The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo., Dan Bradley column.
With the continued growth of the Internet and vacation more quickly, more and more people are shopping online auctions.It is estimated that the Internet auction this year a total of $ 6.1 billion, an increase of 400 percent in two years. With a turnover higher, we lived more than fraud.
Federal Trade Commission figures show between 1997 and 1999, complaints about fraud online auction of 100 times, with 107 complaints the FTC in 1997 compared with 10700 complaints in 1999.
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