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Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by 2030

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AI Employees

Managing AI Employees: Lessons for Fraud Leaders

Jun 21, 2026
Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) for cash

Top 5 Things Law Enforcement Wants in SAR

Jun 14, 2026
Issuer-side dispute investigator

Dispute Investigator Life: Issuer Judgement Calls vs. Network

Jun 12, 2026
Billing identity theft

Billing Identity Theft: When Healthcare Providers Become Victims

Jun 07, 2026
Airline chargebacks

Airline Chargebacks Likely to Remain Elevated This Summer

Jun 05, 2026
Agentic commerce disputes

Agentic Commerce Disputes: A Fraud Window Left Open

May 31, 2026
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Agentic Trust: When AI Agents Shop, How Do

May 26, 2026
Authorized push payment fraud (APP fraud)

APP Fraud and the New Dispute System You

May 17, 2026
Digital identity verification

Digital Identity Verification Market to Exceed $29B by

May 14, 2026
Orca Fraud CEO Thalia Pillay

Orca Fraud: Fighting Fraud Differently in Emerging Markets

May 14, 2026
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Cybertech TLV 2019 machine identity
19
Feb

Machine Identity Replacing PII in Securing Transactions

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / February 19, 2019
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Several new and intriguing ways of authenticating identity were on display at the CyberTech TLV conference in Israel at the end of last month. Behind all the innovative ways of determining identity lies the notion that personally identifiable information (PII) on humans is no longer necessary or even desirable for security purposes – a message […]

Tal Ben Yosef
27
Dec

How the Israel Police Fights Money Laundering

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / December 27, 2018
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Tal Ben Yosef is an accredited lawyer and fraud prevention manager at the Union Bank of Israel, but until a few months ago he was the head of the fraud investigations department of the Shfela region in the Israel Police. He started his career in investigations during his mandatory military service in the Military Police. […]

Michsel LeMieux
17
Dec

FBI Working with Business to Fight Fraud

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / December 17, 2018
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Michael LeMieux served in the FBI as a Supervisory Special Agent at the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. He managed there investigations involving theft of trade secrets, counterfeit goods that pose a threat to health/safety and copyright and trademark infringement cases. Since retiring from the FBI,  LeMieux has served as a Certified Fraud Examiner […]

Julie Clegg Book
05
Dec

Book Review: How to Become a World Class Investigator

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / December 5, 2018
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“How to Become a World Class Investigator” is not a book that will appeal to every reader, but the topics it covers and the approach it takes are valuable to any person interested in fighting fraud. Cross-disciplinary learning is valuable Most of the readers of about-fraud.com come from the world of e-commerce and card-not-present (CNP) […]

Online Fraudcast
27
Aug

‘Online Fraudcast’ Podcast Explores Fraud Topics

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / August 27, 2018
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Fraud prevention consultant Karisse Hendrick joined with about-fraud.com contributor and ex-con Brett Johnson to launch this summer “The Online Fraudcast” podcast. Over the first few episodes, the duo discuss e-commerce fraud issues facing merchants and consumers with insights drawn from both the good guys and the bad guys along with a dose of humor. As […]

Fraud Analyst: 5 Things to Know
06
Aug

5 Things You Should Know About Being a Fraud Analyst

  • Matana Soreff
    Matana Soreff / August 6, 2018
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The demand for fraud prevention employees is booming with the rapid growth of international e-commerce. If you’re interested in exploring a new career in this fast growing and changing area, here are some things you probably don’t know about being fraud analyst but should. 1) They won’t teach you to be a fraud analyst in […]

funding cash money
02
Aug

ThetaRay Raises $30M in Quiet July for Fraud Prevention

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / August 2, 2018
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Investment activity in the fraud prevention space was light in July, with the exception of a $30 million Series B funding round by Israel-based ThetaRay at the beginning of the month. Investors in the round included Jerusalem Venture Partners, GE, Bank Hapoalim and OurCrowd, bringing total investment in the company to $60 million. ThetaRay uses […]

Whitepages Pro WPP Insight
26
Jul

Whitepages Launches Advanced Manual Review Tool

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / July 26, 2018
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Whitepages Pro launched its new manual review tool Whitepages Pro Insight this Tuesday to help business prevent and identify fraud among customer transactions. The new tool leverages machine learning to highlight likely cases of fraud based on the millions of transactions processed by Whitepages Pro’s network of clients. “Our customers see up to a 40% […]

09
Jul

Smyte Leaves Customers in the Lurch

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / July 9, 2018
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Smyte and Twitter left dozens of the former’s clients out in the cold at the end of last month, shutting off the company’s API with half an hour’s notice following its acquisition by Twitter on June 21. Clients including Zendesk, Musical.ly, Indiegogo and Meetup were impacted by the disruption in service. Smyte until its acquisition […]

funding cash money
04
Jul

PayPal and Twitter Buy Anti-Fraud Startups in June

  • Ronen Shnidman
    Ronen Shnidman / July 4, 2018
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Mergers and acquisition activity took off in the fraud space in June with PayPal’s $120 million acquisition of Simility and Twitter’s buyout of Smyte. Meanwhile, fraud detection startup CashShield closed a $20 million Series B funding round. PayPal’s all-cash deal to acquire Simility is expected to close at the end of the third quarter, after […]