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I n the ongoing war against identity theft, individual battles are constantly being waged and...
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“Extremely troubling,” is how one Arizona public safety officer described the small items in front...
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If you have followed the news at all lately, you have likely heard that financial institutions of...
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It is perhaps a sign of the times when the annual convention of anti-money laundering...
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One of the biggest concerns of any financial institution – that is, any institution that routes...
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The last several weeks have seen a number of noteworthy arrests for money laundering. A fugitive...
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The last decade brought about a tumultuous change in financial institution regulations. Many...
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Every so often an identity fraud story comes along in the news that is not only impressive in its...
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If you read Part I of our blog series on identity fraud you almost surely remember the sum totals...
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Two very important studies delving into fraud reports from 2010 were issued recently. The first, a...
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Credit card processing servers. Poorly secured corporate networks. Point-of-sale terminals in gas...
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Imagine you were offered this amazing business opportunity: you would join an effort by a local...
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We have mentioned in a number of previous posts the international nature of many counterfeit money...
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How easy is it to create counterfeit money? Up until a few months ago, the Reid brothers would...
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(Note: This is the second article in our series Best Practices for Counterfeit Detection. For the...
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Want an entertaining dinner party activity? Ask people around the table if they know how to tell...
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Good news from the front in the battle against identity theft! Well, somewhat good news. With an...
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It is always a treat to hear from actual identity thieves: understandably they are not often...
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Go into any of tens of thousands of restaurants, bars or retail stores these days, and chances are...
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On the heels of last week's story about Australian airline tickets bought with counterfeit credit...
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Out of the three groups affected by retail fraud – consumers, financial institutions and merchants...
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We have mentioned in our previous posts that fraud committed on a stolen credit card affects three...
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As we mentioned in our previous post, the impact of retail fraud on businesses and financial...
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Rounding out our October spotlight on identity fraud and identity authentication, we have recently...
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In continuing our September Mortgage Fraud spotlight, this week we are talking about the...
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For anyone concerned about how mortgage fraud can affect them specifically, the LexisNexis...
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It has been somewhat of an open secret that North Korea is the single biggest manufacturer of...
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Hardly a day goes by without a news report mentioning identity theft or giving a heart-rending...
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We have talked in previous posts about international financial fraud as it relates to employment...
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Money counterfeiting, as any other crime, doesn't stand still. Fraudsters continually evolve...
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So far, we have been discussing the problem of counterfeiting only within the U.S., although it...
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This past Sunday's Los Angeles Times featured an article quoting Fraud Fighter's own VP of Sales...
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We mentioned previously the intaglio printing process that creates fine lines around the portraits...
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As credit cards continue to supplant cash and checks as the preferred method of payment, credit...
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We have mentioned here previously the new high-tech anti-counterfeitting features of the new $100,...
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Big-box stores are a favorite target of fraudsters, because of the value of their products. So...
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Imagine for a moment you are a modern-day Al Capone. Through a combination of robbery, embezzlement...
