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The National Food Service Security
Council announces that Steve McClain, Sr, VP, Asset
Protection, The Sports Authority, will serve as a keynote
speaker at its 33rd Annual Conference, August 5-8. and will
join Bill Boddie, President and CEO of Boddie-Noell as keynote presenters. Held in Baltimore, Md.,
NFSSC is the leading trade association for loss prevention,
risk management and security professionals in the casual
dining and quick service restaurant chain industry. For more
information on attending contact Jim Forlenza at
jim.forlenza@nfssconline.org
Home Depot's CEO, Frank Blake says half of today's retailers
will be out of business in 10 years because of online
retailers. Speaking last Thursday at Southern
Polytechnic State University Blake says "Retail is going
through a level of change it hasn’t seen in 100 years," Now
we have to be a better experience compared to just staying
in your house and ordering from the comfort of your home,"
he said. "As more people shop online, they will be far less
tolerant of rude employees or dirty stores, he said." (Source
mdjonline.com)
Tom Fricke was named CEO of HMSHost. A number
of years ago Tom was Home Depot's Vice President of Asset
Protection for a short time and served their when they
dismantled the field safety program and converted the
function back into the Asset Protection executives. Home
Depot had built the largest field Safety program in history
in response to over 11 deaths that had happened in their
stores in the 90's and Tom came in in the early 2000's and
re-engineered it back to AP. Of special note is that Tom has
been a "C" level executive for some time and was before he
joined HD. (Source
foodandbeveridgepeople.com)
News reports about employers asking candidates for their
Facebook logon's and passwords has two U.S. Senators asking
for an investigation. Sen. Charles Schumer,
D-N.Y., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Sunday
they will ask the Justice Department and the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission to look into the matter.
They argue that the practice is objectionable, according to
an Associated Press report. (Source
csoonline.com)
Identity theft and credit card skimming ring member gets 66
months in prison. With 700 victims this ring
used the stolen credit card numbers to re-encode credit
cards and gift cards to purchase gift cards and designer
merchandise, and sometimes returned this merchandise for
cash. From at least January 2010 to June 2011, Komolafe and
others facilitated thousands of fraudulent transactions from
stolen credit card numbers throughout Virginia, Maryland,
and Pennsylvania. Four individuals have pleaded guilty for
their roles in the identity theft and credit card skimming
ring, including: William Samuel Martin, Usman Muhammed,
Anthony Danero Thomas, and Raoul Lycorish, all from
Maryland. (Source
privateofficerbreakingnews.com)
FTC steps up crackdown on cell jammers. The
Federal Communications Commission is stepping up enforcement
to halt the sale and use of radio jamming devices, which can
indiscriminately interfere with cellular 911 calls and
wireless signals from alarm devices. It is illegal to buy,
sell or use signal jammers in the United States, but that
doesn’t stop consumers—including criminals who use the
devices to disable alarm systems—from obtaining jammers
online. They are available on many websites, with retailers
claiming the devices can disrupt GPS, GSM and CDMA signals
at a range of up to 120 feet. The FCC last fall took
enforcement action against 20 online retailers in 12 states
for illegally marketing cellphone jammers, GPS jammers,
Wi-Fi jammers and other similar devices. (Source
securitysystemsnews.com)
Quarterly Same Store Sales Results
Cost Plus up 7.6%
Wet Seal down 5.5%
In case you missed it last week's most
popular news article --
A VIDEO showing a Scots post office boss wrestling a
shoplifter to the ground has become an internet sensation.
The Youtube clip shows shopkeeper, and former Tae Kwon Do
champion, Urfan Hussain, throwing the youth to the ground
after he tries to leave the shop with two bottles of
milkshake worth £2.50. (Source
deadlinenews.co.uk)
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2012
International Organization of Black Security Executives
Spring Conference
April 18-20
Chicago, IL
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Retail Fraud 2012
Largest Retail Fraud & LP conference in Europe
Novotel West, London
April 19, 2012
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Washington State
Organized Retail Crime Alliance (WSORCA)
Annual Training Conference
October 18, 2012
To register visit:
www.wsorca.org
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Northern Michigan University, located in Michigan’s incredible Upper
Peninsula, offers one of the only baccalaureate loss prevention management
programs in the United States. It is offered completely online and accepts up to
92 transfer credits. An affordable investment into a dynamic and growing
profession.
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team and the relationships you build with them are
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knowledge that can help add value to your company, your
department, and most importantly to you, the Loss
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Excerpts from
GAO-11-675: Efforts to Combat Organized Retail
Crime
The U.S. Government Accountability Office ORC report
June 2011
Law Enforcement Agencies Collaborate with Retailers
to Investigate ORC, and Federal Agencies Are Taking
Steps to Improve ORC Case Tracking
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Efforts: Continued;
Since 2009, ICE has been involved in several
initiatives intended to further evaluate its role
and enhance efforts related to combating ORC. The
ORC Pilot Program, the first of these initiatives,
was launched in July 2009, in four cities with known
ORC activity: Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and New
York. The program focused on four program areas: (1)
development of a database with retail industry
contacts; (2) development of a threat assessment to
help determine the extent of ORC crimes in which ICE
has jurisdiction; (3) enhancing efforts to explore
how ORC groups are exploiting vulnerabilities in the
banking system to launder profits; and (4)
development of a tracking system to assess ICE
involvement in ORC cases. In March 2010, ICE
extended the program for one year and expanded it to
include coordination with the ICE National Cyber
Crimes Center, which targets various schemes
perpetrated on the Internet, including fraud, money
laundering, and selling of credit card or other
financial information.
