The Baltimore Sun Eileen Ambrose column.
There is no doubt that the Internet a great resource tool, setting a world of information in the tips of the fingers of students and workers.
Unfortunately, with artists, he “jobs more easily.
Fraudsters still on old systems, but with slight variations, and the Internet, what they can do much more damage much more quickly. With a few keystrokes, identities are stolen, bank accounts emptied. And it is often difficult for authorities to monitor online.
“Everyone with artists who use the Internet should be prosecuted for misconduct, because this is the best way to do it,” said Joseph Borg, director of the Alabama Securities Commission and former president of the North American Securities Administrators Association.
Of course, businesses have been installed by security measures to protect their clients. The number of cases of fraud investigations undertaken by the State securities regulatory authorities for 2003-2004 is expected that more than 15000, more than twice as high as instances in the mid 1990.
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