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Buguroo To Use $11M Funding Round For ML-Driven Fraud Detection

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Buguroo, a Spanish cybersecurity company, uses biometrics tied to behavior and deep learning processes to root out fraud. Conexo Ventures and Inveready Technology Investment Group also participated. The company was started in 2010 to identify malicious actors who try to impersonate legitimate bank account holders.

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MyPayrollHR Founder Faces $70M Fraud Charge

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23) in a $70 million bank fraud scheme that left hundreds of small businesses across the country scrambling, The Wall Street Journal reported. 5 after Mann’s banks, suspecting him of fraud, froze his accounts, authorities said. 20), Mann began borrowing “large sums of money” starting around 2010.

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SMBs Struggle Amid MyPayrollHR Fraud Inquiry

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23 and faces federal charges of committing $70 million in bank fraud, according to the U.S. Mann told law enforcement authorities that MyPayrollHR was legitimate, but he admitted to creating other “companies that had no purpose other than to be used in the fraud,” according to the court filing. attorney’s office for Northern New York.

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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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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 People are bracing for a similar spike here,” he added. “We

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Preventing consumer e-commerce fraud in the age of EMV

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After years of lagging behind many other developed nations, the US market is rolling out EMV technology. 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. The shift to e-commerce CNP fraud.

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