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 can I prevent my E-mail address from being used as the sender for fraudulent/scam messages?
Recently, me and at least one other person I know received an obvious scam E-mail that starts off something like this:
We considered your resume to be very attractive and we thought the vacant ...
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How do location-based apps avoid getting cheated by emulated GPS?
Some apps like Foursquare require the user to "check in" at physical places, in order to gain money benefits.
Given that emulated GPS are available for customized versions of Android, it sounds easy ...
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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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Clone debit or credit card
I would like to make some workshop about Debit or Credit card fraud (Skimming). So I need as much as possible information about it.
Is it possible to clone debit or credit card with MagStripe reader ...
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How is Chase Mobile Deposit Secure?
Chase has this app that allows you to snap a picture of a check with your phone and deposit that check into your account.
How do they prevent:
Someone from depositing a check that's not written to ...
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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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ATM skimming with magnetic stripe
I have a question about ATM skimming. If ATMs in the UK still accept magnetic stripe can't a thief still use a cloned card at the ATM to withdraw money?
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Detecting skimmers and other ATM traps
This question has been bothering me ever since I first heard of ATM skimmers:
Instances of skimming have been reported where the perpetrator has put
a device over the card slot* of an ATM (...
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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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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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Is it possible to clone my contactless debit card while it's in my pocket?
I have a bank account that I never use, someone cloned my debit card and used it to buy something in Brazil in order to make sure the cloning was successful then they started making transactions of £...
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How can a domain be impersonated with a fraudulent SSL certificate?
I was reading this article about the fraudulent certificates from Comodo back in 2011. It talks about domain impersonation.
I understand that a fake website could be secured with the fraudulent ...
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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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Candidate authentication in large scale assessment
First of all, I'd like to apologize beforehand if the questions I am about to ask are not really suitable for this site. I could not think of any other category to post under. Right, here goes.
We're ...
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