A man and woman’s attempt to purchase hundreds of dollars worth of food from an Irvine restaurant with a fake credit card was foiled by employees over the weekend, police said. Tristan Le, 45, of Anaheim, and Eva Tran, 26, of Stanton, walked into a restaurant in the Diamond Jamboree…
String of credit card thefts Man gets 4 years in prison
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Santa Fe man will spend three years and four months behind bars for his role in what a judge described as an “ongoing crime wave of identity theft and fraud.” Johnny Moreno, 41, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to 14 counts…
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Protect Yourself from Card Fraud at ATMs and Gas Pumps
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Mt. Pleasant Police Department is looking through hours of surveillance video trying and find the person who put illegal card readers at a gas pump. Two illegal card readers also known as skimmers were found inside the gas pump at…
Bay County Sheriff’s Office investigating credit card fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the use of a fake credit card in Panama City. In October a business owner found someone used the company’s credit card for a $214 purchase. The business owner still had the card, so…
This fintech startup has a solution to credit card fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Scramcard, a startup founded by former Westpac chief security officer Simon Hewitt, wants to solve credit card fraud – with something that looks like a credit card. Credit and debit card fraud cost banks and businesses over $16.31 billion globally last…
Card fraud: Why do fraudsters find plastic so fantastic?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Fraudsters like to obtain things that don’t belong to them, and their favourite way of doing this is by deceit. Sometimes they do it in their own name, sometimes they use someone else’s identity, other times they will just make an…
Few Retailers Accepting ‘Chip’ Credit Card Payment Feature for Holidays
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Maybe you’ve noticed: At many stores, both big and small, you still have to swipe the magnetic stripe on your new chip-enabled credit card, rather than insert or dip it into a chip-reader. Edgar Dworsky, founder of the website ConsumerWorld.org, wondered…
Here are 6 ways to protect yourself from credit card frauds
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans This year in September, police arrested a student from Vadodara for illegally using credit cards of three American nationals to book air tickets. In March 2013, two top officials of an online shopping portal were arrested after almost 200 complaints were…
Credit card abuse and identity theft spiking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans While crime in Denmark is overall on the decline, one area is booming. The number of reports of online credit card fraud, phishing emails and other types of attempted identity theft have doubled just since last year. In 2014, the police received…