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Preliminary rulings by a Pennsylvania judge will allow a jewelry company that claimed it lost $1.1 million to fraud to move forward with suing individual bank employees.
March 26 -
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Fiercely polarized U.S. politics. Rapidly multiplying payments options on social media networks and elsewhere. Those factors and more are making it harder than ever for banks to combat illicit financial transactions.
March 25 -
A study from Surfshark found that crypto scams cost their victims about five times as much money as losses from other cybercrimes.
June 7 -
Fraudsters continue to impersonate owners of small and midsize businesses at a rate comparable to the early days of the pandemic. Many lenders can take simple steps to mitigate it.
May 3 -
The plaintiffs allege that the banks did not catch obvious red flags or implement proper safeguards such as requiring two employees to approve each transaction.
January 6 -
Although the number of scam attempts is falling, especially in financial services, costs are up, data shows.
May 4 -
Chicago Title Insurance Co. and Chicago Title Co. LLC agreed to the payment to resolve a lawsuit brought by the bank, which said the firms had helped orchestrate a borrowing scam involving liquor licenses, according to a regulatory filing.
March 8 -
The “new normal” of COVID-19-influenced retail is actively being exploited by fraudsters, as LexisNexis Risk Solutions finds fraud costs for U.S. retailers rising in 2020 by 7.3% over last year’s data.
July 21 -
A 2019 report from the Federal Trade Commission shows consumer losses to “romance scams” rose more than 300% between 2015 and 2018. Credit union leaders say the real numbers may be much worse.
February 14 -
Two former officials were sentenced to five years each for falsifying travel expenses and lying to authorities.
December 23