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Ho, Ho, Ho: Credit Card Fraud Not A Holiday Killer. Unless You Get Hit.

Ho, Ho, Ho: Credit Card Fraud Not A Holiday Killer. Unless You Get Hit.Use debit checking modeInstead of checks use debit in the store.I withdraw the money that I need for the day from the machine and pay with cash.I first get a receipt showing my balance then I withdraw...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, credit card, holiday killer, Ho Ho Ho, Credit Card Fraud, killer

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

A call for rational discourse on identity theft

A call for rational discourse on identity theftFTC ReportThere are five reasons ID Theft stats are going down.1. Fewer people are reporting it to them. Why report it when they do nothing but compile a statistic.2. The US Patriot Act requires identifying documents that are instantly checked against nonpublic...

Tags: FTC, identity theft, credit card, Credit Card Fraud

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Zotob worm linked to credit card fraud ring

Zotob worm linked to credit card fraud ringFraud ring or no...Very clever young minds deprived of social conscience will likely keep abreast of technical advances for years to come, inventing malicious schemes for the sheer enjoyment of it while teasing despised authorities. Schools and technical institutes should offer courses and...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, hacking, credit card, credit card fraud, Zotob worm, Coder, virus, window, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-08-30

Consumers realize credit card fraud generally happens offline

While 76% of respondents said credit card fraud is either a moderate or major concern, only 69% of respondents felt the same way about online credit card fraud. The results are from a survey of 943 American credit card holders fielded last week who were asked their opinions about credit...

Tags: fraud, credit card, credit card fraud

Blog posts 2004-01-28

Additional Resources

CountryWhois 2.0 build 32 (Windows)

CountryWhois is a utility for identifying the geographic location of an IP address. CountryWhois can be used to analyze server logs, check e-mail address headers, identify online credit card fraud, or in any other instance where you need to quickly and accurately determine the country of origin by IP address....

Tags: Credit Card, IP, IP Address, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Address, TamoSoft, CountryWhois, E-mail, Network Technology, Networking, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-15

FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday charged almost 100 people in Operation Phish Phry, the largest cyber fraud phishing case to date. The FBI said it uncovered a sophisticated phishing operation that was designed to swipe personal information and then use the data to defraud banks....

Tags: Bank, FBI, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Financial Services, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-07

.NET IPLookup Component for C#,VB,ASP 2.0 (Windows)

This is a powerful and easy-to-use component for C#, VB.NET and other .NET languages to easily find from which countries your visitors are coming from. This can help you to prevent credit card fraud, automatically select language, and currency for your visitor and much more benefits.

Tags: Credit Card, Microsoft Windows, Visitor, Safabyte, .Net, C#, Sales Channel, Application Servers, Financial Services, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Intuit service shows how little patients count

OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...

Tags: Insurance, Intuit Inc., patient, vet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Phishers introduce 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic

Phishers don't just want to "bank with you", they also want to talk you into revealing the answers to your 'secret' questions, next to more sensitive information that would help them gain access to your online bank account. A new 'Chat-in-the-Middle' fraud tactic was recently discovered by...

Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Doctor Antivirus 2008 (The ultimate guide to scareware protection)

ScamsI have seen many of these screens before, on my own PC. I usually retreat to AVG, Norton, or Symantec sites to check their claims, do online scans, and Google search to find unhappy "users"RE: Doctor Antivirus 2008 The ultimate guide to scareware protectionthere ought to be laws... even so...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, antivirus, SpyBot, ultimate guide, TrendMicro RUBotted, Trend Micro Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Billing Credit Card Terminal 1.1 (Mobile)

Billing Credit Card Terminal provides real mobile billing on demand. An all in one wireless point of sale terminal complete with tip, signature capture and receipt support. Billing works with Authorize.net merchant accounts. Receipts are dispatched electronically directly to the customers email. Billing includes an easy demo mode toggle, which...

Tags: Billing, Mobile, Sparta Data, Billing Credit Card Terminal, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Micropayments in Google Checkout soon

It sounds like Google is going to start allowing merchants to accept micropayments soon -- that menas accepting payments anywhere from a penny to a several dollars. This information was released in a document submitted to the Newspaper Association of America. Micropayments - While...

Tags: Google Inc., Payment, Micropayment, Google Checkout, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-09-12

Citizens Financial sued for insufficient E-Banking security

If a fraudulent transaction ever takes place on one of your bank accounts due to their compromise, who's to blame - the bank, for not providing you as a customer with state-of-the-art security mechanisms that could have prevented it, or you, as a customer whose insecure online behavior led to...

Tags: Bank, Citizens LLC, Electronic Banking, Financial, Two-factor Authentication, Online Banking, Banking, Security Administration, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-10

XoftSpy SE Anti-Spyware 6.0 (Windows)

XoftSpy detects and removes all the spyware trying to install on your PC. Key features include: complete PC scanning, including running processes, registry entries, files and folders; detects and removes spyware, adware, pop-up generators, keyloggers, Trojans, browser hijackers, and malware; automatic definitions and feature updates; comprehensive customer technical support; protects...

Tags: Credit Card, Microsoft Windows, ParetoLogic, XoftSpy, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Identity Theft, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Web Browsers, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Internet

Software downloads 2009-08-31

Albert Gonzalez was hacking in high school...where were the safety nets?

We talk a lot in education about the idea of safety nets. These are support systems that we put into place to figuratively catch kids who might otherwise not be successful. They can be as simple as extra time after school for help or involve more significant remediation...

Tags: Hacking, Credit Card, Computer, Safety Net, Productivity, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack

Feet on the street?In a crime where tens of thousands of credit card numbers and identifying information is stolen remotely from poorly configured databases, then sold on-line to other criminals, who then, presumably, use that information either for identity theft or straight credit card fraud, just where do you need...

Tags: SECURITY, Viet Nam, Gonzales

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Bust in Heartland credit card hack

Huge antihacking indictments today. A federal grand jury indicted three people for the massive theft of some 130 million credit card numbers from card processor Heartland Payment Systems, The Post reports. The same people - including Albert Gonzales, 28, are believed by the feds to have been involved in hacks...

Tags: Credit Card, Fraud, Computer, Gonzales, Sales Channel, Productivity, Litigation, Financial Services, Sales, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Big money to be made in health payment processing

RE: Rolling Charges to end of yearI like the idea, but hang on. I thought we weren't allowed to solve healthcare problems anymore without government intervention. It's actually refreshing to hear someone propose a healthcare fix that doesn't require ten tons of bureaucracy to manage, and actually...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, health payment, BIG MONEY

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Deposit checks to your bank via an iPhone photo

Fascinating conceptWhat about security/fraud, though? All those fancy anti-counterfiting features built into the check paper?Yeah, but the image conversion is done by the bankfrom the physical check in hand.It's pretty easy to doctor a scanned check.To answer your question...I am a USAA member (have been for 9 years) and they...

Tags: Financial services, Smart phones, photograph, USAA, bank, physical check, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotels

Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotelsThey probally enjoyed the ironyof "hacking" the hackers.If the cops find who did it, the only punishment they should get...... is having their names released to the public.Then we can sit back and watch their lives be destroyed by the eLIt3 hax0r5.Um, one...

Tags: Network technology, Hacking, skimmer, Las Vegas Hotels, ATM

Discussion threads 2009-08-03