What to do if youre framed for credit card fraud online due to someone taking control over your computer?
What would you do if you suspected (and were quite convinced due to several evidence) that someone or some people had taken control over your computer with some kind of virus or something and had ordered stuff online using your mouse cursor and such so that the IP address shown would be yours and had them sent to your home under your name as the ship to person and most likely used stolen credit cards of other people and even used your email account for them to try to frame you for credit card fraud as an elaborate scheme to get back at you for having an argument with them over internet forums?
I ask this because that’s what I can deduce since packages have been arriving lately with products that yes, someone like me could actually use as I am a gamer and gaming products have arrived. I guess this is their way of making the whole thing look even more authentic to authorities?
I found this out when I caught some email confirmations from the recent orders inside my hotmail inbox. I usually don’t check my email and simply mass click and delete everything when I do since I do get alot of spam every day and I do tend to leave my computer on while I’m away for several hours so I’m guessing thats when they or whoever it is takes over my computer and does the online orders using other people’s credit cards to try to frame me.
What would/should I do?
mick F, you totally did not understand the question at all. Why do some people go on here and answer questions without even understanding what the question was? I even repeated myself twice in the paragraph that it was not my credit card used. WOW I even said FRAMED for credit card fraud.
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October 24th, 2009 at 7:15 am
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Here’s what I would do if was ever placed in that position:
Install and launch a keylogger on my computer.
Leave my computer on, lock it, leave it alone and go on a trip for a week.
Internet transactions are logged really well, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) must by law keep logs of all internet activity.
Now if I had proof that I wasn’t at my computer when an order was placed from it and a keylogger shows that nobody touched a key on my keyboard, I’d be a free man.
Once a crimincal investigation starts the computer will get sent to forensic investigators who’ll be able to tell whether your computer was breached or not. Additionally I’d recommend going to an internet cafe while on the trip, checking for these confirmation messages and letting the site owners know that somehing has gone wrong, all while I’m away on my trip.
The first thing you’ll be asked once your innocence is established is who do you suspect would do something like this. And Voila, they’ll check that persons ISP logs and bam, caught.