Tag: identity theft

Burglars hit for $25K

Gun-toting shoplifters

Online holiday shoppers: $126B

Nationwide CC ring busted

Mom & daughter shoplifters

Employee theft of merchandise

Victim busts ID theft ring

Retail returns near $369B

Employee wears clothes out

Cashier steals CC numbers

Holiday Task Force

Shoplifting duo busted

Gun-toting 13-year-old

Shoplifter steals cop car

Pooey Puitton vs Louis Vuitton

Multi-state fraud scheme

Alert employee foils fraud ring

Retail sales of K-9s cats banned

Loss prevention has taken on perhaps the greatest scrutiny it has ever experienced because of the jump in identity theft and transactional fraud that has businesses under attack on virtually every revenue-generating front.

Visual information is no longer the only — and perhaps not even the primary — component of a video surveillance system. Images are still valuable, but it is the data inherent within them that provides for new applications and value. A camera is now a computer with a lens. Video once provided LP with extra eyes. Now it also offers brains.

Popular retail fraud topics in 2018 included the latest update for credit card fraud news, the side effects of chip technology, and fraudulent returns during the holiday season.

Posts about Facebook security, cyber risk trends, and scam artists past and present all made it into the top five for the data protection category.

Employee theft caper: $250K

Shoplift blitz collars 30

Counterfeit goods surge

Fraudster gets 5 years in jail

Good Samaritan tackles suspect

Strip clubs expense

ORC fraud ring busted

Assemblyman involved in fraud

Shoppers concern: ID theft

Teenage armed robbers in custody

Employee charged with 10 counts

'Tis the season to be deceptive?

Million dollar fine

Blowtorch burglars

ORC at all-time high

CC skimmer task force

Police officer injured

Who calls PD 9 times a day?