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 to find the source of business email account compromise
I have a gmail account [email protected] and I am sending emails to a lawyer with corporate email (I don't know the software they use). I am sending monthly bills to the lawyer for consulting fees.
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How do I report scam phone calls? [duplicate]
I get scam phone calls on a regular basis. The latest one was a computer-generated voice claiming to be a security expert from Microsoft and alleging "errors and fraudulent behavior" within my ...
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Bot detection without client script
I am working in a small startup and we are looking for Security tools - mostly WAF and Bot Detection (specifically to identify click fraud).
Some solutions that integrate client side scripts are ...
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Are printed check security features a gimmick?
This question is perhaps a rough fit for this SE site, but it is about information security, though not specifically about computers.
When ordering company checks, there are a plethora of options. ...
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Could someone commit a social engineering "hack" on a credit card processor to get my credit card number?
Peripherally related to: Is it safe to recycle unshredded credit card receipts?.
From some basic research, it seems as though the SEQ number is internal to the company running the POS software, the ...
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Is it possible to verify that a signature was made prior to the content of the document it is found on?
In What to do after I signed a blank sheet of paper given to me by my manager?, a distressed individual (B) has signed a blank piece of paper and given it to an adversary (A).
A has openly stated to ...
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How to check hosted content for fraud?
I am a developer at a company that makes landing page software. Users can register and build their own page and publish it. We will provide them a subdomain on our whitelabel domain: test-link....
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Online Retailer asks for a copy of Credit Card and Drivers License
This weekend I placed an order for a part from an online retailer ($300-400). Shortly thereafter I received an email from their sales team saying something similar to the following:
Hi, we have ...
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Ad fraud is growing into one of the biggest concerns. How can it affect banks?
The attached image was presented to me, but I'm confused about the risks of ad-fraud to organizations like banks. Usually, the advertisement budgets are invested only in "trusted" sources like Google ...
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Why do scammers use victims' computers to remote-control their own computers?
I've seen videos showing how tech support scammers operate. In nearly all of these videos, the scammer instructs their intended victim to install and run remote-control software, which allows the ...
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How to check if direct debit whitelisting is in place for a specific account number? [closed]
Paying through bank transfer to other account without direct debit is more and more common these days.
Some of them are online services running bug bounties with availability of payment through bank ...
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Debit Card was used fraduentely, Should I report an incident to the websites that stored my card?
Here is my situation. I had a debit card where I could transfer funds to it for limited use. I usually kept a low amount on this card just for little purchases. It was recently used in a fraudulent ...
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Why do scammers use emails like yahoo?
I was doing a Cyber Security and IT audit for a company.
I was told that they had very little in terms of fraud protection, one of the only ways that they detected potential fraudsters was by ...
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Intricate fraud attempt on eBay
I would like the community's input on an event that took place recently, that I honestly don't know what do make of:
When trying to watch an item on eBay, a warning notice said my account had been ...
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Someone is pretending to be me
Need some help!
Someone has opened up an email account and is sending emails pretending to be me, to my office. They are asking for large invoices to be paid into a specific account. We realised ...
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