How do fraudsters work?

I have just discovered I have been a victim of fraud. Someone has taken the liberty of booking a flight with an airline in Antigua ay my expense. How did they get hold of my bank details? I always use paypal to purchase things on the internet. I know I will get the money back from my bank and have cancelled the card for the account but I just want to know how these people workHow do fraudsters work?
Phishing scams, have you had any e-mails from paypal asking you to log on through a link. If you have and you did thats how they got your details, no company will e-mail you and ask you to provide personal info as they already have it. If you are unsure phone the company. Otherwise they might have keylogging software or may be stealing personal info from your rubbish. There are loads of ways fraudsters can catch you out. Check out The Real Hustle on BBC3, it sets you straight on loads of different scams.How do fraudsters work?
Wow Thats messed up.. They work by watching you i guess the stealing you junk
Go to www.scambusters.org

This is a web site that specialises in frauds.

Sign up for their free weekly email and get all your friends to do so as well.



As for how they got your card details, almost certainly one of two ways.

.) You paid for petrol, probably on a motorway, and handed your caerd to the clerk.

.) You have a key-logger in your computer that stole the card details when you entered them.



Good lucj with that one
Ask the home secretary She`s an expert fraudster herself
I had similar to this when someone used my card to book on expedia with a card I hadn't even had!!! turned out that it had been stolen in the postal system
It is so easy on the internet but most scammers can be avoided. First, emails! When someone sends you an email, just by opening it you could be letting yourself in for trouble. There are services such as readnotify.com who inform you of when someone has received your email, when they opened it, where they opened it, if they forwarded it etc. Once you open an email, if it contains images these could contain spyware, links can lead to all sorts of trouble. Common ways of 'spying' are as follows: You receive an email, it say's you have won a fortune on yahoo lottery. You think no way it's a scam, but you click the link anyway which takes you to a yahoo sign in page and you sign in. First, the sender knows you have received the email because you opened it. Second, you clicked the link which may have installed a spy programme on your pc, these spy programmes are very good and enable a person to log into a web site where they can see everything you do on your pc, including everything you type! Next, that yahoo sign in page it took you to, is not a yahoo sign in page. You put your email address and your password and you've just sent that to someone else!

Phishing can be in many forms, say an email from your bank saying you need to update your account, or from paypal saying something similar. The best thing to do when in doubt about a web site which asks for your details, enter an email address and password which could not exist, say ytdfegrd@fgrtd.com and see if it accepts it...if so it's fake! There are many other ways of spying a pc including the use of cookies, and very sophisticated hackers could be impossible to avoid. Thankfully sophisticated hackers are not normally interested in the likes of me and you!