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New Types of Internet Fraud and the Legal Countermeasure

The term Internet fraud refers generally to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more components of the Internet - such as chat rooms, email, message boards, or web sites - to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to other connected with the scheme. If you use the Internet with any frequency, you ll soon see that people and things online tend to move, as the saying goes, on Internet time. For most people, that phrase simply means that things seem to happen more quickly on the Internet -- business decisions, information-searching, personal interactions, to name a few - and to happen before, during, or after ordinary bricks-and-mortar business hours. Unfortunately, people who engage in fraud often operate in Internet time as well. They seek to take advantage of the Internet s unique capabilities -- for example, by sending e-mail messages worldwide in seconds, or posting Web site information that is readily accessible from anywhere in the world - to carry out various types of fraudulent schemes more quickly than was possible with many fraud schemes in the past. In general, the same types of fraud schemes that have victimized consumers and investors for many years before the creation of the Internet are now appearing online (sometimes with particular refinements that are unique to Internet technology). With the explosive growth of the Internet, and e-commerce in particular, online criminals try to present fraudulent schemes in ways that look, as much as possible, like the goods and services that the vast majority of legitimate e-commerce merchants offer. In the process, they not only cause harm to consumers and investors, but also undermine consumer confidence in legitimate e-commerce and the Internet. There s a better way to get information about Internet fraud than just diving blindly into the Internet. A number of government and private organizations have online information about various aspects of Internet fraud: what it is, how it can occur, and what you can do about it. To help you learn more, we ve attached a list of Web sites that you might find interesting and informative on Internet fraud and related topics. Contents of this article are as follows; 1. Concept of Internet Fraud 2. New types of Internet Fraud 3. Preventive Measures against Internet Fraud 4. Legal Countermeasure against Internet Fraud 5. Conclusion