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'Live in Dallas' - Introduction with Gus Downing
Gus Downing, Publisher & Editor of the D&D Daily, introduces
the Loss Prevention News Network's 10th LIVE Season -
"Live in Dallas" at NRF
Protect 2018. This only-one-of-its-kind Live LP Digital Conference brings
you a host of LP/AP and Solution Provider
Leaders discussing the hot topics, the ongoing issues and challenges, the programs,
the latest technology, and the solutions these providers offer to the industry.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we re-broadcast our entire live shoot from
start to finish.
MCs Joe LaRocca & Amber Bradley - Quick Take 1
MCs Joe LaRocca and Amber Bradley tell us what's in store for the day
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from our upcoming agenda full of valuable LP insights and information to
surprise guests, movie quotes, and lighting rounds. You never know what LPNN's
dynamic duo will say or do!
Tune in for their fun-filled, value-packed Quick
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Is this an LP Resurgence?
LP Payroll Gaining Traction For
Q4
Start Your Engines - The
Holiday Season is Coming
By Gus Downing, Publisher & Editor, D&D Daily
 With three VP of LP jobs and seven Director jobs on the market it's a busy time
for senior LP jobs heading into the fourth quarter.
Take this Q4 senior push and couple it with the 10% and 15% increase in job
postings in June and July respectively, and we're seeing the strongest job
market since before the great recession.
Obviously retailers are loosening payroll compared to last year's 21% and 15%
drops in June and July. That's a huge swing of 30% and 31% respectively.
If we just took March's 39% drop in job postings out of the equation, which
coincidently enough almost timed perfectly with the Macy's and Toys R Us impact,
we'd have an extremely strong job market for 2018 and probably one of the best
in over a decade.
Even with a 10% error ratio, the numbers we're seeing are still up 20% and 21%
respectfully. Which is still extremely strong and quite frankly our numbers are
fairly accurate given our search model and the fact that we don't include 30 day
re-posted jobs.
This job growth reflects a number of things. From increased comp's, payrolls
sliced to bare bones for years, fear of the retail apocalypse subsiding a
little, or at least the media has calmed down about it with a few creditable
journalist even labeling this a "retail renaissance".
Read more here
Levi Strauss CEO: Why Business Leaders Need to
Take a Stand on Gun Violence
In November 2016, I wrote an open letter requesting that
gun owners not bring firearms into our stores, offices, or facilities, even
in states where it's permitted by law. This was following an incident in one of
our stores in which a customer accidentally shot and injured himself while
trying on a pair of jeans. While that was bad, it could have been worse: The
bullet could have killed him, another customer, or one of our employees.
In the days after I published that letter, I received threats to our stores,
our business, and even on my life. It was unsettling. But these personal
attacks pale in comparison to the threats that activists and survivors from
Parkland, Sandy Hook, and daily incidents of gun violence face every time they
speak up on this issue.
As president and CEO of a values-driven company that's known the world over as a
pioneer of the American West and one of the great symbols of American freedom, I
take the responsibility of speaking up on the important issues of our day very
seriously.
fortune.com
Update:
Deadly NCCC Mall Fire, Davao City, Philippines 12/23/17
37 US Employees & 1 Security Guard Died
 First
Reported - Jan 2
Mall Security Guard "Hero" - Sacrificed His Life
Trying to save 37 U.S. SSI workers
Update: 33 People Face Criminal Charges in Philippine
'Davao City Mall' Fire
Fire Exits Not Enclosed - Fire Alarm Defective - Sprinkler System Not Working
- Graft Charges on Officials - SSI Executives Charged
Criminal and administrative charges have been filed against 33 people after a
blaze at a Davao City mall claimed 38 lives. 37 working for US research firm
that conducted polls for some retailers. The 38th victim was the security
guard trying to save their lives.
Fire investigators have identified safety failings that might have contributed
to the deaths of 38 people in the recent Davao mall blaze. A task force set up
to investigate concluded that the building did not meet the requirements for
the enclosure of fire exits. "If the fire exit was inside the building, the
law requires that that must be enclosed to prevent the smoke from coming in."
 Investigators also suspect that the fire alarm system of the top-floor 4th
floor call centre SSI - where 37 of the victims perished - was "defective"
and was not connected to the mall's main system.
The mall's owners have previously denied allegations of locked or nonexistent
fire exits and insisted that fire alarms worked during the blaze.
Now, the owners of the mall, officials of Survey Sampling International, city
building and fire officials and officials of the Philippine Economic Zone
Authority (Peza) are all facing cases at the city's prosecutor's office.
