PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In Georgia, one Mohawk Industries employee allegedly scammed the company out of $766,000. And in New Mexico, two Santa Fe government employees were placed on leave following a report that fraud is running rampant in their department. Internal p-card fraud doesn’t discriminate against small and large companies either, he said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

A classic image of payment fraud involves a fraudster stealing credit card numbers and shopping for goods in-person or online. Founded in 2011, Pindrop’s security solution was built to protect banks and other financial institutions from call center and voice fraud. at Georgia Tech. at Georgia Tech.

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The Paypers

MAY 29, 2020

Liberty Bank, a large bank in Georgia, has reinforced its fraud strategy to address the rising volume of fraud the industry is currently seeing by partnering with Compass Plus.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

According to a report in Reuters , the Eastern European GozNym network, whose leader resides in Tbilisi, Georgia, sent phishing emails to install malware on more than 41,000 computers. Six countries, including the U.S., shut down a cybercrime network that stole around $100 million from victims.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2020

District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, the FTC has seen a massive surge in complaints of fraud. The FTC ended up filing the complaint and the stipulated final order in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

As digital fraud and ID theft continue to rise and as two billion people still lack access to traditional banking, now is a critical time to leverage the power of digital ID and risk mitigation solutions to solve these complex challenges. “I’ve known Trulioo for years and really admire what the team has built.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The agency asked a federal judge in Georgia through a court filing to stop FLEETCOR, along with its chief executive, from charging hidden fees and also to disgorge ill-gotten proceeds, Yahoo Finance reported. After reportedly assuring they would aid them in spending less on gas, the Federal Trade Commission said that U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The network will also advance “regulatory certainty” for innovators and stay abreast of changes in the market while helping reduce fraud, discrimination and deception. Inaugural members of ACFIN include state attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Partnering with Mazooma will help streamline account funding and reduce fraud for gaming companies and their players," said Lowell Putnam, head of partnerships at Plaid. Mazooma, a gaming industry leader for more than 15 years, is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and was founded in 2009. About 75 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Trulioo, which focuses on global identity verification, said Wednesday (July 10) that it now is able to verify customers in new countries, including Bahrain, Iceland, Qatar and Georgia. Fraud and money laundering have hit these four countries especially hard and as a result they are navigating complex regulatory waters.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2016

Ford was sentenced in the Northern District of Georgia. He also pled guilty to one count of wire fraud. Horn of the Northern District of Georgia stated: “This case, unfortunately, shows that cyberstalkers have the ability to torment victims from any corner of the globe. As noted in a release by the Justice Department, Michael C.

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American Banker

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The former chief executive of a Georgia community bank that participated in the Troubled Asset Relief Program was sentenced to prison and fined $3.9 million for hiding the bank's past-due loans and committing other fraud.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Department of Justice reported that the ring involved numerous individuals from countries including Russia, Latvia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania and Belgium, according to the AP. QQAAZZ allegedly laundered stolen funds from hundreds of cybercriminals, transferring them between hundreds of banks globally.

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Insights on Business

OCTOBER 21, 2017

The result is a suite of cognitive solutions that offer assistance in the transformation of financial crimes management to address KYC, AML, payment and fraud risks across the customer lifecycle, from onboarding through exit. Rick is also a Board Member for Georgia State University’s Risk & Insurance program.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The CFPB has issued its December 2015 complaint report which highlights money transfer complaints and complaints from consumers in Georgia and the Atlanta metro area. The most common complaints (42 percent) involved consumers complaining about being victims of fraud.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Laura Taylor Swain eventually reduced his sentence due to the harsh treatment he'd received in Tbilisi, Georgia before being extradited to the U.S. While he was originally facing 15 to 20 years, U.S. District Judge Hon. There, he contracted COVID-19 while in custody. Bloomberg reports that he'll get credit for time served.

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CFPB Monitor

MARCH 12, 2019

Credit card fraud was the most common type of identity theft report. Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Delaware, and Tennessee had the highest fraud reports per capita. Georgia, Nevada, California, Florida, and Texas had the highest identity theft reports per capita. declined by 24% from 2017.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 22, 2019

5 in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. Finding ongoing BSA training to stay on top of the latest information about money-laundering and fraud is possible, thanks to regional, local and online resources aimed at making it convenient and cost-effective. Fraud Prevention. 5 in Richmond, Virginia Oct. 16 in Chicago, Illinois Oct. Learn More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

This importance is especially tangible because many SMBs remain underserved by traditional banks, Kathryn Petralia , co-founder and president of Atlanta, Georgia-based SMB lender Kabbage , explained in a recent interview with PYMNTS. “Of The SBA is very concerned about fraud.”. Of the 32 million SMBs in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

