PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fraud protection specialist Kount and Philadelphia-based payments platform FreedomPay are teaming up to offer “an integrated, complete solution to enable international expansion with fraud-free payments and frictionless customer” experiences. Before, they were limited to one or two areas. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

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MAY 9, 2016

Though the industry knew it was coming, the sharp migration of fraud from in-store to online channels with the growing adoption of EMV is still enough to keep any online merchant up at night. The data show that since the October 2015 EMV liability shift, United States fraud attacks have jumped by 11 percent.

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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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APRIL 14, 2017

While the fraud ecosystem continues to rapidly develop and advance, big data may prove itself to be a strong weapon in combatting fraud. With that thought in mind, DataVisor set off on a mission to utilize harness and analyze that could potentially detect fraud and protect billions of users around the world.

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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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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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MAY 2, 2017

Credit card fraud is a fact that will likely continue to plague retailers for the foreseeable future. It’s on the rise in the eCommerce arena, according to data released from omnichannel commerce technology and operations company Radial’s eCommerce Fraud Technology Lab.

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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

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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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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MAY 12, 2017

speaks to the growing risk of identity fraud and its detrimental effect on consumer confidence. In the study, the organizations found that the number of identity fraud victims had risen to 15.4 in 2016, losing a combined $16 billion — just over $1,400 per victim, on average. FBI Sees Wire Fraud Via Email Grow In 2016.

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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. percent in Q1 2016. Their new favorite?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

million people were compromised, Singapore’s Ministry of Health said the personal details and HIV-positive status of 14,200 people were placed online. The report noted that in May of 2016 police were notified of Brochez and the fact that he had the information. TechCrunch reported that Mikhy K. Farrera Brochez, a U.S.

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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. Download the eBook.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Financial fraud is on the rise, and government agencies, law enforcement and the private sector seem unable to stop it. According to official figures released by Financial Fraud Action UK, more than 1 million incidents of financial fraud – payment fraud, online banking and check fraud.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

Following a claim of fraud by a short seller, shares in eCommerce firm Jumia fell by almost 25 percent by midday New York time on Friday (May 10) and traded at $20.30 Jumia became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 million funding round that included AXA, MTN and Goldman Sachs. EST, according to Yahoo!

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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 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

OCTOBER 20, 2016

According to the 2016 American Express Digital Payments Security Survey , 70 percent of U.S. Those sales could be higher if payments fraud weren’t quite so prevalent a concern. Nearly half — 48 percent — of consumers who shopped online in the past year have experienced payment fraud. The not-so-good news?

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Online fraud is becoming more and more sophisticated. One of the results of this arms race is the recent surge in ATO – account takeover – attacks, a form of fraud which is particularly difficult to detect. billion lost in 2016. In 2017, ATO led to $5.1 billion in losses, a staggering 122% increase over the $2.3

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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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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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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As the technology behind payments becomes more advanced and readily available, so too are the possibilities for fraud. The Federal Trade Commission’s online database of consumer complaints reports 13 million complaints from 2012-2016, 42% of which were fraud related, and 13%, identity theft complaints.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

The news comes a few months after Orbitz , a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia, had announced that it was hit with a data breach in 2016. The company stated that hackers were able to access personal information from about 880,000 payment cards. The website Orbitz.com was not impacted.

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MAY 19, 2020

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. Most recipients will get their refunds via check and are advised to deposit or cash their checks within 60 days.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To attend this live digital discussion on Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 1:00 PM (EST), please complete the registration form shown below: [contact-form-7]. The collaborative study with Forter measures the rate of fraud attempts made on U.S. Some of the other highlights from the study include: – Fraud attacks in the U.S.

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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

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 Rise of CNP Fraud. Consumer Protection.

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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

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

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

APRIL 12, 2017

Identity company MorphoTrust USA looks to put a dent in tax fraud and theft by adding an additional layer of authentication security into the mix. If it’s a match, the user obtains the credential and is able to prove their identity online. “By The app compares this information against the driver’s license database record.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Since 2016. Chase On Using Machine Learning To Crack Fraud’s Goldilocks Conundrum. 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. Goldman’s Marcus Has Lost $1.3B Trackers and Reports .

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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

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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MARCH 10, 2020

was first exposed as a nest of cybercrime activity in a now removed Digital Shadows report from 2016, according to ZDNet , and those in-tune with cyber-security issues were not shocked to hear of Firsov’s arrest. The platform became known at that time when a famous hacker known as Tessa88 used a Deer.io

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MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Online Checkout Conversion. Global Fraud Attacks.

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