Month: September 2024

And the spoils of one of the largest known shopping scam networks may be benefiting a major Chinese company: the publicly traded TIZA Information Industry Corporation INC., whose 2019 revenue…

The seller becomes trapped in the scam by depositing the cashier's check into his or her own bank account and wiring the excess amount to the buyer. Finally, and most…

In this paper, we address this question by studying how consumers respond to potentially fraudulent reviews and how review portals can leverage this knowledge to design better fraud management policies.…

However, bank account information obtained by scammers is sometimes sold in bulk to other fraudsters who wait a few months for the victim to repair the damage caused by the…

Understanding these instances sheds light on the complexity of chargeback fraud. Instances of misplaced orders and shipping errors contribute to legitimate chargebacks. Merchant Errors. This one happens with a merchant…

With banking and finance apps being the most direct route to your money, we analysed search volume around scams and fraud reporting for the biggest banking and investment apps in…

Reporting fraud will not negatively affect your application. Fraudsters in the past have used the words and letters of HHS programs to give the false impression that their costly seminars…

These scams are fairly easy to avoid as long as you recognize the warning signs which you’ll find in large clusters whenever you happen upon a scholarship scam. People are…

Should the fraud be associated with a credit or debit card, call the number on the back of the card, at which point the fraud department takes steps to secure…

In February 2017, Spooner was sentenced to 30 months in prison for the GoFundMe fraud. After years on controversy, the Lancet, the prestigious journal that originally published the research, retracted…