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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How can I stop fraudulent credit card submissions on a donation site?
We are a small nonprofit that accepts donations online. Our site is being hammered by hundreds of fraudulent credit card submissions per day, coming from multiple IP's all over the world (a ...
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A proposal for effortless two-factor authentication
I have an idea for device-level two-factor authentication that involves no direct input from the user, and I wanted to find out if something like it has been tried before.
Let's say I have an account ...
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Can cross origin iframe be detected in web logs
A recent blog post shows hackers owning a web server - at least the content and injecting a web skimming attack. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/hacking-2/2020/03/criminals-hack-tupperware-website-with-...
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In a website that gives awards, is there anyway to ensure that one user isn't abusing the website and replaying the game by switching emails?
I'm building a website that gives awards to users. After each game I ask the user for their email and send them an email to claim their gift.
Is there anyway to make sure that one user isn't simply ...
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How is it possible for people to reverse a GoToAssist session? [duplicate]
I am puzzled by how people on Youtube bait scammers into connecting to their machines and end up "reversing" the connection on them. Essentially controlling the scammer's PC.
Is this done via reverse ...
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Australian Bush fire donation hacking [closed]
On the recent Australian Bushfire event, people are donating to help them. But some inhumane(cybercriminals) are stealing people's money by injecting malicious script on e-commerce and donation sites. ...
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Credit card fraud - record your face movement to unlock your account
Recently I accessed my credit card account (with a well-known credit card company) and right on the web page received a message that my account is locked to "prevent some sort of fraud".
I called ...
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Is it possible to hijack specific e-mail with remote access? [closed]
I was recently presented with e-mails that look like they came from my e-mail and IP address but I didn't send them and never saw them. It is a back and forth correspondence with another gmail account....
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Mail interception fraud
My company has been the target of a mail fraud attempt for the second time this year.
The fraud goes as followed:
My company sends an invoice to a customer from the email address [email protected] ...
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How could a scammer get my card details if I've never used it
Today I had about $600US spread across 20 transactions taken from my debit card over the past three days (I notified my bank said they will give me a new card and will refund me)
This particular ...
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How to protect from being the spoofed number on caller ID?
The question How to protect from caller-id spoofing? focuses on how to protect oneself from incoming calls with spoofed caller ID information.
This question is about how to protect oneself when ...
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How to prevent / take action against "Merchant Name" fraud?
I work for a charity in Australia. On a couple of recent occasions we have seen this behaviour by thieves:
People search for cheap Dyson vacuum cleaners.
They find a website which claims to sell (...
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Is accepting an invalid credit card number a security issue?
I am testing a website which accepts invalid credit card numbers for reservations. The interesting thing is they do CC validation if the currency is USD, but not for any other currencies. Should I ...
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Can a magnetic credit card writer encode a blank card based off just a credit card number?
I was wondering what info is stored in the CC mag strip. For example: if someone got a hold of by CC number, just the numbers-no CCV, no exp date, etc... it is pretty hard to use my credit card for ...
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How does change.org prevent fraud?
On the site change.org it's possible to start a petition.
I found two (somewhat) contradicting statements in their privacy policy:
We do not monitor, verify, or perform any background check on ...
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