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If PayPal and Facebook allow fraud to occur are they party to that fraud?
If you buy from a Facebook ad, use PayPal for payment and a fraud results don’t expect Facebook or PayPal to come to your assistance. Read more…
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The humble gift card is actually just another attack vector
The gift card. The perfect choice of gift in many ways. You buy a few, you send them to loved ones, they choose the gift. You get scammed. Read more…
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Gift cards are popular with consumers, but more popular with fraudsters
Merchants are filled with dread when they consider gift cards, extremely popular with consumers, but also a primary target of fraudsters. Read more…
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Wirecard’s former CEO Braun arrested in hunt for lost billions
Wirecard’s former boss has been arrested on suspicion of falsifying accounts, after the payments firm disclosed $2.1 billion financial hole. Read more…
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Fraud and cybercrime – increasingly borderless on a global scale
New report findings crystalize how fraud and cybercrime have become ncreasingly borderless on a global scale. Read more…
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Fraud is the fastest growing business on earth – no joke
With all the fraud statistics that flood in from PR companies you should unplug every device you own and/or think about a new career in fraud prevention. Read more…
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CFCA celebrates 35 years fighting fraud
Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA), a telecommunications fraud and risk consortium, is celebrating its 35th year anniversary in 2020. Read more…
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Samsung execs jailed over evidence destroyed in fraud case
South Korean court jails three executives of Samsung Electronics for their role in a plot destroy evidence in an investigation of alleged accounting fraud. Read more…
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Telecoms fraud still a lucrative criminal business – CFCA
CFCA survey sheds new light on telecoms fraud but it continues to be a lucrative criminal business despite industry efforts to reel it in. Read more…
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Rogue weather app makes comeback, continues mobile ad fraud
A weather forecasting app has once again been caught making digital purchases without the knowledge of the phone’s owner. Read more…