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Card Fraud Spike Alters Grocery Store Gift Card Policy

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A Washington, D.C.-area area grocery story chain is only allowing customers to purchase reloadable or prepaid gift cards with cash or bank PIN-based debit due to a significant increase in credit card fraud. This change has been made in order to mitigate potential fraud risk.”.

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US Card Skimming Grew Nearly 5x in 2022, New FICO Data Shows

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For 2022, we saw a significant increase in compromised cards resulting from skimming activity. Total compromise cards were up 368% from 2021, with more than 161,000 impacted cards identified — nearly a 5x increase over 2021. Now that we have data from the entire year to review, we are seeing the alarming trend continue.

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Ex-Microsoft Engineer Guilty Of 18 Felonies After Pilfering $10M In eCurrency

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Software developer and Ukrainian native Volodymyr Kvashuk, 25, from Renton, Washington, worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, and was tasked with testing Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. He took advantage of that access to steal currency stored value (CSV) such as digital gift cards that he then resold on the internet. .

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Mr. Stumpf Goes To Washington

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Over the course of several years, Wells Fargo employees were caught signing their customers up for credit cards they never asked for and bank accounts they didn’t need. 20), Mr. Stumpf will go to Washington, and we’ll get the verdict straight from those congressional horses’ mouths. Will Congress agree? Well, today (Sept. Disclosure.

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Fighting The Known Unknowns In Digital Identity Fraud

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According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Global Fraud Index – after a short lull post-EMV in the U.S., when fraud briefly went down – they have bounced back with a vengeance. The Many Ways To Play At Fraud. In one of the more unfortunate examples of practice making perfect, fraudsters are getting better at what they do.

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Cap One Hack Hits 100M Credit Card Applications

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Capital One announced that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, as well as thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers. The Washington Post reported that the FBI has arrested a Seattle area woman, Paige A. Thompson, on a charge of computer fraud and abuse.

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Pandemic Scammers Robbed US Consumers Of More Than $77M

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Americans have lost more than $77 million in COVID-19 fraud since the start of the year, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). But that number misses an unprecedented scope of scams connected to the coronavirus, according to John Breyault , a spokesman for the National Consumers League , the Washington, D.C.-based

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