Putting the Brakes on Counterfeit Merchandise: A Case Study
The trade in counterfeit merchandise globally is getting worse, and US retailers are being hit the hardest, according to a 2017 report from the...
Fighting the Fakes: How to Build Your Brand Protection Strategy
A study by the Government Accountability Office, released in January, observes a shift in sale of counterfeit goods from "underground" or secondary markets, such...
E-commerce Credit Card Fraud: The Growing Challenge
Just as the word "e-commerce" has come to refer to a menagerie of different specialized markets, so e-commerce credit card fraud comes in many...
What Do the Dark Web and Bitcoins Have to Do with Card Fraud and...
In case you aren’t familiar with the terms, let’s start with three definitions:Dark web – a collection of websites that exist on an encrypted...
Fraud Detection Techniques Using Big Data
Deep inside the data warehouses of companies across the world, billions of dollars are trapped in the subtle variations between the binary 0s and...
Toy Scammers, Counterfeiters, and Other Grinches Are Out to Steal Christmas
Last year, the hot toy was Hatchimals, an interactive fuzzy bird doll that hatches from a large egg. Parents were not able to find...
Does “Normalization of Deviance” Really Exist in the Workplace?
I think many of us have been somewhere and heard the phrase, “We have always done it that way; why should we change?” I...
Counterfeit Goods and Trademark Enforcement
According to statistics from the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC), the total value of intellectual property (IP) rights-related seizures was about $1.22 billion in 2014....
The Evolving Impact of Return Fraud and Abuse
The concept of the retail return is a relatively new phenomenon. In the mid- to late-twentieth century, retailers began accepting returned merchandise as an...
Credit Card Fraud News and Updates
Many articles in the LPM Insider talk about EMV chip technology in credit cards and how this technology fights credit card fraud. While it’s...