Prevention of Online Transaction Using MAC Address of the Machine, OTP Two Layer Model to Identify Legitimate User

Abstract

E-shopping changed the world of selling and buying the products. With the Increase in technology and availability of resources on just one click modify the style of shopping, business, buying and selling. Use of online transaction to buy the products and conducting e- payments increasing day by day. Users now prefer to buy things and conduct shopping activities by just clicking from their machine. Trend of online shopping involved the online payments, involvement of online transactions enhance the use of credit cards, debit cards etc. The involvement of online payment is providing the facility to user and also providing the opportunity to fraudster took benefit of this to commit frauds like hacking of payment and transfer of money to some other accounts etc. The proposed model provided in this paper identify the user with the help of two layer model. The proposed model focus on the identification of user through MAC address of the machine used by the user to carry out the transaction process. With the concept that user’s mostly use the same machine to carry out the transactions.

Keywords: Online shopping, cookies, MAC Address, OTP, Online fraud, identify theft, E-shopping, Online transactions