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20 Tales of Online Fraud and How to Fight It

How many types of digital fraud are there? Might as well count the shades of color in a rainbow, says Dan Woods, vice president of  F5 Networks’ Shape Intelligence Center: “I'd say they're infinite.”Reporter Lisa Vaas did some thorough digging into the world of online fraud and uncovered many different shades.The list of fraud that hits us up via online/email, text or phone grows faster than black mold. We recently asked people who work in cybersecurity, financial services, and other fraud-focused industries to give us an example—or two, or three, or heavens, that many?!—of the types of digital fraud that they’ve witnessed, how they fended it off (if they did), and/or what advice they have for staying out of the fraudsters’ cross-hairs. What follows is a primer, reported from the front lines, by those who spend their days wrestling with the ever-innovating crooks who make up the world of digital hucksterism. 

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