Sentence examples for computer scam from inspiring English sources

The boom is partly because a successful Internet-based computer scam can quickly generate thousands of cases.

Furthermore, research by online news portal heise.de suggests that those users who received the warning were redirected to the copyrighted clips without their knowledge, in what the site calls a "computer scam".

Yet Mr. Ostrander says parents usually do not do enough to prepare children for theft and computer scams.

Today, calls about PPI have calmed down but accident claim companies, lifestyle surveys, computer scams and energy firms still figure highly among complaints made.

The enduring articles are the ones about everyday fears: computer viruses, scams, missing children.

The reason for the dip is a $216 million charge to cover future legal settlements and other costs stemming from a computer-hacking scam (crooks stole a large quantity of credit card data).

While it should be obvious that you shouldn't stick unrequested storage media into your computer, clearly this scam seemed feasible enough for someone to spend a little cash to make and ship these little CD-ROMs.

On Tuesday, Kamala D. Harris, California's attorney general, announced the creation of the nation's largest e-crime unit, a group of 20 investigators and prosecutors whose sole mission will be to thwart and prosecute cybercrimes like identity theft, Internet scams, computer theft, online child pornography and intellectual property theft across the state.

Fox, a successful software executive, never bought the idea of the "reformed" Gekko, and his latest computer program penetrated the scam that is American Breeze's books.

Yes, dear reader, the computer mouse is a scam.

Inheritance scams and computer and prediction software also caused significant losses among Indigenous people.