{"id":920,"date":"2012-05-11T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T22:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodwin.drexel.edu\/isensor\/smho\/?p=920"},"modified":"2012-05-11T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T22:47:42","slug":"online-scams-cost-485-million-in-u-s-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Online scams cost $485 million in U.S. in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=920\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Online scams including identity theft schemes, \u201cadvance fee\u201d and \u201cromance fraud\u201d cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet Crime Complaint Center annual report said the number of complaints about online fraud rose 3.4 percent to 314,246.<\/p>\n<p>The most common complaints included FBI-related scams, in which criminals impersonate the FBI to gain sensitive data, identity theft and advance fee fraud \u2014 schemes in which emails pledge to release funds for a transaction fee.<\/p>\n<p>One of the newer schemes involves fraudulent auto sales \u2014 in which a criminal posts a car for sale at an attractive price, pretending to be desperate to sell before moving or deploying overseas, and then seeking a deposit to hold the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Other fraud schemes include the \u201cnon delivery\u201d of merchandise bought online or through an auction, and \u201coverpayment fraud\u201d in which someone receives an check with instructions to deposit it in a bank account and send excess funds or a percentage of the deposited money back to the sender.<\/p>\n<p>More available at TPM: http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/05\/10\/online-scams-cost-485-million-in-u-s-in-2011-survey\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Online scams including identity theft schemes, \u201cadvance fee\u201d and \u201cromance fraud\u201d cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI said Thursday. The Internet Crime Complaint Center annual report said the number of complaints &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-latest-news-ideas-problems-strategies-and-tactics-in-securing-cyberspace-and-virtual-organizations-discussed-by-experts-in-industries-as-well-as-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}