They say they are protecting the best interest of the country and securing it from possible terrorist threats or highly illegal activity. More and more encryption packages are popping up because people are realizing that what they send to others is not secure. A new generation of hucksters has made the Internet the latest tool for carrying out all sorts of schemes. Thanks to advances in personal technology, scam artists can reach millions of people cheaply and efficiently with their pitches. According to the Internet Fraud Watch , a service of the National Consumers League that monitors online scams, fraud on the Internet increased threefold last year.
Con artists market their ploys on Web sites, in chat rooms and newsgroups, and in E-mail.