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First Data And Exec To Pay $40M To Settle FTC Fraud Case

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First Data is paying $40 million because it repeatedly looked the other way while its payment processing services were being used to commit fraud,” Daniel Kaufman, deputy director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said in a statement. In 2014, Visa required First Data to return $18.7

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NYC Taxi Commission Accused Of $810 Million Fraud

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The price of an individual taxi medallion sold at an auction skyrocketed 240 percent from 2004 to 2014, from $283,300 to $965,000. It also set up an artificial floor for bids and permitted taxicab brokers and large owners to “bid up” medallion prices.

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Brit MP: Facebook Knew About Russian Meddling in 2014

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politician said Facebook was aware that Russian-linked organizations were harvesting data from the social media giant, since October 2014, according to Bloomberg. The Russian individuals reportedly utilized a feature that allowed advertisers to collect copious amounts of data.

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Shell Companies Eyed In Fraud At Aegean Marine

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1) that a probe by international auditors is underway, examining a fraud that could be $200 million in scope at Aegean Marine Petroleum Network , tied to shell companies that ostensibly did business with the shipping fuel firm. The audit covered the period of July 1, 2014 to Dec. News came Thursday (Nov. A Bit Of Victory.

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SEC Charges Former Wells CEO And Bank Head In Fraud Scandal

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The SEC claims that Tolstedt publicly discussed and endorsed Wells Fargo’s “cross-sell metric” as a way of keeping track of the bank's financial success from mid-2014 to mid-2016.

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Cybercrime Botnet Chief Ordered To Prison In $100M Scheme

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Aleksandr Brovko, 36, formerly of the Czech Republic, pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud. In the March Digital Fraud Tracker, PYMNTS explores how artificial intelligence and machine learning could help stem the surge in security breaches. The sentence was handed down by Senior U.S.

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Google, FBI, Cybersecurity Firms Shut Down Online Ad Fraud Scam

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Google, the FBI and White Ops, along with a handful of cybersecurity companies, recently collaborated to shut down a digital ad fraud scam that used 1.7 According to the report, 3ve (pronounced “Eve”), which is what the group called its online ad fraud campaign, was active since 2014 but could have been around for longer.

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