Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
By the AllClear ID Team Chris here with the AllClear ID Investigation team. Identity thieves are placing credit card skimming devices everywhere, but particularly on gas pumps, and as we wrote earlier, on outdoor ATMs. These devices are small and hard for the typical person to detect, but they can be ...
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
Vanessa here from AllClear ID. If you use one of Bank of America’s credit cards, you can feel a little safer: the bank scored the highest in an annual tally of card issuers’ efforts in identity theft protection. In Javelin Strategy and Research’s seventh annual Card Issuer’s Safety Scorecard, Bank ...
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Sunday, May 29th, 2011
An excellent way to improve one’s level of security intelligence is to follow the writings of Robert X. Cringley, one of my favorite technology know-it-alls. Anyway, Cringley’s credit card was recently hacked. And if his card can be hacked, anyone’s can. Like many cardholders, Cringley received a notification from his ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Once a victim’s debit card number has been successfully skimmed, the card can be cloned, say, 100 times, and the cloned cards can be distributed to 100 people. All 100 people can then use the cloned cards to withdraw cash from 100 different ATMs within a brief window of ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Every time you use a credit card, you increase the chances of that card number being used fraudulently. Cards can be skimmed and hacked in a number of different ways. #1 Watch your card. Whenever you hand your credit or debit card to a salesperson or waiter, ...
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
#1 Phone Fraud. The phone rings, a scammer poses as your banks fraud department. They may have your entire card number stolen from another source. They ask about a charge made and you deny the charge, but in order for the charge to be removed, they need ...
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