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You know about fraud-checking calls, of course. Whenever one does something unusual with your cash, like try and close using a house purchase, transfer funds to a close relative who's lost everything although abroad, or buy a major gift for a very wedding day, the transaction is often then a call from the bank, demanding that you verify your identity to them, handing over all varieties of personal information to an overall stranger who's rung you up seemingly unprovoked. Then they tell people that they've noticed a thing amiss, and is your card in your possession, and did you actually just try and transfer one thousand pounds to Lagos?
The particular banks, bless them, are merely trying to prevent sham, but this is a fairly silly way of going about it. For starters, there's the business involving calling up people and asking them to offer you all the information necessary to prove they are indeed a bank customer – all the info that a fraudster must impersonate that person with the bank, in other words. The banks have put in decades systematically conditioning us to offer our personal information to be able to fraudsters, which is a strange solution to prevent fraud. know who calls you. with this http://callnotes.org
But a minimum of this silliness had one saving grace: a fraudster can only make numerous calls per day, and so the scope of losses from this type of programme of bad security education is limited by the human frailties involving con-artists.
Enter the robo-caller. The banks are now outsourcing their fraud prevention to computers that could make dozens of calls in a short time, around the clock, fishing (or phishing) intended for someone who just happened to get made an unusual purchase and is thus willing to spill all his details down the phone to get it accepted. Note that most on the categories of purchase that trigger false positives from fraud detection systems can also be the sort of matter that customers are anxious to view go off without any hitch. The unusual along with the urgent often travel together.
Call for Papers; Topics Include Some Consumer Law Matters
The University of Connecticut School of Law announces a writing competition for junior legal scholars, called the 2013 Junior Scholars Workshop on Financial Services Law. The competition is open to law faculty with less than six years of teaching experience. The competition is open only to paper...
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You know about fraud-checking calls, of course. Whenever one does something unusual with your cash, like try and close using a house purchase, transfer funds to a close relative who's lost everything although abroad, or buy a major gift for a very wedding day, the transaction is often then a call from the bank, demanding that you verify your identity to them, handing over all varieties of personal information to an overall stranger who's rung you up seemingly unprovoked. Then they tell people that they've noticed a thing amiss, and is your card in your possession, and did you actually just try and transfer one thousand pounds to Lagos?
The particular banks, bless them, are merely trying to prevent sham, but this is a fairly silly way of going about it. For starters, there's the business involving calling up people and asking them to offer you all the information necessary to prove they are indeed a bank customer – all the info that a fraudster must impersonate that person with the bank, in other words. The banks have put in decades systematically conditioning us to offer our personal information to be able to fraudsters, which is a strange solution to prevent fraud.
But a minimum of this silliness had one saving grace: a fraudster can only make numerous calls per day, and so the scope of losses from this type of programme of bad security education is limited by the human frailties involving con-artists.
Enter the robo-caller. The banks are now outsourcing their fraud prevention to computers that could make dozens of calls in a short time, around the clock, fishing (or phishing) intended for someone who just happened to get made an unusual purchase and is thus willing to spill all his details down the phone to get it accepted. Note that most on the categories of purchase that trigger false positives from fraud detection systems can also be the sort of matter that customers are anxious to view go off without any hitch. The unusual along with the urgent often travel together.
Report on National Mortgage Fraud Settlement
We reported earlier on the national mortgage fraud settlement between the federal government, state attorneys general, and the five largest mortgage servicers. (Go here and here, for instance.) The settlement's official website has lots of information, including an executive summary, which sets ...
More needs to be done to fight fraud and defeat money laundering, the British Bankers' Association said today on the second day of its crime prevention conference.
Finance professionals gathered today to learn the latest techniques to counter the fraud and money laundering which finances much of the world's organised crime. But to mount an effective attack on criminals the banks need support from the Home Office to put financial crime at the top of the agenda.
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BBA Chief Executive Angela Knight said:
"We are not crime fighters but we do fight crime regularly and effectively. By cutting off the funding of organised crime by stopping large-scale frauds and money laundering schemes, we prevent major crimes at the very first stages of their development."
