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Internet Fraud Dupes Men More Often Than Women
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Sun Apr 6, 8:00 AM ET


When it comes to being taken in by Internet fraudsters, men have a knack for losing cash, according to a new report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Data compiled from more than 206,000 complaints received last year by the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows that men lost US$1.67 to every $1 lost by women in online fraud.
Identifying Fraud Trends


The IC3 is the clearinghouse for online crime complaints in the U.S., and its database is used by regulators and law enforcement to get a picture of criminal trends and, in some cases, help hunt down the criminals. It is a joint effort run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center.

The organization says that buying patterns and human nature play into the findings.

"Historically men were more apt to purchase large ticket item like electronics... that could explain a lot of it," said John Kane, the IC3 research manager who wrote the report.

But with women now spending more online, the difference is also due to the fact that certain types of schemes seem to suck men in. "Men tend to fall victim... to business investment schemes and some other schemes that have a higher dollar loss," Kane said.

Investment fraud complaints, where the average loss is more than $3,500, were overwhelmingly submitted by men, Kane said. Compare that to something like auction fraud, where both men and women are frequently victimized. The average loss there is just over $480.

Men also tend to be the victims of check fraud (average loss: $3,000) and Nigerian letter fraud scams ($2,000), Kane said.
Crime Climbs


Overall, Internet crime is netting the bad guys more money than ever.

Total losses from 2007 complaints came to $239 million, up $40 million from 2006.

The 2007 data, released Thursday, shows that the total number of complaints received by the group was actually down for the second year in a row. In 2007 the IC3 Web site logged just under 207,000 complaints. In 2005 that number was over 231,000.

Kane credited the drop in complaints to increased consumer awareness, but according to Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, there may be another explanation.

Warner spends a lot of time studying the criminals and said that in recent months, researchers have noticed that credit card numbers have often been stolen and then not used. "One theory is that nobody wants to go to jail for stealing $40," he said. "So when they get access to these accounts, they're using only the ones that they can get the most value from."

Often, criminals will do a balance check and then sell only the cards with the highest balances. "I think there's a little bit of filtering on the criminal side that's at play here," he said.

There was another interesting finding in the 2007 data. The IC3 found that many countries that were commonly linked with cybercrime were the sources of the incidents it tracked, but it did not list China as a top source of perpetrators. China has been named as the source of many online attacks over the past year, but it didn't make IC3's list of top 10 countries by perpetrators.

Leading the list were the U.S., the United Kingdom and Nigeria.

Internet Fraud Dupes Men More Often Than Women - Yahoo! News

 

Funny thing Richard, I just recieved the EXACT same one as you did today.
Richard, it is starting to look like there is a "spy" of sorts who might come to this site to see whose emails he can snag so he (rather) it, can start harassing us.

 

As a matter of fact I have a great idea for a machine to straighten curved bananas, anyone in the forum interested in financing what will be a sure-fire product?

 

@Carl

Punch his lights out.

 

I got one today: don't click the link, its just formatting from email!!!

rosalyn pratte I'm Nina saw ur profile see mine at www.oonina dot com

Now, even a 2 year old could figure this one out. If the senders name is ROSALYN, then why does she say she is NINA? Hmm....*ponders*

 

Heh heh, i'd like to do that to him Mate, that and boil him in oil. :-D

 

And this LOL.

Mr. Gray Raymond.
Auditing and account Dept.
Ecobank Plc. Cotonou Benin Republic

Good day,

I am Mr.Gray Raymond the director in charge of auditing and account section of Ecobank Plc Cotonou Benin Republic with due respect and regard. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction .

During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died on December 26 2003 in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this development. Although personally, I keep this information secret within myself and colleague in the office to enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of execution.

The said amount was US$14.850.000.00(Fourteen Million eight hundred and fifty thousand united states dollars).I got your contact through your close confidant who assured me of your honesty and credibility, though I did not disclose to him the nature of the transaction.

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this funds as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign Account has been put in place.Further directives and informations needed will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us.

In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant, we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank. This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavit of trust of oath to the Bank and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his request as it may be
after due verification and clarification by the correspondent branch of the bank where the whole money will be remitted from to your own designated bank
account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 20% of the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while 75% will be for me and my partner.

Please, you have been adviced to keep top secret as we are still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you. I will
be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account. and ask us to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further investment, either in your country or any country you may advice us to invest in.

All other necessary information will be sent to you when I hear from you. I suggest you get back to me as soon as possible stating your wish in this deal.

You can access the plane crash site: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

Kind Regards
Gray Raymond.

