4/28/2005
English 003-13
Evaluation Argument
Professor Aithal
A Safe Internet
"I've heard of and experienced an Internet address where it's a casino online. They say they'll give you cash prizes if you win so many chips. I've won the chips... I ask for the prize. And it's nowhere to be seen. I wrote several times to them. No messages were replied. I lost $200 to them so far, and I know others have lost worse."- Anonymous
No this isn't a made up story. This a real actual account of a new epidemic that currently sweeping the nation. It is a new form of identity theft called internet fraud. Now there are more ways to lose your identity then a stolen wallet or checkbook, try a stolen bank account or even waking up to realize that you've lost your pension plan. But what the most scary thing about it all is that it could be happening to you or me even right now without any of us suspecting a thing. And where is it happening? Under the one thing that we as Americans rely on so......
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