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title: Mike Haley on the connection between social media and fraud
date: 2018-03-15T15:13:00+00:00
author: Alara Basul
canonical_url: "https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/2018-3-5-mike-haley-on-the-connection-between-social-media-and-fraud"
section: Podcast
---
Podcast / Fraud analytics

Episode 19

15 March 2018

# Mike Haley on the connection between social media and fraud

In this podcast, Mike Haley from Cifas discusses the measures that we should be taking to prevent over-sharing and the importance of raising awareness for fraud.

![Mike Haley on the connection between social media and fraud](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_1837xAUTO_fit_center-center_none_ns/767/mike-haley.webp)Mike Haley is the Deputy Chief Executive at [Cifas](https://www.cifas.org.uk/). He has more than 25 years' experience of tackling and preventing fraud across the public, private and not for profit sectors, including considerable experience directing investigations, as well as developing prevention and detection strategies.

In this podcast, Mike Haley discusses the importance of raising awareness on the issue of fraud. With more people sharing their every step on social media, are we sharing too much information? People are using social and digital channels more frequently, meanwhile fraudsters are getting smarter and taking advantage of several digital platforms and identity information.

Haley discusses the measures that we should be taking to prevent over-sharing and the importance of raising awareness for fraud for the younger generations.

[**To learn more about online payment fraud visit our insights page.**](https://www.ravelin.com/insights/online-payment-fraud)

![Afk Bu I 400X400](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_122x122_crop_center-center_none_ns/851/afk_Bu-i_400x400.webp)Alara BasulRavelin alumna

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