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Top 5 Reasons to Go Online to Commit Crime
Why is e-commerce so fraught with risk despite the huge amount of money, effort, and technology devoted to making the online world safe? that’s simple: Because crime in the virtual realm has a lot going for it compared with traditional crime in the physical realm. Why use a gun to commit a robbery when you [...]
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Webfraud 101 Edu-comics: Botnets and Proxies
We keep finding new and interesting ways to use our ThreatMetrix comic characters to spread the word about our SaaS web fraud solution — now here’s a new one that’s good for more than just a laugh: educational “how-to’s” so you can get under the hood of The ThreatMetrix Fraud Network. Here’s our first [...]
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Greatest Cyberthreats? Botnets & Inneffective Law Enforcement
If you like to worry about cybercrime statics you’ll love Symantec’s new Global Internet Security Threat Report for 2009. Almost 100 pages full of interesting facts like “Symantec observed 6,798,338 distinct bot-infected computers in 2009,” the operative word being “observed.” In other words the actual number of bot infected computers is probably much greater and [...]
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Seven Clues that a Web Visitor is a Fraudster
Fraudster or customer? The answer to that question keeps getting harder to answer in the online world while the consequences of getting it wrong get more severe. The last mile in web fraud prevention can’t be bridged by the tools and means that rely on the personal information (PII) we all supply to the various [...]
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MRC 2010 Fraud Conference: ThreatMetrix Survey Results
What’s more important: stopping online fraudsters at the first attempt or making it fast and easy for customers to transact online? We posed this question and a few more to the attendees at our booth last week in Las Vegas for the Annual Merchant Risk Council conference. Two hundred eighteen people completed the survey…more on [...]
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It Takes a Network to Stop Online Fraud
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) just published their 2009 Annual Internet Crime Report. The IC3 was established in 2000 “as a partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena [...]
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Scammers Cash in with Money Transfer Fraud
The latest installment in our Gromyko and Natasha comic series that has the two fraudsters heading for the 2010 MRC Conference will give you a smile, but money transfer fraud is no laughing matter.
You still hear the expression “wire me some money,” an artifact from the old Western Union days of telegraph to describe a [...]
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Privacy, Security & Convenience on a Collision Course
Consumer protect yourself. That’s the big takeaway from a new report by Javelin Strategies that was supported by the Better Business Bureau found that the number of identity fraud victims in the United States has jumped by 12 percent to 11.1 million adults – the highest increase to-date since the survey started in 2003 – [...]
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Online Banking: Security or Convenience?
I remember when I was a kid in the late 60s when my parents hauled me down to the local savings and loan at the market to open my very own savings account. I still remember the feel of the green cloth cover on the 5 x 7 booklet that the smiling banker slid across [...]
