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The web they weave.

Australasian Business Intelligence, April, 2002

Apr 26, 2002 (The Bulletin

ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Internet may be used to provide information about companies that is fictional, yet this may actually damage the companies so named. As well, the Internet is providing an opportunity for fraud to be perpetrated on ill-informed or careless investors, assisted in part by the acceptance by consumers of anything that appears in a written or official-looking format. Both the US Securities & Exchange Commission and the Australian Securities & Exchange Commission have used the Internet to demonstrate how easily fake marketing and investment schemes may attract the unwary. Even simple items such as electronic mail may be used as devices to harvest information, while Internet auctions attract the most consumer...

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