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16
Mar

Fraud Conference Calendar 2019

Ronen Shnidman / March 16, 2019
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Dozens of conferences are held across the globe every year on topics related to fighting fraud, whether in payments, insurance, money laundering or other related fields. To assist fraud prevention professionals and organizations looking for opportunities to learn, network and find solutions to their fraud problems, just like it did in 2018, about-fraud.com has created […]

07
Mar

women in fraud

Female Fraudsters: Looking at the Past, Present and Future

Gilit Saporta / March 7, 2019
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The number of female fraudsters has risen in recent years along with the boom in global e-commerce and new web-only financial services. While pop culture has long adored notorious femme fatales from Katherine Hepburn’s 1935 classic “Sylvia Scarlett” to the iconic “Thelma & Louise,” the reality is often much less glamorous for female fraudsters. Taking […]

19
Feb

Machine Identity Replacing PII in Securing Transactions

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 […]

27
Dec

How the Israel Police Fights Money Laundering

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. […]

17
Dec

FBI Working with Business to Fight Fraud

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 […]

05
Dec

Book Review: How to Become a World Class Investigator

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) […]

27
Aug

‘Online Fraudcast’ Podcast Explores Fraud Topics

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 […]

06
Aug

5 Things You Should Know About Being a Fraud Analyst

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 […]

02
Aug

ThetaRay Raises $30M in Quiet July for Fraud Prevention

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 […]

26
Jul

Whitepages Launches Advanced Manual Review Tool

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% […]

Fraud Conference Calendar 2019

Female Fraudsters: Looking at the Past, Present and Future

Machine Identity Replacing PII in Securing Transactions

How the Israel Police Fights Money Laundering

FBI Working with Business to Fight Fraud

Book Review: How to Become a World Class Investigator

‘Online Fraudcast’ Podcast Explores Fraud Topics

5 Things You Should Know About Being a Fraud Analyst

ThetaRay Raises $30M in Quiet July for Fraud Prevention

Whitepages Launches Advanced Manual Review Tool

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