Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Auction fraud refers to fraudulent transactions that take place through auction and classifieds websites. Either a product advertised may be misrepresented by the seller or the items sold are never delivered at all. This holiday season, as you seek out hard-to-find gifts and look for the best prices, keep in ...
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
While credit card fraud is a form of identity theft, not all identity theft is credit card fraud. It just so happens that identity theft involving credit cards is the type you are most likely to hear about on a regular basis. This type of theft usually occurs in ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
The U.S. Justice Department said it disabled a “massive fraud scheme” that infected more than 2 million computers worldwide with malicious software. The department filed a civil complaint, criminal seizure warrants and issued a temporary restraining order in coordinated action with Microsoft Corp., which issued a software patch April ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
I get unfortunate emails like this all the time: “I was a victim of debit card fraud. I live in Las Vegas, NV and have a debit card and I know that not all rules apply for debit cards. We had a problem out here with “skimming.” Over $300.00 ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Welcome to our Friday’s Food for Thought post. It was a very busy week for identity theft news with the release of the 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. One of the key findings was that Millennials (consumers aged 18 to 24 years old) take ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
There never seems to be shortage of fraud issues that challenge banking professionals on an ongoing basis. In 2009, customer loan takeovers, credit bust-out schemes, wire fraud account grooming and in-session phishing were some of the major schemes that banking professionals had to thwart. According to Bank Info Security, ...
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