Two Fraudsters Steal $4M with Online Car Sale Scam
A man and woman organized a scheme posting non-existent vehicles for sale on many marketplace and auction websites scamming U.S. car...
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David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Fraudsters Target New Zealand Auction Site to Recruit Money Mules
Fraud rings have been trying to increase their membership as they have targeted users of the New Zealand auction website Trade Me with a...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Amidst Organized Attacks Against Two Major Banks, Cyber Threat Level Raised to “High”
After distributed denial of service attacks disrupted Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase websites in late September the Financial...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Fraudsters Copy Legitimate Microsoft Email Days Later in Phishing Scam
Phishing scams can often be convincing, and a recent case of a phishing campaign emulating a legitimate Microsoft email about changes to...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Study Shows Phishing Could Evolve to Target Brainwave Activity
Advancements in technology over recent years have made EEG headsets, which read and interpret brain activity into controlling software...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Spammers Scrape Facebook Friends for Targeted Phishing Attacks
Facebook recently announced that they uncovered an incident where fraudsters used compromised email addresses to scrape lists of Facebook...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Financial Institutions Buy Top-Level Domains to Combat Phishing and Pharming
Major financial institutions have invested millions in new top-level domains that will be exclusive to their brand while financial...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
SMS is Far From Foolproof
A hacker recently pointed out that a feature specific to Apple’s iOS operating system leaves a major vulnerability with text messaging...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 4 min
Proactive Techniques for Avoiding Chargebacks
Chargebacks cost merchants beyond the lost sale and merchandise and in many cases it is in a merchant’s best interest to resolve customer...
David Montague
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Repeat Friendly Fraudsters Caught for Commission Scam
Two U.S. brother’s, Andrew and Allen Chiu, we’re blocked from making purchases from Nordstrom.com after excessive chargeback claims and...
David Montague
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
General Retail, SEO Research & Fraud Prevention – The Connection
While it may not seem obvious at first, SEO research can provide a valuable resource for determining what products are in demand in the...
David Montague
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
PRESS RELEASE: WILL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN LEAD TO INCREASED FRAUD?
Red Bank, March 2, 2009 /Internal Release/ - There have been a number of recent articles outlining how the economic downturn will result...
David Montague
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
PRESS RELEASE: Legislation in the Works that Could Affect Future Trends in Fraud
Red Bank, Feb. 19, 2009 /The FraudBlog Newsletter/ - The current economic crisis is affecting all of us, but could it also be creating...