Today investors are more aware than ever that they can, with the aid of the internet, see mutual fund portfolio holdings on a timely basis, even daily in some cases, and duplicate them in their own portfolios.

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In some instances, there were duplicate payments and in others no follow up occurred to make sure the work had been completed to satisfaction.

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"There are some obstacles we need to overcome in duplicate detection and captchas, " he says.

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