Fraudnet Podcast: Recent Episodes
David Zweifler
This is an overview of key trends and news in online fraud, and the technologies used to identify and prevent it.
The movie Minority Report showed a future where criminals were charged prior to committing crimes. Despite being a concoction of reality, the sci-fi thriller may have accurately depicted the fight against fraud. Through leveraging predictive analytics and sophisticated behavioral algorithms, companies like Fraud.net are stopping fraudulent crimes before they are even committed. This week, our head of sales, Michael Fossel, sat down with David Zweifler, former Bloomberg Journalist, to discuss the ways that AI is changing the world of digital safety, stopping crimes pre-emptively.
Rajiv Yadav, Chief Information Security Officer at Fraud.net, talks about the spate of bank-specific phishing attacks, and how, like famous bank robber Willie Sutton, fraudsters leveraging these malicious tools are going where the money is.
Rajiv Yadav, Chief Information Security Officer at Fraud.net, discusses the opportunities and special risks that facial recognition AI presents from a fraud and fraud-prevention perspective.
A $multi-billion fraud businesses refuse to acknowledge. Whitney Anderson, CEO and co-founder of Fraud.net, discusses friendly fraud, a crime that can reduce profits by as much as 25% at most online businesses, and why companies will refuse to recognize it.
High Risk Travel for OTAs: Cathy Ross, President of Fraud.net, discusses the 2020 Benchmark Travel Study that was recently produced by Fraud.net, which showed a whopping 15% of attempted purchases on the Las Vegas to Los Angeles airline route were fraudulent.
Crackdown on Covid-19 fraud by DOJ. In this, the very first episode of the Week in Fraud podcast from Fraud.net for the week of April 1st, 2020, we'll be talking about the crackdown on Covid-19 related fraud by the U S Department of Justice, the fraud implications of Europe's decision to track mobile phones as a virus protection measure, how Zoom is moved from a privacy offender to the official platform of the Coronavirus, and Bill Gates proposal to start providing live coverage of everything everywhere.