Abrigo

APRIL 2, 2020

Key Takeaways Elderly persons are more susceptible to fraud during crises like the coronavirus pandemic. As the coronavirus pandemic takes a powerful hold on the United States, illicit activity such as cybercrime, check fraud, and other scams are rapidly increasing and is expected to continue throughout this difficult period.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Across the globe, terrorists and criminals are leveraging cryptos in what is gearing up to be a significant national security threat to the United States. billion of cryptocurrency reportedly was lost to theft or fraud – double that of the previous year. That’s according to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Nike is suing 589 websites, the owners of 676 social media accounts and more than 100 unidentified companies and individuals for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its Nike and Converse shoes online. Nike wrote in a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

Can data make all the difference in the fight against payments fraud? The discussion played off the findings of a new whitepaper from the firm titled, “Driving Up Conversion with Effective Fraud Management.”. What works in preventing payments fraud at a large airline or telco system may not be germane for an electronics retailer.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Email often gets overlooked in the 2019 digital economy, given the higher levels of excitement attached to social media, video and other, more cutting-edge tools — to say nothing of the use of text as a communication tool. Fraud Trends. It’s gone,” the report stated. Fraud Crackdown. billion in 2018.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This type of fraud covers for cybercriminals by tricking unsuspecting consumers into believing that they have landed lucrative work opportunities when they are actually participating in criminal enterprises. The following Deep Dive unpacks how reshipping fraud works, and how both merchants and consumers can stay vigilant against it.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

He received a total of $8,700, which he used for a laptop, a mobile phone and a VPN communications network, all of which the FBI says he used to communicate with the Islamic State network. While he knew the money was meant to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States, Elshinawy told the FBI he never planned to carry it out.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The requests come on top of a busy week in antitrust investigations where, as has been widely reported, a group of 50 attorneys general stood on steps of the United States Supreme Court on Monday and announced an investigation into Google’s advertising practices. The road may be long — and the probe itself will be sweeping.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Experiencing such gains comes with risks, however, as digital IDs have presented new and underexplored avenues for fraud. billion digital records in the United States were compromised during the first half of 2018 – 291 records every second – with only six social media breaches accounting for more than half of all at-risk data.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

It has seized more than 2,000 products over the past three years and has carried out anti-counterfeit activity on online platforms. That’s led to the removal of more than 7,000 listings on several marketplaces, more than 360 websites and over 1,000 social media accounts. As a result of its efforts, 99.9%

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In the United States, according to some sources such as Javelin , more than one million children were victimized by identity theft — and the fraud costs their families more than $540 million. When we talk about fraud, whatever kind it is,” he told Webster, “we often talk about susceptibility.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Nothing further would extend to social media sites that are already around, such as Facebook or Twitter. Of course, that data has, at times, been used for targeted marketing campaigns. The proposal has been brought forth by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and does not keep Internet providers from sharing data.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

There are two criminal complaints that have been unsealed in Virginia against Peter Romar, Ahmad Umar Agha (known online as “The Pro”) and Firas Dardar (“The Shadow”). Upon successful phishing attempts, the two men would use stolen data, including passwords, to deface websites and hijack social media accounts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

As the coronavirus got up close and personal during the week of March 2, PYMNTS put a study into the field on March 6 to a census-based panel of approximately 2,128 consumers in the United States. It takes effort to balance seamless-but-fraud-free user experiences. Can The New England Patriots Brand Survive Losing Tom Brady?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Visa ’s fiscal first-quarter results displayed an acceleration of cross-border volumes, while contactless payments continued to gain traction in the United States and beyond. The social media platform released its fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2019 financials on Jan. billion during the recently completed year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The warning follows others that have come from both the SEC and governments abroad, mainly that fraud is a hallmark in the Wild West of ICOs. The real danger is that if followers on social media are swayed, they might be swayed right to the edge of an investment cliff. Online Travel Services : What a difference an API makes.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

But even in the United States, interest in the tech is surging, according to the CB Insights patent analysis tool. Facial recognition, for example, could capture what a shopper is looking at, and enable retailers to later serve up related promotions to the shopper via email or online ads. Social Media/Entertainment.

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CFPB Monitor

JUNE 26, 2022

Similarly, the Federal Trade Commission reports that older adults account for 35 percent of the victims associated with filed fraud reports when a consumer has provided an age. The Advisory observes that financial institutions may be required under state law to report suspected EFE to law enforcement and/or Adult Protective Services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

All the data submitted and left behind online by users serves to give software ever-more information about how specific consumers browse, shop, buy, pay and transact (all of which go a long way to helping prevent fraud, of course). percent use the tech to fight internal fraud. That’s the promise. The report found that 81.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Rather, those are questions central to the development of digital identities and social authentication, making them important for the broader practice of online payments and eCommerce. Europe, having enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May, tends to be more aware of such concerns than the United States, he said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

In an age where credentials are lifted and bartered and sold like the currencies hackers target themselves, the concept of anti-fraud efforts revolves around a simple idea: to make sure that the person being done business with is who they say they are in the first place. You can get a lot of things accomplished in life online.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

His commentary about bitcoin over the years has included the words “stupid” and “a fraud,” along with threats to fire any employee caught trading it. But then again, Apple announced it is saving online journalism this week, so it’s not like Kroger assigned itself the hardest task on the to-do list. So can Apple save online journalism

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Abrigo

JANUARY 13, 2023

Although migrants knowingly engage with smugglers wittingly, they can become victims of this crime, as evidenced by the San Antonio, Texas discovery in June 2022 of 53 migrants—including children—who died in a tractor-trailer as they attempted to enter the United States illegally. Fraud Prevention. Fraud Trends.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Accusations of fraud and mismanagement, and criticisms of the government’s decision to invest in Solyndra, were rampant in the days following news of Solyndra’s impending bankruptcy proceedings — but the core mistake here involved ignorance of a key aspect of Solyndra’s business. — Ben Kaufman, founder, Quirky.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

ZestFinance, for example, has worked with both Baidu and JD.com on credit scoring, while DataVisor has worked with Chinese companies including Alibaba, Momo, and Cheetah Mobile on machine learning-driven fraud detection. But an 8 – 10% portion of the fund was dedicated to working with local partner funds to invest on their behalf.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

She acknowledges the inherent risks in the technology’s advancement, and emphasizes that properly channeling its power is crucial for humanity: “British-based companies…are pioneering the use of data science and Artificial Intelligence to protect companies from money laundering, fraud, cyber-crime and terrorism. Martin Chorzempa.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Paul wrote the “ Online Banking for Dummies ” book in the late ’80s. The Financial Branding Quote of the Year Award – goes to Piper Sandler’s Scott Hildenbrand : “Every bank has a peer group to compare their financial ratios, but bank leaders should also have a social media peer group.” Paul Murphy, founder of Murphy & Co.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

If passed, the Online Privacy Act, sponsored by U.S. This would be the standard for the United States and it would provide the kind of uniformity that I think everyone is looking for without preemption because it is the broadest bill.”. This bill is stronger than the California law,” Eshoo said, according to The Verge.

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Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

How many Libertarians do you think there are in the United States? Everyone complains about Amazon, but we all shop online. The core premise at its founding was to recreate the dynamics of the sharing and social media revolutions. Everyone, right? Everybody wants personal freedom and a limited government.

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