Talk:Internet fraud

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[edit] Copyleft violation

Content literally lifted without attribution on a link farm site: ww.fraudwatchernetwork.com/website/internet-fraud.html JavaWoman 04:52, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

  • I am sick and tired of users like JavaWoman. The linkfarm or whatever COPIED from this article. I am sure of this because I WROTE THIS FROM SCRATCH. I used some knowledge that no linkfarm could have known about. Why do you assume that Wikipedians copy from others and not the other way around? Or maybe is it that JavaWoman has some economic incentive on putting links on Wikipedia to some Adsense generating sites??? --AAAAA 03:37, 28 September 2005 (UTC)—

[edit] Pump & Dump

Most would agree that the pump and dump "scam" is immoral and socially manipulative but is it technically illegal?

[edit] clean up?

This was on the clean up list until today, but seems to have been removed. I improved the English myself a little yesterday but I'm not too sure that it is clean enough yet?

I would put it back on the clean-up list for now. What do people think?

Paulc1001 13:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Note: There should be a (huge) section on online charity (fundraising) fraud. After Hurricane Katrina...online charity fraud is big business.

I am writing a paper, so am sitting on a pile of related citations, but here is a good example:

Hall, Holly. After the Hurricane, Chronicle of Philanthropy, "Online charity scams grow in number and sophistication." 9/29/05. vol XVII No. 24

-JFG

[edit] Merge with Internet crime

These two articles seem largely repetitive. Internet crime is a possible POV fork which is not wikified and contains a lot of non-notable or non-verifiable crap. Savidan 03:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey Savidan this is an assignment from a college profesor and my topic was Internet Crime, I beleive I made an adequate effort to talk about the crimes and not just the fraud. Please reconsider. SturgBurg15 13 Feb 2006

I'll remove the notice and because it looks like the article has improved, but this should only disucss non-fraud crimes. The original was almost entirely repetitive. Savidan 05:13, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Direct Solicitation section

This section doesn't really explain how this scam works:

The most straightforward type of purchase scam is a buyer in another country approaching many merchants through spamming them and directly asking them if they can ship to them using credit cards to pay.
Most likely, a few weeks or months after the merchant ships and charges the Nigerian credit card, he/she will be hit with a chargeback from the credit card processor and lose all the money.

Why doesn't the company check the credit card, like ever other company does? Why is thhe email necessary, and what does it achieve? I'm quite confused. 199 (talk) 17:09, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Source for one of the facts

  • AAAAA, would you be so kind as to give me the source of below fact about internet fraud cost to US companies:

"The FBI and police agencies worldwide have people assigned to combat this type of fraud; according to figures from the FBI, U.S. companies' losses due to Internet fraud in 2003 surpassed US$500 million."

    • This number was given to me over the phone sometime by an FBI agent that was in charge of a certain type of fraud.--AAAAA 05:02, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nanny scam

Dear Hue12. Thank you for your warning. I was not using Wikipedia to advertise and I re-edited the page because I though I had made a mistake in saving it the first time. Au pair & nanny scams are becoming a big problem and the worst off victims are the poorest who fall for the " we can get you a visa " scam. So I think that attempting to make people more aware and guiding them is important. Why would I actually draw attention to this fact which could put people off using nanny matching sites like mine?

nanny Damian Kirkwood —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.149.3.200 (talk) 19:21, 12 January 2007 (UTC).


Noted. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. see Advertising and conflicts of interest guidelines. If you have content to contribute, contribute that. Don't simply direct readers to another site for the useful facts; add useful facts to the article, then cite the site where you found them. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to funnel readers off Wikipedia and onto some other site, right? --Hu12 19:25, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Hue12. What about the external link www. autoshippers. co. uk/car_shipping_scam.htm. That actually has Google adverts on it!! and the other external links, they "funnel" readers away. Anyway when I have the time I will add the whole article to Wikipedia.
Damian Kirkwood


[edit] Removed unsourced info / personal experience

Removed this section from click fraud

One recent experience resulted in the discovery that this fraudster's website had 176,000 pages, all with the same or very similar pages, they keywords included the days of the week and the months of the year, but nothing to do with any business except the fraudsters details. The experience resulted in the loss of £950 english pounds equivalent to US$1860.[citation needed]

Tazzy531 14:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lots o' scam e-mails

Do there really need to be this many full-text examples of scam e-mails? Although I find them hilarious, they make the article pretty dang long and there are LOTS of examples of these available on other sites; maybe we should link? evildeathmath 18:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)