Latest Deception Stories

SANTA ANA, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading provider of consumer, financial and property information and business services, today introduced the next generation of LoanSafe Fraud Manager, a customizable platform that builds upon the award-winning CoreLogic LoanSafe Fraud Manager and empowers lenders with more access, speed and control over their fraud management systems. Next generation LoanSafe Fraud Manager is the only fraud analytics solution available...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Over 1,200 investigators from private health insurance Special Investigative Units and state and federal law enforcement agencies will gather at the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA)'s Annual Training Conference (ATC) at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, November 16-19. Registrants will learn about fraud trends and emerging schemes and explore innovative solutions that will help protect the American public from the heavy human and...

NEW YORK, October 14, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NICE Actimize, a NICE Systems (NASDAQ:NICE) company and the largest and broadest provider of a single financial crime, risk and compliance software platform for the financial services industry, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with FIS (NYSE:FIS) to also provide employee fraud detection capabilities. FIS will augment its enterprise financial crime solutions by integrating the Actimize Employee Fraud solution within...

Bochum's philosophers develop new theory of self-deceptionAnyone who simply denies the facts is most certainly behaving unreasonably "“ aren't they? Bochum's philosophers Prof. Dr. Albert Newen and Christoph Michel expound that in some cases it may be useful to deceive yourself. The self-deception can be an important motivating factor and not entirely lacking reason. The reason may be locally restricted, however basic strategies of rational evaluation processes remain intact. The...

RACINE, Wis., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- "SC Johnson was made aware today of a fake employment offer, allegedly from our company that has appeared on the internet. This scam falsely promises a $25 per hour data entry job, after the applicant pays $279 for training software. SC Johnson would like to make it very clear that we are in no way associated with this offer, and anyone seeing the ad should ignore it, or report it to the website where it is being posted. SC Johnson does not require...

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 9th, 2010 Murphy's Magic Supplies, Inc. (the world's largest wholesaler of magic tricks) soft-launched a revolutionary new online magic community, MurphysMagicCommunity.com. This new community will take magic from only being available through dark, backroom secret societies, or dazzling TV and movie productions, and put magic products in the hands of the masses. MurphysMagicCommunity.com allows magic dealers, magic creators and...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Robots do whatever humans tell them to do, right?  Or is all a big lie?Experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology say they've given robots the ability to be deceptive.  "We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered," Ronald Arkin, a professor in...

A robot deceives an enemy soldier by creating a false trail and hiding so that it will not be caught. While this sounds like a scene from one of the Terminator movies, it's actually the scenario of an experiment conducted by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology as part of what is believed to be the first detailed examination of robot deception."We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we...

CHENGDU, China, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- A high speed passenger train disappears into a sky loaded with snow as the illusionist claps his empty hands; mountains and rivers appear, then disappear and reappear in the blink of an eye; the spirit separates from the body and walks around you; two people fly freely across the sky without any visible assistance as they travel back in time immersed in this magical world of illusions. You are not lost in a dream. You have been transported to a...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from American Association for Justice President Gibson Vance regarding today's release of protocols for the emergency payments from the BP / Gulf Coast Claims Facility: "As we stated when this fund was first conceived, AAJ is firmly behind efforts to quickly and fairly compensate Gulf Coasters for their losses due to the spill. The voluntary claims process may provide adequate and immediate relief to certain...