The FTC Predicts Internet Scams to Increase in Bad Economy

October 10th, 2008

GlobalTestMarket has learned through the Seattle PI that the Federal Trade Commission predicts that Internet scammers will be hard at work taking advantage of millions during the economic crisis. Please take a moment to review there FTC Consumer Alert discussing potential scams around bank failures, mergers and takeovers.

The FTC website is a great resource for learning about new scams, and phishing attacks. During these tough economic times GlobalTestMarket warns everyone to be smart and to investigate any Internet money making opportunity.

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Comments (1)

6 Responses to “The FTC Predicts Internet Scams to Increase in Bad Economy”

  1. Karen A says:
    October 24th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    I’ve always been very careful whenever I have to enter my personal information online and I am not comfortable doing my banking online however there are instances where that is unavoidable. Luckily there have been a lot of information campaigns on spotting potential internet scams that have been very helpful for me. I do hope though that I will see more of these scammers really prosecuted and serving time in jail.

  2. yuzhe says:
    October 24th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    互联网本身就是一个大的环境,复杂我们应该了解,当前的世界经济正在面临着前所未有的挑战,此刻的我们应该给世界以支持,相信我们的想法能改变世界。

  3. رمضان بلال says:
    October 25th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    hان الازمان الاقتصاديه التى يتعرض لها العالم اليوم انما هى نتاج لعدم التخطيط السليم اقتصاديا واضاعة الجهود حو ل مجالات غير مجديه كالتسليح والعنف ونشر الارهاب رغم ان العالم كله اصبح الان قرية صغير يتاثر بعضه ببعض رغم تباعد المسافات لذ يتعين على الجميع العمل لنشر الامن والسلام بين شعوب العالم بذلك يذدهر الاقتصاد العالمى

  4. kez says:
    October 25th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    typical isn’t it that people would hurt others in times of struggle

  5. Mark says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    There are heaps of scams comming in daily,
    Just the other day, i was contacted by a person wanting to purchase an item i was selling on a trade sight, they tried to tell me paypal was sent payment plus an extra $800 aud for transport and when i payed the person nominated I would get an acces code to release the funds into my paypal account. Of corse i sent the e-mail to the scam place on paypal and didnt pay the money up frount but in sayint that. Just how many people would have thinking it was all above board.

  6. joanne says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 3:18 am

    看到这些消息,有时候,的确是很让人担心的,凡事要小心就对了。

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