Additionally, the course can be adapted to meet the needs of individual customers in the telecom, financial, manufacturing, and distribution fields. We are receiving eight to 10 calls a week from customers wanting to learn how to become an e-business. The two men, James R. Jackson and Derek Cunningham, face millions of dollars in fines and several decades worth of prison time if convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges. The case is being held in New York. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White says communications tools offered by the Internet are allowing criminals to engage in new schemes and strategies.
Experts say identity theft can be carried out easily over the Internet.
All scam artists need to do is pay a fee to an information broker to get an individual's Social Security number. Online databases also contain address information, while an individual's mother's maiden name can be found in obituaries or other public documents. Director of Operations Bonnie Matheney says higher education Web sites often have big files and badly placed scripts, as well as high-resolution pictures, which make downloads much longer. Her company intends to offer assistance and information to college and graduate applicants. Case Western Reserve University dean of admissions Bill Conley says college Web pages tend to be bandwidth-heavy because the schools have faster connections than their audiences, so even a focus group reviewing the site on campus will get a different picture than those elsewhere.