...10 Internet Scam 1. Phishing scams Phishing email try to trick the intended victim into visiting a fraudulent website disguised to look like a valid eCommerce or banking site. The victim thinks they are logging into their real account, but instead everything they enter on the fake site is being sent to the scammers. Armed with this information, the scammer can wipe out the victim's accounts, run up their credit cards, or even steal their identity. 2.Nigerian 419 Scams Nigerian 419 scams (aka Advanced Fee Fraud) date back to the days when fax machines and snail mail were the primary business communication tools. Today, email is the preferred method of these scammers and there are more Nigerian 419 Advanced Fee Fraud scams - and victims - than ever before. 3. Lottery Winning Scams Lottery winner scams attempt to trick recipients into believing they have won large sums of cash, and then bilks them out of their own dough in a similar fashion to the Nigerian 419 scam. 4.Scareware Scams Scareware erroneously claims the system is infected and instructs the user to purchase a 'full version' in order to clean the bogus infections. Sometimes, fake antivirus software gets installed by the user who became a victim to an advertising scam. Other times, a rogue antispyware scanner may be installed by exploit, a so called 'drive-by install'. Regardless of how the rogue software gets installed, the user is often left with a hijacked, crippled system. To avoid becoming a victim, before installing...
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...Something to say: I’m sorry that this is scary, not funny, I could not think of any funny Halloween stories, all this is fictional and all made up.thank you for understanding. And I’m sorry for this story being 4 pages long. The best part of Halloween each year for most people, is the candy. With its sweet taste and delicious flavors, it’s teeth rotting capabilities is the only downside of eating an abundance of it. There are all kinds of delectable sweets that some people like, and others that some people do not. There are also some kinds that almost everyone don’t know about. I was on the computer one day, chewing on some chocolates that I had bought from the store earlier. It was nearly Halloween, and I wanted to get my sweet tooth going for all the bags and bags of candy that my...
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...install into your computer and gathers information wether for good or bad reasons. Lets talk about legitimate spyware and there are many. For example, Cookies: computers automaticly have cookies to track were you been and it records its. For business side it a good idea to have cookies because it can tell you whether the person is on or how many times and if your in shopping kind of business that helps out a lot. Cookies also authenticate your site. There are other good perpuses of spyware but I would have to look longer. Now for the bad spyware, and there are a lot of bad stuff about spyware. For example, Spyware can never go away one click away from hackers having your information can not be seen collact data such as valueble information popup keyloggers And the list just goes on and on, over all its a bad idea to have spyware but we need it too because it helps us identify if we got hacked through cookies and yet cookies are bad too. Technology is growing and some stuff we can not control but we can prevent from it getting out of hand. Referrence http://www.vbmb.org/Resources/Technology-Help/SpyWare-Facts.cfm http://www.pcsndreams.com/Pages/Articles/spyware_facts.htm http://lockergnome.net/questions/72264/what-are-cookies-are-they-a-good-thing-or-do-they-take-up-space-and-slow-down-your-web-browser http://exids.com/0421/facts-about-spyware-and-malware/ Case 2-2 The definition of social engineering is a way that people can trick others to give...
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...Abstract Cybercrime is a crime committed on the Internet using the computer as a tool and in some cases a targeted victim. The term “cyber” is a misdemeanor and is not defined (Dashora, 2011). Cybercrime is similar to conventional crime both include acts and commissions that are a breach of law counterbalanced by sanctions from the state. Cybercrime is the latest and most complicated problem in the cyber- world. Illegal methods of cybercrime are financial crimes, pornography, online gambling, intellectual property crime, e-mail spoofing, forgery, cyber-defamation, and cyber- stalking (Dashora, 2008). Cyber-Crimes and the Advancement of Technology In modern day, the economy is doing poorly and unemployment rates are at its highest. Individuals are struggling to obtain a job that pays well. It is sad to know that criminals are taking advantage of other individuals but these criminals never think about how they are hurting others by what they do. Cyber-crimes have become so popular in other countries and money laundering is a type of cyber-crime that has become a huge issue over the years. Today’s technology has made it easier for criminals to commit cyber-crimes because he or she does not have to expose his or her face because of the Internet. The new trend is for scammers to solicit through e-mails about job offers to trick individuals into falling for payment transfer scams (Hoax-Slayer, 2012). The recipient does not notice that he or she has committed a money laundering...
