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Red Flags for COVID-19 Related Fraud – What You Need to Know

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Key Takeaways FinCEN has released three COVID-19-related advisories that remind financial institutions to stay alert to increasing fraud trends. Adjust your scenario thresholds and ensure your front line staff is aware of these fraud red flags to help detect and deter COVID-19-related fraud.

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How Online Universities Take Fraudsters To School

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Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become vital to digital identity verification, as the world becomes increasingly connected. Mobile wallets have become popular vehicles for storing and accessing credit card information, plane tickets and other documents. Find the feature story in the Tracker.

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8 tips to protect yourself from bank fraud and scams.

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Yet, despite advances in bank fraud protection, scammers continue to develop and deploy sophisticated—and successful—methods. Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission announced over $10 million in fraud losses in 2023, up 14% from the previous year. Thieves attempting bank fraud may try one or more of the following scams.

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Using Online, Social Data To Make ‘Thin Files’ Thick

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Can the data trapped in “Digital Exhaust” – like online and social media data – be used to validate identity and predict fraud? Suppose you could build a model that would help financial institutions of any kind fill in those gaps with online and social data that could make thin files thick without increasing their risk?

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How Ticketmaster Uses AI To Sort Fans From Fraudsters

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Cybercriminals are thus increasingly turning to online platforms to perpetuate card-not-present (CNP) fraud. The new Digital Fraud Tracker highlights the emerging fraud trends as well as the latest solutions and strategies that companies are embracing in an effort to protect themselves and their customers.

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Lawsuit Says Facebook Officials Knew About Ad Metric Issues And Did Nothing

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Facebook is under fire in a new set of documents in a lawsuit, which allege the company knew for years that paid advertising services on the site were exaggerating and distorting the number of people who would see the ads, according to a report by the Financial Times. ” The lawsuit was originally filed by a small business owner in 2018.

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When Disaster Strikes, Digital ID Is Front And Center

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Dealing with the online aspect of disaster relief requires a new, tighter approach to ID verification and authentication. What can make all that so much worse is fraud. Unfortunately, where there is tragedy, there is fraud.”. So that has to be done often in the absence of physical documents and consumers’ mobile phones.

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