PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

An Israeli startup that creates anti-fraud services that deal with online transactions wants to raise $200 million for expansion, according to a report in Bloomberg. Fraud is becoming an increasingly more common problem in the eCommerce sector, and is estimated to cost merchants about $130 billion over the next five years. “At

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

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. Bottom line: Fraud losses are expected to hit $48 billion annually by 2023 – more than double the 2018 losses. Sealing It.

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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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Abrigo

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Elder financial exploitation and elder fraud are rising at an alarming rate as they continue to be serious crimes in the United States. An increase in financial crime and fraud against the elderly is expected to continue to climb as the baby boom population (those born before 1964) age. The under-reported and growing crime.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Banks, financial institutions (FIs) and other firms are grappling with a flood of application fraud and identity theft. 10 percent: Share of sales that retailers are projected to lose to card-not-present (CNP) fraud between 2018 and 2023. billion: Amount of projected synthetic credit card fraud losses in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Fraudsters have unfortunately also carefully followed this payment trend, with skimming, prepaid card and ATM fraud all seeing upticks recently — especially in regard to debit transactions. Another study indicated that debit-related fraud is on the rise across the U.S. One study revealed that 83 percent of top retailers in the U.S.

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FICO

APRIL 29, 2022

There’s a lot going on in the retail payments space – defined as transactions between two consumers, between consumers and businesses, or between two businesses. With any change, fraud comes hand-in-hand. All these evolutions mean a changing landscape for retail fraud and scam trends.

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PYMNTS

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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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They are buying fraud tutorials and data from other criminals online. The 2018 holiday shopping season has already started for people and organizations bent on fraud. The 2018 holiday shopping season has already started for people and organizations bent on fraud. Fraud Headstart. It’s the Amazon effect.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

An internal investigation into alleged fraud at Luckin Coffee Inc. In addition, the company has placed six other employees on suspension or leave due to involvement in or knowledge of the fraud. Cao has served as senior vice president in charge of store operations and customer service since 2018.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The verification and authentication processes of many sharing economy platforms are poorly equipped to combat the growing risk of fraud. And, in retail, automotive sales are increasingly going digital as more shoppers are buying more used products online. 45 million: Number of global smartwatch shipments in the year 2018.

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

(The Paypers) A retail sector report by LexisNexis Risk Solutions has revealed that US retail fraud grew significantly during 2018 for businesses of all sizes, with fraudsters adding small business targets.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and video onboarding have shown promise in facing identity fraud, but each is vulnerable when implemented on its own. 22%: Rise in identity thefts targeting seniors between 2018 and 2019. All this, Today in Data. Data: 200%: Increase in women’s apparel digital sales for Nike in Q1.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

counterfeit fraud, measured in dollars for these card present transactions, has dropped precipitously. The latest stats show that the continued upgrade to chip card acceptance – which began in 2015 – has led to a decrease in counterfeit fraud dollars on the order of 76 percent, as measured in December of 2018 vs. September of 2015.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Take the issue of retail security as one example. To do so, however, these companies will need to make some adjustments to their fraud protection strategies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Dating websites and apps in the Netherlands have had a spate of this type of fraud in recent years, with victims handing over $4.1 Online dating is lousy with, well, louses, as we learn from the February 2020 Digital Fraud Tracker® , a DataVisor collaboration. The market for anti-fraud software “… was valued at USD 13.59

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for the first time, The Washington Post reports. Leaders at Overstock said the new GSA initiative would help them with their retail operation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Retailers focused on combating fraud have credit cards in the cross-hairs of their efforts. But ramping up the war on card fraud can introduce a new risk to companies: false positives. This isn’t merely an issue for the B2C world, however. The False Positive Threat.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

A 2018 survey found that 40 percent of American financial institution (FI) customers in this age bracket reported debit cards as their go-to payment instruments, while 36 percent favored credit cards. These organizations need to fend off anything threatening, combatting both popular and emerging debit fraud attack methods.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Companies are getting much better at fraud detection and prevention, partly in response to its rapid spread. A leading index of digital theft found that loyalty fraud exploded by 89 percent over 2018, opening a vast new front in the battle. For their part, the anti-fraud community is hitting back hard.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At stake could be nothing less than merchant reputation and revenue as eCommerce continues to take up a bigger part of retail. The problem extends beyond retail into an area such as healthcare, where personal information can be even more sensitive. It’s fairly new,” Dhawan said of this particular fraud and hacking threat.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It’s no easy task, as the recent Fraud Decisioning Playbook shows. Data: 1.4M: Number of fraud reports the FTC received in 2018. 400: Average amount lost by millennial consumers per fraud incident. 81%: Share of fraud victims who said they interacted with a “false ad” last year. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

The 2018 holiday season has barely ended and it’s a good bet that retailers and payments players have yet to identify all the fraud that took place. The rest of the year will bring other such attacks, and no doubt new attacks barely imagined even by veteran fraud-prevention experts. Criminal Rings. Criminal Patience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the report, cybercrime touched nearly every sector throughout 2018, including those that may seem less obvious, like education or manufacturing — and for one obvious reason: the money. Facebook’s 2018 regarding the stewardship of user data and privacy was one it would like to soon forget. Department Store Hacks.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2018

With retailers struggling to get compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard , qualified security assessors are going to be in more demand and can offer tokenization as one way of achieving compliance. That’s according to TokenEx , which recently hosted a webinar to help retailers better understand tokenization.

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FICO

MAY 20, 2021

I’m very pleased to announce the release of the FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager Retail Banking Consumer v3.0 model, which adds a Scam Detection Score to Falcon’s existing third-party fraud detection score for retail banking transfers. How Scams Differ from Third-Party Fraudulent Transfers. Humans are creatures of habit.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

It’s no surprise that payments fraud is on the rise. Juniper Research , for example, has estimated that retailers will lose as much as $130 billion in card-not-present (CNP) fraud through 2023 — as tech gets more complex and transactions are done across borders. Then again, the fraud may be a bit more low-tech and on-site.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Call centers are facing the potential of fraud from inside and outside their facilities, and they are taking multi-pronged approaches to tackle these security challenges. And companies are creating fraud prevention defenses for the mobile order-ahead space, as quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are moving forward with digital innovation.

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Cisco

JUNE 7, 2019

Retail banks, tasked with guarding customer data and dollars, must respond with modern defensive strategies and prepare for both today’s challenges and tomorrow’s threats. . After decades of battling credit card fraud, retail banks face a new challenge: fraudulent account takeover. The rise in high-impact fraud.

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FICO

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Just as the Wild Card Round is followed by the Divisional Round in the NFL playoffs , fraud and payments predictions are always followed by New Year’s resolutions. Sure enough, wallets among fraud and payments professionals had already dropped some poundage. My Predictions for 2018. Will we do so this year?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

Each sector and country encounters different fraud types that providers must be ready to detect and thwart. In a recent interview with PYMNTS, he discussed tailoring fraud-fighting to merchants’ needs and how attention to local trends primes processors to fight money laundering and misbehavior when taking their operations global. .

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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 2018 — an increase of more than 100 percent.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

This is true for any industry, but perhaps even more so in the food retail space, where regulations can be as much about public health and safety as they are about money laundering and fraud. ” For food retailers with thousands — or even tens of thousands — of supplies, due diligence is far from simple.

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