10 Ways To Protect Your Financial Identity Being Used For Someone Else’s Shopping Spree

Someone impersonating you could be spending your hard-earned money. Impossible! Not really, check, loan, and identity fraud are a real problem ... card accounts, and make sure to keep a copy of your credit cards and the toll free contact numbers ... your credit report once a year from each of the three credit bureaus to make sure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 08:56:49

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Avoiding Credit Card Fraud

Imagine the following situations: Someone rummages through your rubbish to find discarded receipts and then uses your account numbers illegally. A shop keeper keeps a copy of your credit or debit card and then uses it to pay for other transactions. A mailing asks you to call a long distance number to claim a free prize. You are told [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 20:45:55

Credit Card Scammers Convince Cashier To Call Fake Number To Approve $8,000 Purchase [Scams]

These two guys somehow managed to make off with an $8,000 purchase at Hattiesburg Cycles in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, ... that's one highly embarrassed clerk. "Credit card fraud suspects sought" Hattiesburg American (Thanks ... by telling the cashier that they were expecting their (fake) credit card to be denied, and to call [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:07:46

Phishing - What It Is and How to Avoid Identity Theft

Phishing is a term used to describe a type of spam that aims to steal your identity ... and place an initial fraud alert on your credit reports. Subscribe to the free Ask Angela ... their potential victims to provide personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords or account [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 07:10:08

Phishing - What It Is and How to Avoid Identity Theft.

Phishing is a term used to describe a type of spam that aims to steal your identity ... and place an initial fraud alert on your credit reports. ... their potential victims to provide personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords or account [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 14:38:48

Five Ways to Detect Fraud Using Geolocation

This post was written by Quova, they sent it as a press release but I thought it was interesting enough to publish on the blog. The 2008 Edition of the CyberSource Online Fraud Report highlights that out of 318 online ... who used credit card numbers later identified as stolen. The report estimates that in 2007 $3.6 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 13:04:02

Broken padlocks in Web security

When you browse to a Web page, there’s sometimes a little padlock in the corner of the window ... to feel secure in sending your credit card number or your bank account information across the Web ... s a fraud called phishing), careful users would know to check that the connection is secure [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 06:15:02

Slap Chop – Chop them with a Slap!

Vince with ShamWow is now Vince with SlapChop. Sham wow wasn’t really as advertised, the numbers show it ... / It is a verified and certified GoDaddy Merchant website and it is McAfee tested for “theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses, and other online scams. GoDaddy & McAfee both stand behind this site [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:55:46

Grand Theft Wallet

So someone stole my wallet on Wednesday. They got my debit card, my IDs, some cash, all of the photos of the nephew, ... has been cancelled, a claim has been filed with my bank’s fraud department, and a case number ... m not worried about someone trying to open credit in my name, because I can’t even open credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 21:42:00

Stolen credit card numbers become most popular items for sale on criminal chat channels

Omaha, Nebraska (CaymanMama.com) — Security firm, Symantec gathers the figures of online fraud to ascertain the depth and extent to which cyber ... who specialize in credit card fraud have a credit line of over $5 billion. The news report projects ... attacks and magnetic strip skimmers, are designed to steal credit card information.” The report [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 17:28:20

What Are the Most Common Ways to Commit Identity Theft or Fraud?

It’s the number one source of consumer complaints at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ... when you’re gone. If your employer is authorized to pull credit reports on employees or potential customers ... number (SSN), bank or credit card account numbers, income, name, address, or phone number, and use [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 03:19:05

Dear Bank of America

Dear Bank of America September 29th, 2008 The first I knew that my credit card number had been stolen was when I received a fraud notice from you ... , thank you. I paid the new charges in full, as I do every month, since I use this credit card ... fraud alert has been initiated by me. No updates, no reports, no conclusions, only my steadily [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 02:08:41

FRAUD ALERT – Adel Services Mystery 25 Cent Credit Card Charges

change Check your credit card statements and check them often is sage advice ... ) on consumers credit cards. Adele Services is listged as being out of Melville New York. There is no Adel ... an illegally obtained credit card number will work before making a bigger charge, or they're trying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:17:47

Millions Affected by Small Fraudulent Charges Nationwide

Internet complaint boards have been busy and credit card fraud departments are scratching their heads ... is trying to find out whether an illegally obtained credit card number will work before making a bigger charge, or they’re trying to rip off tiny amounts from tons of people.” So far, most reports [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 18:00:58

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