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Organized Fraud Attack Compromised Merchant POS Systems with Malware
Two men from Romania were extradited to the United States last May after being accused of running a fraud operation that installed...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min read


Fraudsters Copy Legitimate Microsoft Email Days Later in Phishing Scam
Phishing scams can often be convincing, and a recent case of a phishing campaign emulating a legitimate Microsoft email about changes to...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min read


PRESS RELEASE: Failure to Conduct Proper Email Notifications on Account Usage
Failure to Conduct Proper Email Notifications on Account Usage and Account Changes Costs one Bank over $400,000 Sarasota, FL, July 31,...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20216 min read


Brothers Generate $1.4 Million in Commissions from Incomplete Sales
Brothers Andrew and Allen Chiu placed $23 million worth of fraudulent orders through FatWallet, a membership shopping community that...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20211 min read


How Large of a Problem is Click Fraud?
A recent Forbes headline read “Is Click Fraud A Ticking Time Bomb Under Google?” referencing the billions in revenue Google makes each...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20211 min read


DNSChanger Behind $14M Affiliate Fraud Shut Down by FBI
The DNSChanger malware, which spread to more than 500,000 devices in the U.S. and 4 million worldwide, redirected the web browsers on...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20212 min read


Apple Store Employee Bypassed Security Checks to Accept Known Bad Checks
Roberto Sanchez, a former Apple Store employee in New Hampshire, reached a plea bargain to serve three months in jail after intentionally...

David Montague
Nov 2, 20211 min read


Tens of Thousands of Fraud Attempts, None Successful
We always seem to hear about the successful fraudsters who cheated merchants, but we don’t often hear about the successful merchants in...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20214 min read


PRESS RELEASE: WHEN THE FRAUDSTER IS SOMEONE YOU TRUST
Red Bank, Aug. 15, 2008 /The FraudBlog Newsletter/ - The number of articles related to internal fraud have been rising considerably over...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20213 min read


Nacha Approves Amendments to Operating Rules Focused on Supporting More Technologies and Handling Un
Nacha, who enables Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments, has approved eight amendments to their Operating Rules focused on...

David Montague
Sep 29, 20212 min read


Black Friday and Cyber Monday Online Sales Set Records but Fall Short of High Expectations
Cyber Monday once again set the record for the largest online shopping day in the United States as consumers spent more than $10.8...

David Montague
Sep 29, 20212 min read
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