According to the latest data released by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), cyberfraud losses doubled in 2009, with victims reporting $560 million in losses for the year.
The biggest scam was one using emails claiming to come from FBI Deputy Director John Pistole. Victims were asked to pay small fees in order to receive a larger amount of money in return, money that obviously ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:PCWorld reports that the strangest scam as being one where the victim received an email from a hitman claiming he had been hired to assassinate them. The assassin offered to cancel the job, if the victim sent them $800 within three days.
LMAO!!!
i seriously cracked up on this one!
im reluctant to even think about 800$ life insurance so paying an annonymus person who may or may not kill me?
id rather donate that money to womens rights..ok i went a bit overboard he can have it lol
The hitman thing cracked me up, but like they say, a fool and their money were lucky enough to get together in the first place.
I wonder how many people actually sent the $800.
Regardless of that, I take anything PCWorld has to say with a grain of salt
