2.  77.4% of the perpetrators are male.  50% live in one of the following states: California, New York, Florida, Texas, and Washington.  55.4% complainants are male.  92.4% complainants are from the US  Males lost more money than females.  E-mail 74% and webpages 28.9%

3.  How often do you use a computer?  How often do you use e-mail?  How often do you receive scams in your e-mail/i-mail?  How often do you receive text messages to your phone about scams?

4.  Phishing  Whaling  Vishing  Pharming  Phaxing  Spam  Scams  Smishing

5.  An attempt to defraud a person An attempt to defraud a person

6. Using social engineering Uses cell phone text messages

7.  Junk mail Junk mail  Identical messages sent to multiple recipients.

8. *The sending of e-mail claiming to be a legitimate business to receive your personal information.The sending of e-mail claiming to be a legitimate business to receive your personal information. *The e-mail will direct you to a website so you can type in your personal information. *Ex. Credit cards, passwords, bank accounts.

9.  Using social engineering over the phone. Using social engineering over the phone.  Try’s to receive personal and financial information.

10.  Redirect internet traffic to other websites.  Occurs when someone changes the hosts file.

11.  First, look through the website › Ex. Cluttered, badly written.  Second, make sure the website is not promoting a deal that is unrealistic. › Ex. Making $100 or $1000 in a day.  Third, look for an address, phone number or contact information.  Fourth, look for something that proves it is a secure website. › Ex. The little lock at the top of your web browser bar.

12.  While doing this project I have came up with a few questions… › Why would people continue to fall for the scams when there are many things wrong with the website that they go on? › How can someone truly believe that you can make $100 or $1000 a day?

13.  I have witnesses people falling for internet scams and wanted to learn more about them.  The article that I chose explains to people that a lot of scams come out on the internet around the time that taxes are do, which I think people should know this to pay attention to this more.  The online information links that I provided were mostly cases that involved real people. I think that these are a good example of explaining to people about what they should be looking for when thinking about making online purchase.

14.  Journal. › http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=7&sid =a29a2b48-f5e2-4c75-a7e7- 2bb85551599e%40sessionmgr4&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3 QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=J0E246217971410 http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=7&sid =a29a2b48-f5e2-4c75-a7e7- 2bb85551599e%40sessionmgr4&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3 QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=J0E246217971410  Online Information Sites. › http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/mar/19/online- fraud-google http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/mar/19/online- fraud-google › http://www.pcworld.com/article/223261/top_5_online_201 1_tax_scams.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/223261/top_5_online_201 1_tax_scams.html › http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt12 7.shtm http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt12 7.shtm › http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/internet_scam_st atistics.htm http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/internet_scam_st atistics.htm