Robert Weiner

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Preventing Fraud on our Online Giving Pages

Robert Weiner

For example, if you tend to get 40 gifts overnight, you may see 400 or even 4000.). One way you can help protect credit card data is by beefing up the security measures on the back-end using your payment gateway. 5 Tips to Help Merchants Avoid Credit Card Fraud. If they get that confirmation, they are ready to go shopping.

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Lame spam of the day: CitiBank Account Alert

Robert Weiner

This type of phishing scam is common as dirt, but this example is particularly lame. Your Cardmember information is included in the upper-right corner to help you recognize this as a customer service e-mail from CitiBank. Then there are some typos. Contact Customer Service (link leads to [link]. Copyright 2012 CitiBank.

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Lame spam of the day: Facebook notifications

Robert Weiner

Here are a few examples: Sender : Facebook (confirm+robert@ig.com.br). If you have any other questions, please visit our Help Center. Similar to the notifications from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare I got a few weeks ago, I'm getting lots of fake Facebook notifications. According to this article , they're phishing messages.

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So You Want to Be a Consultant?

Robert Weiner

“Scope Creep&# - your client goes off the framework of the contract, i.e. “and by the way, will you help us with…&# Some consultants are ok with it, but it’s good to learn how to say no gracefully (it’s not in the contract and I can’t fit it in yet/now…). Be extremely flexible.