PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even the mightiest of tech firms are not immune to invoice fraud. Engadget reported that Jeff Tran, Microsoft ’s former director of sports marketing and alliances, was charged with five counts of wire fraud. Wire fraud has a sentence of up to 20 years’ imprisonment. Fraud On The Rise. Payments Fraud No Cakewalk.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The telecommunications industry is but one of many sectors looking to more securely verify customers and avoid fraud, which remains a growing problem. million) since 2015, with 483 incidents being reported in June alone. Protecting Against SIM Swap Fraud By Deploying Digital Identity. More than 6.2 About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

One year into the shift to chip-enabled cards — for the U.S., The card giant said that, as of July of this year, 88 percent of its U.S.-based based consumer credit cards are chip cards, a tally that represents a 105 percent boost in chip card adoption since the liability shift took root on Oct. 1 of last year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that fraudsters are increasingly requesting to be paid with gift cards, with some even asking for certain brands such as Google Play and iTunes gift cards. Google Play cards were not reported in significant numbers until this year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

Credit card fraud complaints in the U.S. saw the biggest increase in 10 years in 2015, with the number rising by 41 percent. ValuePenguin analyzed data collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and found that there were approximately 70,000 credit card fraud complaints submitted in 2015.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Before the liability shift in 2015, the industry-wide prediction was that the onset of EMV would reduce occurrences of counterfeit card fraud in-store, but that the industry should expect to see a spike in card-not-present (CNP) fraud as fraudsters moved to easier targets. Take the transition to EMV in the U.S.,

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Recent reports that counterfeit card fraud is markedly down in the U.S. since the introduction of EMV chip cards in 2015 is fantastic news, except for retailers that also sell goods sells online. In that case fraud has merely moved from an in-store payment attempt to a card not present (CNP) one.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Noncash payments fraud in the U.S. outpaced growth in noncash payments overall between 2012 and 2015, according to a Federal Reserve Payments Study released this week. The study’s survey of depository institutions found noncash payments fraud increased 37%, from $6.1 billion, in 2015. billion in 2012 to $8.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Nine arrests have been made, with one person charged in relation to remote purchase card fraud. The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU) and Police Scotland announced that the two U.K. 2015 and is 90 percent funded by the European Commission. Project Skynet launched in Jan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported Marriott had a smaller breach in which malware was installed on point of sale systems in hotel restaurants and gift shops. When there is a concern that payment cards are at risk, forensic investigations start looking at devices that process payment cards and follow the evidence from there.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

And according to Jennifer Schroeder, executive vice president of product management at PULSE, prepaid and payroll cards are proving increasingly popular among forward-thinking employers. As has been reported, the platform can help issuers manage, or restrict, transactions across groups of compromised cards.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Perhaps more troubling, however, is digital fraud’s projected future. Recently published research noted global fraud losses could top $6 billion by 2021, more than doubling the $3 billion lost worldwide in 2015. As such, businesses are now investing in their security and fraud prevention technology and solutions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As we noted in the recent Digital Banking Tracker, the CNP fraud has taken a leg down in favor of fraud that looks to snag credit card numbers. They took the details and applied for credit cards. Check Fraud, Too. Vendors even made payments to Jelfo’s credit card accounts, according to reports in patch.com.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The number of identity fraud victims rose 16 percent in 2016, marking the highest level since Javelin Strategy & Research began tracking the trend in 2003. According to the research, during 2016 there was a resurgence in existing card fraud, which saw an increase of 40 percent in card-not-present fraud.

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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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

On the one hand, Worldpay ’s VP of Data Products Nicole Jass noted, EMV has done an awful lot to slam the door shut on card-present fraud. According to Visa, counterfeit fraud at U.S. chip-enabled merchants was down 66 percent in June of 2017 compared to June of 2015. Fighting Fraud by Finding the Good Instead of the Bad.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Customers have varying banking needs, but the global fraud phenomenon tends to have equal impacts. Challengers see fraud protection as especially important, particularly as they attempt to ween customers away from legacy FIs and their own nimbler FinTech competitors. Bringing a global fraud approach to a new local market.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion laundered between 2015 and 2020 through the U.S. real estate between 2015 and 2020, and the actual number is almost certainly higher. You might also like this on-demand webinar, "AML/CFT hot topics for 2024: What to expect for financial crime." real estate market alone. billion through U.S.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