In total, through the past year, the network gathered more than 3 million complaints, with Florida, Georgia and Michigan at the top of the state list for fraud complaints. The category of identity theft was seen most often in Missouri, Connecticut and Florida.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

Those counts included wire fraud and intentional damage to a protected computer. legal system are not quite complete; he still faces separate charges pending in federal courts in Nevada and Georgia. The hack is estimated to have cost upwards of $169 million. The case hinges on hacks that took place from Oct. 2009 to Oct.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Entersekt , the push-based authentication and app security company, announced Tuesday (June 12) that it has opened a new office in Atlanta, Georgia, aimed at supporting the company’s growth and serving as the headquarters in North America. The new headquarters will be located at 7000 Central Park in Sandy Springs, GA.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Meanwhile, the customer-is-always-right philosophies can make staff too accommodating — to the extent of possibly overlooking signs of fraud. In another recent partnership, Canadian lending technology developer CU Direct joined with Georgia United Credit Union. To get the rest of the latest headlines, download the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

As noted last week, some regulators, spanning the United Kingdom, North America and Asia, are seeking those exemptions as they contend that the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) could stymie cross-border law enforcement actions that focus on fraud and manipulations of markets.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2016

Payments services provider TSYS and behavioral analytics company Featurespace have formed a partnership today in which TSYS will leverage Featurespace’s ARIC Engine , software that uses machine learning to monitor online customer behavior in real time to deliver instant fraud decisions. We covered the U.K.-based

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

Rounding out the top ten were Malaysia, Oman, Estonia, Mauritius, Australia, Georgia, France and Canada. The survey results did show the U.S. came in second place in the ITU’s Global Cybersecurity Index, but a lot of the other highly ranked countries were small ones or those that have developing countries. Russia ranked 11th.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

To increase security, Avenu uses cloud-native architecture that integrates a ledger, customer identification, transactional fraud monitoring, BSA and AML monitoring, ACH account identification, report writing and an integrated complaint management system, Dick says. It already supports blockchain if required by a fintech.

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

You might also like this webinar, "The check's in the mail: Understanding and preventing check fraud." Many financial institutions have been using artificial intelligence (AI) for years, particularly in supporting cybersecurity and anti-fraud efforts. How banks and credit unions use genAI today Short supporting copy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

The latest 20 samples of the Skimer family were uploaded from more than 10 locations around the globe: UAE, France, USA, Russia, Macao, China, Philippines, Spain, Germany, Georgia, Poland, Brazil and Czech Republic. So, how can this be prevented?

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William Mills

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Approximately 1,300 attendees (including bankers, credit union executives, industry analysts and media representatives American Banker , Banking Exchange and BIG Media ) joined 30 sponsor companies to immerse themselves in all things retail banking at BAI Beacon 2017, held at the Georgia World Congress Center October 4-5.

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William Mills

MAY 23, 2017

She earned her bachelors degree in communication from Kennesaw State University, and outside of her work, York currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board for Atlanta-based NCPHIF, a non-profit entity that aims to eliminate home improvement fraud across the nation.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

EST in South Carolina, there will be a total solar eclipse — with Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia all enjoying prime viewing slots between start and finish. PST in Oregon and 2:48 p.m.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

And the world learned that the Nigerian royalty that has been trying to scam them for the last several years is neither Nigerian nor a prince – just a guy from Georgia with a side hustle working for scammers. Neu faces 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering, having participated in hundreds of scam transactions.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 28, 2016

Voice fraud prevention and authentication startup Pindrop closed a $75 million funding round. Google Capital, a new investor to the Georgia-based company, led the Series C round. an area in which, according to Fortune , phone fraud rates exceed those in the U.S. Should the person’s attempt be blocked?

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2015

With this move, IDology will add both network authentication and transaction monitoring to its ID verification and anti-fraud solutions. The mobile identity is resistant to mobile fraud tactics and can be created with or without ID verification.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Lloyds Banking Group will be the first European institution to use “phone printing” technology to help fight fraud. ” Pictured: CEO, CTO, and founder Vijay Balasubramaniyan demonstrating Pindrop’s Fraud Detection System at FinovateFall 2012. .” The success rate has since reached 95%.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Get more BSA training on the latest fraud trends with this webinar. Fraud Prevention. Fraud Trends. Bank for several BSA violations, including inadequate resources and “capping” of the number of alerts generated by the bank’s AML software. Watch Webinar. Sophisticated measures. Technological advances in transaction monitoring.

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