Internet Fraud

Internet fraud is increasing so quickly that some overwhelmed police forces are refusing to investigate incidents where less than £1,000 has been lost.
The existence of a threshold for such crimes has been exposed by online auction house Ebay, after reports from victims who complained that police failed to act.
The failure to investigate and prosecute offenders was causing the public real harm, Ebay said.

fake websites

40,000 Web sites have been created and populated with fake search terms for the sole purpose of increasing their page ranking when Google users searched for any of the words listed in the bogus pages -- words that included a number of popular holiday gadget gifts. All of the sites tried to silently install invasive programs on any visitor's machine.