Fraudster Recruited Warehouse Worker to Facilitate Return Fraud
Exemplifying both the brazen and clever nature of return fraud schemes, a fraudster exploited a warehouse employee...
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Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20212 min
Government Agencies in Puerto Rico Fall Prey to Pair of Spear Phishing Attacks
After compromising the email account of a government official at one agency, targeted phishing attacks were sent from this trusted...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20214 min
Using Compelling Evidence to Combat Chargebacks for Your Business
Guest Post & Case Study by: J. Carlson, Certified eCommerce Fraud Professional Chargeback disputes occur when a cardholder disputes a...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20212 min
Amazon Increased Conversion Additional 36% After Fixing Early Issues on Prime Day
According to marketing analytics data from Jumpshot, when Amazon’s Prime Day kicked-off on Monday July 16 their daily sales conversion...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20211 min
PayPal Completes $120 Million Acquisition of Simility
PayPal completes their fifth acquisition in the past 12 months, this time purchasing machine learning fraud prevention provider Simility...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20211 min
Couple Serving 5 Years for $1.2 Million in Friendly Fraud
An Indiana couple made over 2,700 purchases from Amazon over the period of a few years, creating new accounts and morphing their...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20216 min
How WireCash Manages Fraud & Found Success Underwriting Digital Money Transfers to High Risk Markets
Sarasota, FL, May 22, 2018 / By: Justin McDonald, The Fraud Practice How well would your fraud management program perform if your...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20213 min
About Social Engineering: A Case Study and How it Relates to Spear Phishing
What is social engineering? Social engineering is a fraud technique used to deceive individuals or businesses into unknowingly providing...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20213 min
Loyalty Fraud: Over 3 Billion Accounts and $48 Billion at Stake
Whether making fraudulent purchases to accrue loyalty points and rewards, or taking over legitimate customer accounts to steal and spend...
Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20212 min
Organized cybercriminals use web services to create false scanned documents
Less than $10 can purchase a scan of a false passport, driver’s license, or credit card with online delivery within seconds. Cyber...
Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20211 min
Website sells tens of thousands of counterfeit credit cards
The FBI and US Postal Inspection Service recently assumed control of fakeplastic.net, a massive and well organized online operation...
Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20212 min
Largest Credit Card Fraud Scheme Uncovered by U.S. Justice Department
A fourth defendant plead guilty in early August to his participation in an identity fraud scam where over 7,000 false identities were...
Fraud Practice
Nov 3, 20212 min
Responsive Design can Increase Conversion on Mobile Devices
Many retailers and websites have mobile-optimized sites, desktop sites and redirects to pages designed for a certain device or screen...
Fraud Practice
Nov 2, 20212 min
Eleven Florida Identity Tax Return Fraud Ring Members Arrested
Tax refund fraud is a growing crime that costs the federal government billions each year. Eleven members of an identity fraud ring...
Fraud Practice
Nov 2, 20212 min
Orchestrated Global Attacks Steal $11 Million with Prepaid Card ATM Withdrawals
In a highly organized and orchestrated attack, money mules across the world cashed out prepaid debit cards withdrawing millions of...
Fraud Practice
Nov 2, 20212 min
Microsoft and Symantec Shutdown Massive Botnet
The Bamital botnet, assembled by an organized group of fraudsters to commit click fraud, infected hundreds of thousands of computers but...
Fraud Practice
Nov 2, 20212 min
Increased Credit Limits with Fake Identities Stealing $200 Million
Eighteen members of a sophisticated fraud ring operating out of New Jersey were arrested in early February for their massive scam...
David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min
Two Fraudsters Steal $4M with Online Car Sale Scam
A man and woman organized a scheme posting non-existent vehicles for sale on many marketplace and auction websites scamming U.S. car...
David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min
Fraudsters Target New Zealand Auction Site to Recruit Money Mules
Fraud rings have been trying to increase their membership as they have targeted users of the New Zealand auction website Trade Me with a...
David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min
U.S. and Canadian Authorities Arrest Members of Identity Theft and Card Fraud Rings
Canada’s Regional Fraud Bureau along with Canadian police departments and the U.S. Secret Service carried out a raid on suspected...
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