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Credit card fraud Criterion A - Describing the Issue: Describe correctly the underlying issue with an extended reference to a social context. (4 marks) As soon as you access the World Wide Web you become susceptible to hackers who are able to access your computer, your files and your internet records. A hacker is able to access a store's database, which are usually private but an experienced hacker might be able to enter it anyway, from this database he can obtain information about the store's customers such as their names, addresses and even credit card numbers. Parting from this point a hacker can use the information within the same store to purchase things using a customers name and credit card and send it to his own address (Helft, 2002). This way both the store and the customers lose. Credit card customers who don't report this on time are viable...

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