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  1. Dark Market
    Cybethieves, Cybercops and You

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Investigative research into a hackers' cybermarket where cyberthieves exchange tricks and tips. The author finds the individuals who founded the site and also tackles the problem of policing these crimes which are undertaken across so many jurisdictions the thieves are virtually impossible to prosecute.
  2. 'Can you hear me?': New phone scam tricks you into answering 'yes'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Describes a new telephone scam being run in North America, wherein a recording of one's voice saying the word 'yes' is used to defraud victims.
  3. Sequencing fraud on 9 CIBC Visa cards like 'Groundhog Day' for Ottawa man
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Alex Pavlovic has been living what he calls "a Groundhog Day with the bank," after his CIBC Visa card was compromised and cancelled nine times in just a few months — sometimes before Pavlovic could activate or use it — and no one could explain why.
  4. Won't Get Fooled Again
    Resource Type: Article
    Bank fraud is a bigger problem than I had ever realised. Experts suggest one in four of us will be directly affected by bank fraud at one point or another, while millions and millions of pounds is pumped into funding departments such as the ones that sorted out my problem and insurance it took to cover the money stolen. That’s our money, paid in extortionate overdraft arrangement fees in order to finance the whole industry.


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