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Anyone who makes a habit of wandering around in cyberspace should print this TrendLabs infographic, posted Wednesday, and keep it at hand. This colorful web poster contains info on Internet bad guys, and helps people avoid acquiring scammed, hacked, or hurt away malware.

Titled "Know Your Enemies Online," the graphic lets you identify typical bad actors on the Web through condensation descriptions of their methods and motives. For example, the "Social Media Scammer" wants to "buy your elite media login credentials" and will do this by spamming victims' social media accounts with links to despiteful videos, promos, and apps.

Former bad guys targeted in the poster include "Phishers," "FakeAV (Anti-Computer virus) Creators," "Spammers, "App Trojanizers," and "Malvertisers." For each one capsule is broken down into "Modus Operandi" (how they do it), "Business Plan" (what they hope to action), and "Famous Line" (for "Social Media Scammers," it's "OMG! This is so FUNNY!").

To boot to profiling cyber miscreants, the infographic includes a rundown of how information highwaymen make their money. A acknowledgment card number, for model, goes for anywhere from $1 to $10 on the run. Bank credentials sell for $25 to $35 for a set.

There are likewise bulk sales: $15 for 1000 Facebook accounts, $8 for 1000 webmail accounts, and $75 for 2200 Chitter accounts.

Run rates for cite cards are peculiarly interesting because it varies from region to region. Course credit card numbers that uprise in the U.S. sell for $1 to $3, numbers that originate in Europe, Central America, and Australia betray for $3 to $8, and numbers that originate in Asia and the Middle East sell for $6 to $10.

Reported to Rik Ferguson, director of surety at Trend Micro, the difference in value can be accounted for by supply and demand.

"There are many more U.S. charge plate numbers up for sale than [rest of world] cards in all the forums I have seen," Ferguson told PCWorld. "Simple economics says that will ram down the price."

The reason there are so numerous U.S. credit card numbers on the market is that they're easier to exploit.

"Security mechanisms for U.S. cards are, in unspecific, overmuch lower than European ones," Feguson explained. "Come off and PIN, for example, is barely deployed at all in the U.S., meaningful that transactions are still supported mag stripe data, which is easily cloned, and on that point is no second divisor, like a PIN, to perplex matters for the reprehensible."

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