PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Gareth David Long, a 41-year-old Las Vegas resident, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for fraud for stealing money from victims’ accounts, the Department of Justice said in a press release. Long pled guilty in November of 2019 to a scheme where he committed wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Right now, though, we are talking about fraud, and how criminals use online data sites to steal from consumers in search of romance or, at least, some temporary companionship. Global fraud related to online dating scams costs “several billion dollars a year,” Hochrieser said, “and it’s growing every year.”.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

Advances in fraud decisioning have cybercrooks scrambling into the new arcana of synthetic identities and fiendish mass bot attacks, looking for any possible opening to exploit. Some industries are more prone than others, as we discovered in the latest Fraud Decisioning Playbook , a PYMNTS and Simility collaboration.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Online firms and their banking partners have both the means and motives to stop fraudsters from accessing personal information, but today’s connected economy encompasses markets and customer service channels around the world. Digital fraud rose 30 percent in Q3 2019, with one out of every five new accounts revealed to be illegitimate.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

In a blog post , Bill Ready, PayPal’s chief operating officer, said the new digital platform will provide what the company is calling the most comprehensive set of technology, tools, services and financing for businesses of all sizes around the world. The payment company plans to expand to more than 40 markets by the end of 2019.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Companies paid an average of $84,116 in the last quarter of 2019 to get their files back from online thieves, according to data from security firm Coveware. What we find most concerning is that it causes not just direct costs, but also indirect costs of lost operations,” said Herbert Stapleton, FBI cyber section chief. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Fines related to noncompliance increased 160 percent between September 2018 and December 2019, in fact. The Reserve Bank of India recently released guidelines outlining an approved method that private companies could use for conducting KYC checks online by using videos. Download the Tracker to read the Feature Story. About The Tracker.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Comparing it favorably to the first half of 2019, Feedzai says it closed deals in the U.S., And the company has continued implementing new machine-learning tech and filing new patents in areas such as deep learning, model fairness operations, active learning, transaction graph representations and more, the release says.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to square away increasing consumer use of online channels with their privacy and banking standards. The country’s Data Protection Law was announced in 2019 and officially came into effect in July 2020. For more on these and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News & Trends.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One 2019 report noted that there were 220 updates to such requirements worldwide each day, equating to roughly 80,000 in one year. These considerations are especially important during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as the wave of legitimate customers now doing their banking online has prompted a corresponding spike in fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Fraud attacks’ frequency and complexity will likely continue to rise despite merchants’ best efforts to prevent them. The Latest Fraud Decisioning Developments. Malware targeting computers running the Windows 7 operating system were especially hard-hit, rising 125 percent, according to the report.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

billion user records have been exposed in the first half of 2019, and more than 20 breaches are reported every day. This rampant availability of users’ data makes it easier for bad actors to wreak havoc and commit fraud. She recently spoke to PYMNTS about how Scotiabank has revamped its fraud strategy in recent years. “I

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

This increased digital presence also brings a greater risk of digital fraud, however. Some schemes that are impractical to wage in person are simpler to perpetrate online because of a decreased security presence, the anonymity of transactions and fraudsters’ abilities to stage hundreds of attacks simultaneously.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. Third, read and enjoy the 2019 edition of the GonzoBanker Awards, our 18 th. Mark Turner, Executive Chairman of the Board, WSFS Bank – We have to give the nod to an early 2019 retirement of Turner, who had one hell of a run in 12 years at the helm of a great community and wealth bank.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

According to recent information from Juniper Research , online payment fraud losses from e-commerce, airline ticketing, and money transfer and banking services are expected to reach $48 billion by 2023, more than double the $22 billion in losses estimated for 2018. Synthetic identities and new account fraud.