 

Or this,

FROM YLAN VANMOL
Email:dylanvanmol@gmail.com

Dear: Prospective Partner,

My name is DYLAN VANMOL, I trained and work as an external auditor for one of the prime banks here in Belgium working as part of a bigger team that
covers the entire branches in the country. I had taken pains to find your contact through a random web search using the deceased surname. On routine audit check last year,
I discovered some investment accounts that had been dormant for at least twelve years.

All the accounts belong to a single/one account holder with monies totalling a little above
10.5 million United States Dollars. Now banking regulation/legislation in BELGIUM demand that I do notify the fiscal authorities after a
statutory time span of twelve years when dormant accounts of this type are called in by the Belgium Monetary Regulatory bodies.

The above set of facts underscores my reason of writing and proposing to you. My investigations of the said account reveals that the investor, a
national had died in 1994-the exact time the account was last operated.

I can confirm with certainty that the said investor died interstate and no next -of -kin to his estate has been found or has come forward all
these years. I am of the settled conviction that using my insider leverage, I, working with you can secure the funds in the account for us instead of allowing
it pass as unclaimed funds into the coffers of the Government of BELGIUM .

This is especially possible as you bear the same LAST NAME to the said investor. This exactly is why I crave your participation and
co-operation. I am seized with all relevant documents (legal and Banking) that will facilitate our putting you forward as the claimant/beneficiary of the
funds and ultimately transfer the money to an account to be nominated by you. Of course you shall be handsomely rewarded for your part in this
transaction as the people I am working with are prepared to allocate a % as we shall agree of the total funds for your efforts.
I shall however leave out the final details of this transaction till I receive an affirmation of your desire to participate. Rest assured that
I am on top of the situation all the time and there will be no risk whatsoever if you elect to come on board. Needless to say, UTMOST
CONFIDENTIALITY is of vital importance if we are to successfully reap the immense benefits of this transaction.

Find above written email contacts that you may reach
me with. I do expect your prompt response.

Yours,

DYLAN VANMOL

 

I had another one today from another "Barrister" somewhere in England. This time they said if I could sent $5,000 dollars to such-n-such bank account, that they would send to me in two weeks, $77,000 dollars and then another $100,000 dollars just for helping them out. My question is this: Helping them do what?

 

Office of the presidency
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Aso rock villa Abuja.
p.m.b. 298, garki, Abuja


Our ref: dtma/tdng/pre/atm811/x001

Attention honorable beneficiary

Notification of payment via atm card payment to beneficiaries

Sir/madam,

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract /inheritance file and found out that why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect of your contract/inheritance payment.

Right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center asia pacific, that is the latest instruction from our new elected president who was sworn in on the 29 of may 2007 as the new president of Nigeria, alhaji umaru musa yar'adua. Federal republic of Nigeria.

this card center will send you an atm card which you will use to withdraw your money in any atm machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is ten thousand dollars per day, so if you like to receive your fund this way please let us know by contacting the card payment center and also send the following information:

1. Full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Address were you want them to send the atm card to(p.o box is not acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation
5.a copy of your identification

However, find below the contact of the officer in charge of your payment in the central bank of Nigeria:

Dr. Patrick aziza
Director, atm payment department, central bank of Nigeria (cbn).
E-mail: atmpaymentdepatment@gmail.com
Direct phone: +234-80-271-282-65

The ATM card payment center has been mandated to issue out $8,300,000.00 as first part quarter payment for this fiscal year 2008. Also for your information, you have to stop any further communication withany other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your ATM payment.


Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (atm-811) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject.




Mr. sadiq alman
Chief auditor to the president
Federal republic of Nigeria

 

You can always have a bit of fun with this:

Mr (etc)--- name of sender--- at ---email address---

You have reached an official Department of Justice (DoJ) e-mail site. As a result, your recent e-mail of (date) has been officially forwarded to our foreign fraud department for further investigation. In addition, you will be recieving official notice from the government of (whatever country you are operating from) for eventual extradition to the United States on charges yet to be specified following our investigation into both this, and any additional e-mail addresses that the DoJ determines you may have contacted with similar mailings.
Any cooperation in this case by yourself in the future will be retained as possible mitigating evidence.

Phoney name
US Attorney.

 

That would be fun to do. Especially with a throw away e-mail account LOL.

 

I like the idea of messing w/ their brains-IF they have any? IF they have any, it's probably because they took it from some other unsuspecting person who they ripped off. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Set up another email account and have some fun, for example.

One of my nicer answers in grey.

 

Dang, his reply to you almost put me to sleep. :headbash:

 

I would like to add there has been a small drop off of these scams I rec'd, strange as I reply with my throw away email address.

 

Know of a good place to find a throw away email addy?

 

One from the Bank of America, err.

And I'm hot stuff. lol

If anyone knows where to report this one to let me know so I can.

And now...................

 

What is this guff all about.

 

OK I think that rates as the most pathetic . lol