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A Month in the Life of a Fraud Consultant

Darren Hodder

Wow, what a mad few weeks it has been at Fraud Consulting HQ… If my blogging activity has been a bit sporadic it is because I no longer have time to think let alone write. However I do need to ensure that @FraudBloke doesn’t completely take over blogging here at #TheFraudTube and so I have…

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2013: Year of the Snake!

Darren Hodder

I keep meaning to add new entries on here and have failed to do so for far too long… and so to kick things off again here is an item which I recently wrote for E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy: What a year it has been and we are only mid-way through February! January saw…

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Cork Start-Up, Trustev, Secures $300k Funding for New Fraud Solution

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Source: #TheFraudTube, 14th February 2013 With a revolutionary approach to combating online fraud Trustev, an Irish tech start-up, have concluded a $300K USD funding round allowing the business to more than double the size of their team. Their new solution makes cleaver use of social data from the major social media platforms (such as LinkedIn,…

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Hackers Can Bank on NFC

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Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 8th August 2012 Charlie Miller, principal research consultant at US security firm Accuvant recently demonstrated how he could hijack a person’s smartphone by using the device’s embedded near-field communications (NFC) chip. He used an NFC tag to instruct the Google Beam app to open a webpage that contained a specially crafted attack…

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Online Fraud-fighting Takes Different Forms in Europe and the U.S.

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Source: Internet Retailer, 31st May 2012 Greater access to public records in the United States, such as telephone data, helps explain some differences between regions, says Nicolas Vedrenne, MRC’s managing director for Europe. Additionally, 57% of the European businesses say that a fraudscoring model is one of their top three most successful anti-fraud measures, compared…

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Meet #TheFraudTube at The Global Gambling Payments Intensive

Online gambling and payment fraud is a particularly challenging area in terms of both fraud risk and regulatory compliance. We are pleased to confirm that Cecile Park Conferences have invited #TheFraudTube to deliver a talk on these issues at the Global Gambling Payments Intensive.

The event will take place in London on 17th May 2012. Places are filling fast however we can offer an exclusive discount for registration to this event. To be sent further details on this special offer please use Twitter and send a tweet as follows:

“#ggpi2012 I want to prevent gambling #fraud”

We look forward to meeting up with both familiar friends and new faces alike!

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#TheFraudTube Echo @ #MRCDublin

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This is a special edition of #TheFraudTube Echo with content from The MRC European Risk Conference in Dublin… Conference Day 2 Conference Day 1 Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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