According to program officials, at the completion of
the ORC Pilot Program in March 2011, ICE made
progress in all key areas identified. For example,
ICE affirmed that many ORC cases have an
international nexus and can be investigated by ICE
special agents, and ICE continues to identify a
collection of red-flag indicators of suspicious
banking activity related to ORC. In regard to
developing a tracking system, ICE created a program
code for ORC within its case management system,
which is intended to allow headquarters to track
case statistics, facilitate identification of
potential trends between ORC cases, and help inform
resource decisions. During the pilot program, 83
criminal cases were associated with ORC, resulting
in 38 criminal arrests, 29 indictments, and 14
convictions. While 14 of these cases were
investigated at the pilot program locations, the
remaining cases were investigated at 23 additional
domestic and international offices in which ICE
special agents are located.26 According to ICE
officials, these cases have led to the seizure of
nearly $4.9 million in cash, property, and money
instruments.
In February 2011, ICE announced the expansion of the
ORC Pilot ProgramIn February 2011, ICE announced the
expansion of the ORC Pilot Program into an ongoing
national initiative known as SEARCH (Seizing
Earnings and Assets from Retail Heists). As part of
this announcement, all field units were advised to
begin using the ORC program code for all criminal
investigations opened under the SEARCH Initiative.
Similar to the FBI, ICE supervisors also conduct a
quarterly case review, which is intended, in part,
to ensure that all applicable program codes are
entered. According to ICE officials, the SEARCH
initiative will build upon the partnerships with
private industry developed as part of the ORC Pilot
Program and operates on the assumption that federal
anti-money laundering statutes may be among the best
mechanisms to target individuals involved in ORC
activity. According to ICE, by following the money
trail, investigators can often build a case to high
levels of a criminal organization. For example, ICE
agents were involved in one case in which illicit
proceeds from the sale of stolen video games on eBay
was tied to an investigation of criminal
organizations involved in running the Vietnam
underground economy, which included trade in stolen
U.S. identities and financial information. In April
2011, ICE indicated that 48 additional cases
involving components of ORC had been initiated since
the launch of the SEARCH Initiative. (Source
gao.gov)
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RETAIL
FRAUD CONFERENCE REACHES NINTH YEAR
According to the Centre for Retail
Research*, the cost of retail crime is escalating and
shrinkage (stock loss caused by crime, waste and error) rose
to 1.37% of sales in 2011 compared to 1.29% in 2010. Again,
customer theft was the highest cause of shrinkage equating
to £2146 million with employee theft amounting to £1765
million.
To combat fraud, retailers are committed to investing in new
technologies and solutions and spent £1019 million on
security and loss prevention in 2011. In order to source the
very best security and loss prevention solutions, the Retail
Fraud Conference remains the must-attend event for the
industry. As the largest retail fraud and loss prevention
conference in Europe, the Retail Fraud Conference remains
the definitive event for showcasing the latest developments
in reducing retail fraud, attracting the very best vendors,
speakers and retail delegates. Last year’s conference
attracted over 550 delegates including 391 retailers.
Now in its ninth year, the Retail Fraud Conference will take
place on 19 April at the Novotel in London. The show will be
opened by the Minister for Crime Prevention, Lord Henley,
and the speaker programme will have an international flavour
with representatives from Sears and Printemps. In addition,
there will be speakers from River Island, Iceland, CIFAS,
FaceWatch.
Exhibition organiser, Paul Bessant of Retail-Knowledge said:
"Along with our sister conference, Retail Fraud on the Road,
the Retail Fraud Conference continues to bring together
top-end speakers and exhibitors, showcasing their expertise
to an industry that recognises the need for the very latest
in solutions for the prevention of retail fraud particularly
at a time when it is on the increase."
The exhibition will feature companies specialising in:
technology solutions including data mining & business
intelligence, personnel training, identity theft, biometrics
plus the latest developments in store alarms, tagging,
security personnel, EAS solutions, covert and traditional
CCTV; online fraud including cardholder not present (CNP)
fraud prevention, online and multi channel fraud, address
verification, phishing, account take over including best
practise on no go countries and areas; and loss prevention
strategy featuring a choice of four extended and in depth
sessions covering the hottest topics within Retail Fraud and
Loss Prevention. Exhibitors will include WEDO Technologies,
Tellermate, Transactis, B2B and Box Technologies.
* (Source: Global Retail Theft Barometer 2011) and
supplementary research.
Retail Knowledge offers insight and intelligence for the
retail fraud industry through the Retail Fraud Conference:
Retail Fraud On the Road; online magazine -
www.retailfraud.com and discussion forum -
retailfraudnetwork.com
For more information, please contact Alyson Hudson on 0795
875 7348 or email
hudsonaly6@googlemail.com
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Jake Gillette
was promoted to Manager of Safety, Security, and Crisis
Management for Dick's Sporting Goods.
Dan Lottes
was named Regional Loss Prevention Manager for Sephora.
Rebecca Lay
was promoted to District Loss Prevention Manager for
J.C. Penney.
Nadine Eller
was named Market Asset Protection Manager for Walmart.
Mark Albert
was named North East Regional LP Investigator for
Wireless Advocates.
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was promoted to Operations Manager for Sears Holdings
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hearing what they're saying is not simply hearing the words
it's all about hearing the meaning and the intentions behind
the words. Because words have a tendency to hide the true
meanings and beliefs. As truth is often cloaked in humor so
is meaning hidden in words. With the number one obstacle
being one's self hearing is often drown out by how we want
others to view us. So if you can leave your self at the door
so to speak you can then begin to focus on hearing what
they're saying.
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