Windows 10: Fraud

John5482 · Nov 5, 2018

My laptop, a HP Stream, locked up last night and I was given a number to call, 844-946-3854, and after 3 hours on the phone the problem was resolved. I asked them if they were associated with Microsoft and they said they were an independent company which worked with them. Well it was finally taken care of at the tune of $144.99. The company name was "Mega Strive PC". They said they took care of all problems with Windows. At first I told them I couldn't afford the $199.99 so they gave me a "senior" discount which dropped it to the $149.99. I didn't get off the phone till 1:30 am, I was tired and not thinking right I live on SSI and a small retirement so that is a lot of money for me! Has anyone had this kind of problem and heard of "Mega Strive PC" or had that kind of problem?

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Jsssssssss · Nov 5, 2018

fraud

Yes, that's a fraud and you were scammed.

See
Bruce Hagen's reply to you in your
other thread on same topic.

FYI: Both of your threads will soon be merged by a moderator.

Beware of Phony Emails &Tech Support Scams

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Brink · Nov 5, 2018

Microsoft AI solution to detect mobile bank fraud in less than 2 secs

The future of mobile banking is clear. People love their mobile devices and banks are making big investments to enhance their apps with digital features and capabilities. As mobile banking grows, so does the one aspect about it that can be wrenching for customers and banks, mobile device fraud.

Problem: To implement near real-time fraud detection

Most mobile fraud occurs through a compromise called a SIM swap attack in which a mobile number is hacked. The phone number is cloned and the criminal receives all the text messages and calls sent to the victim’s mobile device. Then login credentials are obtained through social engineering, phishing, vishing, or an infected downloaded app. With this information, the criminal can impersonate a bank customer, register for mobile access, and immediately start to request fund transfers and withdrawals.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have the potential to dramatically improve fraud detection rates and detection times. One approach is described in the Mobile bank fraud solution guide. It’s a behavioral-based AI approach and can be much more responsive to changing fraud patterns than rules-based or other approaches.

The solution: A pipeline that detects fraud in less than two seconds

Latency and response times are critical in a fraud detection solution. The time it takes a bank to react to a fraudulent transaction translates directly to how much financial loss can be prevented. The sooner the detection takes place, the less the financial loss.

To be effective, detection needs to occur in less than two seconds. This means less than two seconds to process an incoming mobile activity, build a behavioral profile, evaluate the transaction for fraud, and determine if an action needs to be taken. The approach described in this solution is based on:

Feature engineering to create customer and account profiles.

Azure Machine Learning to create a fraud classification model.

Azure PaaS services for real-time event processing and end-to-end workflow.

The architecture: Azure Functions, Azure SQL, and Azure Machine Learning

Most steps in the event processing pipeline start with a call to Azure Functions because functions are serverless, easily scaled out, and can be scheduled.

The power of data in this solution comes from mobile messages that are standardized, joined, and aggregated with historical data to create behavior profiles. This is done using the in-memory technologies in Azure SQL.

Training of a fraud classifier is done with Azure Machine Learning Studio (AML Studio) and custom R code to create account level metrics.

Recommended next steps

Read the Mobile bank fraud solution guide to learn details on the architecture of the solution. The guide explains the logic and concepts and gets you to the next stage in implementing a mobile bank fraud detection solution. We hope you find this helpful and we welcome your feedback.
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Source: Two seconds to take a bite out of mobile bank fraud with Artificial Intelligence | Blog | Microsoft Azure

certicular · Nov 5, 2018

Xbox Anti-Fraud Network

Hello Npcu117.

I slowly keep make changes to the software, but I can't do so much then just hope that Microsoft or Xbox will see this software and wanna help me develop it, as I need their help, they have the servers etc.

Here is a link to the xbox.uservoice link of this idea on the software
Anti-Fraud Network Xbox Uservoice link, been update some stuff and got the updates information in the comments, as I can't update the post on xbox.uservoice.

I'm very happy that you did comment on this post, as for now It's not possible to get this software for public, but I have been doing BETA test of it, and It seems to go well, let's just hope that Microsoft or Xbox will help me so It can be for public use.

Take care.

Kind regards:

Anti-Fraud Network Administrator.

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