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BB&T to host free fraud awareness webinar for business owners

    WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BB&T today said
it will host a free educational webinar May 13 to help businesses
understand and detect fraud in the payments industry.

    "Your Business at Risk: Payments Fraud Awareness," the fourth in an
ongoing series of payments-related webinars from BB&T, will be presented
from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (EST) by Payment Solutions Risk and Finance Manager
Warren Takacs.


Topics will include: -- Why is payment fraud so prevalent? -- Tactics criminals use to exploit businesses' vulnerabilities. -- Best practices to help protect business owners. Online registration is available at http://www.bbt.com/business/products/paymentsolutions/webinar.html . "Fraud costs U.S. businesses and their customers billions of dollars a year," said Takacs, "and it continues to grow at an alarming rate. In this webinar, we'll talk about ways businesses can help protect themselves from internal and external fraud." With $136.4 billion in assets, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT) is the nation's 14th largest financial holding company. It operates nearly 1,500 financial centers in 11 states and Washington, D.C. More information about the company is available at BBT.com.
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    CONTACT:
    Warren Takacs, Senior Vice President, Payment
    Solutions Risk and Finance Mgr., +1-252-246-2937, or A.-C.
    McGraw, Vice President, Corporate Communications,
    +1-336-733-1471, both of BB&T