Beware of cyber-crooks : technology
Jackie Cameron · Personal Finance Newsletter · 2006
Extracted from text ... 10 August 2006 Moneyweb's PERSONAL FINANCE TECHNOLOGY Beware of cyber-crooks If this month's issue of Moneyweb's Personal Finance is to be believed, it seems that everyone is after your hard-earned cash. But many scams rely on people's gullibility as well. Don't let this be you. By JACKIE CAMERON FEW travellers would carry a suitcase across a border post for a stranger; largely because of the risk they could be transporting something illegal, like drugs, on their behalf. Yet many normally-astute people are hoodwinked into moving money for strangers - through the internet. You can become a crime syndicate's money mule ..