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02
Mar

Pick Your Battles with Identity Deception

Maya Fudim / March 2, 2026
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The global economy in 2026 is transitioning to the full digitalization of goods and services, and the gap between a fraudster’s technological toolkit and a company’s defensive methodology is widening at an industrial scale. While data spoofing and human engineering have become highly sophisticated, many organizations are still fighting 21st-century exploits with 20th-century enforcement. This […]

26
Feb

How Fintechs Should Build Their Fraud Prevention Strategies

Ronen Shnidman / February 26, 2026
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Chen Zamir has spent the past two decades helping fintechs fight fraud from PayPal to serving as the CTO and co-founder of the anti-fraud startup Fraugster and now as Head of Fraud Strategy at Sardine. He is also the author of the popular Saturday Fraud Strategist newsletter published by his consultancy native[risk] and co-author of […]

16
Feb

My Conversation with a Pig Butcher

Ronen Shnidman / February 16, 2026
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Many who grew up in English-speaking countries will recognize the nursery rhyme called “This Little Piggy” that involves playing with a child’s toes. Few realize that the words of the rhyme recount the harsh realities of a pig’s life on the farm. The first pig is brought to market, i.e. slaughtered. The little piggy who […]

09
Feb

Why Healthcare Still Accepts Fraud Levels Other Industries Wouldn’t

Randall Casciello / February 9, 2026
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Healthcare fraud losses remain orders of magnitude higher than what financial services would tolerate for comparable transaction volumes. In banking, sustained fraud measured in basis points triggers executive escalation, regulatory scrutiny, and rapid control changes. In healthcare, materially larger losses have historically been treated as an unfortunate but expected cost of doing business. In this […]

03
Feb

Top 5 Differences Between Fraud Investigators and Anti-Money Laundering Analysts

Urriolagoitia Miner / February 3, 2026
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In the world of anti-financial crime professions, there are a few major disciplines that stand out and tend to define a career. One of these is anti-fraud. In recent years, fraud has become more well-known to the public. Any type of misrepresentation, lying, scheming, scamming or stealing credentials and identities in order to gain money […]

03
Feb

Agentic Commerce Will Force Merchants to Rethink Chargeback Evidence

Ben Herut / February 3, 2026
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AI agents are starting to buy things, not just recommend them in what will become the era of agentic commerce. However, that shift won’t eliminate chargebacks. It will change what they look like, why they happen, and what merchants need to prove when a dispute shows up. The chargeback system is built around a simple […]

30
Jan

Myanmar’s Pig Butchers Brought to Justice in China

Ronen Shnidman / January 30, 2026
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The long arc of the universe bends towards justice – at least when it comes to the pig butcher scam artists of Southeast Asia. This month, the Chinese government executed 11 members of an organized criminal family that operated so-called pig butchering scam centers across the border in Myanmar and sentenced to death at least […]

Global Payments and Chargeback Help merger

23
Jan

Global Payments Acquires ChargebackHelp to Provide Greater Value-Added Services

Ronen Shnidman / January 23, 2026
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The payment processor and Fortune 500 company Global Payments publicly announced its merger with chargeback management solution ChargebackHelp earlier this month after acquiring the company in May 2025 for an undisclosed sum. This week, Fraudbeat spoke with Rick Lynch, a ChargebackHelp senior executive and now Head of Fraud, Risk & Disputes at Global Payments, to discuss […]

21
Jan

Fraudbeat Returns: A Renewed Home for Clear, Independent Reporting on Fraud

Ronen Shnidman / January 21, 2026
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Fraudbeat.com is relaunching, with a redesigned platform and a sharpened editorial mission: to serve as a trusted, independent news source.

21
Jan

Countering Refund Abuse and the Future of Customer Experience

Ronen Shnidman / January 21, 2026
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Jordan Shamir is the CEO and co-founder of Yofi, a refund abuse prevention solution recently acquired by the anti-fraud vendor No Fraud. Before establishing Yofi, Shamir acquired nearly half a decade in Product Management experience working for IBM. In this Fraudbeat interview, we ask Jordan what motivated him to found Yofi and accept the acquisition […]

Pick Your Battles with Identity Deception

How Fintechs Should Build Their Fraud Prevention Strategies

My Conversation with a Pig Butcher

Why Healthcare Still Accepts Fraud Levels Other Industries Wouldn’t

Top 5 Differences Between Fraud Investigators and Anti-Money Laundering Analysts

Agentic Commerce Will Force Merchants to Rethink Chargeback Evidence

Myanmar’s Pig Butchers Brought to Justice in China

Global Payments Acquires ChargebackHelp to Provide Greater Value-Added Services

Fraudbeat Returns: A Renewed Home for Clear, Independent Reporting on Fraud

Countering Refund Abuse and the Future of Customer Experience

Managing AI Employees: Lessons for Fraud.

Top 5 Things Law Enforcement Wants.

Dispute Investigator Life: Issuer Judgement Calls.

Billing Identity Theft: When Healthcare Providers.

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