Tag: fraud
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Scammers using fake PayPal emails stole over £1m in the UK in last quarter
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Fraudsters tricked Brits into sending over £1m worth of goods to them that they hadn’t paid for. Read via Computer Weekly.
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Podcast: Mike talks to Chris Recker of Trowers & Hamlins about Fraud, Cyber Currencies and much more…
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
https://www.advent-im.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Cybercrime-and-crypto-currencies-v0.2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Android | RSS
Read MoreMost UK university applicants at risk of email fraud
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The majority of hundreds of thousands of applicants to UK universities are at risk of email fraud before and after A-level results day, due to a failure to implement full Dmarc protection, a study reveals. Read full story.
Read MoreMike Gillespie – Global Payroll Association: How To Get Risk Management Right
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM News
There are almost as many definitions of risk management as there are risk managers, and a concomitant wealth of methodologies, some simple and some unnecessarily complicated. Mike Gillespie in Global Payroll Association speaking about how to get risk management right, click here to read the full story.
Read MoreEmail Insecurity
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
This time of year, there is an upsurge in phishing and other malicious emails for us to contend with. From phony delivery notices to hoax PayPal problem emails, our inboxes are awash with attempts to invade, defraud and otherwise cause us chaos or loss. So the news that people are not taking the threat from email seriously after […]
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