#TheFraudTube Preview: Social Media Links

  • April 23, 2012 00:23

In addition to #TheFraudTube website you can also keep up to date and interact with #TheFraudTube using your chosen social media networks.

Right now you can follow or link with #TheFraudTube using:

  • LinkedIn: Join our LinkedIn group and network with your peers, events and jobs will be posted here as well
  • Facebook: News and events will be posted to our Facebook page
  • Pinterest: News and stories will be pinned here, follow us and we will add you to a shared board
  • Twitter: Got news, tell us about it using hashtag #TheFraudTube. Follow us (@TheFraudTube)
  • Google+: News will be posted here, as Google+ develops we may also host seminars and discussions via hangouts
  • YouTube: Original and reposted video content can be found via our YouTube channel, organised into themed playlists

Shortly after launch additional options for keeping up with news and events will become available, initially including:

  • paper.li: A weekly digest of the most relevant news via #TheFraudTube Echo, plus one off specials following specific events
  • foursquare: Find out where we are reporting from at specific events and then come and meet us!
  • rss feeds: Subscribe to our feeds to keep updated with news, blogs and events

 

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#TheFraudTube Preview: Information Security

  • April 20, 2012 14:30

As well as producing our own reports and content (as shown in earlier previews) we will also re-post a selection of news stories and reports from the internet such as the following from Business Technology.

Greatest asset or biggest liability?

Source: Business Technology, 8th April 2012

What’s the biggest security risk when it comes to information? Probably your employees. But companies need to help staff to take responsibility, not demonise them.

In the recent BBC documentary The Tube about the London Underground, a lost property official revealed that 10,421 mobile phones had ended up in his department in the previous four months. This suggests that in London, travellers lose approximately 2,500 mobiles per month.

Source: biztechreport.co.uk via #TheFraudTube on Pinterest

 

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#TheFraudTube Preview: Blogs

  • April 20, 2012 07:39

We are pleased to announce that #TheFraudTube will feature a range of bloggers, all domain experts. Each blog will be updated on a regular basis and you will be able to subscribe via RSS to either all of the blogs or to your chosen individual blogs.

 

 

Our bloggers are:

  • Darren Hodder (@FraudAssist): Notes from the Editor
  • Neira Jones (@NeiraJones): Information security, payments & risk
  • Bennett Arron (@BennettArron): Identity fraud
  • Laurie Beagle: Credit risk and b2b fraud
  • Malcolm Gardner (@gardmal): Public sector fraud
  • Robert Siciliano (@RobertSiciliano): Social media & cybercrime

Introducing Bennett Arron

It Wasn’t Me, It Was Bennett Arron

So, Identity Theft. What is it really? Well, I’m glad you asked. It’s basically when your personal details are used fraudulently to open accounts or obtain documentation in your name. This could result in debts being accumulated, for which you would initially be accountable – until you prove yourself innocent.

ID theft is quite commonplace now, but when it happened to me several years ago, no one really knew much about the crime. I had to convince the Police, as well as all the companies to which I allegedly owed money, that I was me, and not the person pretending to be me.

Someone had used my name to ring up thousands of pounds worth of bad debts. This gave me a bad credit-rating which meant I couldn’t get a mortgage, couldn’t get a credit card and couldn’t open a bank account. I couldn’t even join my local gym as they wouldn’t accept my direct debit – so it wasn’t all bad news….

Read the rest of Bennetts blog along with our other bloggers when #TheFraudTube launches on Tuesday 24th April 2012 

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#TheFraudTube Preview: Live Event Coverage

  • April 19, 2012 18:00

We will provide live event coverage over Twitter. For example today we are at The Fraud Prevention Forum, follow and interact using #FPFLive and #TheFraudTube….

Update

This event is now finished, #TheFraudTube has departed!

Feed as of 18:00 BST

 

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#TheFraudTube Preview: Phone Hacking

  • April 18, 2012 13:22

As well as producing our own reports and content (as shown in yesterdays preview) we will also re-post a selection of news stories and reports from the internet such as the following from The Guardian.

Phone-hacking: Police hand files to prosecutors

Source: The Guardian, 18th April 2012

Police have handed case files relating to 11 suspects in the phone-hacking investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Source: guardian.co.uk via #TheFraudTube on Pinterest

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#TheFraudTube Preview: International News

  • April 18, 2012 08:51

As well as producing our own reports and content (as shown in yesterdays preview) we will also re-post a selection of news stories and reports from the internet such as the following from BBC Newsnight

Former Wickes cashier James Ibori jailed for massive corruption

Source: BBC Newsnight, 16th April 2012

James Ibori was a petty criminal who once worked for the DIY store Wickes, but he re-invented himself as one of the richest – and most corrupt – of Nigeria’s regional governors.

UK aid funded firms ‘linked to Nigeria fraudster Ibori’

Source: BBC Newsnight, 16th April 2012

Britain’s Department for International Development is accused of allowing tens of millions of pounds in UK aid to be invested in Nigerian money laundering fronts, BBC Newsnight has learned.

Newsnight on BBCi Player

Source: BBC iPlayer, 16th April 2012

Please note that the following content may not work outside of the UK and will be available for a limited period of time.

Click here to view the full Newsnight programme, originally broadcast on 16th April 2012

Source: bbc.co.uk via #TheFraudTube on Pinterest

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#TheFraudTube Preview: Corruption

  • April 17, 2012 07:21
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Nick Kochan is a leading author and journalist in the fields of fraud, corruption and regulation. He writes for UK national newspapers, including the Financial Times, and magazines, including The Banker. He is also the author of many books on forensic topics, his latest being ‘Corruption, The New Corporate Challenge’. His book on money laundering…

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