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Date: Thu Sep 15 06:09:09 2005
From: lyal.collins at key2it.com.au (lyal.collins)
Subject: Exploiting an online store

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: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu] 
> 	Sent: Wed 9/14/2005 7:35 PM 
> 	To: Gadi Evron 
> 	Cc: Josh Perrymon; full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk 
> 	Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Exploiting an online store



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