PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

The financial industry is particularly vulnerable to digital fraud. Application fraud, which sees cybercriminals submitting financial product applications to banks with no intention of paying them back, is among the most popular techniques. Defining Application Fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

This week, PYMNTS, in collaboration with Socure , released the March edition of the PYMNTS.com Digital Identity Tracker TM , featuring all new research surrounding the increase in online fraud fueled by the increase in EMV card chip tech adoption. There is a 15% year-over-year increase of money spent online.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Consumer card transactions will overtake cash transactions for the first time in 2016, according to global research firm Euromonitor International. Cash is expensive to manage and is extensively used in the underworld.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2017

The good news about EMV is that it has drastically dropped the instance for cloned-card fraud that was far more endemic in the mag stripe era. The not as good news is that fraudsters were not discouraged — they simply switched their focus to card-not-present fraud online, according to Experian.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

If a data breach is a sprint — where a fraudster grabs as much data as he or she can, as quickly as possible, in an effort to maximize ill-gotten gains — the fight against fraud is a marathon. Fraud varies country to country, region to region. Europe may offer a tell on the fraud to come. A marathon that never ends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141 from various New Jersey banks, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) report. From there, they used the information to steal customers’ money from their accounts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

The company believes that exposure of cardholder data that could be used to create counterfeit cards – including names, addresses, emails and Social Security numbers – was limited, but some credit card numbers may have been compromised. The breach may affect users who paid via credit card at affected Buckle store locations between Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Today’s coverage includes the latest developments in fraud, along with Volkswagen’s eCommerce plans. Fraudsters Prize Payment Via iTunes, Walmart Gift Cards. Losses due to this type of fraud reached $40 million in 2017, an increase from $20 million in 2015 and $27 million in 2016. Volkswagen Eyes eCommerce Sales.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Here is the response from Steven Cole, Senior Product Manager, EMV, Vantiv … Payments 2016: The Year Of The Chip.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Fraud is like gluten. Most organizations have resigned themselves to the fact that, despite their defenses, fraud is just a part of doing business. But fraud costs an average of 7.5 percent of revenue, and the numbers for e-tailers — who never handle a physical payment card — are much higher.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Just when payment card data seemed somewhat protected by EMV technology, hackers have found yet another way to steal information and gain access to PINs. As Datablink CEO Alex Cagnoni pointed out, card cloning devices are not something new; however, with the use of a chip, the attack has become more complex but still quite effective.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. One area of development that J.P. Following The Consumer Trend.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

Emailage, the email risk assessment company, has found that during 2016 $1 billion in fraud was stopped by using technology and a syndicated network of global merchants. When was the last time you opened an account or bought something online without an email address? CNP fraud is on the rise in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

trillion in 2016, but companies aren’t always able to see where their dollars are going. The latest report from eNett International , “ It Pays To Know: Fraud In Travel Payments ,” warns that payments fraud is plaguing the global travel space, though, in this case, the issue is imbedded deep within the travel supply chain itself.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

Even in the quiet seasons, the online travel market is susceptible to the trade winds, and they don’t always blow in agents’ favor. But what hurts a business (especially a small one) more than an October snowstorm is when online fraudsters use CNP transactions to steal their services. The End of Excessive Card Surcharges.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Consumers might have felt a bit safer using their credit card with the introduction of EMV chip technology, but thieves looking to steal your information have managed to find a way to still gain access to PIN numbers, as well as your card’s chip in some cases. The majority of that theft was from credit cards. in 2016. “The

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Over a period spanning from the end of April to the middle of June, the party made use of user names and passwords to log in to customers’ accounts, and then gained access to names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and payment card information. The website Orbitz.com was not impacted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

government has now started accepting Apple Pay for certain online payment services. 9to5Mac reported that the government’s website is now accepting Apple Pay for four of its online services, including the Global Entry Services, the disclosure and barring service checks, the Registered Traveler Service, and the Electronic Visa Waiver Service.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

I Works asked consumers to provide their credit or debit card information to pay a $1.99 In 2016, I Works owner and CEO Jeremy Johnson and other defendants in the massive online billing scheme, agreed to settle FTC charges that they took more than $280 million from consumers, according to the FTC.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Friendly fraud has been on the rise for years, with customers contacting their banks to falsely assert that their credit cards have been used online for unauthorized purchases. Undeserved chargebacks are no trivial issue, either, as the number of such false claims rose 41 percent between 2016 and 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

