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But what isn’t debatable is the essential truth of his purported statement — and how relevant it is to the 2020 holiday shopping season, as Kount Chief CustomerExperience Officer Rich Stuppy recently told PYMNTS. Starting With A ‘Fraud Mindset’. Whether Sutton ever actually uttered that line is a matter of historical debate.
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