It can be an e-mail from the widow of a recently deceased Nigerian prince asking for your help in disposing of $5 million.
It can be a message from your bank stating that it needs some personal information so that it can update your account.
Or it can be a seller on eBay who’s offering supposedly authentic Tiffany & Co. jewelry at unbelievable prices.
These are prime examples of the online fraud that seemingly lurks behind every unexpected e-mail and many Web sites and that experts say has grown more prevalent in recent years.
“Whenever you have a new technology, at some point there are going to be people who are going to employ that technology for evil purposes,” said Jeffrey J. McConnell, a Canisius College computer scientist.
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