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Fraud Busting with Traci Brown
A Podcast Interview
The Traci Brown Interview With Dr. Tim McGuinness
Busting Al-Queda Funding with Tim McGuinness Ep. 36
Tim McGuinness, Ph.D., DFin, MCPO, MAnth is a director and founder of SCARS – the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams Inc.
Tim McGuinness visits Fraud Busting with Traci Brown. He’s the expert on socially engineered cyber-enabled crimes and fights fraud every day. We’ll learn how in the ‘80’s he helped introduce legislation that he now considers the root of all evil online. And he’ll fill us in on how he was targeted by Al-Queda and then helped bust their fraud scheme.
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