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Shipping Scams Go After Small Business

A colleague with a small business was cleaning out his warehouse of tools and supplies and decided to list many items on Craigslist. I have lots of experience in this process and I can tell you “It’s always something”. An application called “CraigsPro” allows you to go through your items snapping pictures and creates a […]

Bad Drivers And Insurance Scams Uncovered Online

Some people can’t help bragging and babbling about themselves online. Whether in a blog post, tweet, Facebook status update, or YouTube video, chances are if it happened, it’s going to come out online. The Internet is making it much easier for fraud investigators to learn everything they need to know about their subjects. Teenagers and […]

Banks Blame Cybercrime Victims for Hacking

It’s Tuesday morning after a long weekend, the bookkeeper comes in a little late but hits the books right away. She comes into your office and asks you about a series of wire transfers you made over the holiday weekend to new employees who apparently live overseas. And then your heart sinks. Because you have […]

Underground Forums Selling Stolen Credit Cards

“Carders” are the people who buy, sell, and trade stolen credit card data online. This carding forum videoprovides an example of an online forum where stolen credit cards are bought and sold. Hackers rely on a variety of techniques to obtain credit card data. One such data theft technique is wardriving, in which criminals hack into wireless networks […]

How To Use A Validation Phone Number Process to Protect Website Integrity Today

Choices for having the ability to protect the integrity of any online site will be crucial these days.  At the same time providing protection of the personal information provided by your clients will be critical as well.  Options to use a validation phone number provide this type of protection is often a step used these […]