Google, Amex roll out anti-fraud tool
Payments Dive
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Amex is the latest card company to tap a Google virtual card service aimed at increasing the security of online payments.
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Abrigo
JANUARY 24, 2024
Prevent fraud when adopting FedNow Credit unions can prevent fraud as they connect to FedNow. Use this guide to understand available tools and the steps AML and fraud teams should take. You might also like this FedNow implementation guide with details on appropriate AML/CFT and fraud considerations.
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Abrigo
JULY 13, 2023
Avoid fraud losses from pig butchering scams FinCrime professionals looking to prevent pig butchering scams in the age of cryptocurrency can follow these steps to tighten security. Takeaway 1 Investment fraud schemes known as pig butchering scams contributed to $3.3 billion in fraud losses in 2022. billion in 2021.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 19, 2021
This includes shifts in which consumers are shopping and paying, and in the payment tools or methods they are using to finalize their transactions. 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.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 22, 2020
As has historically been the case with commerce security upgrades that roll in by government mandate, the path to European Union adoption of 3D Secure 2.0 That’s a path that McCutcheon said will have challenges, but perhaps fewer than we’ve seen in the recent history of security upgrades. also known as “3DS 2.0” Why 3DS 2.0
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 29, 2020
While fraud affects less than 1 percent of all card purchases, consumers who do lose funds from their bank accounts must go through lengthy and often stressful processes to get their money back. Getting security right also means balancing customers’ security and privacy concerns. Read the full story in the Tracker.
PYMNTS
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. “Our iPay ESM solution delivers sophisticated fraud analytics, eases compliance and provides powerful reporting capabilities to financial institutions. .
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Debit card issuers face an ever-growing array of fraud schemes perpetrated against them and their account holders. Effective card offerings require financial institutions (FIs) to quickly and accurately detect myriad forms of fraud, forcing them into a delicate balancing act. Security challenges are mounting, too.
Abrigo
JULY 25, 2023
How offering FedNow instant payments affects fraud & AML/CFT compliance What financial crime staff can do to prepare fraud and AML functions for implementing the FedNow Service for instant payments. Would you like other articles on fraud and AML/CFT compliance in your inbox? Instant payments service What is FedNow?
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
The travel industry may have seen exceptional growth in recent years, but the space has also toted the heavy baggage of rising fraud costs. Fraud could cost the market more than $25 billion this year, and approximately 20 percent of attempted travel-related transactions are confirmed to be fraudulent. Overcoming legacy systems.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Higher volumes of consumers are continuing to shop online even as brick-and-mortar stores reopen. The expansion of digital banking and payments has also contributed to a rise in cybercrime — 32 percent of consumers noted in one study that they had been the targets of COVID-19-related fraud, for example.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Aiming to protect users from hackers and political operatives, Google is gearing up to enhance its online security tools. The program will be offered to corporate executives, politicians and other individuals who have higher than average concerns about security.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. These include running scheduled checks on their platforms to detect fraud. trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 5, 2020
While video streaming services remain popular, research indicates more consumers are also turning to online gaming and gambling platforms. The Tracker also examines how both fraudsters and online gaming platforms are employing new emerging technologies to muscle bad actors out of these services. Skillz Takes Offline Bowling Online.
PYMNTS
JULY 25, 2017
Stemming from AI, machine learning is helping technology move at a swifter rate, and as more people bring their shopping needs into the online world, it’s likely that machine learning will play a larger role moving forward. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4
PYMNTS
AUGUST 3, 2020
When it comes to B2B payments fraud, it’s not a matter of if it happens, but when. Speaking with Karen Webster in a recent interview , OnPay Solutions President and CEO Neal Anderson explained that organizations have to prepare themselves to mitigate the fraud threat, even as employees work from home. ” $4.13 ” $4.13
PYMNTS
APRIL 9, 2020
Building a secure customer journey is always a bit of a balancing act. It has to be secure first and foremost, particularly when payments data is on the line. The battlegrounds for preventing fraud, he noted, are shifting — which means firms need to be able to shift with and ahead of the fraudsters.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 19, 2018
They are able to use cutting-edge technology, black-market websites and top-level, nimble and well-secured global networks to work their craft. 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 In the U.S., there were 16.7
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
QSRs that offer mobile order-ahead options as well as convenient online ordering methods are expanding their sales significantly through these digital channels during the pandemic. It also analyzes how focusing on the customer experience can help prevent such fraud in the first place. How Friendly Fraud Develops.
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.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Fraud continues to increase in many areas, despite extensive attempts to bring it to heel. Retail fraud attempts have doubled year over year, for example, while account takeover (ATO) fraud losses recently hit $14.7 billion , and phishing attacks now comprise 30 percent of all fraud attempts. billion to $7.2 million USD).
