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TRENDING: Call Centers Push With Biometrics As Fraud Soars

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The rate of contact center fraud has skyrocketed recently, growing by 350 percent during the past four years. That means thwarting fraudsters who call in, masquerading as legitimate customers, or who hack into a cell center, as well as blocking any dishonest agents within the center from stealing customer information.

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

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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. Developments F rom The World Of Digital Fraud. For more on these and other digital fraud news items, download this month’s Tracker.

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Survey: US Retailers Face Fraud, Currency Barriers In Global Online Sales

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A new survey has found that the biggest obstacles hindering online retailers from doing business abroad is fraud prevention, and currency and payment processing. retailers ship outside the country due to fraud concerns, as well as the challenge of accepting foreign currencies and payments.

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Podcast Episode 8: Kount VP discusses protecting mobile apps & mobile ordering services from fraud

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Host Will Hernandez discusses protecting mobile apps and mobile ordering services from fraud, with Kount VP of Marketing, Don Bush. Will also chats with Judy Mottl, editor of Retail Customer Experience, about Amazon Prime Day trends.

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Partners Against Crime: Visa Leads Effort To Fight Fraud With New Dynamic CVV Codes

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The rising trend of digitization in commerce and the increased occurrence of card-not-present fraud were not created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it would be more accurate to note that those macro trend lines were both already on the move quite notably, and then the coronavirus came along and rapidly intensified the situation.

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Retailers, Banks Say Transaction Clarity Key To Moving From Dispute Management To Dispute Prevention

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Amid the great digital shift , retailers and financial institutions (FIs) must walk the fine line between challenging transactions and letting the consumer journey proceed frictionless. All said that clearing up the jargon and guesswork — while pinpointing real fraud — can go a long way toward improving digital commerce itself.

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Walgreens Fights Promotion Abuse With Digital Tracking

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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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