Walmart is changing its opioid policy following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), limiting the length of the opioid prescriptions it will fill and only accepting e-prescriptions starting in 2020, according to CNN Money reports. On Monday (May 7), Walmart said it...
Major retailers such as Target, Home Depot, Walmart and Lowe’s have been forced to introduce stricter return, store credit and gift card policies in response to a troubling trend. These seemingly harmless customer services are being used as currency in an unlikely and dangerous economy...
They say gift cards are the gift that always fits. Apparently, this is especially true if you’re a fraudster, and many are using this unlikely currency to support their drug habits. Law enforcement and drug users report that the scam isn’t hard to pull off,...
What would happen if Amazon went offline today? Not a service blip, like the June outage that redirected users to 503 error pages featuring cute puppies one morning, but a total takedown of the website, never to be restored? After the initial panic, denial and...
October 22, 2019
The head of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has warned FinTech firms that they must abide by anti-money laundering (AML) laws. “The expectation is that you will comply with existing regulation,” said Director Kenneth Blanco at a FinTech event, according to American Banker. The warning seems to be aimed toward cryptocurrency exchanges and FinTech […]
May 08, 2018
Walmart is changing its opioid policy following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), limiting the length of the opioid prescriptions it will fill and only accepting...
December 08, 2017
They say gift cards are the gift that always fits. Apparently, this is especially true if you’re a fraudster, and many are using this unlikely currency to support their drug...