Fire Superintendent Anthony Figurasin, leader of the interagency task force
investigating the tragedy, said charges of 'reckless imprudence resulting in
multiple homicide' were filed against officials of LTS Malls, officials of
the mall's contractor, and numerous Davo City building officials and fire
protection officials.
Also charged with the same offence were Jose Antonio San Gabriel, SSI
Philippines board chair; Riza Lyn Ocampo - SSI Dir. of Administration, Rey
Roble - SSI Accountant, Christopher Fanning and David Ian Weatherseed. philippineslifestyle.com
Editor's Note: Enterprise Risk Management - A perfect Example - Would
this have ever happened in the states?
Good enough to outsource US work but not thoughtful enough for the US firm to
ensure that safety standards were met. Three top Philippine SSI executives
have been charged.
Telaid, Clinton Electronics Partner to Deliver
New Public View Monitors
For Applications For LP & Beyond
In an effort to offer the latest, network-based public view monitors (PVMs) to
customers to meet their objectives in loss prevention and beyond, Telaid, a
trusted technology integrator specializing in complex enterprise deployments,
today announced a strategic partnership with Clinton Electronics, a leading
provider of innovative CCTV products, public view monitors, specialty displays,
and custom designed solutions.
Able to accommodate multiple formats of content such as a static image, video,
ticker tape messaging, slide show and presentations, the PVMs use an intuitive
user interface to allow users to easily configure screen displays, change out
content, specify triggers and manage monitors across disparate geographic
locations. Also available in different sizes, the new PVMs can be used for
applications far beyond loss prevention.
itbusinessnet.com
Convergence of Anti-corruption Compliance Rules
Presents Risks and Opportunities
The convergence of various initiatives aimed at fighting fraud, corruption, and
other regulatory risks is spurring many companies to review their fraud and
corruption risk programs. While complex to navigate, this convergence offers
organizations an opportunity to bridge siloed gaps in critical information,
streamline fraud and corruption risk management, and develop an enterprise-wide
view of compliance.
"The confluence of these global initiatives - with both overlapping and discrete
requirements - presents companies with the challenge and opportunity for
organizational moves that can strengthen risk management, while considering the
broader enterprise compliance program and initiatives they may have in place,"
says Rob Biskup, a Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory managing director in the
Forensic practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.
Continued on page two. wsj.com
Corporate Sabotage - "Mob-Like Behavior" - Is it
happening to your brand?
Brands Paying Influencers $75K + To Trash Competitors
Inside the drama that's taking the beauty influencer industry by storm.
Over the last three years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cracked
down on Instagram influencers, forcing users to disclose sponcon and brand
partnerships with a simple hashtag (#ad or #paid are preferred) or
built-in branded partner ID tools. Business is booming regardless, with even
teens getting a piece of that that sweet sweet sponcon cash. However as the
industry matures and companies grow more dependent on the insidious form of
advertising, it seems like the real money, and shenanigans, might not
be in glowing reviews, but brutal takedowns.
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An Instagram post by Kevin James Bennett, an Emmy Award-winning makeup artist
and cosmetics developer set the beauty influencer community aflame on Tuesday.
In it, Bennett describes the "mob-like behavior" of high-profile beauty
influencers and the management teams he was in touch with to reviews for beauty
products he was releasing under his own name. Bennett claims the influencers
offered to trash a competing product in comparison to Bennett's products in
exchange for $75,000 to $85,000. Bennett also called out the all-too-common
practice of skirting disclosure requirements and urged the FTC to start issuing
fines.
theoutline.com
LinkedIn - "It's the ultimate playground for
collection"
Exclusive: U.S. accuses China of 'super aggressive' spy campaign on LinkedIn
The United States' top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using
fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and
commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down.
About 70 percent of China's overall espionage is aimed at the U.S. private
sector, rather than the government, said Joshua Skule, the head of the FBI's
intelligence branch. "They are conducting economic espionage at a rate that is
unparalleled in our history," he said.
reuters.com
Aurora, CO, Walmart APM Gets 22 months Fed Prison
& $830,000 Restitution Order
A 40-year-old Aurora man who worked for Walmart has been sentenced to 22 months
in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering. He also has been
ordered to pay $830,000 restitution.
Manning was employed as an asset protection manager and assistant store manager
at a local Walmart between 2012 and 2015, according to an indictment in the
case. Manning had access to blank checks in his job positions. He fraudulently
filled out checks and had others fill out checks in the names of third parties
to deceive Walmart employees that the checks were legitimate.
