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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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2018

Attempts to commit online fraud jumped during the holiday season, increasing 22 percent from Thanksgiving to December compared to a year ago. According to ACI, the number of fraud attempts was the highest on Thanksgiving Day at 1.94 percent fraud attempts up from 1.48 percent fraud attempts compared to 1.49

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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 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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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

JULY 5, 2017

In today’s enterprise, fighting fraud is something most finance professionals will encounter at some point in their careers. While most would think that CFOs have the last word on how to deal with fraud, research shows that’s not always the best approach. 20 percent | Increase in fraud between 2015 and 2016.

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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 30, 2019

Online Resale. Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

Radial , an omnichannel and fraud solutions provider, is promising to take away merchant woes with a suite of solutions, which it says improves order conversion rates and helps eliminate fraud. 2015, online fraud is forecast to explode from an estimated $3.1 billion in 2015, to $6.4 percent industry average.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to fighting fraud, it’s not really what you know – not exactly, at least. Fraud is big business, with online losses topping some $14.7 As Xie discussed with Webster, the best general practice is to take a proactive approach to fighting fraud – but that’s much easier said than done. New vs. Old Fraud.

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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. Across the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

Forter, the fraud prevention company known for its automated, real-time Decision-as-a-Service solution for online merchants, announced today (April 21) that it’s closed a $32 million Series C funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. Fighting fraud is a moving target. which shifted more fraud online.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

The impact of online fraud reaches far beyond the dollar count of sales lost. . With firms losing more than $5 million in stolen data tied to breaches, the true cost of online fraud is increasing. At 71 percent, as estimated by one secure payments processing firm, identity theft is the most common type of fraud.

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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 Classic fraud deflection is rules-based. Fraud is dynamic. It’s a business. percent in Q1 2017.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

In just the last four quarters, fraud attacks have jumped by 137 percent, affecting over $7 out of every $100 made in retail sales. If that weren’t troubling enough, merchants are now being forced to bend over backwards to combat alarming levels of fraud originating outside the U.S. The Fraud Index reports this in several ways.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2016

Online lending was all the rage even a few months ago, but funding going toward online lending platforms is on the decline. equity investments going toward online lending companies fell 44 percent in the first half of 2016 to $2.1 According to PitchBook, online lending startup companies were able to raise $12.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fraudsters have been causing problems for retailers over the past four quarters, leading to a 137 percent jump in fraud attacks and affecting $7 out of every $100 made in retail sales, according to the latest PYMNTS.com Global Fraud Attack Index. The collaborative study with Forter measures the rate of fraud attempts made on U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The duo allegedly — and with the help of more than a dozen others — worked to deploy malware known as Dridex (aka Cridex and Bugat) and for committing wire and bank fraud. too, and had administrator beginning in 2015, and helped spread the malware. They are connected with a Russian hacking group known as Evil Corp.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

‘Tis the season … to be very, very wary of phishing and other types of fraud. Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales continue to increase year over year — while some project online holiday sales at $98 billion, new estimates from the National Retail Foundation project that this year’s online holiday sales could reach $117 billion.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Online merchants know very well that fraud costs them in many ways – in chargebacks, in false positives, in the friction that’s introduced at checkout that can cost a sale. But there’s nothing like putting the cost of fraud into the parlance that merchants know really well: units sold. Third Cost: Decline Orders .

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2017

In the latest Data Drivers, Uri Rivner, head of Cyber Strategy and vice president of Business Development at BioCatch , stated that as countries around the world embrace faster payments, they may do well to heed some sobering statistics on fraud gleaned from the United Kingdom’s own experience. Data Point One: 300 Percent. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Unless it’s fraud you are talking about. 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. Fraud attempts show that $7.30 At the end of 2014, the average U.S. The data is sobering.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

While they can’t be used to create a chip-based card, they allow enough data to be passed to create dummy magnetic cards that can then be used to perpetrate fraud. Instead, the new and more significant trend will be an ever-increasing number of online purchase attacks, he noted. Identity Fraud On The Rise. A large chunk of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The duo allegedly — and with the help of more than a dozen others — worked to deploy malware known as Dridex (aka Cridex and Bugat) and for committing wire and bank fraud. too, and had administrator beginning in 2015, and helped spread the malware. They are connected with a Russian hacking group known as Evil Corp.,

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FICO

AUGUST 21, 2020

There’s one fraud pattern that’s highly predictable: when the economy goes down, fraud goes up. When it comes to fraud and COVID-19, the Great Recession of 2008 provides some important lessons that can help banks and consumers protect themselves against the increased risk. A Resurgence of Specific Fraud Types.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The global threat of fraud shows no signs of slowing down. Losses related to fraud are valued at $14.7 billion, according to the most recent DataVisor Fraud Index Report. Developments Around The Digital Fraud World. consumers lose more to romance-based fraud than any other type of scheme.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

While the transition is still in process, and has in many cases been a bumpy, road to adoption, it will go a long way towards tackling some of the most common types of fraud. Where it is prevalent, EMV has proven to be a highly effective method of preventing card-present/counterfeit card fraud. The shift to e-commerce CNP fraud.

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NCR

JULY 28, 2017

This convenience offers many advantages to the consumer, but financial institutions and consumers need to recognize one of the biggest disadvantages of this technological expansion: the increased risk of digital banking fraud. million instances of fraud and two million computer misuse offenses in England and Wales alone. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The brand new October 2016 Global Fraud Attack Index™ , a PYMNTS and Forter collaboration, has some scary news for retailers, and it has nothing to do with Halloween. According to data revealed inside the index, fraud is rising quickly. What may be even more frightening, however, is the quickly increasing cost of fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

The Federal Reserve made news late last week when it released its newest data on consumer and business payment habits, assessed via data from 2015 compiled in 2016. According to Fed researchers, there were some significant changes in corporate payments activity between 2000 an 2015.

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Let's Talk Payments

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Some estimates suggest that fraud attacks on US online merchants rose 11% after the October 1, 2015, EMV liability shift. In absolute numbers, the value of fraudulent online transactions is expected.

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