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US DOJ Charges 14 With $28M In PPP Fraud

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District Court for the Southern District of Florida with wire and bank fraud and conspiracy for seeking $24 million in forgivable PPP loans. The accused include Darrell Thomas, 34, of Johns Creek, Georgia; Andre Lee Gaines, 66, of Dallas, Georgia; Kahlil Gibran Green Sr., In Florida, nine defendants have been charged in the U.S

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Email Scam Victim Sues Bank Claiming Lack Of Fraud Protection

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Krasovec is now suing the Dallas, Texas bank, maintaining that PlainsCapital didn’t have anti-fraud protocols in place. subsidiary of Japan’s largest financial media organization, was the victim of a $29 million wire transfer fraud. In November , Nikkei, the U.S.

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Texas Hotelier Nets $59M In PPP Loans

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The biggest benefactor of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a Dallas, Texas-based hotelier named Monty Bennett, who has received $59 million from the program intended to help small or medium-sized businesses with the economic crisis.

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Five At Five: Do Banks Really Appreciate SMBs?

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officials want to overhaul rules for business lending, facial recognition is being deployed to fight bank fraud and Jet has new fuel for its competition against Amazon. Sam’s Club Launches High-Tech Test Store in Dallas. Chinese Banks Embrace Facial Recognition to Fight Fraud. SMBs Say Banks Don’t Appreciate Their Business.

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Greyhound Drives Omnichannel Security With AI, Advanced Learning Tools

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The travel industry may have seen exceptional growth in recent years, but the space has also toted the heavy baggage of rising fraud costs. Fraud could cost the market more than $25 billion this year, and approximately 20 percent of attempted travel-related transactions are confirmed to be fraudulent. No one used it,” he lamented. “It

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Harry Potter And The Credit Card Scam?

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Donaldson, said the site, had been employed to help manage Rowling’s business and personal matters. Global Fraud, CFOs in Sight. based Autonomy, has been charged with fraud in the U.S. The former bassist has been sentenced to as much as 72 months in jail for mail fraud. purchase price.

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A Whale of a Tale: Enloe State Bank

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And what was going on in this tiny enclave 80 miles northeast of Dallas that has four heads of cattle for every one person? In August 2020 the bank's vice president, Jeannie Swaim also pleaded guilty to a bank fraud charge, admitting to creating fictitious loans to channel over $400,000 to her husband over a period of five years.

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