fraud

Fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law, a criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.

FBI Arrests Fugitive Wanted for $200M in Credit Card Fraud
FBI Arrests Fugitive Wanted for $200M in Credit Card Fraud
January 26, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

After nearly four years of evading authorities, a fugitive implicated in one of the Justice Department’s largest credit card fraud schemes gave himself up. Get...

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Transaction Laundering’s Newest Art Form
Transaction Laundering’s Newest Art Form
January 26, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

The good news is that risk and compliance solutions work. The bad news is that, in response, criminals have taken the payments path of least...

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BREAKING: TransUnion Releases New Data On Identity Theft, Fraud
BREAKING: TransUnion Releases New Data On Identity Theft, Fraud
January 25, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

As fraud and identity theft continue to evolve and become more sophisticated threats, TransUnion announced the launch of its new suite of solutions to help...

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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: US Data Breaches
PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: US Data Breaches
January 24, 2017  |  Daily Data Dive

According to a report highlighting findings from the Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout, data breaches in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2016:...

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Living (Dangerously) In The Land Of The Mag Stripe
Living (Dangerously) In The Land Of The Mag Stripe
January 20, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

The years may change, but one thing in financial services remain the same: the threat of fraud. John Buzzard, fraud executive expert of CO-OP Financial...

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Alibaba Cracks Down On Counterfeits
Alibaba Cracks Down On Counterfeits
January 05, 2017  |  Retail

Alibaba is taking more measures to crack down counterfeiters using its eCommerce site Taobao weeks after the site was blacklisted by the Office of the...

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Why Fraudsters Are Targeting Global Citizens
Why Fraudsters Are Targeting Global Citizens
January 04, 2017  |  International

It doesn’t take long for fraudsters to find new vulnerabilities in payments — and when they do, all bets are off. Get the Full Story...

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ACH Faster Payments Stress Fraud Protections
ACH Faster Payments Stress Fraud Protections
December 30, 2016  |  Faster Payments

Faster payments may be speeding up transactions for consumers, but it may also be putting pressure on the systems banks have in place to fight...

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Fighting Fraud — One Microsegment At A Time
Fighting Fraud — One Microsegment At A Time
December 14, 2016  |  Security & Fraud

Firewalls are out; hyperawareness of where data is flowing across networks and endpoints is in. The brand new Unisys Stealth(aware) platform takes a page from...

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