Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudulent

Re:Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudu... by scottm30 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @10:24PM (#11436167)

How do they know that fraudsters with fresh cookies and no referrer history aren't just in private browser mode? Sounds like the server would view them as the same in most cases.

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Re:Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudu... by realusername on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @07:14AM (#11437979)

On Firefox, IndexDB throws an InvalidStateError only on private mode, I'm sure there are equivalents for Chrome.

You can try that in the console of Firefox:

  var request = window.indexedDB.open("MyTestDatabase", 3);request.onerror = function (event) { if (event.target.error.name === 'InvalidStateError') alert('private mode')}

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Re:Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudu... by ec109685 on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:29AM (#11437225)

There are capabilities like local storage that are often disabled in private browser mode.

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Re:Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudu... by ubernostrum on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:47AM (#11437296)

I've actually found a few online stores which now check for this and redirect you to a "turn off private browsing to browse our site" message. It's moderately annoying that they refuse to even let me see what they have for sale until I agree to let them use my hard drive.

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Re:Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudu... by chopin on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @07:14AM (#11437978)

I wouldn't want to be customer of such a site.

Problem solved.

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