Monthly Archives: January 2008
Telephone Fraud Prevention Service
I’Äôm talking about the services that offer to automatically place a telephone call to a potential customer to verify that they are actually holding the credit card. Continue reading
Posted in Fraud screening, credit card fraud, e-Commerce, fraud, greed, merchant, profit from fraud
Tagged credit card fraud, Fraud screening, greed, profit from fraud
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Banks Are Safe, Right?
If you think banks are safe from hackers, it’s time to think again. A computer-security firm, said this type of cyber-attack has become “a commonplace occurrence.” Continue reading
Posted in Data Breach, fraud, identity theft, profit from fraud
Tagged Data Breach, fraud, identity theft
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The IRS Does it Differently
Apparently the IRS operates under different rules when it comes to data breaches… Continue reading
Posted in Data Breach, government accountability, identity theft
Tagged Data Breach, Government, identity theft
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The 2007 costs are rolling in.
The fraud statistics for 2007 have started to hit the streets an, as expected, they aren’t pretty. Continue reading
Posted in Data Breach, e-Commerce, fraud trends, identity theft
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Exposed Credit Cards – Does anyone really know the facts?
The initial press releases put the TJX breach at 45.7 million debit and credit cards, but when all the law suits were filed, the number in the court documents was listed at almost twice that – 90 million. That’s well over the 79 million reported by the Identity Theft Resource Center and it’s just card accounts.
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