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11
May

DME Fraud: The Undead Zombie of Healthcare Fraud

Randall Casciello / May 11, 2026
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Durable Medical Equipment (DME) consists of things like knee braces, back braces, glucose monitors, wheelchairs, and any other medical equipment prescribed for a patient. For providers, prescribing and distributing DME is not a one-time transaction, they are healthpayer billing streams. Unlike other healthcare services provided, such as fee-for-service, DME offers providers high reimbursement rates, repeatable […]

08
May

chargebacks

Google Play Shifts App Chargebacks Burden to Developers

Ronen Shnidman / May 8, 2026
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Google Play is changing how it handles chargebacks, switching to a model of splitting the costs with developers instead of absorbing the fees entirely. The change was first reported by technology news site Piunika Web, based upon an official support page for the app store announcing the update. De facto, developers’ responsibility for app chargebacks […]

06
May

Update: Travel Chargebacks Surge, As Spirit Airlines Collapses

Ronen Shnidman / May 6, 2026
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Spirit Airlines’ collapse last weekend led to approximately 1,000% week-over-week increase in disputes on transactions connected to the airline in the first 72 hours following its end of operations, according to issuer chargeback management solution provider Quavo. Quavo Predicts 60-90 Day Chargeback Surge Quavo claimed “unmatched” visibility into the chargeback impact of Spirit Airlines’ demise […]

05
May

Tackling Human Trafficking: Lessons from Case Studies

Urriolagoitia Miner / May 5, 2026
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Human trafficking is the act of taking a person across a border against their will, usually to exploit them for labor. The term applies both to when people are trafficked from city to city inside a country and when they are brought across international borders. Human smuggling, on the other hand, is voluntary on the […]

24
Apr

Ballerine Launches New Scam & Fraud Detection API

Ronen Shnidman / April 24, 2026
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Ballerine, a merchant risk and compliance platform for acquirers and payment service providers (PSPs), introduced to market its new agentic detection solution, the Scam & Fraud Detection API, that identifies high-risk merchants and fraud networks in less than 60 seconds before transactions occur. Historically, it has usually taken acquirers anywhere from days to weeks to […]

Interview with Intelligence Expert Dmitry Ivanov

16
Apr

3 Major Pitfalls of Intelligence Work

Ronen Shnidman / April 16, 2026
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Dmitry Ivanov is the founder and Head of Intelligence at SA West Global Intelligence, a private competitive intelligence firm based in Riga, Latvia and that operates in Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa. He has over two decades experience in the business intelligence industry. Dmitry sat down in February with Fraudbeat to discuss open-source […]

14
Apr

How Data Science Is Rewriting Chargeback Strategy

Maya Fudim / April 14, 2026
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A few years ago, improving chargeback performance meant adding more reviews and more people to the team and having a clear chargeback strategy was unheard of. Today, technology and modern solutions make chargeback management easier and importantly, more effective. Merchants reduce manual effort while improving dispute outcomes at the same time. The complexity hasn’t disappeared, […]

13
Apr

VAMP: Redefining What ‘Good’ Means for Payments Operations

Amber McGirr / April 13, 2026
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If you run an e-commerce business, you’ve likely heard of Visa’s Acquirer Monitoring Program, known as VAMP. Most explanations talk about how VAMP works. Fraud (TC40) and disputes (TC15) are now combined into one ratio. The rules are stricter, and acquirers must ensure everyone follows them. All of this is accurate, but the main point […]

07
Apr

How Telehealth Became the Perfect Vehicle for Fraud

Randall Casciello / April 7, 2026
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Until telehealth, there may never have been a better example of the fraud axiom that everything we do to make it easier for the consumer also makes it easier for the crooks. Telehealth was supposed to be the key to unlock access to health care, replacing waiting rooms with video calls and having prescriptions written […]

Huoine Group and Southeast Asia romance scams

03
Apr

PRC Extradites Huione Group Gangster Tied to Pig Butchering Scams

Ronen Shnidman / April 3, 2026
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Li Xiong, past chairman of the Huione Group, was extradited from Cambodia to China last week, in another blow towards organized crime in Southeast Asia focused on generating revenue from fraud schemes. The Huione Group was a corporate network of companies that enabled money laundering on a massive scale for scam centers in Southeast Asia […]

DME Fraud: The Undead Zombie of Healthcare Fraud

Google Play Shifts App Chargebacks Burden to Developers

Update: Travel Chargebacks Surge, As Spirit Airlines Collapses

Tackling Human Trafficking: Lessons from Case Studies

Ballerine Launches New Scam & Fraud Detection API

3 Major Pitfalls of Intelligence Work

How Data Science Is Rewriting Chargeback Strategy

VAMP: Redefining What ‘Good’ Means for Payments Operations

How Telehealth Became the Perfect Vehicle for Fraud

PRC Extradites Huione Group Gangster Tied to Pig Butchering Scams

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