by Admin | Jan 17, 2018 | Financial Fraud, Investment Fraud, Uncategorized
It’s certainly a treat when the odd film comes out with fraud as it’s main narrative thrust. The events change, of course, but the central theme of fraud within the film offers us at Canadian Fraud News to generate content usually in the form of a review. Which is...
by Admin | Jan 5, 2018 | Cybercrime, Featured, Uncategorized
By now, the terms Meltdown and Spectre would probably cause a spasm of terror throughout your body if someone were to mention them in casual conversation. And in some regards, the latest vulnerabilities (to put it lightly) are certainly a cause for concern. Anything...
by Admin | Dec 5, 2017 | Featured, Online Fraud
Last week we wrote about the changing technological landscape of fraud. Moreover, we wrote about the necessary conversation that we should be having about defining and interacting with the ecosystem attached to fraud. An interesting thing about technology in the...
by Admin | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
In 300 B.C a Greek merchant by the name of Hegestratos committed fraud. At the time, large insurance policies were referred to as bottomry, which Hegestratos was familiar with and had under his name. Simply put, bottomry is where Hegestratos would borrow money and...
by Admin | Nov 23, 2017 | Featured, Recent Articles, Uncategorized
Voice recognition and more recently facial recognition as a mainstream implementation of technology, has hit a fever pitch. In part because of the much lauded (deserved is another conversation) Iphone X and with Amazon’s Alexa or the Google Home. And while these new...