PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

It’s the battle against fraud that can be lost right at the beginning. Bad actors, are, increasingly, targeting online card applications, using stolen personally identifiable information to apply for credit, leveraging those ill-gotten credit lines to make fraudulent purchases. alone topped $10.2 billion last year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

It’s been said cybercriminals look for the path of least resistance when they target businesses or online marketplaces to steal data or money. And, increasingly, online gaming platforms — attractive to the bad guys due to their scale and relative anonymity — are in the crosshairs. The tools are there, but mindset matters.

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PYMNTS

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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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As consumers embrace real-time transactions, financial institutions (FIs) must recalibrate their fraud-fighting strategies. The real-time movement of money,” he told PYMNTS, “has implications on your ability to manage losses — and you have to make sure you are keeping pace with new fraud trends.”. Real-time payments, real-time risk.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

He and Nitendra Rajput , Mastercard’s vice president of product development and head of the company’s “AI Garage,” said that in many cases, AI is the only way to scale up sufficiently to meet the challenges the company faces with fraud and other business issues. “It Fighting Fraud in a Post-Pandemic World.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The complexity of online and mobile advertising — and the vast sums of money involved — make those areas extremely attractive for criminals. Successful criminals, including those who ply their trade via digital and mobile channels, have certain advantages: flexible morality, of course, is one; another is determination.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

That’s where reloadable cards and instant access to funds come in — especially as the worlds of payments and commerce move further toward the goal of frictionless transactions and sports betting in the U.S. goes online. Of course, for use of friction-free payment methods to spread, more states will have to legalize sports betting.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

Digital Shadows , the industry leader in digital risk management, revealed its findings on the changing habits and tactics of organized credit card fraud gangs, discovering a new trend in the form of remote learning “schools.”. The course includes webinars, detailed notes and course material.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

To that end, the the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a hub to bring complaints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is eyeing payroll fraud. Often steered toward a prepaid card owned by the cybercriminal, said IC3. In Europe, especially, nations must be on the lookout for payment card fraud. The deposits?

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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. Credit Card Fraud Tactics and COVID-19.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Will Tom Brady turn in his jersey after the game for an AARP card and hit the celebrity golf circuit? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. Which brands will blow it? More about that in just a bit, though.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Online sales during the season are expected to soar, with recent estimates projecting gains of 14 percent over last year to $143 billion. Where brick-and-mortar had once been their hunting ground, card-not-present transactions are increasingly in the crosshairs. The malicious script was found at 17 merchants. The Top-Down Approach.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Leslie Ragan manages transaction fraud prevention for Elan Financial Services , a unit of U.S. In an interview with PYMNTS, Ragan said technology developments have enhanced the industry’s fraud-fighting strategies, but customer awareness is still a critical component of preventing bad actors from succeeding. At The Consumer Level.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. It’s not altogether an unfamiliar concept, of course.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When most people hear about online fraud, they tend to think about what Noa Kalechstain, Riskified ’s head of chargeback recovery, calls “classic fraud,” she explained in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. It has attained the status of “classic” because fraud using stolen financials is the most prevalent type.

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BankBazaar

APRIL 5, 2023

Credit Cards have become an essential financial tool for people across the globe. With the economy growing at a rapid pace, it has become imperative for individuals to own a Credit Card. Here’s why you need a Credit Card. Here goes… Convenience One of the biggest advantages of having a Credit Card is convenience.

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Abrigo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Guidance for banks on the lookout for crypto scams and fraud The turbulent cryptocurrency scene should put bankers on high alert. Takeaway 1 Cryptocurrencies are the newest and most popular field in potential financial gains through fraud. But with increased popularity comes more opportunity for fraud. DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPER.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala , founder and CEO of FinTech Oyster , said online financial platforms, powered by open banking, can serve as alternatives for business banking in a country where business banking seems an afterthought. As Poovala told Webster: “We had to get a debit card by actually creating our own startup.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Payments Fraud in Asia Post Pandemic. Why consumers are moving to banks with the best fraud and scam prevention. Senior Consultant, Fraud and Financial Crime. The growth of real-time payments and fraud in Asia. The adoption has of course been turbo-charged by the pandemic. Indians most concerned about APP Fraud.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The costs of using some cards is going on the incline, as news is breaking that the nation’s two largest card networks, Visa and Mastercard, are preparing to up the fees charged to merchants to accept network-branded cards. It’s a fact that merchants, of course, do not love.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Equifax , of course, is among only the latest of the headline-grabbers. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing time and again and expecting different results, then perhaps the way we pay through, and interact with, online banking may have a hint of madness, or at least complacency. percent of fraud?”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

