Finance and the Internet.
One enterprising young person of 18 years on behalf of Cole Bartiromo, a resident of California, has posted on its website and message in several forums in which he promised potential investors with profits up to 2500% of short-term investments. For one month he made a 268 virtual transactions, and received a special account in Costa Rican bank of over 100 thousand dollars. Naturally, no interest from their investments gullible people do not have.
Such large-scale thieves "cases" in the history of the Internet, fortunately, not so much. Only the fraud with a credit card online cost online business in more than 10 billion dollars annually. Kibermoshennichestvo has turned into this criminal business, which exists in the World Wide Web, along with legal and business deals last significant financial and moral damage.
Investing.
These qualities of the Internet as anonymous, the ability to reach large audiences, high speeds and a much lower cost of distribution, as compared with traditional means, make the Internet a convenient and affordable tool for fraud. Investors who appreciate the simplicity of the network, appears annually in the millions. And the investment activity has always been the preferred medium for all kinds of scams. That means the Internet is a massive investment of money in a variety of projects, identified birth of a different kind of lastminute offers for those wishing to earn online.
Complex fraudulent practices in the field of investments is based on the normal human greed. People invest money through the Internet in the hope of easy profits. As a rule, the proposal was non-existent, but very popular projects, such as investments in "highly liquid" securities from banks and telecommunications companies. An indispensable condition of such proposals - guarantees a return on invested capital, together with the hig
The artificial excitement.
Often, scam artists, posing as independent analysts, or simply awareness of spreading false information about the company to build an aggressive demand for its shares. The authors of such statements refer to the possession of inside information about important corporate events or use a reliable system for selecting profitable stocks based on fundamental and technical analysis. But the authors are silent about the fact that they have bought these shares at a knockdown price, to then profitably sell them on a wave of interest in artificially heated.
As a result, thus created an artificial hype around the stock price for them is growing. The offender earns by selling its shares at an inflated price. Then everything goes back to square one, including the stock price, which returned to baseline. This is the most popular in recent years and very easy to organize a form of market manipulation.
Most of these scams rotated with rarely traded shares of little-known and smaller companies. This manipulation of such shares except for the low price makes the lack of access to accurate information about the company.
Pyramid.
Well known principle of construction of the financial pyramid: the profits of the first investors are provided with company contributions of new members. The possibilities of the Internet makes it very convenient tool for organizers of such schemes. All investors are promised high returns, but the chance to get him to eat only the first members of the pyramid.
Huge jackpot are the organizers themselves, skillfully imitating the activities of profitable investment of borrowed funds. In fact, they used to pay old depositors money of new investors. The founders of the electronic version of the pyramid are spreading through the Internet and mail messages that promise to introduce you to how simply sitting at home computer, just three weeks you can turn $ 5 in 50 000.
Oksana Pavlyuchenko, a graduate of one of Moscow universities, the summer of 1998 registered company SG Ltd, has established an Internet site and tell the world about the opening of the Stock Generation - the first game the stock market. The site honestly mentioned that this is only a game. Its essence was as follows: site sold shares of eleven non-existent companies.
The course of eight of these companies are determined on the basis of bidding the players, shares the ninth steadily increased by 10% per month, ten companies accounted for up to 50% monthly, and the eleventh company gave 100% profit per month. Minimum fee, then you could start an auction, $ 50. But thanks to an attractive system of bonuses, the players started with larger amounts involved in the game and their friends.
By mid-1999 the game ended its existence, e-mail has stopped responding, answering machine kept asking us to call back later. In this global fraud, according to experts, were involved more than 250 thousand people living in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.
Investment seminars.
Often in all kinds of media can be seen advertising various seminars. Their organizers offer to teach participants the secrets of how to get rich quickly. The money earned in these cases, the collection of money from gullible members of the entry and sale of the same books and audio cassettes.
What?
Do not rely on any activities in which you promise to introduce different ways of quick and easy wealth.
