World Wide
Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has admitted that he fell victim to online
fraud.
Sir Tim
Berners-Lee, who dreamt up the web 20 years ago, said he bought a Christmas
present from an online shop which turned out not to be real. Sir Tim said
coppers should put as much effort into fighting cyber crime as they do into
conventional crime and new steps were needed to protect internet users from
malicious software that circulates over the internet.
Sir Tim said
that when he called the 0800 number for the crooked site it was number
unobtainable, something he thinks he should have done before he made the
purchase. He added
that he was yet to get the money back.