Organized Online Crime is The Reason For Increase in Online Dating Sit es?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Well, this is certainly a new spin -- or maybe just FUD. :-)

Via The Inquirer.

[snip]

THE NUMBER of dating sites across the world has increased by 17 per cent within the last twelve months, due partly to 
organised phishers, spammers and hackers using them to launch attacks on unwary lovers.

This is the claim of security vendor Internet Security Systems (ISS), which believes that some of the growth in web 
dating is down to developers of malicious code hoping to catch unsuspecting victims.

According to ISS, the five countries with the highest increase in dating websites over the past year are USA with 
42.9%; Germany with 20.2%; China with 8.9%; the Netherlands with 7.9% and Russia close by with 7%. Interestingly, the 
UK reaches the top eight with an increase of only 1.8%.

[snip]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29572

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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