There is a thriving wine investment market, and some people manage to turn a reasonable profit by investing in quality wines at the right price, and buying and selling at the right time. But there’s one way you almost certainly won’t make a profit—and that’s by buying into a wine investment “opportunity” that is offered to [more...]
Phishing is a type of fraud in which people are tricked into providing information such as passwords, usernames and bank account data that can be used to gain unauthorized entrance to accounts. In one of the simplest and most common types of phishing, the scammer sends e-mails providing a link to a web site and tells [more...]
If you’ve ever received an e-mail asking you to enter account information at some rogue web site, you’ve been the would-be victim of a phishing attempt. Every hour, thousands of Internet users are targeted. While there is no way of protecting yourself 100 percent of the time from every possible Internet threat, there are some [more...]
One day you may receive in your email in-box, or through a chat-room, what to appears to be a tempting job offer involving working from home. Each email is worded differently but most will suggest that you could be an important person in their business: Financial Manager or ‘our US Representative’. What it goes onto reveal [more...]
A boiler room scam is a fraud where you are sold shares in a company that either does not exist, or is a very high risk share which will invariably fail because they are overpriced, cannot be easily sold on and have little real value. It has international dimensions with perpetrators and victims in North [more...]