Plans for Ending Fraud.Consumer advocate and Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader  This page is currently protected from editing until (UTC) or until disputes have been resolved. was in town last week for the first time since the election to campaign against Internet fraud A crime in which the perpetrator develops a scheme using one or more elements of the Internet to deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by providing misleading information or by concealment of and privacy abuses. Nader sat on a panel at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. with Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona Michael S. Carona (born May 23 1955) is the Sheriff-Coroner of Orange County, California, the elected head of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, who gained national prominence began during the hunt for the killer of Samantha Runnion. and Piyush Gupta, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of online auction site Liquidprice.com. What the panelists seemed to agree on is that --eureka! -- there's a problem with Internet fraud and privacy violations, but nobody has any good solutions. According to a recent FBI report, California is the dominant source of Internet fraud perpetrated by companies and individuals. Overall, some 6 million Americans said they were defrauded online last year, according to a recent Harris poll. Nader did proffer To offer or tender, as, the production of a document and offer of the same in evidence. proffer v. to offer evidence in a trial. an idea for an electronic small-claims court for Internet fraud victims, who are typically involved in very small losses. Gupta's answer for the fraud and privacy complaints: "People shouldn't take leave of their common sense when they go onto the Web." Nader also said he supports new top-level domain names like "dot-union," "dot-isnotfair" and "dot-sucks," which would be free of corporate deception and targeted specifically at labor and consumer unions. However, "the Internet has not proven very good for mobilizing people," Nader said. It mobilized enough people to vote Green, at least according to Michael Radlovic, CEO of L.A.-based Apollo Industries, who attended the Nader event During a brief Q&A with the audience, Radlovic grabbed the mic to thank Nader "on behalf of Republicans" for the election. |
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