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With the increasing popularity of e-commerce websites and online services, there is also an increase in the cases of financial fraud. Financial fraud can be of any type- fake lottery messages that ask you to pay some kind of tax in order to receive the prize money, some fake websites asking for your credit card details to download the movie, ...

Human beings have been defrauding one another since before we kept track of time on anything other than the sky. While numerous methods have been used over the years to combat and defend against it, the Internet has made fraud detection and protection more difficult and crucial.

An Illinois man discovered that the "girlfriend" that he spent $200,000 on over the span of two years was not a real woman at all, but an online scam.