Are your protected ? : Online fraudsters hit Qu'Appelle website : Site's Donate button targeted in February 2018
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article42033
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2019 February
- Author
- Folkins, Tali
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2019 February
- Volume
- 145
- Issue
- 2
- Page
- 6
- Notes
- "An officer with the diocese of Qu'Appelle is warning parishes, dioceses and any other church bodies whose website has an online donation feature to make sure it's protected from fraudulent use. The warning follows an episode last winter in which someone used the diocese's Donate button to test thousands of stolen credit card numbers. Amanda Sather Page, the diocese's financial officer, says that in early February 2018, fraudsters attempted to make more than $90,000 in credit card transactions using the feature, a matters of days after it had been launched". The incident occurred in two waves, the second time after the diocese had purchased more security features from Moneris. "Sather Page estimates that dealing with the incident cost the diocese probably the equivalent in time of three people working full-time for a week. And it still had to pay at least $150 in chargeback fees Moneris refused to waive, she adds. Soon thereafter, the diocese switched to PayPal, another transaction provider, she says, and has not experienced any such incidents since". "Moneris, formed in 2000 by the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal, is Canada's largest payment processor, according to its website".
- Subjects
- Fraud - Canada
- Fraud - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Qu'Appelle - Finance
- Fund raising - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Electronic commerce - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Web sites - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Page, Amanda Sather
- Moneris
- PayPal