Manning used his management position to access the store's safe and take cash
from deposit bundles, the news release stated. Manning created fake loans to
one of the store's cash registers to conceal that cash was missing from the
safe. Manning then placed in those cash registers fraudulent Money Network
Checks totaling the same amount as the cash taken so the balance would look
correct and other employees would not realize cash had been taken from the
safe. denverpost.com
One of the Most Expansive Rare Book Thefts in
History
300 Rare Books Worth $8M - A Librarian Archivist & a Book Dealer
 John Schulamm, a book dealer and Gregory Priore, a library archivist at
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The two carried out the theft over nearly
two decades, the authorities said, stealing about 300 books and other artifacts
that, in total, would cost more than $8 million to replace.
Their arrests last month sent a shudder across the rare books industry, a
multimillion-dollar business in the United States, according to the Antiquarian
Booksellers' Association of America.
In this niche world based on trust, where confidants are currency and handshake
deals are commonplace, the arrest of a prominent dealer is a shocking suggestion
of deceit.
 Mr. Schulman had served on the association's board of governors and had even led
its ethics committee, the organization said. His clients included some of the
biggest names in the business. Prominent bookshops from New York to London
bought stolen books, an affidavit shows.
"It was an amazing setup that was close to foolproof," Mr. McDade said, noting
that most rare book thieves get caught trying to sell their goods.
In a scheme that dated back to the late 1990s, Mr. Priore told the authorities,
he would remove items from the library and drop them off at Mr. Schulman's
bookshop, just a block away, on his way home from work.
nytimes.com
New Orleans, LA: Security Guard replaced after complaint
of Racial Profiling
A security guard at the Breaux Mart on Magazine Street has been replaced after a
confrontation with a black shopper that the shopper says was racially motivated.
The unnamed security guard approached Branson Morgan and his two friends on
September 1 as the trio were shopping at the popular locally owned grocery
store. Morgan outlined what happened next in a Facebook post with an
accompanying video showing the security guard closely following him through the
store.
wgno.com
Employers are slowly turning to ex-offenders to
fill open jobs in a worker-hungry economy
As the job market gets tighter, employers are slowly turning to nonprofits such
as Rise, Emerge, Building Better Futures, Summit Academy, Genesys Works,
Goodwill Easter Seals and others that help former felons build skills and land
decent jobs.
"We are safer when these guys have jobs and housing," said CEO Dan Pfarr of 180
Degrees. "We are their step from prison to the civilian world." The good news is
that the low unemployment rate is prompting employers to warm to hiring former
inmates.
It's been embraced by large employers including Google, Total Wine, the Ford
Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, Koch Industries, Walmart and other
companies. Locally, Quality Ingredients, Target, Bremer Bank and numerous small
businesses are on board.
A
groundbreaking report last year by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
provides a road map into the "successes of corporate policies giving formerly
incarcerated Americans a fair chance at re-entry."
And Rise and its national partner, Root & Rebound, which advocates for former
inmates, have received great response from local employers for their "Minnesota
Employers' Fair Chance Hiring Guide."
The guide takes employers through legal compliance and risk minimization,
background checks, the rewards of hiring a second-chance worker, best practices
for "onboarding" former inmates and strategies for helping them integrate into
the workforce.
startribune.com
The HR Perspective
Investigators' Notes Play Pivotal Role in Cases
A recent case from the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal provides an
example of a complaint that took a turn no one saw coming, and one where the
notes could have played a critical role.
In the early stages of an investigation, it's often impossible to say what
information is going to be critical to the decision-making process. What seemed
at first like an innocuous, offhand comment from a complainant could end up
cementing, or tarnishing, his or her credibility once the respondent and
witnesses are interviewed.
So what's an investigator to do, in the absence of a crystal ball? Document,
document, document. Detailed notes of everything a party says are the best way
to ensure you are prepared for any unexpected twist or turn that an
investigation may take. Below descriptions are abbreviated.
Best Practices for Note-Taking
Memory is fallible. It's impossible for any of us to remember all the
details from our interviews.
Consider your medium. Are you going to take notes on your laptop? By
hand? Some people can capture more information by typing. There is no right or
wrong answer here. What's important is that you give some thought to how you are
best able to capture complete and accurate information.
Remember the basics. Before getting into the substance of the interview,
your notes should cover the basics.
The more detail, the better. As the McIntosh case demonstrates, you often
don't know what details from your interview are going to end up being important.
So, err on the side of capturing everything.
More than words. Good notes cover more than just what the interviewee
says. Your notes should include any nonverbal cues the interviewee displays.
Remember follow-up. Rather than leaving an interview and trying to
remember what steps you have to take to follow-up, include these steps in your
interview notes.
Keep the notes. Don't shred your notes once you've drafted your report.
