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AUGUST 31, 2018

Fraud, on the other hand, paid extremely well, a fact he learned at the age of 13 when he embarked on his first subscription scam. From there, it quickly escalated into credit card fraud, and from there we moved into making IDs, which means you can get into stuff like identity theft, mortgage fraud and loads and loads of different crimes you can commit just from learning the basic skills of one crime,” he said. I don’t like fraud that targets vulnerable people.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

According to data from the Federal Reserve Payments study, it found the value of noncash fraud jumped 37 percent to $8.3 According to the study in 2015, the payments fraud rate by value was more than 20 percent bigger than in 2012. to $17.13, while debit card fraud decreased from $9.61

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

For Onfido, which verifies individual identities as people wield photo-based ID documents, tackling fraud is a matter of making sure identity documents are genuine. Fraud is evolving, so document verification techniques must evolve, too, as Trilli will illustrate.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

How Banks Are Weaponizing Data To Fight Fraud. However, while these banking players are looking to cater to customer demand, the migration to digital banking could be making them more susceptible to fraud.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

At the least, it won’t get any better — not according to any anti-fraud expert who is worth their rate. million fraud crimes in 2017, Trilli said, and $22.1 billion worth of fraud losses. The first choice in fraud prevention , he said, comes down to risk.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

The brand new October 2016 Global Fraud Attack Index™ , a PYMNTS and Forter collaboration, has some scary news for retailers, and it has nothing to do with Halloween. According to data revealed inside the index, fraud is rising quickly. The Fraud Index reports this in several ways.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Perhaps more troubling, however, is digital fraud’s projected future. Recently published research noted global fraud losses could top $6 billion by 2021, more than doubling the $3 billion lost worldwide in 2015. As such, businesses are now investing in their security and fraud prevention technology and solutions. CEO fraud, which targets companies with foreign suppliers or using wire payments, also often relies on bad actors’ ability to fool innocent victims.

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APRIL 12, 2018

On the one hand, Worldpay ’s VP of Data Products Nicole Jass noted, EMV has done an awful lot to slam the door shut on card-present fraud. According to Visa, counterfeit fraud at U.S. They just found a window to open, and that window has been card-not-present (CNP) fraud. According to Javelin, CNP fraud is now 81 percent more likely to occur than point-of-sale (POS) fraud — the greatest gap the company has ever observed.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Both solutions provide increased fraud protection to online transactions made via debit or credit cards. The changes also include enhanced fraud protections for merchants. Security & Fraud 3D-Secure 2.0

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JUNE 19, 2018

Fraud has no choice but to roll with the punches, and the flurries are enough to daze a boxer as skilled as Ali. By now, it’s widely known that chip-enabled cards have been pushing fraud to digital conduits. The level of sophistication of online fraud is one that runs the gamut – and moves beyond simple third-party opportunistic fraud, when people run up large purchases on a card, or go to a bank and claim the person behind a transaction wasn’t them.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

ProfitStars , the Jack Henry & Associates division that provides risk management solutions for financial institutions, announced its latest fraud tool on Wednesday (Sept. The firm’s Gladiator iPay Enterprise Security Monitoring (iPay ESM) tool is now live for financial institutions to monitor and mitigate the risk of fraud linked to online bill payment, the company said in a press release.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Corporate fraud has its demographic hallmarks, sorted, if you look closely, by age, position and even gender. Australia and the United Kingdom that expense fraud has significant financial impact, costing firms in the U.S. Chrome River also cited findings from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) that expense reimbursement fraud makes up as much as 17 percent of business fraud in general.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There also is the specter of payments fraud. In a recent report via Lloyd’s Bank, trends point toward growth in what is known as impersonation fraud, perhaps more commonly known as business email compromise. Invoice fraud had been encountered by about 52 percent of those surveyed, in which the fraudsters change account details amid documentation that looks legitimate. It’s on the rise, this fraud, up 58 percent year over year, said Lloyd’s.

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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. As an extra measure that the fraud can persist, the criminal can also alter alert settings, which would prevent the true account owner from being given a heads-up that those details have been changed. In Europe, especially, nations must be on the lookout for payment card fraud.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

For all the buzz about the advent of real-time payments, and the various opportunities it can reportedly unlock, the lingering uneasiness is that speed also brings the potential for more fraud. That fear, according to David Barnhardt, EVP of product at fraud prevention firm GIACT , is not unwarranted or unreasonable. In fact, he said, it’s very much Payments 101 — where there is increased speed and less of an opportunity to respond to that fraud, banks could be more vulnerable.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Attempts to commit online fraud jumped during the holiday season, increasing 22 percent from Thanksgiving to December compared to a year ago. That’s according to new data from payments company ACI Worldwide , which found that along with the fraud increase, overall online transactions also jumped 19 percent from Thanksgiving to the end of 2017. According to ACI, the number of fraud attempts was the highest on Thanksgiving Day at 1.94 percent fraud attempts up from 1.48

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Who needs real identity data when you can commit just as much fraud (and commit it successfully) with the fake stuff? Research has found that new-account fraud more than doubled from 2014 to 2015, with nearly 7 million individuals having their Social Security numbers (SSN) compromised in 2015, an increase of more than 63 percent from the previous year. PP: Fraud is constantly evolving and changing. However, businesses have lost countless millions of dollars to such fraud.