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...business for market research and other users? Why or why not ? 1.Spamming - Social Networking Sites can sell one's personal information to anyone who wants to buy it, including spammers and on line predators. Even if the terms of understanding claim that no personal information will be sold, the site can change its policy at any time. social networking sites like Myspace and Bebo are full of spam and scams! Many users receive emails nearly every day from anonymous users asking to date and chat on other websites. It continuously becomes frustrating to receive all these useless spam emails and no solution is being revised. Other Scam is an extra problem for the users. Unfortunately, some scammers trick members and scam them in so many ways to steal their accounts. A ordinary recognized trick could be through a phishing website which looks very similar to Facebook and fools people in believing that they are still on the official Facebook website. Once a member logs in using the email and password, scammers can now access his account and scam his friends, spreading further spam and malware through the website. Fake websites can also steal your bank information if consumers fall prey to their advertisements. If you have never come across a problem like this before, it is your responsibility to avoid such a threat and keep your information secure. 2.Privacy Issues - Endangerment to one's Privacy is one of topmost concern of those using these services. Social Networking Sites require...
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...American Institutional Legitimacy: The Stock Market and Beyond The Stock Market is something our culture sees as a jack pot but when they lose people see it as the worst thing ever invented. Jonathan is one of the people who sees it as a jackpot and is able to see that it can be more than just that. What Jonathan was trying to legitimate was the pump and dump system. It is where someone buys something for a ridiculously low amount and then sells it at a very high price. For example how amusement parks buy water bottles for a low price and sell it for $3 to $5 just because they can. Some people, like the SEC, might see it as a scam. Well the way he made a lot of money was that he would buy stock from companies that were not recognized by a lot of people so their stock value was under $5 thus he would buy it. Then he would go to chat rooms or Yahoo Finance and tell his predictions about how the company is going to sky rocket in the next days and how the price for the stock will increase. So then these people would go and buy stock and his predictions were actually coming true and the value of the stock rose. While that happened he sold out his stock for the highest price and he ended up making The SEC on the other hand were trying to make what Jonathan did into a federal crime. They claimed that only professionals should be allowed to give out information about the stock market. This lead to conflict with Jonathan since he was only a 16th year old boy and was not considered...
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...Abstract Senior citizens are such popular targets for white-collar scam artists. Some factors are the growing number of seniors in the population and seniors concerns to increase their income from investments and improve their health. The scams profiled include home-improvement projects, where a person takes the victim's money but does not perform the work promised; investment frauds and controlling their money for the future; and health and medical scams, which promise the equipment and service that do not perform as advertised. Also, research was taken from a survey from a rehab center with most of them senior citizens. The primary advice for preventing such white-collar crimes is to never give money for a product, service, or investment based upon a person's or business promise without first conducting a thorough background check. Key Terms: Senior Citizen, White Collar Crime, Prevention, Con Artists White Collar Crime against Senior Citizens Senior citizens are some of the most vulnerable targets when it comes to fraud and scam within white collar crime. There are many reasons why many people target the senior citizens and elderly mostly including but not limited to: because they are too polite and have good manners. For example, the elderly will usually not say no to people they are talking to. One of the main reasons that senior citizens have a problem is when they do find out about the scam and/or fraud; they are too embarrassed to report to the police or even...
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...Business Research Business Research with Bitcoin In this paper I want to talk about Business research and how it applies to my area of business Crytocurrency, more specifically Bitcoin. So what is Business Research? The book says it is a systematic inquiry that provides information to guide managerial decisions. Or a process of planning, acquiring, analyzing, and disseminating relevant data, information, and insights to the decision makers in the ways that mobilize the organization to take appropriate actions, that maximize performance. The way that my business uses research currently is to find new technologies that are better than the current, new announcements for Bitcoin such as features, competition, or issues (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). A good example of how research can save my business is in early 2014 the price of Bitcoin went from $1200 to around 650 in one day. If I had not sold at the start of the dump at 1150 the day before, we would have lost half of our equity in one day. However due to research that my company had done, we saw the day before that a Japanese Bitcoin exchange MT GOX had been hacked, and around 1 million Bitcoin was stolen. Considering that there are only 21 million Bitcoins that can ever be in existence, which was a huge hit at almost 5% of the total. To understand how and why we do research thee way we do, you have to understand our product. So what is Bitcoin? Bitcoin has occupied front pages and preoccupied media for many weeks now...
