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FBI: Social Media, Virtual Currency Fraud Becoming a Huge Problem
coondoggie writes: Criminals taking advantage of personal data found on social media and vulnerabilities of the digital currency system are two of the emerging Internet law-breaking trends identified by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in its annual look at online crime. The IC3 said 12% of the complaints submitted in 2014 contained a social media trait. Complaints involving social media have quadrupled over the last five years. In most cases, victim’s personal information was exploited through compromised accounts or social engineering.
- that one of the biggest source of problems happens to be >o?the government of the United States of America
Actually, Corporations that got in good with the mob run the government, and neither have much use for the law aside from what money they can manage to make off of it. Take at look at the TPP deal where corps can sue the government now, and the mob has been manipulating the court room since the 30's that I know of. Can anyone say '91 Naples Italy? Going to get real messy if it is ever going to get better, the way things are going that will be post collapse...
Look at all the fucking criminals at the top of the banking foodchain and tell me the real problem isn't with the US dollar... Bailouts? AKA paid to royally screw up, and with taxpayer dollars? Central bankers are the problem. The solution is obviously to decentralize the system.
It's ok, they just slap some silly fine and noone goes to jail.
But virtual currency fraud is a really serious one.
Complaints involving social media have quadrupled over the last five years.
Perhaps usage of online social media has also quadrupled over the last five years.
Fifty years of Yippie! 1968-2018