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E-commerce giant taobao.com and the organization that oversees Shanghai's hospitals have shut down 10 online shops this month selling doctors' appointments as part of a campaign to crack down on scalping over the Internet, local media reported Tuesday. The Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center and taobao.com have closed more than 1,500 accounts belonging to appointment scalpers since the middle of last year, according to a report in the Oriental Morning Post. Although the center has set up two websites that allow patients to make appointments with doctors at 35 public hospitals, ap

Victims of online fraud need greater support to help them overcome the often serious health effects that follow discovery of the deception, QUT cybersecurity researcher Cassandra Cross says. Dr Cross's extensive research on online fraud victimisation and prevention was heavily drawn upon in the recent Federal Government Inquiry into Cybersafety for Senior Australians. She studied online fraud in Australia, UK, US and Canada as a Churchill Fellow and found that, while victimisation could happen to anyone, seniors were attractive targets who were losing more than just money to offenders. "Ma