To follow a series of relatively small cash amounts through a global system which deals in trillions of dollars per day, via possibly hundreds of different routes, is somewhat akin to finding a needle in the proverbial haystack.
Billions of pounds of taxpayers' money is stolen each year through ID theft and other fraudulent activities, according to a survey of public sector security analysts and IT managers. The survey, which was conducted by risk management consultants...
UK consumers have had enough of new technology putting them at advertisers' beck and call 24 hours a day. They find new media ads so irritating, they'd rather be cold called, according to new research.
But it will be a Pyrrhic victory for a "dog's dinner" of a scheme that looks set to run billions of pounds over budget and spiral wildly out of control. For example, the biggest fraud losses are not from people with fake IDs but from people with...
If insurers can cut out fraud - which can be found in as many as one in five claims - they should be able to reduce their costs. And if they can (and yes it's a big if) pass that back to the consumers, then anti-fraud technologies may benefit us all.
Customers have been written to and precautionary measures have been put in place to check customers' records for any fraudulent activity. Funds are paid into the accounts of individuals' pension providers by HMRC electronically, depending on the...