Questions tagged [fraud]
Fraud is wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. It is one of the challenges to organisations that Information Security tries to prevent.
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What's the impact of disclosing the front-face of a credit or debit card?
There are quite a few cases where people are called out for disclosing the front-face of a credit or debit card (e.g. this tweet from Brian Krebs or this twitter account). So I was wondering what the ...
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How to prevent pay per show/click abuse?
We have a webapp. 3rd party websites put our banners on their pages (banner is a snippet of HTML). They are paid for it using "Pay per click" or "Pay per show" methods.
So 3rd party website's owners ...
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Giving merchant account information to web programmer
Our web programmer needs our merchant account information to set up our ecommerce site. He is asking for the "processor name", "processor ID" and "merchant ID". If I provide him with the information ...
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Dealing with excessive "Carding" attempts
We are currently setup using Magento on a LAMP stack for our e-commerce platform. As of a month or two ago we began noticing a lot of carding attempts against our website. All attempted transactions ...
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Best way to handle identity theft incident?
A user's email is hacked, contacts copied, and similar emails (look alike emails with minor spelling differences) are created by the attacker with the same name and avatar, sending relatively well ...
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I may have given a check to a scam organization is my account at risk
Can someone take money from my account with a check that has my routing number and my account number on it? I STUPIDLY gave a check to a "charity" organization that I cannot find on line and when I ...
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I need ideas for blocking a single malevolent user
Let me throw out this problem I'm having to some of my technical peeps and see if you guys have any new suggestions:
We have a website that sends text messages and voice mails for our clients. ...
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How to prevent cheating (extra votes) in online contests?
Mitigating Cheating & Voter Fraud in Online Contests…
We run online contests of various sorts that involve users voting on entries (usually one vote per user per day). The prizes range from ...
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Trying to prevent Cisco toll fraud
A little back story on the setup first; We have a Cisco VoIP setup at our remote office(where I'm at) and the main CCM/CCX/Unity setup is at the parent company across the US in Connecticut. We have ...
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What is the use of stolen credit card details?
What can a person with stolen credit card details do?
Buy porn?
Buy tons of server resources to perform an attack?
What else? I'm sure that if he buys books, shoes and bicycles or transfer funds to ...
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Fraud prevention on online transactions
We operate an e-commerce website, and we're facing some big problems with payments. Very often, some customers get credit card data and use those in our store. So when the real credit card owner gets ...
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Fraud Mitigation - Card Present Transactions
When it comes to fraud screening for card not present transactions (credit card / debit card) there are a number of techniques / services that can be utilized to mitigate risks from fraudulent ...
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