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- Psystar: Hoax or fraud?
- Psystar: Hoax or fraud?Looks like fraud to meIf they're taking prepaid orders but nobody can find their physical location, it's fairly certain it's a con game. In the unlikely event that the business turns out to be legit, I'll be happy to retract and apologize.clarifications. first of all you...
- Tags: Litigation, fraud, Psystar, Roberto Pedraza, compagny, Hoax, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Psystar: Hoax or fraud?
- Update as I was writing this post: So I just talked to a woman who answered the phone at Psystar. She said the company would post a statement on the website regarding all the questions regarding the company by tonight or tomorow. I asked her if they were actually shipping...
- Tags: Credit Card, Address, Web Site, Fraud, Psystar, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- 800k identity theft cases in 2007, 23% of them involve credit cards
- FTC logged about 800,000 consumer complaints about identity theft during 2007, of which 32% involved identity theft and 68% covered other types of fraud. Of the identity theft cases, only 23% involved a credit card account, and cases of unauthorized new accounts outnumbered misuse of existing accounts by two to...
- Tags: Credit Card, Fraud, Identity Theft, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Online yellow pages get social: What about 'review fraud'?
- Online yellow pages get social: What about 'review fraud'?re:yellow pageshttp://www.analogstereo.com/wp/municipal_wi_fi_networks.htmRE: Online yellow pages get social: What about 'review fraud'?http://www.analogstereo.com/wp/municipal_wi_fi_networks.htm
- Tags: Litigation, Online Yellow Pages, fraud
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Gore Lawsuit Over Inconvenient Untruths?
- Will Gore be in court over his movie, "Inconvenient Truths?" For those who find the fuss over global warming to be inconvenient, the thought is delightful. The idea was publicly aired last week by the founder of the Weather Channel who agrees with those who see "global warming"...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Global Warming, Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- 1.4% of online revenues lost to fraud in 2007
- The share of online revenue lost to fraud in 2007 held steady with 2006 at 1.4%, but as e-commerce grows, the total dollar loss from online payment fraud is growing at the rate of about 20% a year and is estimated at $3.6 bln in 2007, up from $3.1 bln...
- Tags: Revenue, Fraud, Online Payment, Litigation, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- Identity theft down 12% in 2007
- Overall identity fraud is declining in the United States: down by an estimated 12% over 2006, which represents a total fraud reduction of $6 bln. Fraudsters are turning to lower-tech methods by utilizing telephone theft more than ever before, Javelin Research says. Access through mail and telephone transactions grew...
- Tags: Phone, Identity Fraud, Fraudster, Fraud, Identity Theft, Telecom & Utilities, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Escrow fraud. Ruining Craigslist?
- Escrow fraud. Ruining Craigslist?This dude is a racistYeah, this author makes a point by saying one needs to be careful when using Craig's list. But to imply Nigerians and Russians business people are crooks is racist. Just because some of them commit crimes does not mean ALL of them do....
- Tags: Litigation, personals section, Craigslist, scammer, Ruining, Escrow Services, fraud
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Escrow fraud ruining Craigslist?
- There was a time when Bay Area residents could find anything they needed quickly and efficiently on Craigslist. It was great - cars, furniture, apartments, partners, all right there in a revolutionarily simple text format. Then Craigslist expanded to the rest of the US and even the world. Now...
- Tags: Craigslist, Fraud, E-mail, Phishing, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Four questions for the week ahead in security
- Here's what I'm pondering for the week ahead. 1. When are those Mac patches coming? We have Macworld next week and while everyone is looking at those cool ultra portable notebooks don't be surprised if Apple launches a software update. With any luck Apple can address the latest QuickTime...
- Tags: Card, Oracle Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Fraud, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Trust Assessor Light (exe)
- Trust Assessor is an effective tool in countering business fraud and scamsters, and an effective tool for risk assessment and analysis in primarily the business context, via an organisation's Web presence. A retroactive function allows also for defunct Web sites to be equally-effectively assessed. Trust Assessor can be employed as...
- Tags: Function, Financial, Fraud, Tool, Trust Assessor, Productivity, Litigation, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-20
- Guilt by association: it's called reputation
- Guilt by association: it's called reputationMessage has been deleted.RE: Guilt by association: it's called reputationHi Phil,At iovation we do feel that online reputation is a crucial element of preventing fraud, much as it is in the physical world. One clarification about our services though is that we provide fraud...
- Tags: Litigation, guilt, fraud
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Guilt by association: it's called reputation
- I've had domain specific languages on my mind recently, so when a Wired News article on Hancock, a DSL for data mining "communities of interest" crossed through my feedreader, I spent some time digging into it. The gist of the story is this: AT&T invented a language,...
- Tags: Guilt, Fraudster, AT&T Corp., Fraud, Litigation, Business Operations, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- The great fraud of our time
- The great fraud of our timeuntil goverment does it job to protect it citizenuntil goverment explain to business that there only permit business es to exit that if they want they can revoke that right ......but since government is in the pocket of businesses and since nobody have the backbone...
- Tags: Litigation, Internet, great fraud, fraud
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- The great fraud of our time
- Make you a deal. You got a house and I build roads. So I'll build your road, and you'll pay me each month to use it. I'll even let the government decide how much. Then, once it's built, it's mine. I'll decide what you drive, how much...
- Tags: Broadband, Fact, Fraud, Internet, Cable, Network Technology, Open Source, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- The $100 billion every politician craves
- The $100 billion every politician cravesDo you think it true...... that electronic recordkeeping, and sharing of the information, could save $100 million? You spoke of the politicians' endorsement but not of your own.Me, I'm not certain what electronic recordkeeping is supposed to replace profitably. Though the equipment and...
- Tags: Litigation, fraud
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150
- Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150I sure as heck wouldThough I'd certainly look in the bargain bins for more memory and perhaps a bigger hard drive to plop in it. And I'm sure other less adventurous folk would add on an OEM copy of Vista or XP.Defintely: too...
- Tags: Litigation, Notebooks, laptop computer, too-good-to-be-true, fraud, Fedora Project
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- XMicro Internet Security: AntiPhishing (exe)
- Checks for online fraud and phishing attacks to help you stay protected from Websites that can take your valuable data Features: Stop users from accessing porn Websites (or other categories: say games, violence, and hatred.), Stay protected from all the online fraud and phishing scams, Offers real-time site name verification,...
- Tags: Fraud, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Litigation, Web Site Development, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-07-05
- Active fraud Shield (exe)
- Active Fraud Shield is a reliable and sophisticated Internet stream filter that detects, displays and blocks almost all fraud attempts. The program is designed especially for PayPal online payment service and provides up-to-date protection of the users account. Active Fraud Shield has a number of advanced detection and customization features,...
- Tags: PayPal, Fraud, Active Fraud Shield, Litigation, Internet, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2007-05-23
- Phishing, phaxing, vishing and other identity threats: The evolution of online fraud
- Fraudsters and scammers are finding increasingly devious ways of stealing financial and other confidential information. Anything they can learn about online credentials can seriously undermine an organization's profile, bring considerable risk to its reputation, and incur legal liability. This paper describes the online fraud of phishing, looks at other methods...
- Tags: Sophos Plc., Fraud, Phishing, Litigation, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-04-01
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