Sentence examples for web scam from inspiring English sources

Even someone with decades of search expertise, like Duane Forrester, a senior product manager at Bing, can fall victim to a Web scam.

Web sites are layering on more security to fight the common Web scam known as phishing, in which spammers lure people into logging on to a bogus site and steal their user names and passwords.

The Chinese government frequently launches censorship drives against pornography and web scams as well as political criticism.

Visa, MasterCard, AMEX Grilled Over Web Scams.

But the agency can never wipe out web scams, thanks to the cheap and easy point-of-entry.

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It's run by Kevin Lichtman, 38, who knows a Web stock scam when he sees one.

"My reason for scam-baiting is to waste the time and resources of the scammer," said a scam-baiter with the Web name of Scam Patroller, who declined to provide any identification beyond an e-mail address.

The web-based resource SCAM (www.scam-plc.co.uk) was developed to address these aims.

Web-based scams are common in Nigeria.

He said that the system had become vulnerable to "scam" Web sites and "fraudulent operations".