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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Detecting click farms operating using VPNs or any other means [closed]
I'm in the process of considering setting up an online business involving a novel pay-per-click solution. I'm concerned about click fraud, though.
I would like to know if there's a viable way to ...
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Old Apple ID got hacked... But whats the scam? [closed]
Today, I woke up to an email saying:
'The billing information for your Apple ID has been changed.'
Luckily, it wasn't my real Apple ID, but probably an old one that I created years ago (like a throw-...
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Can Benford's law be used for the purpose of detecting deviations in a file metadata dates?
Considering the metadata such as creation and modification datetimes of files in terms of computer forensics. If tampering of such metadata date information is expected, can Benford's law be used to ...
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Best Practices re: changing email address post fraud
Scenario: Successful fraud attempt via phone call. Victim speaks to fraudster and gets tricked into email transfer of funds due to some situation i.e. falsified family emergency (grandson is injured ...
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How are these scammers operating from valid IPs? [duplicate]
Lately, my website has had a lot of fraudsters signing up and getting past my security checks.
I use vpnapi.io and stopforumspam.com to vet new registrations but all of the IPs this scammer is using ...
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Why is PayPal asking for my bank password? [duplicate]
Another posted the exact same question and it was dismissed saying PayPal would never do such a thing.
Well, I was adding a bank acct yesterday to transfer funds and PayPal popped up a username and ...
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Ways to safeguard Internet users from fraudulent websites
Extended Validation SSL certificates have been effectively abandoned, as web browsers do not even show them as something special, so my question is: how would you go about safeguarding the user from ...
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Someone seems to have compromised my email address but can't be sure?
Whilst going through my spam folder on Gmail I've found 2 emails that struck me as suspicious. The first is simply a welcome message from DropBox saying 'Hi Ahmed please verify your email' and then ...
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Same debit card number issued to more than one account? [closed]
I received text alerts from my bank saying my debit card had beeen used when I hadn’t used it. I started a fraud alert investigation. I was later told another account had the exact same debit card ...
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Debit Card Fraud Question [closed]
Somebody tried to make a purchase with my debit card at a Walgreens in another part the state of I live on.I was notified of the purchase attempt via my bank's fraud detection system. However, I have ...
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Fraud Detection - 2FA Bypass Methods and SIM Cloning
I am assisting another Data Scientist with helping a bank detect and prevent fraud via data analysis and predictive modeling (Machine Learning). It's a challenge because the proportion of known ...
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Can paypal vendors verify card used and/or spending history?
So I recently made a purchase from https://us.roborock.com, a well known manufacturer. During the checkout process, I used PayPal.
However several hours after checkout was complete, I received an ...
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Using another's text number to commit ongoing fraud [duplicate]
Some Vietnamese refugee families have been Bitcoin defrauded by someone using an 805 text number. Lookups say it belongs to a party in Tennessee. I want to know if it is possible that scammers in ...
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Unknown numbers sending videos on WhatsApp. What should I do?
A number with ISD code +92 sent a video via WhatsApp. No text, only a video. About 20 days later, another number with same ISD sent another video.
Should I open the video?
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Should I Report and Block?...
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Credit card reader writer
If someone has all the information from my credit card name, exp date, card number, cvv and pin but no card, would they still be able to use a reader-writer or would they have to have the card to copy?...
