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Article: Internet crime--what's hot, statistics, reporting incidents. (The Net Works).
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- Multimedia Schools
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Not too many years ago I ran a dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) along with a friend. Our BBSs were heavily used. We did not have e-mail as we know it today. The Internet as we know it did not yet exist, but we did have e-mail exchange all over the world. It was slower than today's Internet e-mail, but it was cool. There were loads of chat areas on all topics--even one entitled "buy and sell." Well, one day a user on my friend's BBS exchanged e-mail with someone in Georgia on the buy-sell chat area. The BBS user was going to buy a large-capacity hard drive for $250 C.O.D. Eventually the package arrived at the local BBS user's home, and he paid the C.O.D charges. Upon ...
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Article: FBI running a 911 for Internet auction fraud
Charleston Gazette;
May 28, 2001 ;
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... ... is cracking down on Internet auction fraud, a tidal wave of crime that ... another form of high-dollar Internet crime. David Lohr, 34, of Fort Lauderdale ... boat. Most victims of Internet auction fraud who contacted the FBI were males ...
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