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Can Retailers Push Back Against Surging Account Takeovers?

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Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. Account Takeover Growth.

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Pandemic Scammers Robbed US Consumers Of More Than $77M

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But that number misses an unprecedented scope of scams connected to the coronavirus, according to John Breyault , a spokesman for the National Consumers League , the Washington, D.C.-based based consumer advocacy group. “I Consumers reported 121,466 instances of fraud, the FTC found.

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Fiserv Rolls Out Enhanced Consumer Authentication Solutions

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22) that it has rolled out two enhanced consumer authentication solutions, step-up authentication and identity verification, to mitigate card fraud within call centers. In a press release , Fiserv said the two new solutions expand beyond knowledge-based consumer authentication that can be vulnerable to fraud. reached $5.1 reached $5.1

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Walgreens Fights Promotion Abuse With Digital Tracking

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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. This represents a fivefold increase from the pre-pandemic normal, when most consumers shopping online were better attuned to security protocol.

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Online Subscription Services and the Concern with Chargebacks

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Chargebacks are generated when consumers are confused by payments, forget auto-renewals, or suffer genuine fraud in the form of account takeover attacks. The growing threat of chargebacks A chargeback happens when a consumer asks their bank to cancel a payment to a merchant. billion in 2018 to an estimated $1.4

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Deep Dive: How FIs And Merchants Are Pushing Back Against Push Payment Fraud

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The nature of these payments means that, once they have been made, consumers cannot reverse them. They can use fraudulent invoices to scam unsuspecting businesses and consumers or hijack legitimate email correspondence during property transactions to divert funds into the bank accounts of their choosing, for example.

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Christmas In September? Holiday Fraud Planning Is In Full Takeover Mode

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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. Account Takeovers.