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How Blaze Pizza Fires Up Friendly Fraud Defenses

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Consumers are using mobile apps’ order-ahead features and loyalty perks more often during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet chargeback fraud — also known as friendly fraud — is unfortunately also rising. A Proactive Approach To Friendly Fraud. Friendly fraud often develops around online promotions at restaurants.

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iPhone Scam Reveals How Digital Criminals Find Vulnerabilities

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Think of the Apple iPhone, and thoughts are likely to turn to matters involving social media, selfies, family photos, mobile commerce and even payments. But cryptos have done a great job of acting as conduits to all sorts of fraud. Targeting Dead People. But like most analog businesses, this criminal model has gone digital.

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Meet The 2023 FICO Decisions Awards Winners!

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You can read more about our judges in this blog post. Join us there to find out more about these remarkable success stories. Nikhil Behl Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for FICO.

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2023 FICO Decisions Awards Now Open

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Fraud Management. in Hollywood, Florida, May 16-19, 2023. itelna (Debt Management); Círculo de Crédito (Decision Management Innovation); Traxión (ESG Champion); Mibanco and SIMAH (Financial Inclusion); ELO (Fraud & Security); and Wells Fargo (FICO Industry Vanguard Award). . Decision Management Innovation. ESG Champion.

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FTC Cracks Down On Crypto Pyramid Scheme

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District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued a temporary restraining order and frozen the defendants’ assets until a proceeding takes place.

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Meet Our 2023 FICO Decisions Awards Judges

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Awards will be presented in ten categories: AI, Machine Learning and Optimization, Cloud Deployment, Customer Onboarding and Management, Debt Management, Decision Management Innovation, ESG Champion, Financial Inclusion, Fraud Management, FICO Industry Vanguard and Pioneer Award. Nikhil Behl.

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Inventor Of The Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Wants To Take It Back

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I’m not sure,” said Paul Marty , a professor at Florida State University’s School of Information, who teaches about the larger societal impacts of the internet. In exchange for personal convenience, I’m helping Amazon take over the world. And am I okay with that? ” As for Gmail, it has more than 1.4

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