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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In they went, stealing details of 30 million cards before the malware was discovered in December of 2019. card number. What’s clear is that fraud decisioning solutions have never been more necessary, as cybercrime enters a new phase of sophistication, diabolical creativity and global scale. Sealing It.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

New data shows a projected 14 percent increase in fraud attempts during the upcoming 2018 holiday season — with fraud likely to peak on Thanksgiving Day. The first step to fighting fraud is knowing what you’re up against,” Erika Dietrich, global director of payments risk at ACI Worldwide, said in a press release. “The

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JULY 21, 2020

Compromised credit card fraud increased 212 percent year over year in 2019, while customer credential leaks increased 129 percent during the same period. Credit card fraud is just one of many techniques that fraudsters leverage to scam FIs and their customers, but it is on the rise amid the pandemic. billion pounds ($5.2

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JANUARY 3, 2019

A new study has revealed that retailers will lose around $130 billion in digital CNP (Card-not-Present) fraud between 2018 and 2023. were caught up “in a perfect storm” of rapid online sales growth and the transition to EMV chip technology , leaving merchants vulnerable to CNP fraud.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits.

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JULY 24, 2019

In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker , PYMNTS examines how fraudsters are utilizing mobile and app-based channels for fraud attacks, as well as why fraudsters are still relying on phishing as a major fraud strategy even as they increase their use of new technologies and techniques. Around the Digital Fraud World.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

The following piece was written by Rob Eleveld, CEO of Whitepages Pro , as a contribution to our 2018 year-end eBook. . Payments 2018 was a year of accelerated disruption. Then came checks, credit cards and wire transfers, with the most recent market explosion in several digital payment options. Historically, cash was king.

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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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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Gone are the days of diners handing waiters a stack of credit cards to split a bill, and instead seamless money transfers occur in a matter of seconds. Venmo users alone lost more than $40 million in 2018. We split out scams and frauds,” he explained in a recent interview with PYMNTS. Leveraging AI To Fight Cybercrime.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They are buying fraud tutorials and data from other criminals online. They are eyeing juicy targets such as gift cards and loyalty programs, both of which are of increasing importance to merchants’ holiday revenues. The 2018 holiday shopping season has already started for people and organizations bent on fraud.

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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 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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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Retailers must protect customers’ card data from hackers who try to snatch payment details, and following best practices to ensure security requires adhering to the regulations established by the PCI SSC, a global payments industry forum. This is a sharp decline from 2018, when 42 percent of such providers said the same.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The fact that fraud is on the rise is not new, nor is it surprising that banks are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to fight back. In the latest Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS looks at how banks are currently approaching their use of AI and machine learning in fraud protection and technology innovation.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. Account takeovers and shipping fraud increased by 347 percent and 391 percent, respectively, between 2018 and 2019, and the pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. Developments From The World Of Digital Fraud.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

The findings came from a survey of 2,000 individuals between 2013 to 2018. AppZen said there is no finding that certain verticals are more or less prone to expense fraud. billion has been stolen via BEC from October 2013 to May 2018. million was missing and that the company’s corporate card had been drawn down by $2 million.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Fraud, on the other hand, paid extremely well, a fact he learned at the age of 13 when he embarked on his first subscription scam. The part where he comes back to work as director of strategic development at We Fight Fraud , a security firm dedicated to helping businesses fend off fraudsters? Less expected. Hacking the Humans.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Digital fraud continues to be one of the most pressing issues that marketplaces face today. Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 Developments Around The Digital Fraud World. Businesses are turning to a variety of solutions to fight fraud, including leveraging blockchain technology.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

bank NatWest has started a three-month trial of a biometric credit card that will use a fingerprint in lieu of a PIN. If the purchase is more than £100, then the card needs to be put into a terminal with the fingerprint as additional verification. . NatWest launched a test of biometric debit cards earlier this year. .

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APRIL 16, 2020

Not only do industry giants have innate name recognition, but they also have colossal advertising budgets and access to cutting-edge mobile ordering technology and features that small operations cannot match. Bad actors are taking advantage of the chaos and bringing about an upswing in digital fraud. Fighting Fraud.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

percent from 2018 to 2022. What these studies didn’t reveal is that construction management software and tools like virtual cards can also speed payments and free up cash flow. How Virtual and Purchasing Cards Can Help. Virtual cards are a form of ePayables that act like a traditional credit card. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 3, 2020

PSCU , a payments credit union service organization (CUSO), announced that Westby Co-Op Credit Union (WCCU) has become a part of the cooperative for credit card processing support and services. Last year, PSCU prevented more than $277 million in would-be fraud, a 30 percent increase over 2018.

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APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

This is just one example of how the explosion of data can increase a company’s fraud vulnerabilities, but can also provide a solution if captured and utilized. Current and Future State of Fraud. consumer records containing PII increased by 126 percent between 2017 and 2018. Too Much Data .

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency lending platform Vauld raised $2 million to expand into full banking services, including issuing credit and debit cards and providing fiat and crypto order books, CoinDesk reported. The SEC claimed that Qin and the company have been misleading investors since 2018 over Sigma Fund’s financial condition, assets and strategy.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But has this shift in consumer habits created a growing rideshare fraud problem? TNCs have gradually changed transportation preferences within the card-not-present (CNP) Taxicab and Limo service category. Interestingly, spikes in fraud rate occur beyond the 31% mark in more risky, less-populated regions in the US.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The shift from magnetic stripe to EMV chip cards marked one of the 21 st century’s most widespread payment developments. Chip cards have been heralded for their improved functionality and security, but they have still failed to address critical authentication problems, leaving retailers to bear the brunt of these vulnerabilities.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The wiles and ways of scammers to part businesses from their money continue to proliferate, and continue to use technology as a springboard to trick executives. The Agari research found that the BEC scams play out similarly to gift card scams. phone number. Previously, attackers relied on ‘spray and pray’ style attacks.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Data from more than 26 million credit and debit cards was stolen from BriansClub, an underground marketplace for stolen credit card information, KrebsOnSecurity reported Tuesday (Oct. According to the leaked data, card information for sale on BriansClub showed a steady increase of inventory. million card records for sale.

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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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MAY 4, 2020

Advances in technology are making consumer transactions seemingly more secure, but cybercriminals are still finding sophisticated ways to beat systems and commit financial fraud. A 2018 study on payment fraud mitigation reported that 75 percent of financial institutions (FIs) experienced fraud losses.

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JULY 29, 2020

In 2018, BoA launched digital wallets in the U.S. With the expansion, the bank is now “the first commercial bank issuer to offer the technology to corporate clients worldwide,” the release stated. According to BoA, this helps to prevent fraud. and Canada.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

eCommerce’s market share has been steadily increasing over the past decade, and 15 percent of total holiday retail took place online in 2019, up 19 percent from 2018. The following Deep Dive explores the fraud threats that are plaguing eCommerce merchants this holiday season as well as the security tools they are deploying to fight them.

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MAY 22, 2018

Visa announced that the growing number of chip cards and chip-enabled merchants has helped bring counterfeit fraud in the U.S. payments industry to begin the shift to EMV chip cards in 2011,” the company wrote in a press release. As of March 2018, there were 483.6 payment volume in March was on EMV cards.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Unlike most weight loss gimmicks, I’m pleased to report that my billfold has only been getting slimmer and sleeker since I first talked about the wallet diet in my 2018 predictions blog. Just because people may be using their physical cards less doesn’t mean we’re not making fewer payments. billion, a 21% increase over the prior year.

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