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Facebook Stops 600,000 Account Takeover Attempts Each Day
As the world’s largest social network and the second most visited website it should come as no surprise that Facebook sees a lot of...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read


Click Fraud Scammers with Massive Botnet Busted
A two year operation by the FBI called Operation Ghost Click has led to the arrest of six hackers who had built a botnet of over four...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20211 min read


Counterfeit Card Ring Resold Gasoline
For several years now fraudsters have been obtaining credit card numbers by hiding skimmers in gas pumps, but a fraud ring from Central...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20211 min read


Anonymous Hacks UN, Threatens Banks
The high profile data breaches continue in 2011 as Anonymous posted 1,000 user names and passwords taken from the United Nations. A...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read


Experian Acquires 192business
On November 28th the credit reporting bureau and global information services company Experian agreed to acquire the identity verification...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20211 min read


Fraudsters Forge Digital Certificates, Undermine Consumer Trust in Internet Security
Sarasota, FL, October 31, 2011/Internal Release/ - Consumers rely on signals from their web browser to ensure a website is legitimate...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read


Financial Institutions Finding Ways to Recoup Lost Debit Interchange Revenue
Sarasota, FL, October 3, 2011/Internal Release/ - In preparation for the October 1st implementation of the debit card interchange cap...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20213 min read


Increased Legislation Causing Waves in the Online Landscape
Retailers and financial institutions prepare for new debit interchange legislation in the United States while several state governments...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20213 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


MasterCard Changes to Chargeback Policy Benefits Online Merchants
Starting April 15th, 2011 MasterCard began enforcing a new set of rules limiting the chargeback rights for issuers when a credit card...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read


7 Ways to Keep Customers Coming Back
Now more than ever, merchants need to focus on how they can keep customers coming back to their website. Focusing on increasing repeat...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20211 min read


Secondhand Mobile Phones Contain Original Owner’s Data
Before you recycle or resell that mobile phone, are you sure it is clear of all your personally identifiable information? Manually...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read


Positive Economic Signs for eCommerce
Ecommerce growth stagnated during the recession but was able to finish 2010 with a strong holiday sales season. As the economy recovers...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20212 min read


I Got You Once, And I Will Get You Again
Red Bank, Oct. 30, 2008 /The FraudBlog Newsletter/ - While the article, "The Hackers Mindset - I did nothing Wrong" by Jon Swartz of USA...

David Montague
Nov 1, 20211 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


Who Will be Displaced by Amazon’s New Fraud Detection Service?
Fraud solution providers need to be prepared to competitively position and message against the new Amazon Fraud Detector risk modeling...

David Montague
Sep 29, 20215 min read


The Fed and FinCEN Propose to Lower Reporting Threshold on International Transfers to $250
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), along with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, recently proposed new rules...

David Montague
Sep 29, 20212 min read


Banco Santander to Acquire Wirecards’s Technology Assets
Following a series of accounting fraud scandals that resulted in the insolvency of German processor and payments provider Wirecard AG,...

Justin McDonald
Sep 29, 20211 min read


Featured Article: The Pandemic’s Influence on eCommerce
We were honored to contribute to this year’s Ecommerce Fraud Report from The Paypers with an article from Kevin J. Sprake, Managing Partner, discussing the impact of the pandemic on eCommerce. We invite you to download the article and FREE copy of the full report.

Justin McDonald
Sep 29, 20211 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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