Fraud Conference Calendar 2019
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
Author : Ronen Shnidman
Machine Identity Replacing PII in Securing Transactions
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
How the Israel Police Fights Money Laundering
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
FBI Working with Business to Fight Fraud
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
Book Review: How to Become a World Class Investigator
“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
‘Online Fraudcast’ Podcast Explores Fraud Topics
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
ThetaRay Raises $30M in Quiet July for Fraud Prevention
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
Whitepages Launches Advanced Manual Review Tool
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
Smyte Leaves Customers in the Lurch
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
PayPal and Twitter Buy Anti-Fraud Startups in June
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,