If fraud attacks are the flu, then the Equifax data breach was a raging fever: a symptom (albeit a dramatic one) of a larger illness that will almost inevitably infect any organization that hasn’t had its shots. Even at the highest levels of the corporate ecosystem, executives are making the same mistakes as first-time online buyers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

As online gamblers all but feast on the odds and brackets of the ongoing NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in the U.S. – In that spirit, most consumers understand the need for a relatively involved onboarding process when first signing up for an online gambling site or service. the first March Madness since the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Fraud isn’t perpetrated by a random assortment of individuals; it’s organized crime. It’s “fraud as a Service.” It’s a very unfair match, if you ask Skye Spear, VP of eCommerce fraud-fighting firm Signifyd. “I Good news, of course, but that doesn’t mean the pressure is any less. Classic fraud deflection is rules-based.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ACI Worldwide advises that, as the world moves toward immediate payment ecosystems, a holistic view of the transaction, with layered controls from origination to the application of real-time rules, is the only way to push the pedal to the metal on faster payments and put the brakes on fraud. million in 2007 to £52.5 million in 2007 to £52.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And then, after the transaction is made, there’s the task of understanding the byzantine codes and data that are tied to online statements. The “language” of the statements may represent a Rosetta Stone of sorts for the 110 million consumers who have pivoted online in the wake of the pandemic. The Scope Of The Problem.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Of course, that also means fraudsters are figuring out how to better steal from those consumers. In a new PYMNTS interview, Karen Webster talked with Yinglian Xie, CEO and co-founder of DataVisor , about some of the new trends in fraud, and why the travel industry is a big target for increasingly sophisticated criminals. Fraud Types.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

The problem with fighting fraud — according to GIACT EVP of Product David Barnhardt in this week’s edition of the PYMNTS Topic TBD — is how much information fraudsters have at their fingertips about regular consumers. Of course, in these cases, appearances were deceiving. The Brazen Fraudster.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Online merchants know very well that fraud costs them in many ways – in chargebacks, in false positives, in the friction that’s introduced at checkout that can cost a sale. But there’s nothing like putting the cost of fraud into the parlance that merchants know really well: units sold. Third Cost: Decline Orders .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the meantime, CUs will continue to move more of their transactional activities online — done across contactless means, of course, which paves the way to using technologies in new ways to conduct daily financial life. Beware Of Fraud . Of course, where payments activity flows, so do fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2016

That’s why fraud is always about identity.”. That’s Michael Reitblat, the CEO of Forter, a fraud prevention platform whose business is designed to make it harder for fraudsters to use those easy-to-come-by identities at a merchant. But the General cautioned that tackling fraud across the payments ecosystem today is a job for experts.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

What does that mean for fraud professionals? However, COVID has changed many consumer habits in the US and around the world, including handling cash and cards. QR Codes and Fraud. Of course, any payment method carries inherent fraud risk. Let’s take a look. . Hello Panda. What about QR codes?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For instance, if you go to a restaurant and you have a credit card, probably you will use it because it is more convenient than picking up your phone, starting a transaction or things like that,” Kavakama said. “We But as far as that migration being a threat to credits cards, Kavakama said he doesn’t see that happening.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

While the transition is still in process, and has in many cases been a bumpy, road to adoption, it will go a long way towards tackling some of the most common types of fraud. Where it is prevalent, EMV has proven to be a highly effective method of preventing card-present/counterfeit card fraud. million in 2016.

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FICO

MAY 19, 2020

History tells us that things like natural disasters, times of economic instability, and fears of recession or unemployment provide the perfect environment for increased fraud and financial crime. So, I thought I would outline my top 5 fraud manager considerations during COVID-19. Examples include fake emails from CDC, WHO, and FEMA.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Not to mention, all those late nights desperately striving to absorb all the information we should have learned over the course of weeks instead of hours, had we the good sense to keep pace with the work. In fact, missteps in digital fraud prevention can, as Stuppy said, “put the entire digital investment at risk.” Investment Risk.

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