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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 I would not want to be a merchant responsible for managing fraud today,” Spear told Karen Webster in a live online discussion on the topic held last week with an audience of online retailers. “It Classic fraud deflection is rules-based. Fraud is dynamic.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

During the last couple of years, he noted, the industry has really embraced what he called “fraud marketing.” Banks and credit unions, from the largest to the smallest, are all facing similar issues these days: a spike in card-not-present (CNP) fraud, an ever-mounting pool of consumer data that bad actors monetize on the dark web. When it comes to how consumers think about where their funds are the safest, large banks can benefit from somewhat of a perception gap.

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APRIL 19, 2016

The Global Fraud Index, a PYMNTS and Forter collaboration , shows that online fraud attacks have jumped by 11 percent since the shift. The PYMNTS and Forter The Global Fraud Attack Index™ provides a quarter by quarter indexing of on how fraud attempts , reflected as a percent of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the latest iteration of the Meet The Fraudster Podcast Series, Forter fraud analyst Gilit Saporta takes PYMNTS inside another class of cybercriminals, those known simply as the “factory fraudsters.”. One wrinkle here that belies the typical fraudster profile: These workers can actually garner the fraud expert’s sympathy since they are unsophisticated, fairly beginner-type fraudsters who are typically living in third-world countries. Meet the newest factory worker: the fraudster.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Fighting fraud is a lot harder online, and a lot harder for merchants and consumers, as card-not-present transactions become the preferred method of malfeasance. In one recent announcement, payments provider TSYS and real-time learning technology platform Featurespace said they were joining forces to offer fraud prevention tools. Said Ahmad, “The partnership is about using machine learning to identify and improve risk and fraud performance.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

They are buying fraud tutorials and data from other criminals online. The 2018 holiday shopping season has already started for people and organizations bent on fraud. This year, fraud will probably bring more account takeovers than last year, according to experts — along with the theft of gift cards, loyalty points and other consumer data ID. In a new PYMNTS interview, Tricia Phillips, SVP of product at Kount , discussed the fraud trends for the upcoming fourth quarter.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The costs are myriad, and can be measured in funds delayed to businesses that need them (for fear of fraud), innovations not experimented with because of the heightened risk environment, or time and treasure spent trying to keep at least a step or two ahead of the fraudsters.

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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. He said, “The situation we see all of the time with our customers is they experience a fraud where almost everything looked right. In this case, it is two pieces of secondary data that trigger the discovery that this is a fraud.”. Fraud Proofing The Future.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

It’s called ad fraud, and according to PK4 Media CEO and Co-Founder Tom Alexander, it’s a way bigger problem than people realize. According to a study by Adloox, ad fraud cost brands $12.5 The study predicted an ad fraud decrease to $6.5 The search engine giant is reportedly looking into which partners are placing ads on sites with fake traffic so that it can automatically refund advertisers who may fall victim to ad fraud in the future.

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MARCH 6, 2018

The number of compromises and the number of card members impacted set a new record last year,” said TJ Horan, vice president of fraud solutions at FICO. Security & Fraud ATM fraud ATM Security credit card fraud Debit Card Fraud FICO Fraud Alert Hacking ATMs Money Machines News What's HotA new report has revealed that there was a 10 percent increase in the number of payment cards compromised at U.S. ATMs and merchants in 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

That’s not the only increasing area of fraud enabled by better technology and technological deployment. But with the power of faster payments comes the potential for faster fraud. Fraud Prevention bank regulation Banking Fraud Danske Bank DataVisor european central bank ING ING Group News payments fraud Yinglian XieBanking during the pre-digital days involved transport.

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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.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

The deputy chief of Iran’s central bank was dismissed from the position and arrested as part of the government’s crackdown on financial fraud, according to reports in The News Tribune on Sunday (Aug. Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei previously ordered state officials to collaborate to combat financial fraud as the government ramps up efforts to strengthen the rial, Iran’s currency.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Fraud protection will likely be an ongoing task for merchants. This week, German-Israeli payment security company Fraugster debuted its answer to the fraud conundrum. The new Fraud Free Product fraud prevention solution aims to thwart future fraudulent attacks through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Max Laemmle, the German-Israeli company’s founder and CEO, commented on the current state of eCommerce fraud and how the new offering will benefit merchants.

