Category Archives: profit from fraud

Visa Pushes More Fraud Toward E-commerce

Visa is piloting two more fraud prevention ideas. As usual, they are aimed at the brick and mortar stores where fraud loss is covered by the issuers. E-commerce is getting shafted again. Continue reading

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E-commerce Merchants Beware

There was another big processor breach and this one could hit e-Commerce merchants hard. Very hard. Here’s what I know so far. Continue reading

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Credit Card Fraud as a Business

If names like Max Butler, Jeff Norminton, Brett Johnson and Christopher Aragon don’t mean anything to you, it’s probably because you don’t follow the carder scene as closely as I do. Continue reading

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Top Fraud Incidents of 2008

We could all argue about the top fraud incidents of 2008 but here are my picks for the top five. Continue reading

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Symantec Issues Security Threat Report

Last week, Symantic issued their Internet Security Threat Report. Not surprisingly, credit card fraud is at the top of the threat list. Continue reading

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