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| Author: | Celarier, M. |
| Title: | What a tangled web |
| Journal: | Euromoney
1996 : OCT, VOL. 10, p. 85-88 |
| Index terms: | CRIME NETWORKS DATA MANAGEMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The bright-blue starry sky depicted on an Australian web page for Fortuna Alliance offers an enticing proposition: "Make your income soar like the space shuttle." But a click of the mouse is enough to bring World Wide Web surfers down to earth. A web press release by Fortuna acknowledges that its US home page was shut down by the US Federal Trade Commission in May, after the company had been accused of running an illegal pyramid scheme. Operating for just six months out of a small town in the US Northwest, Fortuna, the FTC alleges, bilked tens of thousands of investors in dozens of countries out of an estimated USD 9 million. By value, it is the biggest Internet fraud to date. |
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