Your notes are a contemporaneous record of your interviews and probably contain
details that didn't make it into the final report.
shrm.org
Pennsylvania Fights Back Against Skimming With
New Law
Lowe's CEO Needs to Begin Making the Hard
Decisions
lululemon to open 40 stores by year's end
Walmart Expanding Toys Dept. 30% in stores & 40%
online - Big Surprise There
Tops Markets to shut 10 stores
Quarterly Results
Build-a-Bear Q2 comp's up, e-commerce up 14.4%, sales up 5%
Last week's #1 article --
Marvin
Ellison's new playbook for Lowe's
There Will Be Change
 In his first week on the job, Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison unveiled a major
restructuring of executive staff. And in the company's first quarterly
report under Ellison, Lowe's unveiled a bombshell decision to close all
99 Orchard Supply Hardware stores.
So what else is new at Mooresville, N.C.-based Lowe's? There's a lot.
Room for improvement. Ellison was direct in his assessment of where
Lowe's can improve. "Specifically, we are significantly behind in our
supply chain strategy, our in-store technology is dated, overall
execution is impaired by complexity, we have a large number of
out-of-stocks in our stores that must be addressed, and we need to
increase the rigor with which we evaluate capital investments."
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LPRC Impact 2018
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Science. Practice. Results.
 The LPRC
has developed the IMPACT Conference to help retailers and their
solutions partners better employ research tools to assess the
real-world impact their LP efforts have on sales, crime, and loss
levels. This year's theme is
Science. Practice. Results.
Our aim for this year's conference is to deliver practical research,
rooted in rigorous scientific research methods, to help your team
succeed.
View the full research agenda.
Register here for LPRC Impact 2018.
For more information, please visit
lpresearch.org/IMPACT
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InstaKey Launches New Website
InstaKey is proud to tell you that we have
launched a new website!
We've re-arranged navigation menus and made the site faster so you can get in
and get out and on with your day.
Here's a few of
our favorite new features:
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Training & Education and
Let Us Help pages where you can quickly access video
tutorials and documents on how to conduct rekeys and core
swaps. If you don't find what you're looking for, the Let Us
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This website is brought to you by user feedback.
If you would like provide your feedback, we'd love to hear from you!
Click here to tell us what you think!
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The Fight Over California's Privacy Bill Has Only
Just Begun
Lobbying groups and trade associations, including several representing the tech
industry, immediately started pushing for a litany of deep changes that they say
would make the law easier to implement before it goes into effect in January
2020. But privacy advocates worry that pressure from powerful businesses could
end up gutting the law completely.
Over the last few weeks, groups like the Chamber of Commerce and the Internet
Association, which represents companies like Google and Facebook, have pushed
for significant alterations, even as the tech industry works to
develop a federal privacy bill that would, if passed, override California's
law.
In early August, a coalition of nearly 40 organizations, ranging from the
banking industry to the film industry to the tech industry's leading lobbying
groups, sent a
20-page letter to the lawmakers behind SB-1121, effectively a wish list of
changes.
For now, all sides at least agree that SB-1121 is effectively a stopgap. The
fact that big businesses didn't get their way this time hardly signals a
resounding victory for privacy. Next year's legislative session will likely see
new bills with even more serious changes proposed by influential industries.
"They've got another chance to succeed, and they'll be back for sure," Baker
says.
wired.com
Cybercrime expected to hit $6 trillion in damage
annually by 2021
Hackers and computer viruses continue to cause issues as online shopping grows,
with estimates that cybercrimes will cause $6 trillion in damage annually by
2021.
That cost is double the $3 trillion in damages that occurred in 2017, according
to a Cybersecurity Ventures report. The costs grow as new cyber thief tactics
continue popping up and old ones re-surface.
daytondailynews.com
Breach Reporting Landscape Becoming Global
Minefield
The Equifax Impact - 30 Day Rule - Fed. Law Coming?
US - Canada Nov. 1st - EU - Australia
The past year has ushered in big changes to how companies around the world must
report data breaches, with jurisdictions from Colorado to Canada establishing
new requirements that further complicate an already fragmented global regime.
But while these laws all have the same general purpose, their requirements for
disseminating alerts vary greatly, leaving companies that operate globally with
the tricky task of figuring out how to navigate nuances in breach reporting
triggers, timelines and methods.
U.S. Reporting Requirements Hit All 50 States
"If you track the state laws that have been amended recently, a lot of the
talk revolves around the Equifax breach," While the massive Equifax breach
wasn't enough to get federal data breach notification and security notification
legislation across the finish line.
 "The U.S. has a very mature framework around breach notification, as we were
first out of the box, and since then breach notification has come to be
recognized as an integral part of any comprehensive data protection regime.