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...business for market research and other users? Why or why not ? 1.Spamming - Social Networking Sites can sell one's personal information to anyone who wants to buy it, including spammers and on line predators. Even if the terms of understanding claim that no personal information will be sold, the site can change its policy at any time. social networking sites like Myspace and Bebo are full of spam and scams! Many users receive emails nearly every day from anonymous users asking to date and chat on other websites. It continuously becomes frustrating to receive all these useless spam emails and no solution is being revised. Other Scam is an extra problem for the users. Unfortunately, some scammers trick members and scam them in so many ways to steal their accounts. A ordinary recognized trick could be through a phishing website which looks very similar to Facebook and fools people in believing that they are still on the official Facebook website. Once a member logs in using the email and password, scammers can now access his account and scam his friends, spreading further spam and malware through the website. Fake websites can also steal your bank information if consumers fall prey to their advertisements. If you have never come across a problem like this before, it is your responsibility to avoid such a threat and keep your information secure. 2.Privacy Issues - Endangerment to one's Privacy is one of topmost concern of those using these services. Social Networking Sites require...
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...According to Parris, “As a reshipper you will receive packages at your home that are often filled with tech devices such as laptops, iPhones, etc.” “You’ll open these packages, sometimes testing to ensure that they work, and then repackage them and ship them to an overseas location” (Parris, 2016, p.1). The reshippers scam is to scam people who are looking for jobs. In most cases scammers like to concentrate on students, single mother’s, and people below the poverty level. Scammers scam people into actually believing reshipping is an actual job. How does it work? It starts by sending a person an email to their personal email address, asking if they would like to work for a company that is affiliated with the United States Postal Service. Once...
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...Halloween is a fun time that only comes around once a year it's fun because people get to dress up and go out trick or treating or go to parties. In the article in told the readers about how in vacant spots all around the United States there is a thing called a “Halloween Pop Up Shop”. These shops open in vacant spots selling things like costumes, lights, decorations, fog machines and much more. These pop up shops sell everything you would need for Halloween besides candy they are there in October and then on October 31st “like a ghost they disappear”. Party City has sort of adopted these shops and had about 270 Halloween Pop Up Shops running and they plan to open many more. These shops are all over the U.S, Canada and now Amsterdam. These...
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...Me: “So… have a good day today? What did you do in Adventure Club before I got there… since you weren’t there for long?” Delaney (8 years old): “Well… someone farted. And we were all arguing about who did or didn’t do it.” Me: “Uhhhhh….. riveting.” (Or something. I can’t really remember what I said here. Likely some form of mild interrogation re: whether or not she was the culprit.) Delaney: “And then I helped Brooklyn read a little. She is only in Kindergarten, and she was reading a book called ‘365 Days of Wonder,‘ and I was pretty sure she wouldn’t know a lot of the bigger words in that one.” Me: “How do you know that? That’s not exactly fair. Are you telling me you couldn’t have read that book when you were in Kindergarten?” Delaney:...
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...Everyone knows the fun holiday called Halloween. It’s fun to dress up in all kinds of costumes. Then go run around door to door to get free candy. You can decorate your house, dress up your pets, scare your friends, carve pumpkins and a lot more fun Halloween things. Halloween is especially fun for little kids, they love getting candy. Some people stay home and watch scary movies. Some go out and trick-or-treat. A night where you get to dress up and get a ton of candy. Halloween is a favorite holiday for kids all over. One night of running around in the dark, meeting up with friends, dressing up, scaring each other, and eating candy. Who doesn't like doing that? Even though Halloween is fun you still need to be careful and safe....
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...Have you ever thought skate boards were just like small surfboards with wheels? Well it's speculated thats how they started, they were a substitute for surders when the waves were flat. Around the mid to late 1940s was when skateboarding seemed to just pop up, they started as blocks of wood on rollerskate wheeles, and slowly evolved into the planks with the curved lips we use today. It would appear though that the sport has only been popularized recently, as John Stevens states "Today's skateboarders are founders in this sport—they're pioneers—they are the first. There is no history in Skateboarding—its being made now—by you. The sport is being molded and we believe that doing the right thing now will lead to a bright future for the sport....
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...When Charles Ponzi came to America from Italy in the 1920s, not even he could have thought that his name would become the word to describe a swindler, a huckster, and a crook. Many Ponzi schemes, including the Bernie Madoff one, have resulted in untold investor losses, murders, and suicides. It also fanned the flames of mistrust amongst everyday investors, who will never invest in the stock markets again. The paradox in this is that these investors will be at the beck and call of the banks, pushing deposit products that make no money and are destroyed by higher taxes and inflation. The date was September 15, 2008. I was grinding through my daily work out in my home gym. The TV was on and suddenly, a newswire story broke that Lehman Brothers,...
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