UBS Card Center, which processes roughly 25% of the credit cards in Switzerland, has cut the amount of fraud write-offs per compromised card, stopped more fraudulent transactions and reduced false-positive rates using the FICO ® Falcon ® Platform.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

For financial institutions (FIs) and merchants, the opportunity is there to harness technology and mobile card services to drive sales up, drive fraud down and cement long-lasting relationships with consumers. With such an option in place, he said, the consumer effectively becomes part of the FI’s fraud team.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Mastercard is teaming up with Oversight Systems to help government agencies detect payment fraud, according to a new announcement. The credit card conglomerate said Wednesday (Jan. 25) that it will collaborate with Oversight Systems to offer government agencies their collective data analytics and fraud detection solutions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

If it seems like cases of fraud and hacking are always in the news, that’s because new incidents pop up practically every day. According to the new Digital Fraud Tracker , total losses due to fraud equaled $4.2 trillion in 2018, and fraudulent mobile app transactions increased 680 percent between 2015 and 2018.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Credit and debit card payments are continuing to increase in terms of usage, with the Federal Reserve finding credit and debit card payments accounted for more than two-thirds of all noncash payments in the U.S. from 2012 to 2015. percent by value from 2012 to 2015. billion in 2015 with a value of $2.56

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What does the future hold for the plastic payment card? Or will cards with cutting-edge technology win more loyalty from shoppers? The payment card has “a long life ahead of it,” he told Karen Webster. Even if you consider technologies like mobile, you can see that the consumer is still paying with payment cards.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2017

Experian, the credit rating company, is getting into the biometrics market, inking a deal with technology company BioCatch to use behavioral biometrics to fight fraud. According to a report in Reuters , the partnership is aimed at enabling customers to identify fraudsters applying for credit cards and lending products online.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

But of course, for our purposes, the focus is on payments – and here there are investigations, too, specifically into expense account fraud. Bloomberg reports that the bank is looking into fraud that may have occurred at investment banking and private banking units across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

The impact of online fraud reaches far beyond the dollar count of sales lost. . In recent studies, as noted by EKN Research and Radial, developed nations are seeing an increase in card not present (CNP) fraud, which now accounts for as much as 70 percent of all card fraud and is growing at double-digit percentage rates in some nations. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

He served jail time in connection with fraud and conspiracy, centered on accounting tricks that were partly used to cover financial losses. The Enron fraud resulted in estimated losses in the tens of billions of dollars, and relied in part on mark-to-market accounting, which inflated asset values. Founder and Chairman Kenneth L.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

That is how UBS Card Center, which processes some 25% of card transactions in Switzerland, keeps fraud rates down and cardholders happy. And for the past 20 years, UBS have been using the FICO® Falcon® Platform and working in partnership with fraud experts from FICO. This has led to continual improvements in results.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

issued, MasterCard-branded chip-enabled consumer credit cards. 39 | The percentage by which counterfeit card fraud basis points at EMV-enabled merchants dropped between January 2015 and January 2016. 27 | The percentage by which counterfeit fraud decreased in January 2106, compared to January 2105. 1 deadline.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

billion EMV cards in circulation worldwide as of the end of 2016. billion cards over the last 12 months. percent of all card-present transactions globally were handled with EMV tech — a 35.8 percent increase from the same time two years ago in 2015. According to new figures out from EMVCo, there were a total of 6.1

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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.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In early October, the Federal Reserve finalized a rule, known as Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), that requires every debit card transaction to have access to two unaffiliated payment card networks. The Federal Reserve reported that 23% of debit card transactions were CNP in 2019.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Authorities allege that over a period of years, Wells Fargo allegedly opened new credit cards and other accounts without permission for existing customers with different accounts, so as to meet “cross-sales” targets.

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NCR

JULY 13, 2017

Financial institutions should be braced for a tough fight against fraudsters this year, as they have been warned 2017 is set to be a record year for card fraud losses. For instance, it highlighted card skimming at ATMs or POS machines as an attack method that continues to be troublesome.

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