Internet fraud News

Philippine authorities have arrested more than 300 foreigners mostly from mainland China and Taiwan for alleged involvement in Internet and financial fraud by Chinese criminal syndicates.

Ibadan - Terms such as "Nigerian email scam," "Nigerian 419 scam," have become standard terms for promoting the suggestion that Nigeria is the world's major source of Internet fraud without reference to official statistics on global incidence of Internet fraud.

What is worse than paying through the nose for heating oil? Paying a bargain basement price, then realising you've been scammed.

A Brisbane District Court heard on Thursday how an Australian woman Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey, scammed a group of alleged Nigerian scammers by stealing more than $30,000 from their Internet car sales operations.

The latest scam to surface in this journalist's email inbox is an offer to share $12.5 million of Col. Gaddafi's wealth, apparently looted from the late dictator's safe.

Chatham - Two Chatham men have been arrested in connection to fraud involving the Internet and online purchasing of motor vehicles following an investigation that began in the autumn of 2010.

For tricking Internet users in at least 60 countries into buying their bogus software products, three men from a Ukraine-based company have been indicted for Internet and computer fraud.