The
amended Colorado law, which takes effect Sept. 1, is particularly notable
for its tight breach reporting window and broad scope, according to attorneys.
With the new law, Colorado joins Florida as the only states to require reporting
of a breach to consumers and the state attorney general within 30 days, the
shortest time frame currently on the books in the U.S.
"Other states may look at some decisions made by the Colorado Legislature, such
as the 30-day notification window and the decision not to exempt companies
covered by federal health and banking laws, and those may serve as a tipping
point on those issues."
With breach laws now live in all 50 states, along with four U.S. territories,
attention is likely to shift again to the federal level, where several attempts
to enact not only a national breach reporting standard but also uniform data
security rules - which are on the books in 20 states and counting - have fallen
short during the past decade.
Canada's Breach Reporting Goes Nationwide Coming Nov. 1st.
Becoming more common and proscriptive worldwide -
Read the whole story Continued on page two
law360.com
This is Google's Titan security key
"No account takeovers since implementing security keys at Google"
And it's probably true. Think of a security key as like a two-factor
authentication code that's sent to your phone - but instead a USB stick in your
pocket. Two-factor authentication is stronger than just a username and password,
but
text message codes can be intercepted and many sites and services don't yet
support the stronger authenticator codes. Security keys are one of the strongest
lines of defense against account breaches. That's because a hacker on the other
side of the world trying to break into your account needs not only your password
but also your physical key - and that's not something a hacker can easily or
covertly steal.
Although there are a handful of security key brands out there - Yubikey and
Feitian to name two - Google thinks it can do better with its own Titan security
keys.
Out Thursday, the company's own branded and in house-developed security keys are
now available to buy. One is a USB key, and the other supports Bluetooth
and NFC for mobile devices. You need to enroll both keys - one stays in a safe
space, and the other stays with you.
techcrunch.com
Not all security service providers are created
equal
There is no specific "starting point" for using managed security services.
Whether it's staffing issues, budget restrictions,
end-of-life software or an identified particular risk and the only way of
providing at least some of the required security controls is via a service
provider.
Security service providers are not all made equal. Security is not a product and
organizations should steer clear of service providers offering one or a
combination of products.
Instead, focus on those providers with expertise in your particular area -
perhaps vertical, and/or company size - that understand your business. Look
for providers that deliver integrated managed security services, giving your
organization the option to expand its use of managed services if required.
Invariably, service providers will offer a series of certifications to
demonstrate their capabilities around security - when choosing a provider,
decide which are applicable to your enterprise and have these as table stakes.
Additionally, ensure contractual service level agreements (SLAs) are
available so your organization receives the service it is expecting.
It is also key to have an agreement about who is responsible for what, and
when - for example, how frequently will the service provider undertake
scanning and patching, how will your organization be informed, how quickly can a
change to a firewall be applied? These are all part of the regular interactions
with a managed security services provider.
Regular reporting against SLAs and other metrics on a security scorecard
can help customers of security service providers have a level of assurance that
requirements are being met. As with any contract, the power lies with the
customer before the agreement is signed, so decide what you want up front and
stick out for it.
computerweekly.com
Automation Will Free Security Pros to Do What
They Do Best
People are and will always be the most critical cybersecurity resource. Right
now, the talent pool with the unique skills and training to respond to cyber
threats is unfortunately all too limited, and the way we are making use of this
scarce resource is neither scalable nor effective in addressing the rapid
evolution of cyberattacks.
The lack of analysts dedicated to advanced malware forensics and the high cost
to recruit and retain such human resources, force organizations to build
security operations centers (SOCs) and incident response teams in a tiered
analyst structure.
darkreading.com
50% of Data Loss Incidents in 2016 Linked to
Printer
How Hackers Hit Printers
A new study cited by Booz Allen Hamilton found that of 61% of survey respondents
who reported a data loss incident in 2016, at least 50% had at least one such
incident linked to a printer. The 2017
survey by Quocirca included 200 companies with more than 1,000 employees.
The security incidents included digitally intercepted print jobs (50%), loss of
data from printer hard disks (48%), mailing of documents via multifunction
printers to external sources (44%), and printers getting hacked to gain network
access (18%).
Some of the most common types of cyberattacks on printers include disabling
printers for ransom and abusing insecure printers for vandalism or vigilantism.
darkreading.com
Managing your CEO's social media habits
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What's the Pocket App?
