Tagged: fraud

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

May 14, 2023 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ThreatFabric, a provider of fraud detection solutions & intelligence for the financial services sector, has raised €11.5 million in a seed round “to expand its technical capabilities and support the company’s growth.” Specifically, the funds were secured “to increase ThreatFabric’s international expansion and extend its… Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Swissquote, which claims to be among Switzerland’s leading online banks, has chosen NetGuardians in order “to enhance fraud mitigation and comply with the AML requirements.” The NetGuardians AI-based financial crime solutions will “monitor all transactions at the bank and on the digital finance app ‘Yuh’,… Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against GA Investors as well as anonymous operators or “John Does 1-4” alleging fraudulent offerings of securities that includes crypto. The SEC said the bogus offerings were made available through “dozens of websites.” The SEC is… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, a provider of financial crime and risk management solutions, today announced significant enhancements to its RiskOps Platform, “enabling banks to better protect their customers from a wide variety of financial scams.” These new Feedzai ScamPrevent capabilities “deliver detection, classification, and interception of the widest… Read More

May 10, 2023 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CMFG Ventures, the venture capital arm of CUNA Mutual Group, has announced a strategic investment in DataVisor, a global firm focused on online fraud detection and risk management for financial services and ecommerce, as they expand their services into the credit union market. Credit unions… Read More

May 8, 2023 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tide has distributed a statement calling for a more aggressive approach to dealing with fraud. Tide is a neobank for small businesses providing accounts in partnership with ClearBank. The company reports having over 500,000 UK SMEs as customers. Tide is asking the UK government to… Read More

May 8, 2023 @ 9:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Socure, the provider of digital identity (ID) verification and fraud solutions, released a guide for state and local Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) “to establish effective digital ID programs for their constituents.” During the pandemic, the… Read More