Robbing You With A Keyboard Instead Of A Gun: Cyber Crime - How They Do It - Paperback

by Graham McMillan (Introduction by), Les Henderson (Contribution by), Paul Schlegel (Contribution by)

It is projected that 1out of 10 people in America will either be scammed, or know someone who was scammed in an Internet Investment Scam before the end of 2011. Internet investment scams cost the public billions of dollars a year. Not only do people lose their life savings to these Internet investment scams, or worse, they cause an economic crisis locally, nationally, and worldwide. This book exposes all the people behind them, and tells who how they do it. Whether it is E-mail Fraud, Prime Bank Notes, Bank Phishing, Fake Jobs, Work-From-Home Scams, Ponzi's, HYIP/Non-HYIP scams, you will learn how to protect yourself from becoming a victim. It provides illustrations from real scams separating the facts from fiction. You will also learn the dark side of these scams, and all the misery and suffering they bring. Whether it is called a scam, a Ponzi, or fraud, they are all the same. The people behind them steal your money leaving their victims in a financial disaster. This book contains vital information that can help you avoid becoming a victim of their devious schemes.

Author Biography

Lynndel 'Lynn' Edgington is a graduate of Ball State University with a dual major in Business Administration and Political Science, and a minor in Radio-Television. He has more than twenty years of financial services, insurance, banking and mortgage experience. He also has more than twenty years experience as a business management consultant. These experiences have provided him an extensive background of investments, banking, insurance, and mortgage products. In his business management consulting career, Lynn has written and developed business plans for startup to mature companies from high-tech to no-tech, the development of marketing plans and implementation, and assisting in obtaining expansion capital for various ventures. His financial services and business management consulting experiences has provided him the knowledge to identify and warn the public of these Internet investment scams. He is the founder and president of Eagle Research Associates, Inc., a 501(c)3 California Public Benefit Charitable Corporation. Eagle was formed with a dual mission: 1. To educate the public about Internet investment scams. This is accomplished through free community seminars, speaking engagements, radio and television interviews, newspaper articles, posting on financial forums and blogs, full-day workshops, and Eagle's website providing resources for the public to further educate and protect themselves. 2. To assist law enforcement agencies worldwide by providing Eagle's research information to assist them in the shut-down and arrest of the criminals running these Internet investment scams.