Internet Scamming and Frauds

Hey folks,

In the modern society, internet frauds and scams are spreading day by day. Using forms of hoax emails, fraud adverts, fake payments etc., cyber criminals target people who are relatively new to the internet and are vulnerable. I m sure some of you must have had atleast one of those spam emails which declared that you'd won something(maybe cash, plasma TV, car etc.) for no reason and they are just unable to send you the prize because of them not having some sort of international fee, which you have to provide them with or probably encountered a fake website that takes orders but does not ship their products or anything similar along these lines. Truth is that there are a lot of scammers and hackers out there who look for people's desire to get something for free and use it to their advantage. Sometimes through emails and sometimes through fake transactions, they target the gullible in the crowd for their money. Albeit very difficult, there are ways to catch/track down such cyber criminals with the use of IP addresses. Unfortunately once scammed, people just sort of give up hope on whatever they've lost and hence with the consequent lack of information in their complaints make it that more tough for the police.

Scamming has a very big negative impact on the society as it takes away the trust people have on the internet making them unsure if they want to use it at all. A person who has been a victim of an internet fraud will be very reluctant to use it again especially for any financial purposes. The more this trust breaks, the less usability internet will have towards the society. More and more scams would result in people just having to make their desired transactions in person and would thus significantly cut down the usage and usefulness of the internet. I think that 'Prevention is better than a cure' in this case and would thus advice you folks to stay alert and careful. In case you do get scammed, provide every little detail to the police. Hope this was helpful!

PS- If you want to know more or just perhaps want to familiarize yourself with how these scams work, I would suggest a read on the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_fraud ... (wikipedia- students best friend LOL)

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/internet-scams.html

http://www.scambusters.org/ (a very good site against scams)
And as always you could research more if you want!