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USA's Internet Crime Complaints Center uses the internet fraudster's favourite tool

Sanctions: "Academy" pays USD1.7m penalty for providing tuition services. Apparently. Potentially.

Sanctions: "Academy" pays USD1.7m penalty for providing tuition services. Apparently. Potentially.

UK sanctions regulator issues GBP160,000 penalty over Russian sanctions transaction

There seems to be little appetite for sentencing this convicted fraudster.

Technology

VPN - not as secure as you thought. And sometimes not at all.

How Accenture puts its clients at risk.

OSINT and more at risk: How "AI" fails to deliver accurate, even reliable, results.

Imaginary Friends: 6. The circles of an imaginary mind…...

Imaginary Friends 5 - ″ The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers″

FinCrimeTV Programmes

Regulatory Ramblings No. 69 - Hong Kong University

The Financial Crime Forum - Online - Philippines 2025

People of Letters: Becky Holmes - author - Keanu Reeves is not in love with you.

FinCrimeTV - Chinwags - what keeps MLROs awake at night.

FinCrimeTV - Basics - Advanced Fee Fraud

Company News

Writers: Get "UNBLOCKED" the new self-help book from A.N.Author

Writers: Get "UNBLOCKED" the new self-help book from A.N.Author

Vortex Centrum announces special offer for launch of FInancial Crime Training - elearning for the the financial sector

The Financial Crime Forum Announces Q1 2026 Programme

Offshore Alert - Increase in China-related liquidations

Fraud of the Day

Manipulative fraud targets the most vulnerable and their families.

Fraud from "facebookmail" might be from Facebook but it might not be and might not be not a fraud but it's about something that might be a fraud

"Experts" say we should always regard those who lose in fraud as "victims" and never say it's their own fault. Well, sometimes they are not and it is.

If it doesn't make sense, don't play.

This idiot fraudster is too stupid to remove the software manufacturer's notices!

WMLR-Articles

USA's SEC rescinds rules about denials in the case of settlement.

Your "customer service" isn't just alienating customers, it's making them want to punish you.

Morris-Cotterill: how you treat applicants for business is microcosm of your entire risk and compliance processes.

Jenkinson: Moonlight Maze - Cyberspace 1999 (and before)

Mason: "My Board hired me to “keep the firm compliant”."

The Fraud Awareness Project

Opinion

Morris-Cotterill - Critical Thinking is the mother of invention and the saviour of societies.

Henry Nowak was murdered but he died because officers were suspicious of the wrong things.

Fancy name? It's still a cartel.

Ewbank: The Architecture of Belief

Shannon: Financial Crime Professionals lie for a living.

Learning (Eng. Verb)

Barsing: False fraud warnings do more harm than good.

Hellicar-Bowman: Trust your gut first, then review.

Hellicar-Bowman: Constructing and Reconstructing a Compliance Investigation. What AML training and certifications diplomas don't teach you

How Boston benefited from a massive drugs trade and post-Colonial commerce.

Using popular media to test for effective approaches in financial crime risk and compliance.

Reviews

The Fax Club Experiment

Corporate Criminal Liability - Clarke et al.

Dark Pools - Patterson

Fraud Markers, De-banking and Financial Crime - Asher

The Crypto Launderers - Carlisle

Speeches and Papers

Morris-Cotterill: Introduction to forensic accounting and money laundering

USA - Treasury - Deputy Secretary Faulkender lays out guiding principles for Bank Secrecy Act modernization

Morris-Cotterill: Online child abuse: history shows we are looking in all the wrong places.

Eddie Yue, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (2025-02-17)

Swansong: The SEC's Gary Gensler says goodbye.

Money laundering, fraud and more.

Training is nothing without reinforcement.

We're your reinforcements, wherever you bought your training.

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