From eWEEK:
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—An international crackdown on Internet financial scams this year has yielded more than $2.1 billion in seized fake checks and 77 arrests in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Canada, U.S. and others, authorities said on Wednesday. “Most Americans don’t realize they are financially liable when they fall for these scams,” Susan Grant, vice president of the National Consumers League. Two-thirds of Americans said they received at least one potential scam contact per week, and 18 percent said they or a family member had fallen for one, in a survey conducted for an alliance of banks, consumer groups and the U.S. Postal Service.
1. This stuff is becoming so common it’s now taken for granted! I can still remember my first Nigerian scam email, nearly twenty years ago. 2. P.T. Barnum may have been right, back then, but the rate has grown exponentially since. 3. P.T. Barnum didn’t actually say that. Wikipedia 4. Does anyone still trust Wikipedia, really?