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APRIL 26, 2017

While the fraud-fighting technology available six years ago didn’t stand a chance of protecting HiGear, the current car-sharing market , which is projected to be worth $16.5 billion by 2024, continues to experience similar fraud attacks.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

In these and other warnings — along with some case studies herein — business owners need to make staff aware of the specter of invoice fraud. Against this warning, is it any surprise that, in a separate study, as many as 84 percent of professionals think that fraud will, in fact, increase? Fraud Prevention B2B Barclays Invoice Fraud phishingIf the saying is that there is nothing new under the sun, only new ways to say it, then let’s extend the sentiment to payments.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Hitachi is teaming up with a regional bank in Japan to introduce anti-fraud ATMs. Joyo Bank, a regional lender located north of Tokyo, will begin operating the new anti-fraud ATMs early next year. We have experienced cases of elderly customers falling victim to this kind of fraud,” Satoshi Sasaki, a spokesman for Joyo Bank, told Bloomberg. “We Nonbank ATMs account for as much as 60 percent of fraud attempts in 2015, up from 39 percent in 2014.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

Amid the headlines about cryptocurrency fraud, hacked digital wallets, data breaches and synthetic identities, some methods of making off with ill-gotten gains may fly a bit under the radar — they may even seem quaint. In South Africa, there’s been a rise in debit order fraud. In the meantime, PASA is gathering evidence to conduct actual prosecution of such fraud, handing cases and prosecution over to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre.

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MARCH 19, 2018

These tactics cast a wide net of fraud over the fleet card industry – from issuers and acquirers to fleet managers, employers and employees themselves. Research published in 2016 from Shell found that nearly two-thirds of surveyed fleet managers cited fuel fraud as a major problem, with professionals acknowledging an array of weak points that expose a company to losses. Goldspink recently told PYMNTS that fleet card-related fraud goes far beyond skimmers at the POS.

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MAY 2, 2017

Credit card fraud is a fact that will likely continue to plague retailers for the foreseeable future. It’s on the rise in the eCommerce arena, according to data released from omnichannel commerce technology and operations company Radial’s eCommerce Fraud Technology Lab. Radial’s data also showed that overall fraud is up 30 percent year over year. The highest increases in online fraud since August 2016 were found to be in electronics, entertainment, jewelry and sporting goods.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

It could be argued that it’s easier than ever for an employee to spend corporate cash, and when it comes time to reconcile transactions or request reimbursements, it’s also easy to make a mistake – or worse, commit fraud. As it turns out, expense fraud is quite common, and costly. Analysts said the most common tactic to commit fraud was submitting old expense reports as new, or expensing transactions that occurred on a weekend.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Lackluster reporting increases the risk of non-compliance with Department of Labor regulations, while legacy systems make fraud and inflated paychecks an easy crime. Two of the largest ways, errors and fraud, are “huge issues,” said Dean Mathews, founder of time tracking solutions provider OnTheClock. revealed payroll fraud to be the fourth largest type, yielding $9 million in lost funds for employers. Payroll is facing risk exposure from all angles.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Credit unions (CUs) face a delicate balancing act when it comes fighting fraud — a specific needle they need to thread, CO-OP Financial Services ’ SVP Fraud Products, Fotis Konstantinidis told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. They may prefer to absorb more fraud losses so they don’t create a clunky member experience. On the other side of the spectrum, you have credit unions [that] would rather create more false positives and weed out as much fraud as possible.”.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

News earlier this month that compromises at ATMs (read: fraud) were at the highest levels in 2015 than had been seen in years (according to FICO) brings back some concerns over how strong security is, or isn’t, at the point of cash dispensing. ” “Fraud is moving almost as you would squeeze a balloon. “Common update procedures would go a long way to harden the system and prevent fraud,” he said. Security & Fraud ATM fraud ATMs News skimmers TNS zirkel

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JULY 25, 2017

As such, it would be logical to utilize machine learning to help tackle one of the largest threats to the eCommerce shopping world – online retail sales fraud. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4 With a $1-billion climb from the year prior, it’s apparent that this type of fraud is not going away any time soon, especially with the increasing popularity of online purchases. Technological advances are pushing the boundaries for what’s possible in a variety of industries.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

As of today, Mastercard is releasing one — it announced its new Early Fraud Detection System. With the system, issuers can now receive advance alerts about cards and accounts that are facing a higher risk of fraud due to involvement or exposure in an earlier data breach.

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