Misuse of money and purchase card fraud are the main suffered the web
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By: Roberta de Matos Vilas Boas
SAO PAULO - The diversion of money from checking account and make purchases with undue credit cards are among the top frauds suffered by consumers on the Internet, according to a survey indicated Fecomercio-SP (the Trade Federation).
In the survey, 14% of the 1,000 respondents said they already have or had a family member victim of some kind of fraud on the Internet, and this total, 37% had the diversion of money from the account and 24% saw improper purchases are made through their credit cards.
Personal
The use of personal data also appears in the fraud suffered most, with 19%, followed by cloning of page personal networking site, with 10% already stealing passwords was sustained for 3% of consumers and the company ghost, by 1% .
Whereas Internet shopping, 5% of people said they paid and not received the product, while 1% said they had been victims of false advertising.
Thus, 57% of all respondents said they fear fraud when making online purchases. To not fall into these traps, 76% use some type of software to avoid capture passwords or the invasion of the computer.
Attracting users
Also according to the survey showed, currently, the new digital trap is related to influenza A (H1N1), which has been used by hackers to attract the attention of users and infect their machines.
"Hackers are using techniques ever developed for committing computer crimes and take advantage of important topics to lure users to open the link harmful, such as swine flu," explained vice-president of Information Technology Federation, Rony Vainzof during the Electronic Crimes Congress, which happened last Monday (3).
Source: InfoMoney
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