The rise in bogus business opportunities as well as work at home scams have become far too large of a concern for law enforcement to ignore. Federal and state task forces are now performing law enforcement sweeps that target phony Internet businesses and scams. There have been twenty-three fraud convictions and twenty-five individual arrests in which scam artists are being sentenced to more than 160 years in prison. Ongoing investigations as well as court hearings are still involved in this ongoing battle.
Scam Types
There are numerous scams and fraudulent businesses on the Internet. Programs such as online surveys, free government grants programs, mystery shopper positions and data entry jobs were all scams. The company coastal vacation has numerous fraud sites appear causing damage to their company name. Scam artists were portraying coastal directors and creating uncanny sales pitches to lure customers in for the scam. The scam artists would tell the victim to send a check for X amount of money and would take the check and disappear. Customers were left to lose the money, vacation offers and trust of online businesses.
The Victims
Both customers...
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