They're robust sites that can stand up to spam and scammers--but cracks are starting to appear in the new technologies.
Wherever decent people gather, the spammers, shysters, scammers and phishers are sure to follow.
The market has a lot of good companies but is also a playpen for pump-and-dump scammers.
Mr Maier's panorama of the country's scammers and rogues is conspicuously broad.
Every year, sophisticated credit card scammers and identity thieves exploit an arsenal of Machiavellian digital tools to wreak havoc in the lives of millions of unsuspecting individuals.
"Whenever file-sharing services go down, scammers and opportunists work quickly to ride on the wave of publicity generated by the targeted site's demise, " said Andy Maxwell, co-editor of Torrentfreak.com.
Even if an email looks like it came from a person you know or the email address looks similar to but not exactly the same as a reputable organization or company, it could be from professional scammers and contain programs intended to steal your private data.
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In a preview of its presentation, the team acknowledges Apple's "plethora of defense mechanisms in iOS." Historically, Mac users have been able to boast of being largely malware free, in part because spammers, scammers and hackers preferred to target the larger number of Windows computers in the world.
The problem, of course, is spammers, scammers, and other shady characters have made good use of URL shortening services, too.
Its chairman, Bill Dobbie, said it had about 500 "staff profiles" on its websites - but he insisted they were used for moderating chat rooms and forums - and to root out scammers.
Vance Callender, a Homeland Security official and a former attache at the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, said the Jamaican scammers are mostly articulate and involve a number of partners to defraud victims.
In addition, sites like Facebook have some obligation to filter out spammers, scammers, phishers and other slimey people who would use their access to the rest of us for abusive purposes.
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No exact figures are available for how much scammers using "pump and dump" schemes are getting away with.
Aging parents with memory problems are a favorite target for scammers, con artists and manipulation, as we often read in news reports.
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"I am particularly grateful for the BBC raising the issue of scammers in this industry and hopefully, with your assistance, we can try to eradicate this scamming practice, " he said.
To make that happen, Schapiro, the four commissioners and the SEC's staff of 3, 700 will need to reorganize themselves to mend the weaknesses in infrastructure exposed by the financial crisis and the criminal wrongdoing of investment scammers such as Bernard Madoff.
Scammers used poetry, flowers and other gifts to win the hearts of their victims.
The Federal Trade Commission has a website devoted to protecting borrowers from the real scammers in the foreclosure crisis, and prosecutors have found plenty of fraud.
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Its chairman, Bill Dobbie, said it had about 500 "staff profiles" on its websites, but he insisted they were used for moderating chat rooms and forums, as well as rooting out scammers.
Our social streams are being polluted by scammers, spammers, phishers, groupies and people who are not who they claim to be.
But behind any good idea, there is a crook looking to make money, and that's exactly what has spurred smartphone scammers to spread a new Android fake anti-virus program.
"If scammers think they can hide on the internet and that no-one will go after them, they are wrong, " she added.
By posting e-mail addresses on public sites as targets for each others' phishing e-mails, gangs of scammers are able to track each others' newest tricks and keep up with the latest innovations.
The company did admit that "scammers" bombarding users with fake profiles to elicit email addresses and other personal data were a problem for the industry as a whole, but not "something that is specific to Cupid".
These included the introduction of encryption to prevent third-parties eavesdropping on messages sent via unprotected wi-fi networks, and the adoption of a stronger authentication process to make it harder for scammers to hack accounts in order to send messages from them.
Visits to the faux links being set up by scammers will be coming from people logging on to talk about and learn about the winners and losers, plus others trying to find photos of their favorite celebrities on the red carpet or trying to figure out who made what dress or tuxedo.
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Choking health-care costs have individuals and entrepreneurs desperately scrambling for any relief--even into the waiting arms of scammers.
Scammers would rather not deal with the vast majority of people on the web, and so they use strategies like this to whittle down to the whales.
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Officers say scammers are making thousands of dollars a week from wire transfers to the island, and that cash is now being used to buy expensive high-calibre weapons that are helping to fuel the violence that has seen more than 1, 200 people killed since the start of the year.
The most successful scammers are the ones who are the best at reading people, understanding the social codes and creating the impression they are playing by the rules.
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