Category Archive: Fraud

Hands Down Fraud
By Jon Coss, Vice President, Risk, Fraud, and Compliance
April 9, 2020Here’s a recent case of potential fraud that should surprise, well, no one. A California used car dealer has been…
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Coronavirus Security
By Adi K, ISO
March 13, 2020Friends of Pondera, with “coronavirus” the number one searched subject matter in the world, it is not a surprise that…
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Coronavirus Fraud
By Jon Coss, CEO
March 12, 2020With the old expression “Never let a crisis go to waste” ringing through my head, I am not at all…
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Monopolizing Monopoly
By Jon Coss, CEO
March 4, 2020When I was in high school, McDonald’s ran a promotion where they distributed paper Monopoly game pieces to customers who…
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Phish Eats Shark
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 28, 2020Sometimes the phish eats the shark. That is certainly the case for Barbara Corcoran, one of the celebrity investors on…
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Rampant Greed at Any Cost
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 19, 2020In a particularly disturbing drug fraud scheme, John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics, was sentenced last month to…
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Beauty Queen Fraudster
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 11, 2020A recent high-profile fraud case may help highlight a particularly disturbing form of fraud that we often write about on…
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Hoverboard Dentist Update
By Jon Coss, CEO
February 3, 2020Way back in October of 2017, I wrote a blogpost about an Anchorage dentist who was defrauding Medicaid by performing…
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2020, I mean, 20Fraud
By Jon Coss, CEO
January 29, 20202020, I mean, 20 Fraud The bad news – there’s a new fraud threat we all need to be aware…
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A $28,000 Case of the Sniffles
By Jon Coss, CEO
January 2, 2020Imagine going to the doctor because you just can’t shake that cold before the holidays and then receiving a bill…
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Forensic Genetic Genealogy
By Jon Coss, CEO
December 24, 2019In a move that a decade ago could have only been imagined by writers of science fiction novels, the Justice…
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Frequent Flyer Fraud
By Jon Coss, CEO
December 10, 2019As a frequent airline traveler, I closely watch my reward miles to make sure they are properly posted to my…
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A King’s Ransom
By Jon Coss, CEO
November 26, 2019In one rough day in 2017, Jeff David, the former Vice President of Corporate Partnerships for the Sacramento Kings NBA…
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Using Big Data to Improve Emergency Response Times
By David D., Account Executive
July 15, 2019Using Big Data to Improve Emergency Response Times Ten thousand lives could be saved each year if emergency crews were…
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Student Identity Theft Hits Close to Home
By Jon Coss, CEO
March 26, 2019It’s always more impactful when fraud hits close to home and last week that’s exactly what occurred to me. I…
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Striking a balance between speed and accuracy; SNAP PI is like a biathlon!
By Amanda H., Chief Customer Officer
March 14, 2019Take your time, but hurry up. How many of us have heard that old cliché before? If you are in…
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Is $56B enough to get our attention?
By Tom M., Project Manager
February 27, 2019All Posts $56 billion in overpayments? That’s more than the entire budget for the Department of Homeland Security. In a…
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Trends in Physician Exclusion: Characteristics for Consideration to Complement Analyses
By Amy K., Training & Development Manager
January 16, 2019What is predictive profiling? How does predictive profiling help the healthcare industry? How do statistics and identifying traits inform decision-making…
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Elder Financial Fraud
By Mark L., Director of Intelligence
January 9, 2019For most of us, receiving a phone call or email advising we had just won the lottery likely would be…
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Phishing for Fishing Gear
By Caryn O., Director of Marketing
January 2, 2019Whew! The holidays are over, and I wore out my Amazon.com account to find the perfect gifts. It seemed I…
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