Thursday, November 19, 2009

How to prevent Internet fraud


All aspects of development has advantages and disadvantages. So the advent of the internet should have its own share of disadvantages. Prominent among them are the fraud is perpetrated on the World Wide Web. Internet fraud is nothing but a deception on the line of a business transaction that will end buyers / clients for potential victims of financial fraud. His suppliers are diabolically clever and can be more cost-smart the smartest of us all. They come in different forms all evil in order to draw us to them.

Warning!
One type of fraud online is through direct solicitation. Here are a potential buyer requests "to purchase goods worth a lot of money using fake credit cards or counterfeit Money Orders, but only for the seller who work hard to make a cataclysmic loss of May which that it failed.


Another form of fraud is the automotive industry, where car sales person has a "phantom" automobile for sale. Suddenly, the ghost of the car is out of stock, but sales of cars no one can take its kind. However the car is wanted in another continent and he wants you to pay for his expedition. There is neither a car nor a continental rise, and the buyer is attracted speakers to pay for items going into the Portfolio seller.


It can even be romantic (dating scams) where you really can not blame the victims. For it is said that the aspiring heart is gold. Here's Romance chat rooms are transformed into an arena for the sale of Cupid. 'Lovers' develops a heart to heart with you for a while, then suddenly they are in a state of dilemma (health problems) and need urgent medical aid and financial assistance. Beware this is a lie. The only language they know the money is romantic and will do whatever is misleading to obtain from you.


Everyone is interested to watch the football match next music concert, the latest thriller at the cinema. But we can only end up being duped by these scammers. How? The answer is by selling fake tickets online under the name of the real business for consumers. And to add salt to injury, there is still harassed on the venue for a ticket forgery. Front scammers also graphics sites intended to sell "ghost" of retail goods.

What they want, in reality, the details of your credit card used in the purchase of these non-existent. And then you can be assured that they will buy for themselves real products at your expense. There is also a recent: click fraud. Where subsidiaries of online advertising force you to click on ads that are generated by spyware. And because of affiliate programs, such as Google Adsense, where they pay large amounts of commission, you can be assured that there will be plenty obvious salaries are in their portfolios. Do not be fooled that this is a marketing strategy. It certainly fraud.


As I said earlier: they may have different appearances in order to attract you. These forms can be set to infinity. Thus, the important question is: how to avoid it? Enter the amount limited information about you to an unknown site. Do not give your Social Security number unless it is necessary. If you have a bank account online, access it from the links in search engines.


Do not use links displayed on the site. Also to share limited information about your personal life.
Make sure your anti-virus and firewall are turned on and updated to prevent unwelcome access to private information on your PC. You can also try to report a case of swindling the authorities on the net. May it never too late to recover what was stolen.


Be careful with email spam. They constitute a reservoir of invitations fraudsters. Do not buy his business immediately when you receive one. Be sure to confirm its legitimacy first before compromise.

Do not click easily links asking you to buy or sell any product. It is recommended you should also check if a website is legitimate. A good guide for this is that the generally legitimate addresses, telephone and fax at the bottom of the page. If the present it is likely that they are for real.
Do not transfer money for payment. Because the money through the Internet is not recoverable in a case of fraud. However Paypal guarantees safety for fraud.

By Andrew Gryson

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