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FTC Refunds $12M To Consumer Victims Of Bogus Online Trial Memberships

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The FTC alleged the Utah-based company operated deceptive trial memberships and bogus government grant and money-making schemes in 2010. More than 147,000 consumers who were scammed by I Works are getting full refunds totaling $12 million, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Monday (May 18). will receive their refunds via PayPal.

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Stopping Faster Payments Fraud, Faster

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In the latest Data Drivers, Uri Rivner, head of Cyber Strategy and vice president of Business Development at BioCatch , stated that as countries around the world embrace faster payments, they may do well to heed some sobering statistics on fraud gleaned from the United Kingdom’s own experience. Data Point One: 300 Percent. In the U.K.,

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Inside Kount’s Fraud-Fighting Machine

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Regardless of the company, its industry, its customers or location, online fraud remains top of mind. The urgency of robust and multilayered fraud detection systems becomes especially clear against a backdrop where card-not-present fraud is likely to grow by leaps and bounds in the wake of the EMV liability shift from last year.

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Leader Of Russian Cybercrime Ring Pleads Guilty

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Infraud was created in 2010 by Svyatoslav Bondarenko, 34, of Ukraine, to promote and grow interest in the Infraud Organization as the premier destination for purchasing retail items with counterfeit or stolen credit card information online, the Justice Department alleged in the indictment.

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Preventing consumer e-commerce fraud in the age of EMV

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While the transition is still in process, and has in many cases been a bumpy, road to adoption, it will go a long way towards tackling some of the most common types of fraud. Where it is prevalent, EMV has proven to be a highly effective method of preventing card-present/counterfeit card fraud. The shift to e-commerce CNP fraud.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Will Same Day ACH Rollout Spark A Fraud Spike?

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PYMNTS recently spoke with Luis Rojas, vice president of product management for Guardian Analytics , an online banking security firm, about the effect of a faster processing environment, the potential for increased fraud and how to mitigate that risk. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Risky Business.

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