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FICO

APRIL 28, 2020

The winners of the 2019 FICO® Decisions Awards can now be formally announced. The 2019 FICO Decisions Award winners have demonstrated what is possible with a clear business objective, innovative use of technology and a great partnership. Fraud & Security. AI, Machine Learning and Optimization.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

It now operates in 18 countries in Latin America. The company’s total revenue increased by 59 percent in 2019 to $2.30 One difference is the use of debit cards online. For example, in Brazil, it’s very hard to use debit cards online, as most issuers don’t let consumers perform online credit card transactions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

Financial fraud costs businesses an estimated $1.45 trillion, and it resulted in almost half of global organizations noting they were victims of fraud in 2018. This includes exploring emerging anti-fraud solutions and the challenges arising in this space as fraud grows more complex. One recent breach at U.S. and the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Merchants looking to expand their operations at home and abroad must be able to support their customers’ preferred payment methods, but doing so is no easy feat. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving consumers online to shop and pay, and their rapidly changing shopping habits are forcing merchants to rethink their digital strategies.

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FICO

JULY 1, 2022

Global Fraud Trends: What’s Happening and What’s Next? Here are the highlights from the fraud trends breakout session at FICO World 2022 with a panel of fraud professionals from Brazil, Turkey and North America. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45. Ulisses Okamoto , Fraud Risk Management Superintendent at Itaú Unibanco (Brazil).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

Incidences of account takeover (ATO) were up 347 percent and shipping fraud skyrocketed 391 percent, respectively, from 2018 to 2019, before anyone except virologists had ever heard of COVID-19. Fraud experts are seeing renewed vigor among online crooks as COVID-19 confusion roils markets flooded with bailout dollars.

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FICO

JANUARY 22, 2021

Last year I blogged a lot about how payments and fraud patterns have changed. But despite the COVID pandemic having effected massive changes in the ways consumers transact, credit card fraud is still a “thing,” and a big, ever-changing thing at that. Fraud Numbers Vary Widely. billion in 2019, according to Javelin Research.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As many of us who have long been in the industry know, fraud remains a top challenge for debit cards. In 2019 issuers faced $4.2 billion in gross (attempted) debit card fraud and ultimately incurred losses of over $1 billion on debit and ATM transactions; the need for an effective solution to this problem has never been greater.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Financial institutions should be proactive with their fraud prevention on the dark web. . In recent years, cybercriminals implanted malicious skimming code directly on e-commerce shops and online content management and payment platforms as a way of stealing payment card data at scale. February 2019. get started. Market Dynamics.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

A significant share of Generation Z consumers — those aged 18 to 25 — are turning to buy online, pick up in store ( BOPIS ) purchasing models to meet their speed needs. A 2019 survey of 1,000 Gen Z consumers found that 58 percent had used BOPIS. Rural customers may therefore see diminished online delivery offerings.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As goes banking, so goes fraud. PYMNTS December 2020 AML/KYC Tracker® done in collaboration with Trulioo probes the heightened fraud climate accompanying the mobile-digital shift, zeroing in on key aspects of prevailing in the digital fraud wars. It has ever been thus.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

Pulling the thread and following the money in 2019 today is about knowing where to look on the internet and in cyberspace.”. Over the course of their operation, the men shipped more than 1,000 packages to buyers in 43 states, and laundered $2.3 million in cryptocurrency. “It is definitely a significant arrest.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Maybe one day, quick-service restaurant ( QSR ) operators will look back upon 2019 as their cramming experience when it comes to digital security and fraud prevention. In fact, missteps in digital fraud prevention can, as Stuppy said, “put the entire digital investment at risk.” Fraud Prevention Optimism.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

With more consumers than ever going online to shop and pay, merchants are building and expanding their digital capabilities to meet this demand for digital commerce. Credit and debit card fraud increased in April 2019 and April 2020, in fact, as fraudsters take advantage of the crisis for personal gain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Once upon a time — about a decade ago — there was this QSR executive who observed the rise of online retail, but figured those changes would never apply to his businesses. Everything has been built around taking orders via the cashier at the register, and that’s the way they’ve operated for the last 30-plus years.”.

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FICO

JANUARY 10, 2023

Top 5 Fraud Posts for 2022: Scams, Contactless and Money Mules. In a year that saw the word "scamdemic" coined, scams such as authorised push payment fraud were top of mind, along with various other fraud schemes. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45. Few things change faster in the financial services space than fraud trends.

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