I would have thought that obtaining value by deception is just simple fraud.
The detection of the incident and prosecution of the guilty is usually more challenging than committing the offence, I understand. Lyal > I know that bad programming habits exist on some of the sites out there and still use Hidden fields to pass prices over.. Although not very common.... I found one this morning after sending the email... > > My question is more on the theory I suppose... What laws are out there to protect against this after-the-fact? Is it true that if the seller closes the deal by sending you the merchandise then they have no case and can't go back and charge you? > > Seems there should be something out there providing protection is the system is automated... Even though there should be checks in place people do have small budgets and rush a lot of the smaller E-com stores out. > > JP > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed 9/14/2005 7:35 PM > To: Gadi Evron > Cc: Josh Perrymon; full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Exploiting an online store -- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
