Australia tops cyber crime list
Australia has the highest incidence of cyber crime in the world,
A study, found that more than 39 per cent of Australians had been the victim of cyber crime, compared to 32 per cent in Italy, 28 per cent of Americans, and just 14 per cent in Sweden and Spain.
http://www.crime-research.org/news/20.06.2008/3422/

A total of 275,284 complaints were received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2008 -- up from 206,884 or 33 percent over 2007, the FBI said Monday. Total dollar loss reported in 2008 was $265 million, an increase from $239 million the year before. The average individual loss was $931, according to a new report.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/03/web-crime-complaints-rise-in-2.php

Telephone Fraud: Modem Hijacking
Prevention tips from the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor
Modem Hijacking is a form of “high-tech cramming*” that can potentially cost a consumer hundreds of dollars and could happen if you use a dial-up service for Internet access. The most common way this occurs is when the consumer visits a Website, clicks in a “pop-up” window, or opens an e-mail which downloads a dialer program or virus into the user’s computer. The program or virus then disconnects the modem from the local connection number and reconnects it to an expensive long distance number
http://www.in.gov/oucc/2414.htm

Online job listing an ID theft scam
‘Background check’ used to steal full slate of personal info
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078533/

Experts have called for more police resources to fight computer crime, after it emerged that only 299 hackers have been charged under the UK's computer crime law over the past four years.
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/25/235017/uks-poor-record-on-prosecuting-hackers-revealed.htm

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Belly
Soon or later you will have to use the internet banking as one after the other, banks close their branches, or reduce their employees and you will have to go far to find a branch or you will have to wait in a big line for your banking.
The online shops do not pay high rents or high salaris for managers and sub-managers and they can reduce the prices of the their products, in high degree. You lose big opportunities from online shopping. I do everything online.

Nielsen has published new statistics on the overall online shopping trends - Over 875 Million Consumers Have Shopped Online - the Number of Internet Shoppers Up 40% in Two Years.
Among Internet users with Internet access using it shop, the highest percentage shopping online is found in:
South Korea (99%)
UK (97%)
Germany (97%)
Japan (97%)
US (94%)
http://www.multilingual-search.com/world-statistics-on-the-number-of-internet-shoppers/28/01/2008

Internet users growth 2000-2008
WORLD TOTAL 342.2 %
Oceania / Australia 172.7 %
Europe 274.3 %
Asia 474.9 %
Middle East 1,296.2 %
Africa 1,100.0 %

Online Market- Advantages and Disadvantages
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/online-market-advantages-and-disadvantages-236113.html

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Global scams hit Australians' pockets - Losses at 1 Billion dollars
The Chair of the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce, Ms Louise Sylvan, today said the results of the ABS survey results on Personal Fraud showed how clearly consumer fraud has become a major concern.
http://www.scamwatch.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/737612

The Washington Post
FBI: Internet Fraud Rates Rose 33% Last Year
Internet fraud complaints to the FBI by consumers increased more than 33 percent in 2008 over the previous year, according to figures released this week.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/fbi_internet_fraud_rates_rose.html

Online fraud hits one in five
INTERNET fraud is a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise that hits at least one-in-five companies.
Billions of dollars is spent a year in Australia on internet security but losses keep mounting.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21811,21094824-662,00.html

A study by the Gartner technology research firm shows 52 million U.S. Internet users received phishing e-mail during the past 12 months, from which 1.8 million consumers divulged information and one million fell victim. While consumers at banks and credit unions are prime targets, AOL and eBay users also are victims of frequent attacks.
http://www.creditunion.coop/scams.html

Australian Federal Police Phishing Scam
Australia 4th on the world’s ‘most spammed countries’ list. The problem has gotten much worse in the last 12 months, with stats showing that as much as 89% of email received in Australia is spam, up from 68% in the previous year.
http://www.allspammedup.com/2009/07/australian-federal-police-phishing-scam/

More than a third of small firms fail to report fraud and online crime because of a lack of faith in the UK police system, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
But fraud is costing the average SME £800 a year, the FSB has claimed.
As a result the organisation, which polled 1,823 UK SMEs for the research, is calling for a designated fraud and e-crime reporting centre to be set up by the government to combat the fraudsters
http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2236690/smes-lack-faith-uk-justice

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

To make a complaint of online auction fraud please follow the steps outlined below:
Step One: Reporting Your Dispute to the Online Auction Website.
Step Two: Determining the Country/State of the Offender.
Step Three: Lodging Your Complaint with the Correct Jurisdiction.

A. In the step one " Your complaint will not be investigated by police until you have attempted to resolve your dispute via the Internet Auction provider"
1. What hapen when the buyer believed to seller that the product is coming, the time passed to file dispute to paypal or ebay? It happened to me!
2. What if in seller's condition on the ebay is that they will sent the product after two or three months? In this case the buyer does not have the right to file a dispute with paypal (maximum 45 days from payment) or with ebay maximum 60 days after the transaction date? One time I had this problem and I informed the ebay and paypal that with kind of conditions I lose my rights to dispute if something goes wrong.
I never received the product.
In both cases, 1 and 2 I tried to report to police for online Auction Fraud without succes because I did not file dispute ! HOW TO FILE DISPUTE WHEN IT WAS LATE?
B. Step Two of a complaint of online auction ( Determining the Country/State of the Offender of a complaint of online auction)
One time I imformed the ebay that I wanted to report a seller to police and I asked them to give me imformation about the seller, (the Country/State of the seller), they sent me some links for the police.
Also in this case I failed to report the online fraud to police.
Every time I tried to report to police an online fraud I failed!
Instead to block reports which do not comply with police's procedures is not it better to allow the victims of online fraud to report in pure english what hapened? http://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/crimePrevention/eCrime/internet/report/03/

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

I can see you are interested in the subject AS but while I congratulate you on the research and quality of your posts, some of your ideas are just plain wrong.
A very long time ago, my bank card was defrauded,, by a bank teller.
Each pay day I paid $600 [fortnightly pay]from my account.
In those days my card was swiped and I was given a copy.
I threw it in a bin in the bank before leaving.
Short story is that teller got caught, I was later told the bank just knew but did not want to pay.
I changed banks, get cash out once a week, pay cash, never, not ever will banks stop using ATM's
Or close down totally.
Be less gullible AS surely you know spam?
Foolish, greedy, or just silly people need protection from crime on the net.
But if more show their distrust as I have we will one day see a better but never totally trusted on line service.
Why would any one? buy sight unseen?

I almost got caught with an item listed on the 'trading post on-line'.

It was a boat that was advertised very cheap, about one third of it's value.

I smelled a rat when the guy wanted me to pay up front, then, if I wasn't happy he would refund my money.

What he had done was copy another ad, then change the details, including the price with an effort to sell it.