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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Is it Safe to Rely on Gmail API to Reward Users for Placing Orders on Merchant Sites?
I have an application that rewards users for placing orders with certain merchants. In order to verify that the order was actually placed and delivered, a user is required to grant us read access to a ...
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Is it possible to identify a financial fraud on a Windows machine? How?
How do forensics identify a banking/financial fraud in a Windows system? Malware usually uses real-time TCP sockets to complete their deeds, infecting and compromising the PC it runs on (not the ...
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Best way to trace possible root cause of card fraud?
I recently had a fraudulent transaction on my debit card (in the UK, where I am based). Having blocked the card, my main concern is to determine how much information has been stolen and how?
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Is someone using my @domain.com emails for fraud?
I have a TLD, and have set it up to forward any email sent to *@domain.com to [email protected].
Over the last week, I've got a handful of emails from Intuit/TurboTax to random names on my domain, e.g....
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Is it possible to completely obfuscate proxy servers?
Stripe's fraud detection documentation claims it has
Proxy Detection
When I search for how it might be detecting traffic from proxies, I see this great answer, which show how to detect that traffic.
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What is "JavaGhost - Mass Twilio Checker"?
Over the past week, the account credentials for my organization's Twilio account were stolen and used to send ~10,000 fraudulent SMS messages claiming to be from a major bank.
The passwords have all ...
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my info was compromised [closed]
My ssn,dob,mother's maiden,phone number, and address were compromised and I am worried that some bad people now have all the afore mentioned information. My question is what could criminals do with ...
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Current iOS Spyware/Stalkerware Capabilities [closed]
I have a child domestic violence victim I am trying to collect evidence from and coordinate relief for (remotely), but I have cause to believe her phone and/or identity has been hijacked in the past ...
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Is it normal for a company to request this information after stolen card details were used?
My friend's credit card details were randomly used to make a two small purchases on a food delivery app, by someone other than my friend. They have already contacted the bank and cancelled the card.
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How can I test if/how STIR/SHAKEN is working on my incoming calls? Both for detecting spoofed caller ID AND [bad sources]
How can I test if/how STIR/SHAKEN is working on my incoming calls? Both for detecting spoofed caller ID AND calls from disreputable (NON-'A' attestation) service providers/carriers/sources.
I'm ...
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Does replacing the SIM card mitigate any threats after a serious data breach?
I recently heard that a telephone company (a mobile network operator) was hacked and lots of data was stolen, maybe affecting up to a million customers. It sounds like the leaked data is already ...
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How does a fraudulent credit card charge to a Department of State work?
I looked at my Credit card statement, and noticed a fraudulent charge to what turned out to be the NY Department of State. This was especially odd to me, since I don't live in NY (and so was obvious ...
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Security risk for allowing accounts without captcha
I run a website that allows people to create accounts with an email address address and a password. Over the last month, I have had about 100 accounts created with email addresses that look like this:...
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Is https://div.show/options fraud/malware? [closed]
Is https://div.show/options fraud/malware? I saw via https://app.uriports.com that a customer tried to load the page mentioned before and it was blocked thanks to CSP.
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How can hackers steal from a savings account that has no client card? [closed]
Someone I know was stolen a few hundreds dollars from a savings account. Looking at the history, she saw transactions like Uber rides and video games purchases she did not do. This account is used ...
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