Prevent and deter fraud situations: Rules and predictive methods can help users optimize their analysis, adapting measures to deceptive patterns and better preventing fraud.

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David Bratvold, founder of the industry publication The Daily Crowdsource, says the CAPS program seems premature, and the wrong approach to preventing fraud.

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But Europe's farms cost taxpayers billions of euros in subsidies each year, and EU agricultural inspectors are turning to technology to improve their patchy record on preventing fraud and waste.

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The most obvious one to adopt appears to be the user authentication and OTP (one-time-password) that has been in existence for some time and has seen a fair degree of success in preventing fraud.

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Preventing theft and fraud may seem like legitimate uses of that license plate data.

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By in large, the various regulators have not been effective in preventing or even catching fraud until the damage has been done.

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Incumbent President Hamid Karzai, dressed in his traditional purple and green striped robe, cast his vote shortly after the polls opened and had his finger stained with ink that is supposed to last for two weeks, a measure intended to thwart fraud by preventing people from voting multiple times.

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The court was unable to impose a ban because of a legal amendment that was passed just before the trial began, preventing the banning of an organisation convicted of fraud.

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Last month, on the Monday after Bear Stearns' collapse, the SEC proposed a new "naked short-selling anti-fraud rule" that is supposed to rein in manipulative trading by preventing short-sellers from misrepresenting to a broker that they have properly located stock to borrow to sell short.

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