This is the most notorious crime that could bring a load of problems on an Internet marketer's head. Identity theft occurs when customers' personal information, which includes their addresses, passport information, banking details, credit card information are leaked on to the Internet. This leakage could happen as a result of some hackers prying into a legitimate online shopping site and stealing these pieces of information. Millions of dollars are lost yearly due to this crime. This malaise has affected many online shoppers
Illegal Downloading:
Whether you are offering services or selling certain products online, sometime an illegitimate user using very powerful software can download your products without the due payment. Users who shouldn't have had an access to them have regularly downloaded thousands of music files, movies, e-books and other products. Online marketers are hugely affected by this crime, which is increasing at alarming rate around the world.
Scams:
Scams are hard to detect nowadays, because most scammers pretend they are doing a right business and lure customers to buy goods and services on their sites, but which they would never deliver. Even some scammers have filtered into well-known shopping sites and deceive gullible buyers from parting with their money but shy away from delivering the products they had purchased. There have been tales of woes on auction and trading sites recently about scams.
Creation and Distribution Of Viruses:
The rate at which viruses are being created and distributed is high nowadays. Some viruses are quite destructive that they could destroy your computers or incapacitate other software installed on your computers. Annoying spy ware could make your pc slow. If care is not taken, you could lose some vital documents in your computer if attacked by some virulent viruses.
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