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THE FRAUD INDEX
Welcome to the Fraud Index, bought to you by Retail Fraud and 192.com Business Services, the ID
fraud prevention specialists. Learn about some best practice tips for stopping fraudsters over
Christmas, find out how to share your fraud data with other retailers and read about the latest
from our man on the inside.
We appreciate your feedback so why not share your experiences with the rest of the fraud
community? To get involved in the Fraud Index, please email us at fraudindex@retailevents.co.uk
Tips to surviving Christmas Sharing fraud alert data
It may be the busiest time of year for retailers, but it’s a busy Another hurdle to trip over the fraudster is shared fraud alert
time for fraudsters too. Read through our list of tips to ensure data. Why not join 192’s Retail Fraud Forum. Email
you aren’t getting hit by large chargebacks in the New Year. laura.brown@192.com for more information.
Share your own data and read about attacks that have been
1. Watch out for large variations in shipping, billing and IP happening to other ecommerce retailers to help stay one step
addresses ahead of the fraudster.
2. Share suspected and reported fraud alert data with other
retailers
3. Know your product lines and order sizes. Ensure you
undertake more enhanced identity checks on higher risk Man on the inside
orders Shockwaves are still rippling after the FBI closed down
4. Selling age restricted goods this Christmas? Don’t fall foul of DarkMarket, an online forum for fraudsters that was being run
the law. Check out our guide to all the legislation here in secret by the FBI.
www.192business.com/agerestriction Numerous members of DarkMarket had been commenting
5. Even smaller orders could be fraudulent. Make sure you on other forums for the past two years about being suspicious
catch out fraudsters when they are testing the card by of the new Administrator and when an IP address (Internet
carrying out a simple name and address identity check Protocol) was leaked this looked like the end of the sting
operation, but members continued to join and trade in
compromised details. As with most fraudsters they believed
they were safe behind their computers. The knock-on effect
this is having amongst these criminals is to push forums and
channels further underground.
Open forums are now becoming VERIFIED ONLY (referral and
Administrator verification) allowing the Administrator to
decide whether the member can be trusted or not. Distrust is
currently rife, other forums are requesting former DarkMarket
members to keep away or at least change their Darkmarket
‘Nick’ (screen name) assuming that they can not be traced just
by re-inventing themselves. In addition to the current situation,
scammers or rippers as they are known, are infiltrating these
forums causing Administrators to adopt rules very similar to
the online retail sector, by banning IP addresses from Nigeria,
Ghana, Accra and other African nations. When a fraudster has
been scammed they are too quick to complain how they have
lost their money, but wait a minute, where did that money
come from!
Want to find out more?
Email me at manontheinside@192.com
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