how to avoid it. |
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