A method of detecting a fraudulent transaction of an item having an
item-identifying indicium processes the indicium to obtain
item-identifying information, and captures a digital representation of a
surface area of the item. The item-identifying information is used to
retrieve a stored digital representation of the surface area of the item.
Further, the method compares the captured digital representation with the
stored digital representation to determine if the captured digital
representation corresponds to the stored digital representation.