Business Scams
We think of scams as crimes against individuals, and many of them are. But business certainly isn't immune from crime. Some criminals specialise in targeting business, booth large and small, where the pickings can be great. They know how to take advantage of the systems and needs of businesses and exploit them for their own gain. We help businesses identify and beat the scammers and highlight some of their main schemes.
Below are our 14 articles in the 'business scams' category:
One of the most persistent business scams is the "business directory" and its variants. It operates in a very grey area of the law - not illegal, but certainly not open and above board. It's ...
Although most new scams are simply variants on old ones, the Internet age and global communication has brought fresh ideas to crime. In 2005 the call-tag scam began to emerge again after a period ...
It's a scam many people know nothing about, but click fraud can be a very lucrative business, one that costs companies millions of pounds each year. It's something that came into existence with ...
You've probably frequently received spam e-mail offering you software at a fraction of its cost in high street shops. It can be anything from Windows XP to Adobe Photoshop. At times the price might ...
Scams keep getting slicker and you have to admire the invention of some criminals, who seem to be able to come up with almost infinite variations on a theme. The sad part is that they prey upon ...
Offshore investments have long been touted as a way to get a better return on your money and also pay less tax. In plenty of cases that can be true. But there are also many scam artists out there ...
The Ponzi scheme is one of the best-known scams, and one of the few named for a real person - Charles Ponzi, who used it to great effect after emigrating to American from Italy in 1903. He didn't ...
It's tempting to think that we can get rich quickly, that there's a short cut to wealth. After all, others seem to manage it, and the property market has always seemed a good way to accumulate money. ...
Pyramid schemes are old cons, but these days they're all over the Internet. According to a report released by the F.B.I. and the National White Collar Crime Center in the U.S., they're the fifth most ...
Many of us use Sky to get television. It offers a much greater choice than terrestrial TV or Freeview and there’s often a much better picture, especially for those in areas where aerials don’t work ...
Not long ago a photographer received an e-mail enquiry about recording a wedding and reception. The person making the request purported to be from the U.K. and working in New Zealand for a ...
On the face of it, timeshares can seem like a good idea. You're not buying an entire property at a holiday location, merely a share in one that allows you to use it for a certain number of weeks each ...
Sadly not every dog breeder is as honest or as caring, of our canine friends as we would wish them to be. Pedigree puppies can fetch high sums of money and people less honest than normal will exploit ...
The idea of working from home can be very attractive. There's no long commute, you can work the hours you want, and if you believe the spam e-mails that land in your inbox, you can make a very good ...
