PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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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Abrigo

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

FinCEN provides guidance on Cyber Fraud What can financial institutions do to prevent and detect cyber fraud? You might also like this blog on FinCEN's AML/CTF priorities on cyber fraud. Takeaway 3 The FinCEN releases also focus on money mule schemes and imposter fraud, both increasing due to the pandemic. .

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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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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. These types of scams fall under the broad term of remote authentication fraud, and they’re increasingly common—and inventive. Examples of remote authentication fraud. New account fraud.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Corporate fraud continues to plague businesses large and small, and in this week’s B2B fraud tracker, many of the latest cases of nefarious activity within the enterprise can be traced back to the continued use of paper and legacy systems. The biggest story this past week, of course, was the revelation that as much as $2.1

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Abrigo

JANUARY 13, 2021

High-risk transactions identified To combat PPP fraud, the SBA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has collaborated with the U.S. Takeaway 2 To thwart PPP fraud, the SBA has collaborated with the U.S. Takeaway 2 To thwart PPP fraud, the SBA has collaborated with the U.S. Combatting Fraud. Stay up-to-date on PPP fraud.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

This increased digital engagement can create challenges, however, as it opens up new avenues for fraud in addition to making transactions more convenient for customers. A Lloyds Bank study found that this type of fraud has increased fivefold over the past year, accounting for up to 1 percent of all loan applications.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Melissa Townsley-Solis, head of GIACT , discusses one of the negative effects of COVID-19: the escalation of fraud in the payments arena. She stresses the importance of small businesses fighting back against fraud in 2021 in order to achieve economic recovery. Fraud was red-hot in 2020. Businesses across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Risk management platform Feedzai announced a 44 percent increase in growth for the first half of the fiscal year for 2020, which a press release says was one of the company’s most successful so far. Feedzai has seen the increase in fraud and scams with the pandemic. EMEA, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America. And meanwhile, 35.7

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TheGuardian

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

UK Finance said fraudsters had capitalised on the coronavirus pandemic, with criminals targeting children as young as 14 via social media to become money mules.

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Banking Exchange

JANUARY 10, 2022

Fraud cases increased by 343 between 2020 and 2021 Risk Management Security Cyberfraud/ID Theft Operational Risk Feature3 Feature.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Atlanta payments encryption firm Bluefin is partnering with New York mobile payments processor PAAY to advance eCommerce security. Founded in 2007 by Miles and John Perry, who serves as chief executive officer, Bluefin specializes in encryption and tokenization payment and data security. . Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

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. Keeping An Eye On Fraud.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

When it comes to fraud threats, no company — large or small — is immune. PYMNTS breaks down the numbers of the latest in B2B fraud below. 9 in 10 of ASX 100 companies were found to have lapsed security strategies that allow for email spoofing and invoice scams , a new report from Agari said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2020

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. “The percent of all eCommerce fraud , is still account takeover.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Overtaxing the royal attention span — that of the consumer — is a mistake, so multifactor authentication (MFA) processes are morphing in various ways to reduce onboarding frictions while maintaining rigorous multifactor authentication (MFA) and other fraud-fighting tools. Phone Call For You. Taking Authentication To The Streets.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Emerging Check Fraud Trends to be Aware of It seems check fraud will never go away, it just changes its approach every opportunity. Check Fraud. Still the number one type of fraud in banking. There is also usually more than one signee assigned to those accounts, making them more susceptible to fraud.

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Abrigo

JULY 10, 2020

Community banks and credit unions partnered with their communities to help families and businesses through these unprecedented times , causing spikes in consumer fraud that must be faced head on. According to the new advisory , t wo fraud typologies are trending: imposter scams and money mule schemes. C&I Loans.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

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 This includes upgrading digital security measures, but the resurgence of brick-and-mortar commerce has required upgraded technologies to accept contactless payments and mobile wallets.

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Banking Exchange

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Pandemic sees increase in amount lost to fraud, according to new data Risk Management Feature3 Feature Security AML & Fraud BSA/AML Big Data Covid19 Online Mobile Cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

in the early 2000s had much of the hoped-for effect: By 2017, both Mastercard and Visa had reported that counterfeit fraud was more than halved. The PYMNTS January 2020 Digital Identity Tracker examines the issues, as well as advances in mobile biometric security, “deepfake” detection and more. It’s not all good news.

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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

MARCH 30, 2020

With workflows disrupted and personnel dispersed, a rise in application fraud is being detected. The application fraud surge finds FIs and merchants retooling authentication measures, with AI, ML and unattended machine learning (UML) being variously arrayed against the threat of application fraud. Chaos vs. Control.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

million in federal Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) funds, which are backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Dinesh Sah, 55, of Coppell, Texas, was charged with three counts of wire fraud, three counts of bank fraud and one count of money laundering.

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SWBC's LenderHub

JULY 2, 2020

In this blog post, we'll be revisiting four fraud trends that are impacting consumers and financial institutions. As the industry and consumers are adjusting to a new normal after the global spread of COVID-19, fraudsters are changing their schemes to prey on the heightened anxieties that people are experiencing during these uncertain times.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

At a time when COVID-19 has seen global eCommerce and digital traffic grow by nearly 70 percent, security experts have braced for a commensurate surge in online fraud as the holiday shopping season continues. Fraudsters now have more avenues for attack available to them,” Rusi said. That's huge. It’s really unprecedented.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

“Banking is rapidly becoming more omnichannel, and FIs need to be sure they can safeguard customers across all the products through which they access their financial services,” according to the May 2020 FI Fraud Decisioning Playbook , produced by PYMNTS and sponsored by Simility. A Unified Front. In With the New.

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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. Bad actors have exploited these flaws to steal $2 billion to date, representing 2 percent of the $110 billion in claims the state sent out in 2020.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion laundered between 2015 and 2020 through the U.S. The proposed rule is part of a requirement of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA) to initiate transparency within the real estate industry. real estate between 2015 and 2020, and the actual number is almost certainly higher. real estate market alone.

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Perficient

MARCH 11, 2021

At Apple’s 2020 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple debuted “Sign in with Apple”, a new feature that allows users to sign in to apps and websites that use this feature, using an Apple ID. Sign in with Apple takes a strong stance on security and privacy by gaining independence from external identity providers. How Does It work?

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

With so much highbrow industry chatter about topics like payments fraud detection, it’s good to remember that this is actual crime-fighting. Traditional fraud-fighting approaches often fail against scammers who use synthetic IDs to trick financial institutions (FIs) into letting them open new accounts. The Fatigue-Fraud Connection.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

That’s surprising in 2020 – or maybe “shocking” better captures the vibe. 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. for trial – but only after his group stole an estimated $30 million.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

FIs must be prepared to support the pandemic-driven shift in consumers’ payment and spending behaviors while also keeping up with new security needs, Chris Tremont , executive vice president of virtual banking for Radius Bank , said in a recent PYMNTS interview. “As More Debit Payments, More Debit Fraud. is huge,” Tremont said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

As digital payments and commerce grows — and as consumers and regulators focus more on issues related to web security and privacy — digital ID continues to take more of a role in addressing those concerns, and helping online companies and organizations win over more consumer and otherwise scale. ID Data Points. Biometric Markers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Commerzbank has told lawyers that the bank was a victim of fraud in the ongoing Wirecard case, Reuters reported Thursday (Jan. Commerzbank, like many others, was a victim of an unimaginable fraud of a huge dimension,” he said, according to Reuters. The lender was "deceived" by the executives and auditors involved, Commerzbank said.

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