{"id":4647,"date":"2015-02-26T05:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T10:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:59:39","slug":"one-dollar-lesson-defend-your-buck-from-online-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/one-dollar-lesson-defend-your-buck-from-online-fraud\/4647\/","title":{"rendered":"One dollar lesson: defend your buck from online fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a regular user like you and me it\u2019s hard to imagine the whole path of online payment transactions and all obstacles that can appear on the way of one dollar \u2014or just the same with thousands and millions of dollars. In fact we do not need to know how a payment is performed (although it\u2019s interesting), but to stay protected we need to know what can go wrong.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2015\/03\/05113203\/onedollarlesson-scr-1.png\" alt=\"onedollarlesson-scr-1\" width=\"1216\" height=\"584\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4649\"><br>\nThat\u2019s the reason Kaspersky Lab experts have designed an interactive and quite literally spectacular web-project called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/onedollarlesson.com\/?reseller=gb_onedollarlesson_pro_ona_oth__all_b2c_kasperskydaily_ban_______\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">One dollar lesson<\/a>\u2018.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2015\/03\/05113201\/onedollarlesson-scr-2.png\" alt=\"onedollarlesson-scr-2\" width=\"1217\" height=\"590\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4650\"><br>\nThe \u2018One dollar lesson\u2019will take you to a virtual journey that starts at three possible locations: a laptop, a tablet or a smartphone, goes on through the endless spaces of the world wide web to the destination point \u2014a bank server. You\u2019ll surely like the creative graphical content that goes hand in hand with information about different tricks and methods fraudsters use to steal your money and banking credentials.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2015\/03\/05113159\/onedollarlesson-scr-3.png\" alt=\"onedollarlesson-scr-3\" width=\"1202\" height=\"569\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4651\"><br>\nA dollar that is your guide and vehicle in this virtual reality turns into a showy transformer. E.g., depending on the situation it shifts from an airliner to a fighter aircraft.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2015\/03\/05113158\/onedollarlesson-scr-4.png\" alt=\"onedollarlesson-scr-4\" width=\"1220\" height=\"587\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4652\"><br>\nThere are three stories you can trace: sending money to a charity in need, transferring money from one account to another and shopping online. In each case you\u2019ll see different scenarios. Every of one dollar payments will face numerous obstacles like phishing, trojan apps, brute force method that aims to hack weak passwords, etc. All these risks are shown figuratively. Fortunately, there are \u2018good green guys\u2019in this world that save our dollar and help it reach the destination point.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2015\/03\/05113156\/onedollarlesson-scr-5.png\" alt=\"onedollarlesson-scr-5\" width=\"1219\" height=\"592\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4653\"><br>\nEach episode is accompanied by a brief description of the threat and supported by statistical data. The informational background behind the project is powerful indeed. Here you\u2019ll find statistics from numerous researches conducted by Kaspersky Lab experts \u2014for example, data from Kaspersky Security Bulletin and other sources, some of them are not even publicly available.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2015\/03\/05113154\/onedollarlesson-scr-6.png\" alt=\"onedollarlesson-scr-6\" width=\"1280\" height=\"704\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4654\"><br>\nLast but not least, what\u2019s the fun without a little bonus? If you study all three lessons of the one dollar you\u2019ll be awarded with a free three-month trial of <a href=\"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/products-services\/home-computer-security\/total-security\/?redef=1&amp;THRU&amp;reseller=blog_en-global\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaspersky Total Security<\/a> \u2014a security solution that is able to work with numerous OSs and devices. Thus if you haven\u2019t yet given it a try it\u2019s a perfect time to do it now.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2015\/03\/05113152\/onedollarlesson-scr-71.png\" alt=\"onedollarlesson-scr-7\" width=\"1280\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4655\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a regular user like you and me it\u2019s hard to imagine the whole path of online payment transactions and all obstacles that can appear on the way of one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":522,"featured_media":4648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1485],"tags":[77,354,880,344,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-4647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-special-projects","9":"tag-cybercrime","10":"tag-financial-security","11":"tag-kaspersky-total-security","12":"tag-online-protection","13":"tag-phishing"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/one-dollar-lesson-defend-your-buck-from-online-fraud\/4647\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/cybercrime\/","name":"cybercrime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15989,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/15989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}