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Start 👁️🗨️ Pete’s Second Friday Fraud Watch for March – Sorry to say this but this second Fraud Watch is needed this month.
🚀 I am doing some research and have serious concerns about how easy the fraudsters are finding it is to succeed. I firmly believe we in Counter fraud and cybercrime whilst not being so much part of the problem are over estimating how streetwise everyone is. 90% of the population do NOT get fraud.
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Sorry to say this but you my friends on LinkedIn need this one.
🚀 Fraud and cybercrime is going bonkers and so many folks seem to be focused on highly unlikely scenarios involving less than 0.1% of the risk I therefore felt the need to put out another fraud watch to cover real life fraud that is happening every day targeting all of us.
🗞️ So here is a round up of some active phishing email scams:
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An interesting blog and great insights from data protection expert Rowenna Fielding where a fraudster tried to persuade her to send him her money.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MissIGGeek/i-nearly-got-scammed
Hosted by LSA and The Gift Club with guests including Peter Taylor, Brett Johnson, and Alexander Hall.
A podcast from a year ago that discusses my views on 2022 rather accurately. Points covered
Why some phishing email headers work better than others. My view that fraud has evolved more in 3 years than it did in the past 30 years. 📩 An unsolicited endorsement for Emailage. What the criminals told me. One prediction I got wrong in 2017 about synthetic fraud which I said would explode in about 2021 whereas it took until 2022.Why patient criminals are winning.
Protecting yourself and your customers. Ghost brokers. Watch out for misinformation Use what we have well because it is pretty good. The role of well supported, well trained, and confident analysts. Some funny stories from the casebook needing a bleep. Advice for others
Let’s be careful out there…
https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/71-peter-taylor-fraud-detection/id1507803617?i=1000533190932
This again illustrates a lack of checking by host media sites.
You can’t buy a pack of cigarettes without age verification but you can sell stays at someone else’s house and fraudulently obtain the money of tourists.
The distress this caused the home owner must have been awful. Those of us who travel internationally can imagine the pure hell of the end of a long journey to roll up at an innocent victim’s house with luggage and children.
This has been bubbling for along time but is now happening en masse as organised crime gangs open up Limited Companies without the knowledge of innocent home owners. The first they find out about it is when they get letters from HMRC and creditors. Many thanks to Graham Barrow for monitoring this and bringing it to the forefront.