If you love to keep up with the latest news and trends via your
smartphone, the Pocket app may be for you. Pocket is a quick save-it-for-later
app which allows you to easily save stores in a text only format. You can read
those stories later while on the go. It even has a text-to-speak option. The app
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Machine Learning and Manual Review:
Validate Identities and Verify Good Orders Faster
In recent years, the popularity and utilization of machine learning has grown
exponentially. Many e-commerce and retail companies have started using machine
learning to optimize their fraud workflow management and automate their
processes. Even though machine learning is slowly becoming the standard as it
further amasses computational power and improves the quality of its training
datasets, merchants still need humans to help catch fraud in the manual review
process.
The overarching goal of manual review is to balance accuracy and efficiency and,
these days, manual review is becoming more and more optimized. The challenges
for e-com businesses and review agents in the world of e-commerce, however,
still remain. Review agents must help merchants prevent fraud, verify good
orders faster, and increase revenue.
First, a big challenge for merchants is keeping up with increasing customer
expectations of mobile commerce. In other words, preventing customer friction is
now an even bigger essential as online shopping is the top activity performed on
a mobile device for consumers- they expect instant results wherever, whenever.
Second, merchants face increasingly sophisticated online fraud attacks. For
example, credit card chargebacks are a costly problem for online merchants.
Hefty fines from credit card companies should be a thing of the past; e-com
businesses need to determine the good customers quickly and find potentially
fraudulent orders that really need review.
Lastly, e-com businesses with a manual review process will not scale effectively
due to how much the process costs and how long it takes. More orders as the
digital side of business takes off means more time spent, more agents required,
and more money spent on manual review.
There are so many tools that can be used during manual review, from regulatory
and compliance-related tools to ones that help with workflow. Before spending
money on expensive data queries, companies should research and learn more about
manual review solutions, and at the basic level of manual review sits identity
data.
cardnotpresent.com
Black Diamond demands Walmart remove gear from
website
Premium outdoor brand Black Diamond sent Walmart a cease and desist letter
asking to be removed from the retailer's "Premium
Outdoor Store curated by Moosejaw," a dedicated page on walmart.com the
retailer launched Monday featuring an assortment of outdoor gear. On Tuesday,
Black Diamond sent Walmart a notice directing the retail giant to stop using its
name and trademarks "in a manner likely to confuse consumers into believing that
Walmart is an authorized dealer of Black Diamond or that the new outdoor
Walmart.com site is otherwise associated with or sponsored by Black Diamond."
retaildive.com
Supreme Court rules ISPs entitled to recover
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 Burlingame,
CA: Apple store hit for 4th time amid epidemic of grab & run thefts
Four young thieves went into Burlingame's Apple store Sunday, snatched up
$50,000 worth of iPhones and laptops, and were out the door and running for
their getaway car inside of 30 seconds, police said. The late-morning
grab-and-go, which netted more than 30 iPhones and about six laptops, was at
least the fourth such crime to hit the same store, said Burlingame Police Lt.
Robert Boll. The four who hit the Burlingame store Sunday, and the getaway
driver, were described as men in their late teens or early 20s, wearing hoodies.
abc7news.com
Update: Dallas, TX: One of four Robbers arrested
in $60,000 Costco Jewelry
Smash & Grab
Police have arrested one of four robbery suspects believed to be behind a July
smash-and-grab jewelry heist at the North Dallas Costco. Demarcus Dametreion
Coleman, 18, is charged with aggravated robbery in the July 1 hold-up and was
arrested last week. Police say Coleman was one of three men who on July 1
entered the Costco store on Churchill Way and went straight for the jewelry
counter. "Open it up," said one of the robbers, who was armed with a black
handgun and wore a red bandanna, a hoodie and possibly a wig. The employee made
a run for it, fearing for her life, so Coleman put his black-and-yellow pickax
to use, smashing open the jewelry case, according to his arrest warrant
affidavit. He and a third suspect, who remains at large, grabbed almost $60,000
worth of jewelry from the case and threw it all in a small black bag before
fleeing the store.
dallasnews.com
Gretna, NE: Team of thieves hit Ulta Beauty in Nebraska
Crossing Outlet Mall; $700 theft
Store security camera video showed two young couples working together to rob the
store at the same time. Over $700 in cosmetics was taken by the couples,
including lipstick, rouge, highlighters, perfume and primer. The males blocked
the view of the workers while the females stuffed their purses.
wowt.com
St. Louis: Two Foreign Nationals Producing Counterfeit
Cards in Hotel Room Charged
Corbin, KY: Woman charged with shoplifting of $2,600 of
merchandise at Belk with children
Memphis, TN: Mother tries to steal more than $1,300 from
Target with two small children; left purse behind
Morris Plains, NJ: Kohl's shoplifter struggles with Loss
Prevention; theft of $1,300 in electronics
Elizabethtown, KY: Man charged with $500 theft from
Kohl's; threatened Loss Prevention
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Shootings & Deaths
Covington, GA: Officer 'fighting for his life'
after he's shot responding to shoplifting report at Georgia Walmart
 A
Georgia police officer is "fighting for his life" after he was shot while
responding to a shoplifting report at a Walmart Monday afternoon, according to
local police. When a suspect exited the Walmart in Covington -- about 35 miles
east of Atlanta -- and started to flee, officer Matt Cooper ran after him,
according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and the Covington Police
Department. The suspect, 21-year-old Aaron Fleming, "ran across the street
behind another shopping center where several gunshots were fired," the GBI said
in a statement. Cooper, a 34-year-old military veteran who has been with the
Covington police for six years, was shot and hospitalized in serious condition,
said Covington police spokesman Justin Stott. A second gunshot was then heard,
and Fleming was found shot dead, authorities said. "Early information indicates
that the wound was self-inflicted," said a statement from the GBI. The state
agency is handling the investigation.
abcnews.go.com
Kansas City, MO: Teen, man wounded in Shooting
inside Sun Fresh Market
 Shoppers
at a Kansas City grocery store spent Monday in shows after a shooting inside the
store injured two people, including a teenager. The shooting happened just after
5 p.m. at the Lipardi Brothers Sun Fresh Market at 31st Street and Prospect
Avenue. Two people were shot. Police said the victims are a man and a teen girl.
Their injuries were originally reported as life-threatening but both victims
have been declared in stable condition. KCTV5 News covered the store's opening
earlier in the summer and Monday's violence was exactly what employees and new
customers did not want to see. One employee who works at the store told KCTV5
News that a man was pacing in the front of the store when another man walked in
with a gun and started shooting. She said both employees and shoppers, were
ducking and trying to run to safety. Many people tried to rush children away
from the gunfire.
kctv5.com
Macon, GA: Teen Shot & Killed inside Chick-fil-A
An 18-year-old was charged with murder Monday in connection with the fatal
shooting of another teen at Chick-fil-A on Bloomfield Road in Macon. Bibb County
Coroner Leon Jones identified the victim as Leonard Spivey Jr., 18. Sheriff
David Davis said there were several males fighting outside the restaurant. An
employee happened to open the back door and Spivey ran inside, chased by another
man who shot him in front of restaurant workers. The shooter immediately fled
the scene. Later in the day Julian Charles Kongquee, 18, of Macon was charged
with murder in connection with the shooting.
macon.com
Upper Darby, PA: Illegal Immigrant arrested in shooting of
Upper Darby beer distributor owner
Upper Darby police say they've arrested a suspect accused of shooting the owner
of a beer distributor. Pablo Quintanilla, 24, was arrested Monday morning and is
being charged with attempted murder.
6abc.com
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Apple Store theft crew caught, but robberies
continue in California
A crew was arrested in Thousand Oaks, Calif., August 20 and suspected of
responsibility for several of the thefts at Apple Stores throughout this year.
Several more Apple Store thefts took place in California in the ensuing days.
appleinsider.com
Brentwood, CA: Fleeing Shopliftings hit Police
Officer with the get-a-way car
A Brentwood Police officer who came to help Home Depot security staff collar a
pair of theft suspects Monday was hit and knocked down by the suspects' vehicle,
police said. Police on Monday night were hunting a man and woman in their 30s
who were the driver and passenger in the car that struck the officer who was on
foot outside the Home Depot store around 12:30 p.m., said Brentwood Police Lt.
Walter O'Grodnick. Security officers and police had intended to arrest the pair
on suspicion of grand theft, O'Grodnick said. The police officer struck by the
vehicle was not seriously injured.
mercurynews.com
Suspect in Siegel's Jewelry burglary caught at
LAX trying to flee country
Officers from the Santa Cruz Police Department and Los Angeles Police Department
assisted the Paso Robles Police Department in arresting 28-year-old Roman Petre
in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 24. Petre was currently out on bail for another
jewelry store burglary in Northern California and was arrested at the Los
Angeles Airport (LAX) while trying to flee the country to his native Romania.
