Tagged: scam

August 22, 2024 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

In 2020, the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) added OmegaPro and affiliated platforms to its “blacklist” of trading platforms that consumers should avoid. Unfortunately, that was insufficient to deter people from throwing good money… Read More

May 9, 2024 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is proposing to direct banks and other payment firms participating in CHAPS to reimburse their customers who have been victims of authorised push payment (APP) scams. The PSR’s direction will underpin the Bank of England’s new CHAPS reimbursement rules. In… Read More

October 13, 2023 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To give even more visibility to security and empower people to identify possible financial scams, Nubank (NYSE:NU) announces the campaign #PareceMasNãoÉoNubank (it looks like Nubank, but it isn’t). Through educational videos on major digital platforms, the company seeks to alert its customers to everyday situations… Read More

September 5, 2023 @ 11:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac has shared new scam prevention measures for its clients. Westpac recently announced new digital payment security features “to help combat scam losses.” In an Australian banking “first,” Westpac will “integrate its sophisticated fraud detection systems with its digital payment platforms to help customers identify… Read More

July 14, 2023 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On May 21, 2023, Multichain CEO Zhaojun was taken away by the Chinese police from his home and has been out of contact with the global Multichain team ever since. As noted via social media, the team claims they contacted the MPC node operators and… Read More

July 13, 2023 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Multichain hack could potentially be a “rug pull,” as an additional $103 million in funds were recently drained. Multichain, which is described as a cross-chain bridge protocol, reportedly saw another $103 million transferred to other blockchain addresses. This, according to security company Beosin. This… Read More

July 13, 2023 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

2023 so far has been a year of “recovery” for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as of June 30, the team at Chainalysis noted. And that’s not the only “good news” for… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

From romance scams to fictious online deals, impersonation scams of all kinds have plagued people and businesses over recent years and “shaken the confidence of victims.” However, the tide is turning. Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is taking the fight to the fraudsters “with its one-of-a-kind AI… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The National Anti-Scam Centre will be coordinating an investment scam fusion cell in order to address the growing problem of investment-related scams, which are now costing Australian consumers well over $1 billion a year. The fusion cell will reportedly be led by the ACCC and… 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 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

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

April 13, 2023 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Iris Powered by Generali, provider of a proprietary identity and cyber protection platform,  announced the launch of ScamAssist, a dedicated service to help Iris’ clients provide customers comprehensive and rigorous protection against email, phone, text, and direct mail scam attempts. In conjunction with the launch,… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 8:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Crypto Con: “Sha Zhu Pan” or pig butchering in Chinese Fraudsters and crooks tend to rehash their scams over time; the only thing that changes is the technology and tools utilized to separate money from the unsuspecting. Yesterday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ)… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and Telstra announced a new pilot to help protect their customers from phone scams. Scam Indicator, currently in proof-of-concept stage and to be piloted over the next few months, will help “protect joint CBA and Telstra customers from phone scams where… Read More

March 24, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Exit scams, popularly referred to as rug pulls, are “an ongoing criminal scheme in Web3,” according to an update shared by CertiK. CertiK writes in a blog post that a rug pull “involves fraudsters robbing a crypto project by liquidating their holdings without warning and… Read More

March 15, 2023 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest is increasing customer protection against crypto-criminals “after £329m was lost by consumers last year.” A daily limit of £1000 and a 30-day payment limit of £5000 to cryptocurrency exchanges is being “implemented to help protect customers losing life changing sums of money.” Cryptocurrency investments… Read More

February 3, 2023 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank is rolling out new features for its widely used banking apps “aimed at combating the plague of scammers ripping off Australians.” From late March, the app will “indicate whether the name and account details customers have entered are correct when they make payments… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

The long saga of Michael Terpin’s battle against SIM Swap fraudsters and allegations that AT&T shoulders much of the blame, saw one chapter closed this past week as the courts ordered perpetrator Nicholas Truglia (25) to repay $20.379 million Terpin. He has also been sentenced… Read More