Check out a list of the 39 attorneys general who have Web sites. Join the discussion in The Body Politic . A new generation of hucksters has made the Internet the latest tool for carrying out all sorts of schemes, authorities say. 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.
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