Showing posts with label SupportMart’s anti-fraud team. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SupportMart’s anti-fraud team. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2012

Plan on funding a charity? Avoid getting conned by charity frauds!


Scam artists find numerous ways to con people out of their money, monetizing on their gullibility, carelessness, greed or even compassion. SupportMart, in its continued dedication to fighting scam, will provide extensive coverage on all types of frauds. In this post, we will briefly discuss charity frauds and provide a few tips on how to spot one before it’s too late!

Friday, June 22, 2012

Protecting yourself from Online Credit Card frauds – Part 1


In April this year, UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (Soca) with help from the FBI and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested two men charged with purchasing stolen credit/debit card numbers and other financial information from websites selling such info and shut down 36 web domains involved in this business. Victims whose details had been compromised were located all over the world from the US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Ukraine and Australia. Such is the nature of online credit card frauds that someone sitting in country A can pawn info of a person from country B over a website to someone in country C! In the light of rampant larceny, SupportMart Fraud Awareness campaign brings you tips over two posts to avoid such a scam, proactively and intelligently.