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Unseen Money 13—Washing the proceeds in cyberspace

July 15, 2025 Comments are Disabled

Long gone are the days when the Escobar family had to spend $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold the cash they earned trading cocaine. Now, the invention of […]

Unseen Money 12: Keeping hackers out of your DeFi wallet

July 15, 2025 Comments are Disabled

The decentralised finance (DeFi) market is booming—but the world’s best hackers are on a constant look-out for ways to steal your crypto tokens. North Korea, which recently committed the largest […]

Unseen Money 11—a bad bird on your wire

May 19, 2025 Comments are Disabled

Most scams where the victim is tricked into paying money to fraudsters originate on social media—often on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. But in the UK around one scam in five—and […]

Unseen Money 10: The UK—open for (dodgy) business

May 1, 2025 Comments are Disabled

The UK’s company formation process is fast, easy and cheap. The net result of being open to almost any business is that up to half the companies on the UK’s […]

Unseen Money 9: Should QR codes scare us?

April 1, 2025 Comments are Disabled

QR codes are ubiquitous. But does scanning one make us more vulnerable to a fraud than clicking on a link to a fake website? In the latest episode of Unseen […]

Unseen Money Episode 8: Blaming the victim of (card) fraud

March 23, 2025 Comments are Disabled

There’s a big security loophole affecting plastic payment cards—called a replay (or pre-play) attack. Banks have known about this loophole for more than a decade. But they may still blame […]

The dangers of one-time passcodes (OTPs)

March 17, 2025 Comments are Disabled

We all now use one-time passcodes (OTPs) to verify our identity online. In the last few weeks, I’ve personally received OTPs from Amazon, Apple, Google, the UK Driving Licence Authority, […]

How the UK became fraudster heaven

March 8, 2025 Comments are Disabled

The UK prides itself in being open for firms to set up business. It takes only £12—and 15-20 minutes—to create a new company online. But the laxity of the country’s […]

Stealing your identity—bit by bit

February 25, 2025 Comments are Disabled

Having your identity stolen is a catastrophe. You can lose your reputation, your credit rating, your money, your home or even be accused of fraud yourself. To victims, ID theft […]

Unseen Money 4: Keeping a phone thief out of your bank account

February 10, 2025 Comments are Disabled

In the latest episode of Unseen Money, Timur Yunusov and I discuss how to stop a bad dream turning into a real nightmare: when a phone snatcher has your mobile […]

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