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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: Fraud and identity trends, with John Cannon (Oakford Consulting)
Description: My very first job was building models to catch credit card fraud, at that time we were most concerned with counterfeited cards, then lost/ stolen cards, and in third place at best came identity fraud. It was an emerging threat, and we were hearing word of the likes of Hunter being rolled out in the bigger markets, but we were able to keep a pretty good handle on it with a system my boss had cobbled together in an Access database.Then online channels started to emerge, but they were so insignificant early on that we could t...