Tagged: fraud

June 29, 2023 @ 12:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FiVerity, the provider of Anti-Fraud Collaboration solutions, today announced new platform features designed to help the financial industry fight back against fraud. FiVerity also announced it is “opening the network to an initial 200 small and medium-sized financial institutions, providing approved businesses with free access… Read More

June 22, 2023 @ 6:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Another Pig Butchering scam is in the news again. “Sha Zhu Pan” or “Pig Butchering” is a romance plot designed to fleece the funds of the unsuspecting. In this case, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed an enforcement action against Cunwen Zhu and… Read More

June 17, 2023 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One in every five global consumers surveyed in 2022 said they “fell victim to payments fraud in the last four years — 26.9% of whom are victims of Authorized Push Payment (APP) scams, which is the number one fraud threat globally” — according to the… Read More

June 15, 2023 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capita plc  announces it has been awarded a contract by the City of London Police to deliver customer contact and victim engagement services for the force’s new fraud reporting service. The contract will reportedly “run from 2024 and is worth approximately £50m over five years,… Read More

June 8, 2023 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sift, a firm focused on Digital Trust & Safety, announced a significant expansion of its worldwide partner program. The Sift Partner Program “extends Sift’s fraud prevention platform to a network of businesses worldwide, and across key industry verticals.” The expanded program “supports business models and… Read More

June 6, 2023 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RIBBIT, Inc., the “authority” on alternative bank and payment data, today announces its acquisition of ValidiFI, a provider of fraud, compliance, and risk mitigation solutions. The acquisition will aim to “create the industry’s leading banking and payment data solutions platform, improving the company’s product offering… Read More

June 6, 2023 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Online fraud and financial crime prevention platform SEON has released its latest ‘Global Banking Fraud Index’, which analyzes “the cost of fraud to banks and other financial institutions around the world in 2023.” Notably, the new review by SEON highlights the following: The value of… Read More

June 3, 2023 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australians selling unwanted or used items on Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree and other online websites are “being urged to remain vigilant as new data reveals a spike in scams.” Customer reports of goods and services scams have “increased 66% in the past three months.” A third… Read More

June 1, 2023 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Socure, the provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions, announced today that its Socure ID+ platform has been added to the State Risk and Authorization Management Program’s (StateRAMP) Progressing Product List after illustrating the core regulatory and industry-defined requirements for StateRAMP compliance. Socure is… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its card fraud report, which is “based on information provided by 20 card payment scheme operators.” Card fraud in 2021 “continued its downward trend, falling to its lowest level since data collection began.” It reportedly “constituted 0.028% of… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NameCheck anti-fraud technology to be offered to government, financial services firms as CommBiz customers get use of new service from now. Commonwealth Bank plans to offer its NameCheck anti-scams technology “to government organizations and other financial service companies that process payments in Australia as part… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chargebacks911, which claims to be the first company dedicated to providing chargeback remediation services to the world’s largest banks and businesses, released its 2023 Chargeback Field Report, “giving retailers and financial institutions an understanding into the current state of friendly fraud, first-party misuse and chargeback… Read More

May 30, 2023 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Francis Sabo (aka Ricky Bobby) regarding a $100 million securities fraud ploy. The SEC said that charges were “partially settled” while explaining the defendants included several others who allegedly used social media to manipulate shares of securities… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vespia, an AI-powered Business Verification Service for verifying and onboarding business customers that helps minimize the risk of fraud, has highlighted the significance of business verification for non-AML obligated firms, like supply chain, digital commerce, as well as the sharing economy. Vespia explains that by… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed an enforcement action in the US District Court for the Central District of California against David Carmona, Juan Arellano Parra, Moses Valdez, David Brend, and Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa, who were all doing business as a company… Read More

May 23, 2023 @ 1:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In one more step to increase security for customers, Nubank (NYSE: NU) announces two new tools: the Reporting Channel, which allows “the reporting of fraud or attempted fraud involving the company, and the Me Roubaram (I was robbed) feature, a site that Nubank customers can… Read More

May 22, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Collateral UK, once a peer-to-peer lending platform that went into insolvency in 2018, has seen fraud convictions of its founders. According to the Financial Conduct Authority that filed the charges, Peter Currie was convicted of two counts of fraud and one of money laundering. His… Read More

May 22, 2023 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Teradata (NYSE: TDC) and FICO, the analytics software provider (NYSE: FICO), announced an agreement under which they plan “to bring to market integrated advanced analytic solutions for real-time payments fraud, insurance claims, and supply chain optimization.” Bringing data, analytics and insights together in one environment… Read More

May 17, 2023 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Criminals have never had more avenues through which to defraud people, according to an update from ComplyAdvantage. This has been “fueled by the proliferation of technology ranging from instant messaging to new forms of remittance, like P2P and real-time payments.” That’s why ComplyAdvantage, a key… Read More

May 15, 2023 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kasada, provider of the most effective and easiest way to defend against advanced bot attacks, announced a strategic partnership with Signifyd, a specialist in eCommerce fraud and consumer abuse protection. As noted in the update: “As fraud rings continue to innovate, Signifyd and Kasada together… Read More