1. Brittany Clout – u3008480

2. Types of internet scams
 Email scams
 Credit card skimming
 Fake fraud alerts from
banks
 Get rich quick schemes
 Weight loss scams
 ‘Guaranteed’
employment
 Money transfer
 Guaranteed visas

3. Increasing Threat
 The Present
 Scams have become
a regular part of our
internet experience
 Global Financial
Crisis has been
attributed to an
increase in illegal
activity
 Generation Y uses
technological skills to
increase wealth
 The Future
 These scams are
not likely to be
extinct in the near
future
 Online community
needs to work with
governing
agencies to
combat illegal
activities

4. A Common scam - ‘419’
Emails
 Nigerian term for online/financial
fraud
 Apply discourse strategies:
 Socio-cultural greeting formulas
 Self identification
 Reassurance/confidence building
 Action prompting strategies to maintain
interest

5. Types of 419 Emails
 Online lottery winning
announcements
 Acting as next of kin
for unknown deceased
relative
 Rich business man
needs help distributing
money to charity
 Email ‘business
proposals’:
○ Money transfers
○ Claims of dormant
bank accounts

6. Example of a 419 email
Action
prompting
strategy
Self
identification
Confidence
building

7. Self
Identification
Reassurance

8. My Report
 Research:
 Qualitative research
○ survey of 20 people
 Quantitative research
○ theories, journals, case studies, reports
 Findings:
 Common scams
 High number of people surveyed
experienced a form of scamming/fraudulent
behaviour

9. My Report
 Outcomes
 Using theories to overcome
cyber-crime
○ Government versus governance
○ E.g.. Foucault’s Model of Governance
 Strategies for deterring Internet fraud
 Network of relations and capacities within the
Internet community.