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Synthetic Identity Fraud: Unreal Identities Result in Real Fraud Losses

Originally Presented: February 14, 2019

In this digital age, vast amounts of compromised customer information from data breaches and fraud scams is readily available for purchase on the dark web.... 

  Blog

Unreal Identities Leading to Real Crimes

February 4, 2019 by Verafin

Synthetic identity fraud has become a vehicle for fraudsters to commit a host of financial crimes, such as account fraud, loan fraud or online banking fraud. Criminals combine real and fabricated identification information to create synthetic or fake identities which... 

  Blog

Business Email Compromise (BEC) Fraud

December 10, 2018 by Verafin

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and has been updated to reflect up-to-date statistics and references. Business Email Compromise (BEC) has become a big earner in the criminal world and a serious fraud threat for financial institutions (FIs)... 

  Blog

Unmasking online account takeover

December 19, 2017 by Verafin

The intersection of fraud and online banking accounts continues to be big business. With our dependence on smart phones and as the Internet continues to seemingly expand into every aspect of our lives, criminals are fashioning masks molded from stolen... 

  Feature Sheet

Online Account Takeover Detection

Online customer accounts are a serious target for sophisticated cyber-criminals looking to commit unauthorized transfers and harvest data to perform numerous types of fraud. Verafin... 

  Archived Webinar

2017 Crime Trends & Technology

Originally Presented: July 12, 2017

  Verafin industry experts: Brendan Brothers, Anti-Financial Crimes Specialist; and Mauriceo Castanheiro, Director of Fraud Analytics; discuss the challenges financial institutions faced to date in... 

  White Paper

The Cyber Crime Wave: What Bankers Need to Know

November 2016 In his insightful white paper The Cyber Crime Wave: What Bankers Need To Know, Chris Swecker, former Assistant Director of the FBI discusses... 

  Archived Webinar

ACAMS Webinar
Cybercrime: A Prominent and Growing Financial Crime Threat

Originally Presented: December 8, 2016

“Great overview of cybercrimes currently effecting financial institutions.  Also, good example of real case; this was extremely insightful.” Compliance Officer, JP Morgan “Each webinar from... 

  Blog

U.S. Court Case: 5 Cyber-Enabled Financial Crimes

December 4, 2016 by Denise Hutchings

Last week, U.S. authorities in conjunction with international law enforcement issued a press release on the dismantling of a cyber criminal infrastructure known as Avalanche. A joint statement by U.S. agencies noted that “this network hosted more than two dozen... 

  Infographic

Cyber Crime: A Growing Threat

The threat to the U.S. financial system from cybercriminals is always evolving. This infographic highlights the growing threat of cybercrime with data from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and...