Meeting/Event Information

SAVE THE DATE for our Q4 in-person seminar which is worth 3 CPE credits.  Register before October 1st for EARLY BIRD pricing!

Agenda:

8:00 - 8:50 - Breakfast and registration

8:50 - 9:10 – Announcements

9:10 - 10:25 –Steve Lenderman, CFE – Synthetic Identities and Entities: Chasing Fraudulent Ghosts

During this session, we will review the underlying data points that build financial identities and the data sources that aggregate them. We will also explore how fraudsters can leverage this data to create synthetics identities and entities, enabling them to commit numerous frauds including, immigration, medical, financial and political.

You will learn how to:

• Identify credit and data manipulation
• Recognize how synthetic identities are used in various ways to commit fraud
• Detect and deter synthetic identities in your environment
• Develop controls and remediation of synthetic identities
• Analyze data sets to link and build machine learning capabilities

10:25 - 10:35 – Break

10:35 - 11:50 – Speaker Two: Aaron J. Seres, Supervisory Special Agent, Squad C1- Financial Crimes and Money Laundering, Federal Bureau of Investigation

11:50 – 12:00 – Closing Remarks

12:00 – 1:30 – Lunch options provided if folks wanted to get together for lunch (on their own)

About our Speakers:

Steve Lenderman
Head of Fraud Solutions North America
Quantexa

Steve Lenderman has been working in the financial crimes sector for over 25 years and is currently the Head of Fraud Solutions North America at Quantexa. At Quantexa he is the fraud subject matter expert and assists future and current clients with their fraud prevention needs using artificial intelligence to fight fraud, financial crimes, and regulatory compliance by uncovering the relationships and entities behind the activity.

In his prior role, he was the SVP of Fraud Prevention and Investigations at Bank Mobile Technology (BMTX) and was responsible for enterprise fraud management for one of the largest bank as a service provider (BaaS).

At ADP, he was the Director of Strategic Fraud Prevention and was accountable for fraud prevention for all lines of business, including payroll for 6 in 10 Americans and nearly 80% of the Fortune 500.

Before ADP, he was the Fraud Operations Lead for PayPal Business Loans where he was responsible for managing fraud detection, mitigation, and investigations.

Early in his career, Lenderman spent time with Barclaycard US where he oversaw major investigations, internal investigations, bust outs / credit abuse, FINCEN reporting including SAR’s and 314A & B compliance. At Barclaycard US he was involved in counterfeit card defense, the implementation of chip cards and Apple Pay in the US market.

Lenderman has been heavily involved in investigating and identifying synthetic identities and entities. He is considered an industry expert and serves as the Co-Chair of the Bust Out Synthetic Identity (BOSI) working group. Lenderman is the President of the IAFCI Delaware Valley Chapter, the ACFE Delaware Chapter and is a regular speaker at numerous fraud conferences, law enforcement trainings and community outreach programs.

He is a graduate of the University of Delaware with a degree in Criminal Justice and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Aaron Seres
Supervisory Special Agent, Atlanta Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mr. Aaron J. Seres received an appointment as a Special Agent with the FBI in September 2004, and throughout almost nineteen years has had the pleasure to serve in multiple FBI Divisions.  He worked as a field Special Agent in Cleveland, OH and Charlotte, NC for over ten years specializing in financial crimes, while also working assignments investigating public corruption, terrorism, civil rights, child crimes, and other violations.  During his time as a field Agent, Mr. Seres was accepted as an inaugural member of the FBI’s national Corporate Fraud Response Team and served on deployments in support of high priority financial crimes investigations; he worked in a media relations role; and he served overseas in the FBI’s Brussels, Belgium Legal Attaché Office in support of an FBI initiative to address Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations and international money laundering.

In addition to his time spent serving as a field Agent working investigations, Mr. Seres was promoted to serve in several FBI leadership roles. He was first promoted to Economic Crimes Unit Supervisory Special Agent at FBI Headquarters where he led the FBI's national Corporate Fraud Program and oversaw all Economic Crimes programs throughout the Southeastern FBI field offices. His work resulted in a promotion to Chief of the FBI’s Economic Crimes Unit. In this capacity, he led a team responsible for the national program management of the FBI’s Corporate Fraud, Securities & Commodities Fraud, Mass Marketing Fraud, Insurance Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Special Agent Accountant Programs. During his tenure as Chief, Mr. Seres instituted several new initiatives that greatly advanced the FBI’s ability to address financial crimes. After a return to field operations, Mr. Seres was then promoted to Assistant Section Chief of the Financial Crimes Section. In this role, he was charged with leading all FBI financial crimes programs nationally to include Money Laundering, Corporate Fraud, Securities & Commodities Fraud, Cyber Enhanced Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud, Health Care Fraud, Intellectual Property Rights Crimes, and other fraud schemes in addition to having oversight responsibility for the FBI’s Forensic Accountant Program. In this role, Mr. Seres formulated and led successful new initiatives to protect the elderly and combat the opioid epidemic.

Mr. Seres also served in a leadership role as an Assistant Inspector with the FBI’s Inspection Division. In this role, he was responsible for the inspection of FBI field offices, FBI involved shooting incidents, and special projects to ensure the FBI holds itself accountable in a consistent and transparent manner.  Mr. Seres returned to field operations with a 2021 promotion to his current position as Supervisory Special Agent for the Atlanta Field Office where he supervises Georgia’s financial crimes program. Prior to his appointment to the FBI, Mr. Seres worked as a Certified Public Accountant, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration Degree from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.