You can not trust SSL Secure Socket Certificates.

"TRUSTED" Fraud, Internet Fraud, Credit Card Fraud

ABOUT CREDIT CARD FRAUD
The next time you order checks have only your initials (instead of first name) and last name put on them, if someone takes your check book they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name but your bank will know how you sign your checks. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box use that instead of your home address, if you do not have a PO Box use your work address. Never have your SSN# printed on your checks you can add it if it is necessary but have it printed and anyone can get it. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine, do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel.
Keep the photocopy in a safe place. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where it was stolen, this proves to credit providers you were diligent, and is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one).
Call the three national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and Social Security number . Applications for credit can be made over the internet in your name. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit.
Equifax: 1-800-525-6285
Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742
Trans Union: 1-800-680-7289

Report Credit Card Fraud

Credit Card Fraud Resources

The Internet Fraud Watch
maintains a website on which registered users can leave comments about e-commerce transactions and other related issues. The site, which is operated by the National Consumer League, has links to United States Federal Government consumer related departments, selected state government and state private agency consumer issue websites, as well as links to a few Canadian, a few international and a few organization websites. There is a feature article and an archive of past articles on consumer fraud issues.

The National Consumers League 1-800-876-7060
the oldest nonprofit consumer organization in the United States, has set up a special National Fraud Information Center on the Internet for online users to get advice and to report rip-offs.

SCARY STATISTICS ON ONLINE CREDIT CARD FRAUD - MUST READ

Top 10 list of Consumer Fraud Complaints for 2003. The FTC recently announced it's new 2003 report. Online auctions are the worst.

Get Help as a Fraud Victim

Social Security Administration (fraud line): 1-800-269-0271

Internet Fraud Complaint Center (run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center)

National Consumers League

National Fraud Information Center

The Internet Fraud Complaint Center 775-295-1818

GET YOUR FREE CREDIT CARD REPORT

SSL Certificates and TRUSTe: Can You Trust Them?

Certificates of Security - SSL - Secure and trusted sites are not secure

Comodo SSL Hack From Security Now show 295
The fundamental problem: ANY CA can certify to ANY user that ANY server owns ANY domain name. Therefore the consequences of a misplaced trust decision are about as bad as they can be.

• Comodo initially quietly sent a command to its certificate revocation servers designed to tell browsers to no longer accept 9 certificates signed using its private key.
• Major browsers went beyond this normal revocation process and added hard-coded "do not trust".
• A web server in Iran was briefly using a fraudulent certificate.

Would you think that a program that hides misleadingly named entries in inappropriate areas of the registry is trustworthy? Me neither, but TRUSTe does.

Can You Trust TRUSTe?
TRUSTe is a nonprofit organization set up to help Internet users determine who is worthy of their trust. Its business model created a conflict of interest in that it gets its income from the companies it is certifying.

Verisign Certificates Can't Be Trusted

Defeat SSL - HTTPS - "HACKER ETHICS" White Hat Unconventional Researchers