Posted on 04/29/2003 9:34:36 PM PDT by Timesink
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- State and federal officials are cracking down on online-auction fraud, with arrests to be announced in several states Wednesday and lawsuits against alleged con artists preying on eBay and other sites.
The effort by the Federal Trade Commission and more than two dozen state attorneys general is intended to fight what officials say is a rising tide of Internet fraud. Law-enforcement officials say that more than 48,000 online-fraud referrals were made to state and federal agencies last year, triple the number in 2001. Nearly half of them involved online-auction fraud, according to a study by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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I am mainly thinking about all these supposed "surveys" that telemarketers are trying these days.
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