Net fraud at record high $270M in 2007
Craigslist and Ebay are becoming the new back alleys and shady neighborhoods as Internet fraud has reached an all-time high at $240 million lost in 2007, according to The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in report conducted in partnership the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center. The report (PDF) shows that, for 2007, the number of Internet scams has been reduced, but the amount lost has risen $40 million. IC3 received 206,884 complaints about online crimes in 2007.The statistics gathered are mind boggling as it shows that men are losing more, on average, and individuals over the age of 60 are losing almost double of what individuals in their 20s are losing.
The average amount lost for men is $765, while the average lost for women is at $552. People over the age of 60 are losing $760 per online scam compared to $385 for individuals in their 20s. The most common case of Internet crime is fraud. This is where individuals are making purchases online and not receiving the correct goods, or any goods at all. It’s not just Ebay and Craigslist being home to all of the frauds. This past year has seen big increases in pet scams, online dating fraud and the two trusty old frauds: spam e-mail and phishing, where fake e-mails are sent trying to bait you into giving private information like logins or financial information. The report also notes that scammers use crises like the Minnesota bridge collapse from 2007 to extract funds from individuals.
Source: PC World
Comments(37)
OMG!! :O
i dont think it could happen to me …….
I don’t understand how people fall for those phishing emails. I’ve got a few of them and the spelling and grammar is appalling. Certainly not the sort of email you would expect from a huge international banking group.
seriously I’ve “won the lottery” like 10000000 times never been stupid enough to claim. if it seems to good to be true its not true – golden rule for the internet.
lol noobs amirite?
idiots who fall for scams deserve to be ripped off for being stupid
LOL thats a drop in the ocean 270m my ass more like 1bn
Yeah, you’re probably right frty. The figure they have is most likely only the cases they know about.
We are taking 16 people to 16k a month.Enough said..
$240m or $270m?
But some are not scams.
Woman with dead husband and now cancer will give me 10 million euro. I have sent 5000 now to organise transfer and then will recieve money. I look forward to being richest man in Turkey.
yusuf.kanici@hotmail.com
“The average amount lost for men is $765, while the average lost for women is at $552.”
Go Men!…We’re #1!… We’re #1… We’re #…wait…
I guess this category does not include those 419 scams. I read somewhere that in 2006 here in canada, $10bn was lost to those scams… or maybe it was the US… but it was definately more than $270mn
Rip out their evil hearts…….cruel fraudsters
Martin, Releaselog staff, Totaldvd ru has come out with the April 2008 R5 List. Can you please post April’s R5 lists today as you have with recent months? I can tell you in short, the biggest one is The Bank Job (April 15).
For some odd reason my neigboars have tried to keep it quiet that they got scammed by an email promising them MILLIONS.
I warned their son, but I guess some people are either too greedy or too naiv to get fooled.
Anyways, more interesting would be to Post NEW episode of
wohoo?
the EPIC BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Last season just started I belive
@10 good one
made me laugh
Nigeria! The land of opportunity!!
well worth a day’s reading
http://www.419eater.com/
http://baita.mugu.co.uk/u_view_scams.php
get rid of these faaaaarkin ads that pop up during reading something plz!!!!! i try to help by posting links sometimes and why bother when Mozilla crashes because of a friggin ebay or love calculator Ad. Not even gonna bother helping anymore. Appreciate the site but screw this sh….it!
Most of these scams prey on people who are lonely or low, its wrong to laugh because we have all fallen for ONE scam in life at some point or another….
Either on-line or in life (IE Fair grounds ETC…)
Its even caused the deaths of a few older people..
My advise would be and its very simple…
If it sounds too good to be true then it usually is….
Nothing is free.. (Except you know what ;D)
no i dont know what d_YeN, is it ice cream? Baked Beans? or your brain? ill take any of the first 2.
Cheers.
