Fraud & Identity Management

By: Kristan Frend As if business owners need one more thing to worry about — according to the Javelin Strategy & Research’s 2010 Identity...

Published: August 23, 2010 by Guest Contributor

There are a number of people within the industry heralding the death of knowledge based authentication. To those people I would say, “In my humble...

Published: August 9, 2010 by Monica Pearson

A few days ago I saw an article about hackers working from Russia, while committing check fraud in the United States. In what those...

Published: August 9, 2010 by Monica Pearson

In “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Kristan Frend touched on the vulnerabilities faced by members of our Armed Services....

Published: July 14, 2010 by Monica Pearson

By: Kristan Frend Last week I came across a news article that said the NYPD arrested 26 people who allegedly took at least $5...

Published: June 28, 2010 by Guest Contributor

By: Kennis Wong Several weeks ago, I attended and presented at Experian’s sold-out annual conference, Vision, in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the guest speakers...

Published: June 24, 2010 by Guest Contributor

With the upcoming changes to overdraft fee policies coming to the banking industry July 1st, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, banks and credit unions...

Published: June 16, 2010 by Matt Ehrlich

I often provide fraud analyses to clients, whereby they identify fraudsters that have somehow gotten through the system.  We then go in and see...

Published: June 14, 2010 by Andrew Gulledge

In case you’ve never heard of it, a Babel fish is a small translator; that allows a carrier to understand anything said in any...

Published: June 10, 2010 by Monica Pearson

We’ve blogged about fraud alerts, fraud analytics, fraud models and fraud best practices. Sometimes, though, we delude ourselves into thinking that fraud prevention strategies we put...

Published: June 10, 2010 by Andrew Gulledge

Well, in my last blog, I was half right and half wrong.  I said that individual trade associations and advocacy groups would continue to...

Published: June 3, 2010 by Keir Breitenfeld

By: Kristan Frend I recently gave a presentation on small business fraud at the annual National Association of Credit Managers (NACM) Credit Congress.  Following...

Published: June 1, 2010 by Guest Contributor

Well, here we are about two weeks from the Federal Trade Commission’s June 1, 2010 Red Flags Rule enforcement date.  While this date has...

Published: May 13, 2010 by Keir Breitenfeld

I received a call on my cell phone the other day. It was my bank calling because a transaction outside of my normal behavior pattern...

Published: April 20, 2010 by Monica Pearson

By: Ken Pruett I want to touch a bit on some of the third party fraud scenarios that are often top of mind with...

Published: April 5, 2010 by Guest Contributor