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Recent reports indicate an uptick in fraudsters targeting large FIs, and headlines surrounding security breaches and cyberattacks fill the news on a near-daily basis. Visa and Mastercard designed the 3DS protocols and provide them under the names Verified by Visa and Mastercard Secure Code. s upgrades, however. For example, 3DS 2.0
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 8, 2020
The growing cost of online fraud – and finding ways to detect it – has long been a costly concern of financial institutions (FIs). If you beat the geolocation fraud, you beat all the fraud,” Briggs said. For instance, Briggs recalled that he was once blocked from paying some large bills online while traveling in Italy.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 20, 2020
Fraud protection techniques have advanced rapidly over the past decade to keep pace with fraudsters preying on emerging weak points. Bad actors have taken full advantage of the online world’s increasing fragmentation as consumers and businesses alike interact across dozens of channels. Fraudsters and the Access Problem.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Consumers are still shopping online more than ever seven months into the global COVID-19 pandemic. One recent study found that new customer accounts now represent 30 percent of all transactions made online, for example, five times as many as they did prior to the crisis. Shifting Payment Behaviors And Fraud .
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Cybercriminals have more opportunities than ever to swipe debit card numbers and PINs from online consumers, and false websites, large-scale data breaches and skimming tools can compromise account information. Preventing or minimizing damage caused by fraud is critical to maintaining customers’ trust and loyalty, after all. .
PYMNTS
MAY 4, 2020
Customers and merchants rely on their banks and credit unions (CUs) to ensure they have secure, convenient online transactions, and many FIs work to detect fraud by looking for abnormal purchasing behaviors that could indicate something is amiss. Around The FI Fraud Decisioning World.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
The sharing economy’s business model is straightforward: Individuals list goods and services on curated online platforms that foster pain-free connections to renters or buyers. Such transparency between buyers and sellers allows the economy to quickly grow — but also presents fraud and security challenges.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 26, 2019
Online firms and their banking partners have both the means and motives to stop fraudsters from accessing personal information, but today’s connected economy encompasses markets and customer service channels around the world. Digital fraud rose 30 percent in Q3 2019, with one out of every five new accounts revealed to be illegitimate.
PYMNTS
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).
PYMNTS
MAY 5, 2020
The shift to online commerce in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented. We’re doing more of everything online, especially transacting. Many merchants are trying very quickly to establish themselves with an online presence,” said Quevedo. Hiding In Plain Sight?
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. Online U.S.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 15, 2021
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. consumers were expected to spend more than $190 billion online this season, up 36 percent from 2019, while in-store commerce was predicted to fall by 4.7
PYMNTS
JANUARY 18, 2021
People in general are more aware of — and concerned about — fraud as we pass through a second season of COVID, and eCommerce continues to rack up impressive stats, good and bad. New threats are evolving all the time,” KP Brendel, director of marketplace operations at online thrift and consignment storefront Swap.com, told PYMNTS. “New
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 9, 2020
found that 32 percent of consumers have been targeted by some type of pandemic-related fraud , for example. Digital-first banks, insurance firms and merchants are tasked with protecting against the schemes to keep their customers’ data secure. One study on six countries, including Canada, the U.K. The Future of Email Verification.
PYMNTS
MARCH 15, 2019
The new Digital Fraud Tracker highlights the latest developments in payments fraud, and how different companies are working to keep funds safe from bad actors as payment solutions grow increasingly faster. Around the World of Digital Fraud. Australia’s CNP fraud problems seem to be part of a broader pattern.
PYMNTS
MARCH 27, 2020
The financial industry is particularly vulnerable to digital fraud. Application fraud, which sees cybercriminals submitting financial product applications to banks with no intention of paying them back, is among the most popular techniques. Defining Application Fraud.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 24, 2020
trillion online in 2019 — an approximately 18 percent year-over-year increase in worldwide sales. . Entrepreneurs are not alone in seeing moneymaking potential in online shopping, though, as fraudsters are eager to steal what they can. The Hack-to-Fraud Cycle. Security’s New Face.
PYMNTS
JUNE 9, 2020
Cybercrime is surging during the COVID-19 pandemic as fraudsters seize on increased online activity to steal consumers’ sensitive personal details. As much as 22 percent of consumers have now been targeted by COVID-19 digital fraud scams, driving a mounting need for new ways to mitigate digital fraud risks. About The Tracker.
PYMNTS
MAY 2, 2019
After all, bad password habits can bring severe financial, security and reputational penalties (whereas failing to talk like a pirate merely confirms your status as a relatively normal adult, for better and/or worse). Among the most recent examples comes from Microsoft’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Bret Arsenault.
PYMNTS
JULY 3, 2020
Banks’ security efforts depend on analyzing consumers’ transaction histories to gain firm understandings of their normal behaviors, enabling financial institutions (FIs) to spot unusual activities that could suggest fraudsters are involved. Defending Agains Fraud During Periods Of Reopening .
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
More consumers than ever are turning to online shopping channels to meet their needs during the pandemic, but many are also aware that cybercriminals are looking to capitalize on this stepped-up online activity to steal their card data. Firms are also prioritizing security as they transact online more heavily as well.
Abrigo
JUNE 13, 2022
Elder fraud prevention and education Learn strategies for recognizing and reporting elder fraud and exploitation. . Takeaway 1 Elder abuse, exploitation and fraud continue to rise as the baby boomer generation ages. Takeaway 3 Education and reporting are key to preventing this type of fraud, so know your state's policies. .
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