Credit-Card-Scam
Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment
card, such as a credit card or debit card.The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or
to make payment to another account, which is controlled by a criminal.
The Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the data security standard created to help
financial institutions process card payments securely and reduce card fraud.
Shopping-scams
Online shopping scams involve scammers pretending to be legitimate online sellers, either with a fake website or a fake ad on a genuine retailer site. Scammers use the latest technology to set up fake retailer websites that look like genuine online retail stores. They may use sophisticated designs and layouts, possibly stolen logos, and even a domain name similar to an authentic retailer.
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Fraud-Calls
What we are discussing here is related to vishing, also known as voice phishing. Several
instances have occurred wherein people receive phone calls that appear to be from their
bank.
The caller usually pretends to be a bank representative or someone from the bank’s
technical team. In most cases, the caller sounds professional and provides a convincing
reason for calling the customer.
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SPAM EMAILS
Email spam includes unwanted or unsolicited emails that arrive in a user’s
email inbox. Usually, email spam is sent to a large number of recipients.
Spam can be sent automatically by a botnet or by human senders.If spam is not
appropriately dealt with it can become troublesome for users to conduct work activity
without disruption from unwanted emails.
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Cyber Sexual-Harrasment
Online sexual harassment encompasses a wide range of behaviours that use
digital content (images, videos, posts, messages, pages) on a variety of different platforms
(private or public).
It can make a person feel threatened, exploited, coerced, humiliated, upset, sexualised or
discriminated against.
Cyberharassment is often accomplished by a “storm of abuse”. Harassers terrorize victims by
threatening violence
Data Breach
A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure,
disclosure, or loss of personal information".Since the advent of data breach notification
laws in 2005, reported data breaches have grown dramatically.
Data breaches are most commonly caused either by a targeted cyberattack, an opportunistic
attack, or inadvertent information leakage.
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