A nefarious top ten

Over the last 12 months five US agencies and consumer protection organisations from 23 states and nine countries have brought 251 enforcement actions against online fraudsters in “Operation Top Ten Dot Cons”. The target top ten was selected from Consumer Sentinel, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) database that contains more than 285,000 consumer complaints, and illustrates, with a couple of Internet-specific variations, that it is the established frauds which continue to flourish in the new medium. The hit list comprised: