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In the latest episode of Unseen Money<\/a>, Timur Yunusov helps Paul Amery unravel a strange real-life story involving the delivery by DPD of a non-existent eBay purchase, Paul\u2019s phone number and a lady in a pink dressing gown.<\/p>\n

How DPD informed Paul of the delivery of a parcel he hadn’t ordered<\/em><\/p>\n

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This fake delivery was almost certainly part of a rapidly growing form of crime involving \u201csynthetic\u201d identities. In a synthetic identity fraud, criminals create fake online identities by blending real, stolen data with fabricated information. They then use those identities to conduct money laundering and fraud.<\/p>\n

In the podcast, we cover:<\/p>\n

(00\u2019 25\u201d) How Paul got a DPD delivery notification for an eBay parcel he hadn’t ordered<\/p>\n

(1\u2019 20\u201d) How DPD provided \u201cproof of delivery\u201d to a woman in a pink dressing gown<\/p>\n

(2\u2019 45\u201d) How eBay showed no interest in investigating the transaction<\/p>\n

(3\u2019 15\u201d) Why a synthetic identity combines real and fictitious information<\/p>\n

(4\u2019 40\u201d) How criminals use synthetic identities to decrease online friction<\/p>\n

(6\u2019 40\u201d) Possible use of synthetic IDs in buy now pay later (BNPL) fraud<\/a><\/p>\n

(7\u2019 10\u201d) Why synthetic identity frauds<\/a> don\u2019t fit the standard stolen identity playbook<\/p>\n

(7\u2019 40\u201d) Why synthetic ID cases deserve much greater scrutiny from anti-fraud teams<\/p>\n

(11\u2019 30\u201d) Identity theft (account takeover) and synthetic identities<\/p>\n

(13\u2019 00\u201d) Why synthetic identity fraud has boomed post-COVID<\/p>\n

(21\u2019 40\u201d) AI and machine learning have turbocharged synthetic identity fraud<\/p>\n

(23\u2019 40\u201d) Who\u2019s buying the sets of synthetic IDs?<\/p>\n

(24\u2019 30\u201d) How criminals use synthetic identities in frauds<\/p>\n

(29\u2019 30\u201d) Dead souls, the Russia-Ukraine war and the exploitation of fake identity sets<\/p>\n

*************<\/p>\n

The New Money Review podcast<\/a> brings you the best minds from the world of money. <\/em><\/p>\n

From economics to payments, financial markets, technology, law, digital assets, crime and fraud, you’ll find an episode that interests you.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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