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The antitrust regulator for Britain sat down with Google Inc, EBay Inc, and a few other companies to consult on a national strategy that would provide a higher level of protection for shoppers from the UK that spent approximately £38 billion pounds on online purchases during 2009. The plan calls for the Office of Fair Trading [...] An eBay trader has been fined around £5000 and received a community service order for bidding on his own items in an attempt to boost their final selling prices. The processes, referred to as shill bidding, which is a fairly common practice, but now that people are catching and those behind the illegal practice are [...] iTunes store users are finding themselves the target of fraud cases some of which are created by iOS developers in order to boost their overall sales performance and in other cases basic hacking. Although Apple sells billions of apps and songs to iTunes users on a regular basis, with this many sales it is bound to [...] Every seven seconds someone is defrauded, which comes out to be an average of £285 per person in the UK. The study from CPP, the life assistance company, estimated that just within the UK about 3.7b phishing emails were received over the last year. More than half of all emails are phishing emails were fraudulent emails [...] A North east man that made his name for fixing online prices for auctions is now facing the possibility of jail time. Paul Barrett aged 39 from Stanley in County Durham may be the first person in the UK to be prosecuted under a new set of laws designed to prevent people from bidding on their [...] England fans may be used to heartache in connection with the World cup, but this year instead of losses depressing fans, internet ticket scams may be the larger problem that deflates fans’ dreams. With about 25,000 England fans expected to head to South Africa for the game, the Office of Fair Trading predicts that [...] British rugby star Gareth Raynor has pled guilty on charges of fraud and counterfeiting, and has been sentenced to a total of 15 months in jail by Judge Roger Thorne QC of the Hull Crown Court. The jail term, which began this month, will probably end Raynor’s career in rugby, but Judge Thorne said that he [...] This week dodgy online ticket fraud took a major blow due to a landmark court case against a man who made his living out of selling tickets that he never had possession of or intended to deliver to consumers. In just three years John Koukoullis was able to make £2.7m in selling fake tickets, but now [...] As summer nears many people are looking at the upcoming festivals and concerts that come with it, but before you rush out to purchase tickets make sure that you know the source you are getting them from, as it is getting more popular for fraudsters and rip-off websites to take your money in exchange for [...] One internet detective acting alone was able to shut down a fake charity that was scamming people for cash under the guise of sending the money to children in need in Haiti. Charles Conway, age 36, discovered an email fraud that looked like a real charity but instead of sending the money to children in Haiti [...] |
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