U.S. Visitors : Easy Victims for Online Criminals

Since most people may be aware of the fact that international travelers from 36 countries which don’t demand for a visa to visit United States must still require them to register through online for travel authorization.


However it is nearly 1.4 billion (15 %) higher than what it has been spend on the same a year before- and marking its sixth successive month of development in monthly US travel and tourism exports. The international visitors visiting and spending in US has increased drastically every month at an average of USD $732 million a month in 2010. This is remarkable and consistent increase adding up more revenue to the US state said the official of US Department of Commerce.

However U.S announcement that visitors need to pay a fee of $14 right after September 8, 2010 while during registration and have to come up with certain personal details while registering. Since the registration which can be executed solely though Online and registrants are quite unaware of the exact official U.S. government sites and registration processes and this has given the loop hole for the scammers to make use of this wonderful opportunity

McAfee warns registrants to be more careful while they are submitting their information and make sure that whether they are submitting to the official sites and few scammer sites are also offering services to fill the forms and also charging $30 to $250 for an easy work which can be done within a few second of yourself. The added advantage for the criminals is that they know your travel dates and will come up with suspicious withdrawal of your money or other such things through your information and you could only get to know about them once you get back to your home after the trip.