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Small business owners online get stuck holding the bag, and one Tennessee business loses $50,000
Although the risk to consumers for credit card fraud on the Internet is low, small businesses are taking it on the chin. There has been a tremendous, unpublicized increase in the number of businesses that have been scammed by people who place fraudulent orders using stolen or bogus credit card information. Unlike consumers, businesses are completely at risk. For example, according to the Los Angeles Times, Ideal Travel Concepts of Memphis, Tennessee, was scammed out of $50,000 worth of airline tickets.
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Internet ScamBusters
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To help small business owners avoid these kinds of losses, Internet
ScamBusters, the premier publication on Internet fraud, has published "Eight
Sure-Fire Strategies Any Business Owner Can Use to Reduce Credit Card Fraud"
at http://www.scambusters.org/Scambusters23.html.
Internet ScamBusters is a free, monthly, award-winning electronic newsletter (e-zine) that was created as a public service to help business owners avoid scams, fraud, misinformation, and hype. "Our company lost $500 last month because of credit card fraud - and there's absolutely no recourse whatsoever," says Dr. Audri Lanford, a nationally recognized authority on Internet scams and co-editor of Internet ScamBusters. "The current issue is dedicated to helping other business owners avoid this growing - but largely unpublicized - problem of credit card fraud for merchants." |
Visitors to the updated Internet ScamBusters Web site at http://www.scambusters.org/ will find:
- The best resources and tips for reducing spam
- Preventative resources to protect people from being taken in by the latest
scams
- The truth about Internet malls, and much more.
For a free subscription to Internet ScamBusters, simply send an email to mailto:scambusters@scambusters.org with SUBSCRIBE in the subject field. Or visit the newly revised Internet ScamBusters Web site at http://www.scambusters.org/
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