| Cyber crime is always evolving to try and outwit and | | | | If you are buying goods never use bank transfer |
| scam more unsuspecting people and businesses as | | | | or money gram or as they offer no protection and it |
| awareness of their existing scams become wide | | | | will be hard to trace the money should the goods not |
| spread. Every year cyber crime increases as more | | | | turn up. |
| criminals are attracted to the growing number of | | | | You can fight click fraud and protect your business |
| internet users available to scam anonymity and better | | | | by implementing order monitoring systems which will |
| fraud prevention techniques linked to offline crime. | | | | look for multiple orders being placed from the same |
| While we can say the number of new scams and | | | | account within a short time such as within minutes, a |
| fraud cases occurring is increasing, we don't | | | | few hours or the same day. |
| understand the full picture since its predicted most of it | | | | Typo-squatting is a very serious crime and can |
| goes unreported. In this current period more and more | | | | have huge repercussions for a business. The scam |
| people will fall victim to online scams as they | | | | works by registering a domain name very similar to |
| desperately look for solutions to their money worries. | | | | the business in order to be used to fool customers |
| Whether you are new to the world of trading online, | | | | that they are visiting the genuine website. Not only can |
| have been lucky to avoid being scammed or are even | | | | you suffer lost business, your business name can be |
| aware of some scams operating on the internet I'd like | | | | tarnished. Ensure you own popular extensions and |
| to offer this advice to help you minimise your | | | | very similar domain names to yours to ensure you are |
| exposure to scams and protect your business online: | | | | well protected from this type of scam. You can also |
| Be wary of laws in other countries as they will | | | | employ domain checking services which will alert you |
| differ from those in the U.K. and the U.S. There are | | | | to registration of domain names very similar to yours |
| many countries where fraud originates from such as | | | | as they occur. |
| Romania and other countries that have unreliable | | | | As stated at the beginning cyber crime is constantly |
| postal services such as Italy. So it is wise to refuse to | | | | evolving and my final piece of advice is to recommend |
| send goods to certain countries or use more secure | | | | you regularly attend a fraud prevention seminar such |
| postal methods if you do decide to ship to questionable | | | | as the very professional, Marcus evans scam |
| countries. | | | | conferences. |