Yep im pissed!
to number 5
People look to be honest yet still scam you. They can send you stuff that is not nearly to what was advertised… Its still s scams and in some instances, you can’t detect these. So…STFU and pray you don’t get scammed out of your hard earned money.
Ebay is nothing but a total scambay. If you want to sell your stuff, start a legitimate online outlet and sell through online chains like amazon. Ebay is for noobs.
If ebay allowed comments to be posted below items for sell, then people can warn others of the scams like they do with torrents. But ebay DOESN’T!!! So you never can read what others have to say besides their “purchase” rating comments…but half of those are all staged and scammed! DON’T TRUST IT! IT WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND LEAVE YOU IN THE STREET SHOELESS AND NAKED!
now you too can enjoy the benifits of online piracy and internet fraud with my new book How I Won the World.
Send me your paypal details and i will tell you how to get rich quick with my new book
I got scammed thrice on ebay.. both times were from d-heads buying cell phones. FEEBAY BLOWS AND IS A HAVEN FOR SCAMMERS
@21
Well considering where we are commenting i think its easy to guess whats free and it aint ice cream! lol
Ive been done on Ebay and it was a bloody wallet for £25!
Not much but if u can do a few its a nice little earner!
Scams will always be here in 1 form or another, its human nature to rip the less fortunate off!
It’d fall into the category of stupidity tax if not for real scams in online auctions. I don’t see how you can avoid those, short of not using the service
Meh, I do a little bit of carding here and there…
Well 8 years for plane crash scam is a long period, and I don’t know how people are stupid enough to believe in it.
You won 1000000$? Heck whole planet would be rich by now
The bigger the trick, and older the trick, the easier it is to pull.
Based on two principles.
They think it cant be that old or it cant be that big for so many to have fallen for it.
Modern day analists call this fraud. Please remember the concept of the con, a conman pulled the same tricks 2000 years ago, cept he didnt do it online. Afterall you call these people “Con”men, Con stands for Confidence. All these sites, or these people have to do is convince you to give them money.
Closet I ever came was purchasing something from Buy.com..they are a**holes to get a refund from..don’t ever deal with them..use newegg.com if your buying computer hardwares either..oh yeah..I have won 50,000 Ipods..don’t know what to do with them all, lol
Being closeminded on this issua I think all scammers should be heavily punished for any cybercrime so they would learn their lesson. These statistics just show how people are fu**ed up ..
Will only grow bigger by the month.
do you wnat to enjoy your life now?
what do they do to relax theirselves?
want to know,come here.ill show you what i search?
look at the super star,listen some music,diy-t-shirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfJhhN1rcA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19SvSUYYOs
http://www.diy-t-shirt.com
I don’t mind these little-fish scammers, even if they fleece a few people. They are so fake, its almost more honest. Its the “honest” retailers that freak me, who is your Master card? You need a Visa in this country! If those poor old folks fell for a misspelled “You have won millons” than I hate to think of the interest rates they must have!
Sigh… its all a scam, some are just more obvious.
Of course I do live in the US, so I might be a touch cynical about this
I'd offer some insight but some guy in Guam has 10 million dollars to get rid of for the government and he picked ME!!! That's right, little old me is gonna get a series of checks totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I must get going and pass on all my banking info so he can deposit my money right away!
You guys can have your spam, scams and phishing, I'm gonna be rich and outta here!!! Woo hOO!!
A craigslist scam found today:
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/ele/1088566499.html
These are absolute crap speakers, nobody actually carries them, they use plastic cones that are spray painted to look like aluminum cones, have a NO crossover (though the specs show digital crossovers, there is no such thing as 'digital' crossovers)and are sold by scammers in mall parking lots, the famous WHITE VAN speaker rip offs.High end speakers also don't come with 1 yr warranties.
These types of 'back of a van' speaker scams have been around for decades and aren't going anywhere fast, they just rip-off one guy after the next, I'd be buying BOSE before this crap, and BOSE is about the most bloated, misrepresented product on the speaker market.