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At least this time one of these scammers is actually being hit in the wallet. Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission one of the telemarketers who blasted consumers with millions of illegal auto warranty robocalls last year will pay approximately $2.3 million in redress and give up his Mercedes. Read more

The Federal Trade Commission said today it has shut down the operations of Canadian con artists who allegedly acted as domain name registrars and convinced thousands of U.S. consumers to pay bogus bills by making them believe they would lose their website addresses unless they paid. In June 2008, the FTC charged Toronto-based Internet Listing Service with sending fake invoices to small ...

The Federal Trade Commission said today that it had permanently killed the operations of a group that it said posed as domain name registrars and convinced thousands of US consumers, small businesses and non-profit organizations to pay bogus bills by leading them to believe they would lose their Web site addresses if they didn't. Read more

Fees for registering a website name on the Internet could increase for consumers this week.

The amount of time phishing websites remain online has dropped 25 percent over the last year, according to a new survey by the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG). The APWG says uptimes are a critical measure of how damaging phishing attacks are and the longer a phishing attack remains active, the more harm it causes consumers. The decrease signals collective progress is being made by the parties that fight phishing, and may be due to improved polices at Internet service providers, brand holders