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Kabelo Kale, The Media Krate 2 days
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Telltale signs of e-commerce fraud
In a time of economic crisis, there tends to be an increase in the number of people that turn to criminal activity. Although petty crime is usually one area that shows a significant upswing, an additional form of criminal activity on the rise is fraud.
Before you can stop fraud, you need to know how to define it in order to properly identify it. Fraud is defined as the use of deception to obtain money or something else of value. Although typically carried out online, some fraudsters pursue the riskier physical fraud in which they interact with people face-to-face.
When fraud is carried out online, however, fraudsters can orchestrate an attack on a much larger scale, allowing them to sit back and wait for the goods to arrive.
