Tag: Fraud
Heists Worth Billions: An investigation found criminal gangs using sham bank...
In January 2020, Debi Gamber studied a computer screen filled with information on scores of check deposits. As...
How to protect yourself from drop account fraud – tips from...
Kurt Eichenwald, The Conversation
The types of crimes that use drop accounts are multiplying rapidly, but there are ways...
Insurance fraud costs $309 billion a year – nearly $1,000 for...
Michael Skiba, Colorado State University Global
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What would you do with an extra...
Donor beware: Pause before you give to any cause
Sarah Webber, University of Dayton
The public’s trust in nonprofits declined from 59% in 2020 to 56% in 2022,...
How cybercriminals turn paper checks stolen from mailboxes into bitcoin
David Maimon, Georgia State University
While cybercrime gets a lot of attention from law enforcement and the media these days, I’ve been documenting a less...
You know how to identify phishing emails – a cybersecurity researcher...
Rick Wash, Michigan State University
An employee at MacEwan University got an email in 2017 from someone claiming to...
Why Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg may be in hot water with the...
Jena Martin, West Virginia University
The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that Facebook treats users’ posts differently depending on...
Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University
The U.S. government may be on the verge of spending as much as US$4.5 trillion...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
