Email Scams and Auction Fraud

Write a 2 page paper on the resources and protections available to consumers to prevent becoming a victim of scams and fraud. In your paper, address each of the topics and questions below.

Understanding Email and Website Scams

APWG: Anti-Phishing Working Group

Visit the Anti-Phishing Working Group website, and summarize what resources and information the site offers for first responders and consumers.

FTC: Federal Trade Commission

Then visit the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) OnGuardOnline website and read the information on Phishing. Summarize what the website recommends consumers do to avoid becoming a victim of a phishing scam.

Auction Fraud

Choose an internet auction website and report on the measures they have in place to prevent auction fraud. What protocols does it have in place for victims of auction fraud?

Compare Technology-based Fraud

For this section, you will search for cases of fraud involving both phishing and auction website fraud, select a case for each type of fraud and summarize the facts of the cases. Then compare the technology used in both types of fraud, explain their similarities and differences, and explain how the technology was used to successfully commit fraud in your chosen cases.

Lastly, explain how the FTC OnGuardOnline site recommendations and the auction site measures you researched could have prevented the fraud in the cases you selected.