Petre was arrested on a $1 million warrant stemming from his part in the
Siegel's Jewelry store burglary from March in Paso Robles.
pasoroblespress.com
Santa Ana, CA: Good Samaritan takes out Stater Bros.
shoplifter with 1 punch
Santa Ana Police said on June 17, suspect Jose Prado was loading up his truck
with items he did not pay for when store employees confronted him. Prado
responded aggressively. As employees appeared intimidated by the suspect's size,
a man in shorts and a brown shirt walked up and laid Prado out with one punch.
abc7chicago.com
Pittsburgh, PA: Store Clerk Stabbed During Downtown
C-Store Robbery
Nashville, TN: Woman attacked and knocked to the ground in
Target parking lot; struggled for her purse
Counterfeit
Little Rock, AR: 4 Online Merchants to pay
$200,000 in damages to University of Arkansas
A federal judge has ordered more than 40 online merchants to each pay $200,000
in damages in a University of Arkansas System lawsuit alleging the sale of
counterfeit Razorback merchandise.
kait8.com
Noel, MO: Police seize $1,300 in counterfeit bills with some illegal
drugs & firearms
Sentencings, Indictments, & Charges
Newark, DE: Serial robbers sentenced for
three-state 'reign of terror'
Two men are facing at least 15 years in federal prison for a three-state
robbery spree in 2016. Brian Branch and Michael Kolmonen and engaged in
a "reign of terror" over several months as they robbed 20 stores in
Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland, Chief U.S. District Court Judge
Leonard P. Stark remarked last week while sentencing them to 16.5 and 15
years, respectively. Robberies in the Newark area included the Walgreens
in Harmony Plaza, the Walgreens in Brookside Shopping Center, the
Walgreens on Possum Park Road, the CVS in Brookside, the Rite Aid in
Omega Shopping Center and the Valero Shore Stop on Old Baltimore Pike.
newarkpostonline.com
Update: Las Vegas, NV: Ross Dress for
Less Employee Indicted on Attempted Murder charges
 A
security guard at a Las Vegas retail store was indicted Friday on
multiple counts of attempted murder after authorities accused him of
firing a gun at his manager and others. The 37-year-old guard, Mohamed
Mahmoud, was shot by Las Vegas police during the incident. The
indictment charges him with six counts of attempted murder with a deadly
weapon, two counts of assault on a protected person with a deadly
weapon, four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of
burglary while in possession of a firearm, and five counts of
discharging a firearm from or within a structure. MetroPolice received
calls on Aug. 11 about an active shooter inside Ross Dress for Less.
Police said an officer arrived within minutes, and the gunman began
shooting outside the store at the police vehicle. Another Metro officer
arrived and also took gunfire. He returned five shots, hitting Mahmoud
once near his hip. Mahmoud was the only person hurt in the shooting. He
was booked in absentia while hospitalized.
reviewjournal.com
North Hollywood, CA: 2 Women Convicted in Killing of Store Clerk During
Robbery
Delaware, Pennsylvania & Maryland: Two men sentenced for robbing 20
stores in three states
McComb, MS: Man gets 10 years for Walmart armed robbery
Fresno, CA: Police arrest man allegedly responsible for string of fast
food robberies
Dallas: Federal Grand Jury Indicts Five MS-13 Members for
Violent Retail Robbery
Tuscaloosa, AL: Federal Grand Jury Indicts Two Men for 4
retail armed robberies
Mohave County, AZ: Suspects in Dollar General
Armed Robbery in Kingman indicted on 7 new charges |
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Aldi - Macon, GA - Armed Robbery
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Apple - Burlingame, CA - Robbery
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Boost Mobile - Albuquerque, NM - Burglary
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C-Store - Pittsburgh, PA - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Denton, TX - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Latta, SC - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Santa Barbara County, CA - Armed Robbery
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C- Store - Columbus County, NC - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Bryan, TX - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Licking County, OH - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Dunkirk, MD - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Fort Myers, FL - Armed Robbery
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C- Store - Little Rock, AR - Armed Robbery
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CVS - Novato, CA - Robbery
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CVS - Simpsonville, SC - Armed Robbery
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Cash America - Riverdale, GA - Burglary
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Coin Store - Santa Rosa, CA - Armed Robbery
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Domino's - Pompano Beach, FL - Armed Robbery
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Family Dollar - Middle Township, NJ - Robbery
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Family Dollar - Jackson, MS - Robbery
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Fashion World - Rayville, LA - Armed Robbery/ Assault
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Gas Station - Madison, WI - Armed Robbery
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Liquor Store - St Peters, MO - Armed Robbery
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Metro PCS - Muncie, IN - Armed Robbery
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Pawn Shop - Clayton County, GA - Burglary
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Pawn Shop - Las Vegas, NV - Armed Robbery
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Pharmacy - Gastonia, NC - Armed Robbery
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Restaurant - Royersford, PA - Burglary
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Tire Store - Livingston, CA - Robbery
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Walmart - Ashland, VA - Robbery
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7-Eleven - Sterling, VA - Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven - Sandy, UT - Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven - Oakland Park, FL - Armed Robbery
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7- Eleven - West Bountiful, UT - Armed Robbery
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