FBI Alert San Diego residents about mail fraud

San Diego Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning to local residents after complaints about Internet fraud began arriving in the IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center). In characterizing the mode of online fraud, security officials said IC3 hackers were introduced in the e-mail or social networking site by a user. The hacker is pretending to be friends with the user and spam to addresses in your contact list. Storytelling fake victims of thieves, hackers say they are stranded in a foreign country and the great need of cash, because they have lost their money, passports, mobile phones and credit cards. To explain the efforts of fraudsters cheat, Darrell Foxworth, an FBI agent said the messages said the sender had a very limited time to clear the hotel bill with much-needed quick money to be paid back when he returned home, as reported by 10news July 2 2010th Meanwhile, the security researchers that because it was summer and a season to travel to San Diego residents should be particularly careful about scam. People need to properly evaluate every message that comes to them from a relative or friend in your address book. But to be sure of getting ripped off, a simple method is to talk to the alleged sender of the e-mail over the phone and know where he is before you send money demand as a recipient of the e-mail could be attracted to help a loved one trapped in the crisis. If a fraud victim, you should visit the URL IC3 www. IC3. the government and report the incident. The IC3 will refer the complaint to the appropriate authority for enforcement. Moreover, under the portion of the IC3 is also information about complaints to identify patterns and trends of further attacks. Finally, we can say that internet fraud “Stranded” with issues of fraud and infliction of the network continues to reap money to scammers. The FBI reports that the total loss of Internet fraud for 2009 were estimated at nearly $ 560,000,000, a sum more than twice as high as 2008.