How to Minimise Your Exposure to Internet Fraud

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 asor money gram or as they offer no protection and it
awareness of their existing scams become widewill be hard to trace the money should the goods not
spread. Every year cyber crime increases as moreturn 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 betterby 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 andaccount within a short time such as within minutes, a
fraud cases occurring is increasing, we don'tfew 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 morehave huge repercussions for a business. The scam
people will fall victim to online scams as theyworks 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 evenyou suffer lost business, your business name can be
aware of some scams operating on the internet I'd liketarnished. Ensure you own popular extensions and
to offer this advice to help you minimise yourvery 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 willemploy domain checking services which will alert you
differ from those in the U.K. and the U.S. There areto registration of domain names very similar to yours
many countries where fraud originates from such asas they occur.
Romania and other countries that have unreliableAs stated at the beginning cyber crime is constantly
postal services such as Italy. So it is wise to refuse toevolving and my final piece of advice is to recommend
send goods to certain countries or use more secureyou regularly attend a fraud prevention seminar such
postal methods if you do decide to ship to questionableas the very professional, Marcus evans scam
countries.conferences.