Internet fraud has increased 33%

Internet fraud has increased 33% -

Robert Siciliano is a NextAdvisor.com Expert Guest Blogger

There is a wild, wild web over there. Criminal hackers are going hog wild.

credit card details to 19,000 Britons have been found on a Google cached page, where they had been accidentally released by fraudsters. idiots criminal hackers must strengthen their data security controls and not to publish sensitive data like that!

According to Reuters, Internet fraud increased 33% last year, the first increase in three years, and is surging as the recession deepens.

Internet fraud losses reported in the United States reached a record $ 264.6 million in 2008, according to a report by the fraud complaints center on the Internet, which is managed by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.

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CNBC that online scams from all the steam globe, mainly from the United States, Canada, Britain, Nigeria and China are meeting this year, with an increase of nearly 50% of complaints reported to US authorities in March alone.

Approximately 74% of frauds were carried out through electronic messages last year, primarily spam, while about 29% used websites. But criminals were increasingly tapping new technologies such as social networking sites and instant messaging services.

The report highlights a new scam identity theft involving electronic messages that give the appearance of FBI originally looking for bank account information, supposedly to help investigate the money being transferred to Nigeria.

Are the recipients of the emails said could be richly rewarded if they cooperate. Duh.

Meanwhile, two scumbag criminal hackers were arrested spying children between 14 and 17 using a personal web cam of the child. Degenerate worked together to extort money adolescents in exchange for stolen images. They had access to computers using a variety of email addresses and screen names.

The Washington Post reports that experts have discovered a security hole in the computer code that powers the Conficker worm, an aggressive infection that has spread to more than 12 million Microsoft Windows systems worldwide. Conficker is spawning new hacks such as scareware, as fraudsters take advantage of the huge interest in the "activation" of the impending super-worm Conficker poisoning the results from search engines.

Protect yourself against scams. Investing in identity protection against theft and secure your PC with anti-virus protection such as McAfee.

Stay tuned ...

Robert Siciliano, identity theft speaker, discusses credit card scams here.

Robert Siciliano is CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, an expert on identity theft, professional speaker, security analyst, published author and television news correspondent. Siciliano works with Fortune 1000 and start-up companies as a consultant on product launches, branding, messaging, representation, SEO and media. the thoughts and advice of Siciliano on all these issues often appear in both television and print media news, including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, Forbes and USA Today. He has 25 years of safety training as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He is the author of two books, including The Safety Minute: Living on high alert; How to take control of your personal safety and to prevent fraud . He also established a partnership with Uni-Ball to help raise awareness of the growing threat of identity theft and provide tips on how you can protect yourself.