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Ripple Files Lawsuit Against YouTube For Not Removing Crypto Scams Fast Enough

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Ripple announced on Tuesday (April 21) that it is filing a lawsuit against YouTube , alleging that the popular video platform isn’t doing its due diligence to identify and remove crypto-related scams, according to a company blog post. The scams often impersonate legitimate companies and have fake social media accounts.

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BNY Mellon’s AI Fix For Reducing False-Positives

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owning laptops and 91 percent owning mobile devices, there’s never been greater opportunity for digital fraud. Total losses due to fraud were a staggering $4.2 One of the most insidious forms of fraud is account takeovers (ATOs). Developments from around the Digital Fraud World. With 83 percent of consumers in the U.S.

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To Fight Fake IDs And Online Fraud, Know Thy Enemy Better

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At the least, it won’t get any better — not according to any anti-fraud expert who is worth their rate. Every business must decide its comfort level with fraud and how much risk to take on, a concept discussed in depth during a new PYMNTS digital discussion, featuring Karen Webster and Kevin Trilli, chief product officer at Onfido.

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Video: How to Protect Your Children from Identity Theft

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Did you know that more than one million American children were victims of identity fraud in 2017? This shocking statistic was a major driver for me to pore over article after article, looking for the causes and solutions – and put on my hat as both a fraud fighter and a parent. . This is a behaviour we parents can very much control. .

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Pet Scams Rise As Holiday Buyers, At-Home Workers Seek New Pets

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That’s more than double the rate from a year ago, and marks a nearly fivefold increase in this type of fraud since 2017. Common types of fraud involve, unsurprisingly, demands for money from “breeders” before you’ve even seen the pet. According to the BBB, the U.S. million in losses. Paying For Pups.

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Amazon Takes Aim at Counterfeiters, Collaborators In Federal Lawsuit

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Luxury product rip-off artists and their social media accomplices beware: Amazon is coming after you. The pair then used social media sites like TikTok and Instagram to promote the counterfeit products. Amazon on Thursday (Nov. Amazon on Thursday (Nov. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

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Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Data & Analytics in the Oracle Cloud

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Object Storage-based Data Lake – this is a recent Youtube video from Oracle demonstrating how to set up a data lake on OCI using object storage. Demo of Setting up OCI Streaming – short, recent youtube video explaning OCI Streaming with a demo on how to set it up (non Oracle video).

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