There’s another way, though, in which the fear of fraud bears down on the enterprise. A new report from Vesta Corporation finds fraud positions itself in the way of innovation and growth, even compliance. to understand how payments fraud is limiting corporates’ path to success. percent increase from 2016.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Ad fraud’s prevalence is largely due to two factors: The lack of regulation and the sheer complexity and volume of online advertising. Banks may process $1 million worth of credit card fraud requests in a day, but ad fraud detectors can face up to 20,000 requests every second. Ad fraud can take a variety of forms.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Software developer and Ukrainian native Volodymyr Kvashuk, 25, from Renton, Washington, worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, and was tasked with testing Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. He took advantage of that access to steal currency stored value (CSV) such as digital gift cards that he then resold on the internet. .

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FICO

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What card fraud trends are bothering fraud managers in Europe? In this video, Gabriel Hopkins of FICO discusses the rise in card-not-present (CNP) fraud, and what card issuers are doing about it. That's why innovations in CNP fraud detection are so vital. appeared first on FICO.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

Allied Wallet , an online payment provider and a client of Wirecard, settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last month over charges that it helped facilitate fraud and launder money, according to a report by the Financial Times. The settlement scrutinizes concerns about anti-money laundering practices at Wirecard.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Omnichannel commerce technology and operations provider Radial released the results of its Annual Holiday Fraud Index today (Nov. 18), which revealed the ongoing risk retailers face of coordinated and sustained fraud losses. Bottom line for most retailers if you are managing fraud yourself, you are going to get wrecked.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

As for firms that sizzled in 2016, how about bank stocks, which helped propel U.S. Shortly thereafter, Mastercard and Visa, separately, did their deals with PayPal to make network-branded cards a warmer and friendlier option in that digital wallet. Online Lending. Online lending, anyone? Bank Stocks. Wells Fargo.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

One year on from the launch of EMV chip technology for payment cards in the US, the signs are positive as far as tackling fraud is concerned. Mastercard – the ‘M’ in ‘EMV’ – released figures showing a significant fall in the cost of counterfeit card fraud for US retailers who have adopted EMV.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Fraud isn’t perpetrated by a random assortment of individuals; it’s organized crime. It’s “fraud as a Service.” It’s a very unfair match, if you ask Skye Spear, VP of eCommerce fraud-fighting firm Signifyd. “I In the first quarter of 2016, this percentage dropped to 5.5 Classic fraud deflection is rules-based.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing time and again and expecting different results, then perhaps the way we pay through, and interact with, online banking may have a hint of madness, or at least complacency. Studies abound on the impact of payments fraud, said Volmar. percent of fraud?”. It’s unlivable.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

The news of the Sabre breach investigation comes just a few days after omnichannel tech and operations company Radial released some alarming new fraud insights from the retail space which should work to further fan the fire beneath cybersecurity and authentication initiatives for businesses operating online.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Once upon a time in the 1960s, banks were building a series of one-off card-based solutions , much the way today in the ending days of the 2010s we see global digital banking, mobile wallets and alternative underwriting schemes building one-off tech-based solutions for financial services products. Since 2016. Trackers and Reports .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

s card-not-present fraud situation may get worse before it gets better. The biggest challenge in combating cyber ransom, Radware’s Global Application & Network Security Report 2016-2017 report noted, is that ransom is not only easy, but also every attack has its own vector, technique or angle. Research and Markets wrote. “In

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala , founder and CEO of FinTech Oyster , said online financial platforms, powered by open banking, can serve as alternatives for business banking in a country where business banking seems an afterthought. As Poovala told Webster: “We had to get a debit card by actually creating our own startup.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Unless it’s fraud you are talking about. household held five mobile devices, while, at the start of 2016, that number has increased to about 13. But alongside that iPad your 10-year-old daughter needed, the rate of online fraud attacks on retailers has doubled, up 137 percent year over year in the first quarter of this year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2016

That’s why fraud is always about identity.”. That’s Michael Reitblat, the CEO of Forter, a fraud prevention platform whose business is designed to make it harder for fraudsters to use those easy-to-come-by identities at a merchant. But the General cautioned that tackling fraud across the payments ecosystem today is a job for experts.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

22) that it has rolled out two enhanced consumer authentication solutions, step-up authentication and identity verification, to mitigate card fraud within call centers. In a press release , Fiserv said the two new solutions expand beyond knowledge-based consumer authentication that can be vulnerable to fraud. reached $5.1

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