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Report: How Furniture Retailers Use Automation To Take Fraud Off The Table

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Payment trends are expected to continue to tilt toward eCommerce through the remainder of 2020 as well, with some experts predicting that more than 2.1 trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. These include running scheduled checks on their platforms to detect fraud. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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Swap.com Uses Data Analytics To Fight Post-Holiday Fraud Surge

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The 2020 holiday season was one for the history books, drastically different due to the pandemic limiting consumers’ in-person shopping experiences. The prevalence of online commerce opens new doors for digital fraud, however, both from career fraudsters and opportunistic customers. Developments F rom The World Of Digital Fraud.

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eCommerce Fraud Presents A $12 Billion Problem

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With the coronavirus putting eCommerce front and center, it has unfortunately been joined by its cousin: online retail fraud. According to online security company Signal Sciences , eCommerce retailers deal with an average of 206,000 web attacks per month. percent of all eCommerce fraud , is still account takeover.

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Deep Dive: How Online Retailers Kept Fraudsters From Having A Merry Little Christmas

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The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for the retail industry. Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. A notable $730 billion in U.S. A notable $730 billion in U.S.

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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. Or maybe that cryptocurrencies have yet to go mainstream beyond the headlines because fraud still lurks. Here are some of cryptos’ key developments for 2020: Bitcoin Goes Higher And Higher. Building The (Retail) Use Cases.

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SEC Issues Corporate Fraud Warning As BEC Scams Climb

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The risk of fraud continues to climb for organizations of all sizes as the latest data reveals third-quarter spikes in business email compromise and ransomware scams. Plus, the latest allegations of fraud hit the PPE supply chain, and the U.S. Plus, the latest allegations of fraud hit the PPE supply chain, and the U.S.

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EMV 3DS: Why 2020 Is Different

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Gluck said his buddy probably didn’t see such potential “ friendly fraud ” as real fraud. “In But it is a form of friendly fraud.”. He said friendly fraud is hard to spot, nearly impossible to predict and expensive for retailers not only in terms of lost goods and revenue but in terms of their merchant risk scores.

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