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Why Paper Checks Continue To Dominate Online Rebates

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Paper checks are thriving in the online rebates world, though, despite consumers growing more familiar with options like one-click ordering. Checks are both slow and costly, but they still make up 75 percent of payments sent by online rebate sites. Online Disbursements And Why Checks Are Still Hanging On.

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Whitepages Pro CEO: Fraud 3.0 And Why Merchants Are Unprepared

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In a way, the world has entered a new era of fraud (and fraud prevention). He described the current era as “Fraud 3.0.”. basically ran from the birth of Amazon to perhaps 2005 or so, when the verification of online shoppers’ physical addresses was a main feature of digital fraud prevention.

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Breaking The Fraud Piece Of The Payments Puzzle

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Whether we like it or not, fraud and identity theft play a significant role in the payments ecosystem. last year it’s no surprise that card-not-present fraud is on the rise. last year it’s no surprise that card-not-present fraud is on the rise.

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Inside Kount’s Fraud-Fighting Machine

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Regardless of the company, its industry, its customers or location, online fraud remains top of mind. The urgency of robust and multilayered fraud detection systems becomes especially clear against a backdrop where card-not-present fraud is likely to grow by leaps and bounds in the wake of the EMV liability shift from last year.

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Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?

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What was the color of the car you owned in 2005? And that is why they probably knew more about the color of your car back in 2005, or whenever, than you would know now. But so, too, could new methods of online verification. Still remember it? Probably not. But you can bet someone knows — that someone being a fraudster.

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Widespread Corporate Hacking Lands Two Russians In Prison

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The two were part of a larger group that stole online credentials, personal information and credit and debit card numbers between 2005 and 2012. Smilianets sold that information online; he reportedly charged $10 for American credit card numbers, $15 for Canadian ones and $50 for European ones. While the U.S.

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BEC Run Out Of Detention Center Nets Millions

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Mobile means one can do just about anything by using their device: order food, bank online, read the news … even commit payments fraud, sometimes from the unlikeliest of places. In Australia, news came that police have charged a quartet of alleged fraudsters with running a business email compromise (BEC) scam.

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