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Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
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Wire Fraud Litigants Beware: Fourth Circuit Ruling Protects the Banks — The Consumer Finance Podcast

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In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by veteran litigators and Troutman Pepper Locke Partners Mary Zinsner and Heryka Knoespel to dissect a groundbreaking Fourth Circuit decision on bank...more

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Fourth Circuit reverses decision in $550K ACH fraud transfer case

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On March 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court’s decision in a case involving a fraudulent email scam that caused a financial loss of over $550,000. The plaintiff, a metal...more

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District Court grants summary judgement for bank in “spoofing” case

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On September 29, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted summary judgement on all claims in favor of the defendant bank, while denying summary judgement for the New Jersey-based plaintiff. The...more

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Elder Financial Abuse and the UCC

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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently affirmed a basic principle of deposit banking, which is that in the absence of an express agreement, a depository bank owes no duty to...more

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Bank Liability for Business Email Compromises and Fraudulent Payments

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While at your place of business, you receive an email from a trusted source with an established vendor, notifying you that the vendor’s bank account information has changed. Do you note the change in your business records and...more

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Another Win for Banks: Illinois Federal Court Tosses Wire Fraud Claims

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A recent decision out of the Northern District of Illinois should help banks defend against increasingly common claims involving fraudulent wire transfers. In Trivedi v. Bank of America, et al., the district court granted the...more

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WTF?! - Wire Transfer Fraud Litigation

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Threat actors have recently and significantly increased efforts to defraud organizations and individuals through business email compromise (BEC). In BEC and related scams, the threat actors trick unsuspecting targets into...more

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Courts Address the Level of Security Banks Must Provide to Business Accounts

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Big or small, all bank accounts are susceptible to hijacking and fraudulent wire transfers. Banks ordinarily bear the risk of loss for unauthorized wire transfers. Two independent frameworks exist to govern these transfers:...more

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Mobile Check Deposits: With Soaring Use, Increasing Risks

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Consider the following hypothetical scenario (and a typical scam involving mobile check deposits) in which an employer (the “Company”) issues a paper check to one of its employees (the “Employee”). The Employee remotely...more

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