FTC sets out to Sniffer Internet fraud
The Federal Trade Commission plans to build a laboratory of the Internet to support their efforts to stem the increase in fraud and deception in the network, according to an official of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
The laboratory is advertising on the Web 24 hours a day through the use of technologies such as robots for research, the crest automatically the Internet for material doubtful, “said Dean C. Forbes, a lawyer from the Division of Advertising Practices.
“We see increased fraud and deception, because it spreads rapidly at lower cost via the Internet and ignores national borders,” said Forbes.
In addition to ads, the laboratory is also the collection and preservation of evidence, the solution of another problem for prosecutors. “Some equipment is not for a long time before he moves. And some of the contents can not be printed,” said Forbes.
So far, the work of the Division of Advertising Practices in Internet poses specific problems led to the Confederation that 80 operations, including more than 200 defendants.
Forbes Internet fraud characterized as “mostly old wine in new tubes.” Slang towers, as the pyramid schemes that adjustment if the victims are in the Internet “old wine” category. It is not to provide what has been paid, as Beanie auctions on eBay, where the seller never delivered. False statements by the drug and health facilities such as investments to the Internet, enjoy a 300 percent Performance is also in this category.
There are a number of “new wine” is, however - systems unique to the Internet, such as modem hijackin
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