"Yet financial crime does not feature in the list of priorities the police has been given by the Home Office. We now need more support to be more effective and we urgently need the Government to make fraud and financial crime a priority for law enforcement."
Glaxo Advertising Fraud Settlement with the U.S. Not Enough Says Public Citizen
We reported earlier on the $3 billion settlement between GlaxoSmithKline and the U.S. government over charges that the drug company fraudulently advertised a number of its drugs, including the diabetes drug Avandia, which has been linked to increased risk of heart attack and stroke. In this July...
Institutions also are more likely to fall victim to social engineering schemes that target branch and call center staff as they undergo conversions linked to acquisitions. "Any time there is a change event, like an acquisition, there is opportunity for a fraudster to exploit a weakness," Speare says.
For M&T, the change event that proved fortuitous for fraudsters came in May 2011, when M&T acquired Wilmington Trust Corp. "We did not see anything significant, but we did see an uptick," Speare says. "You have acquired customers being migrated over, usually over a weekend, and the bad guys know that's going to occur. So they will attempt to hit you on the day that conversion is going on. There is a website which give you the information about your plan, here it is http://callnotes.org"
Fraudsters call in to have an account opened or some credential changed, knowing call-center staff won't be able to fully verify all the details until a few days after the conversion is complete. "The employee is trying to be helpful, so they sometimes end up giving out information they shouldn't or they set up accounts or make changes based on information provided by those who are not the actual accountholders," Speare says.
Fraud Center Network—An unregulated consumer-reporting agency?
I recently received a complaint from a consumer about the Fraud Center. He told me that he had a problem with a company he was dealing with not performing as promised, so he reported it to PayPal and it reversed the charge. In response, the company reported him to the Fraud Center, which as prom...
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Prevention Tips
Some of the most important steps to take to mitigate call center risks, experts say, are:
• Employee Education. Institutions that are going through conversions linked to mergers and acquisitions have to be vigilant to hammer home social engineering threats. Staff members in new or acquired departments, especially those that touch on customer and member verification and authentication, have to be informed of policies and procedures. "You have to be able to train your call center employees effectively about the types of questions they can and cannot answer," McNelley says.
• Authentication. Call center and branch staff must consistently pose challenge-and-response questions. Know who calls you with http://callnotes.org
• Out-of-Band Verification. Certain types of transactions should be restricted or limited until authorized callbacks confirm the transaction or account change.
• Voice Biometrics. Though the technology, which detects voice patterns, is not perfect, it can provide an additional layer of user authentication.
The important point to remember is that socially engineered attacks depend on human manipulation. No one technology or solution is going to address all vulnerabilities.
"Unfortunately, there is not just one answer that is the panacea that solves all ills," Speare says. "It's a balancing act, and it's not a pure black and white line. There's a lot of gray."
$35 million fraud settlement in Florida
From a DOJ press release: "Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS), a publicly traded mortgage servicing company based in Jacksonville, Fla., has agreed to pay $35 million in criminal penalties and forfeiture to address its participation in a six-year scheme to prepare and file more than 1 million...
More needs to be done to fight fraud and defeat money laundering, the British Bankers' Association said today on the second day of its crime prevention conference.
Finance professionals gathered today to learn the latest techniques to counter the fraud and money laundering which finances much of the world's organised crime. But to mount an effective attack on criminals the banks need support from the Home Office to put financial crime at the top of the agenda.
BBA Chief Executive Angela Knight said:
"We are not crime fighters but we do fight crime regularly and effectively. By cutting off the funding of organised crime by stopping large-scale frauds and money laundering schemes, we prevent major crimes at the very first stages of their development."
"Yet financial crime does not feature in the list of priorities the police has been given by the Home Office. We now need more support to be more effective and we urgently need the Government to make fraud and financial crime a priority for law enforcement."
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Identity Fraud Continues to Increase
by Jeff Sovern Javelin Strategy & Research has issued its annual report on identity fraud (a free version is available here). Javelin reports that 12.6 million Americans--or more than 5%--were victims of identity fraud in 2012, an increase of a million from 2011. It also states that nearly a qu...
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