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Why unifying fraud, security, and compliance functions is key to resilience, trust, and agility in the age of AI-powered financial crime.

I hear about a ton of similar-sounding scam calls, where the scammer is pretending to be from a service you use (or used), offering you a substantial monthly discount (30% or more) if you pay some fee ahead of time. Sometimes they take the advance fee using your credit card, and sometimes they tell you that you have to get store gift cards. Who would possibly believe that a legitimate vendor would want them to pay with store gift cards? Hundreds of thousands of people.

The FBI has issued an advisory warning that scammers are distributing QR code phishing (quishing) links via unsolicited packages sent by snail mail. Recipients may scan the code to find out where the package came from, which will land them on a phishing page. This is a variation of a “brushing scam,” where unscrupulous vendors send packages designed to harvest information that can be used in phony positive reviews.