PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

Gerhard Oosthuizen, CTO of Entersekt , contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. As 2018 rolled along, bitcoin dipped. At the close of 2018, a lot of people are hurting, either from climbing in too late or having lost their savings through account takeovers or hacking.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

businesses and consumers lost more than $1.4 Fraudsters also use customers’ or executives’ lack of knowledge about security protocols to their advantage, and that’s where account takeovers come in. Account takeovers have skyrocketed in recent months, as a flood of consumer records have hit the dark web.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In fact, more than one-third of consumers had their PII compromised in the last year, First Data’s 2018 Consumer Cybersecurity Study found. Fraudsters are using this data to pull off card-not-present (CNP) fraud schemes, such as account takeovers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

The conversation came against a backdrop where, at the end of February, Fiserv said that nearly 600 banks and credit unions (CUs) have joined the turnkey service from Zelle to enable person-to-person (P2P) payment capabilities, and that the number of participants accessing the network via Fiserv has increased ten-fold in 2019 from 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

They must still endeavor to keep consumer and cardholder data (and their own corporate data) safe. 138 | Percentage increase in cosmetics account takeover fraud losses in Q2 2017. 87 | Percentage increase in consumer electronics account takeover fraud losses in Q2 2017.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Al Pascual, Javelin’s research director and head of fraud and security, expects 2018 to be another record year. Also having a record breaking year — powered by all those stolen social security numbers — was new account fraud, which rocketed up 70 percent in 2017. Account takeover surged 120 percent to hit $5.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

With 83 percent of consumers in the U.S. trillion in 2018, or slightly less than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Germany. One of the most insidious forms of fraud is account takeovers (ATOs). owning laptops and 91 percent owning mobile devices, there’s never been greater opportunity for digital fraud.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Using Effectiv’s technology, firms can combat identity theft, account takeover, scams, and real-time payment fraud. “Now we can review and analyze the user’s risk profile across transactions and accounts over time, maintaining an up-to-date perspective which was impossible before.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Fraudsters are wily, striving to stay one step ahead of authentication protocols and other efforts to stop bad actors from compromising consumers’ accounts. Data: 1.4M: Number of fraud reports the FTC received in 2018. 400: Average amount lost by millennial consumers per fraud incident.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

Account takeovers (ATOs) are a growing source of pain for financial institutions (FIs) and their customers, with losses from these attacks rising 164 percent in 2018. This is a serious problem, as ATOs reportedly led to $4 billion worth of losses in 2018. Detecting And Thwarting Attacks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

These pieces of legislation introduced new rules about how companies and entities address issues of accountability, documentation, privacy reviews and design, and also impose high fines for non-compliance. Consumers have already latched on to open banking offerings and applications, using such tools more than 1.2

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One recent report found 93 percent of all mobile transaction attempts were fraudulent in 2019, for example, as consumers’ migration to online and mobile payments continue. The BBB advises consumers not to click on links in suspicious or surprising emails. billion illegitimate transactions over one year on their platforms.

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Finovate

AUGUST 14, 2024

The new capability provides a way to validate return consumers online in less than two seconds with just a selfie. As consumers interact with an online service over time, their risk profile can change. ” A Finovate alum since 2011, Experian most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall in New York in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

“The addition of UPS to our roster of investors only strengthens our collaboration around creating innovative products and services for both our consumers and retail partners.” In 2018, ShopRunner members spent over $2 billion in the eCommerce network.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Account takeovers are finding favor among fraudsters. Account takeovers have the double-barreled effect of being easier to complete successfully — for the bad guys — and are harder to head off (by the good guys). These attacks are up 300 percent through the past year, with a financial impact of $5 billion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

million consumers, delivery workers and merchants. There’s no question that consumers are increasingly using mobile apps to order food. The PYMNTS’ Order To Eat Tracker found that the volume of mobile app orders soared 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020.

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FICO

MARCH 26, 2018

In February 2018 Australia launched their New Payments Platform for use by consumers. In the UK the increase in victims of this kind of fraud has been frequently noted in the press and has been the subject of a ‘super complaint’ by consumer advocacy group Which?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

trillion) in 2018 alone, and growing at double digits into the current year. This gives entrée to new markets for an existing installed base of tens of thousands of online merchants globally, with GMV in 2018 in the high single digit of billions. Top markets include Japan, the United States and Korea.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The risk of contracting COVID-19 has made consumers more cautious of dining out, meaning restaurants need to double down on safety and emphasize the benefits of on-premises dining to assuage consumers’ fears. The most popular method of engagement was to look up coupons and deals, cited by 42 percent of consumers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

billion digital records in the United States were compromised during the first half of 2018 – 291 records every second – with only six social media breaches accounting for more than half of all at-risk data. Senate introducing legislation in March that prohibits corporations from sharing consumers’ biometric data without their consent.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Consumers’ lives are becoming more digitally focused, which means it’s natural and expected that credit unions (CUs) are feeling the pressure to raise the level of their services across channels. When [we go] a step further, we can use that data in ways that are actionable, and go the extra mile for the consumer,” Stevens said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The year-over-year increase in food and beverage industry fraud attacks reported in 2018 was 79 percent. The share of consumers who fear that using mobile ordering apps will lead to payments fraud is 49 percent. A slightly fewer share – 41 percent – are worried that dining apps might cause an account takeover (ATO).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

According to a survey by TRUSTID , this year, 17 percent of call centers plan to replace KBA methods with MFA, double the figure (8 percent) from 2018. A majority (51 percent) of call center leaders cited the phone channel as the primary source of account takeover (ATO) attacks. Call centers are especially vulnerable.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Trends, no matter how real, are always fueled by a fair amount of buzz and hype — the quick burning marketing tender of consumer culture — and that would seem to apply to mobile commerce and payments in the restaurant world, at least to an extent. percent — of consumers use QSR-based mobile apps to pay for their orders.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Forty-two percent of consumers use them to find coupons, according to recent research , 38 percent to look up menu items and a full one-third say they use their mobile order-ahead apps more often than they did two years ago.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Three out of four American consumers are now interacting with gaming platforms, spending up to 14 hours a week on them — up from 12 hours in 2018. In-game theft often isn’t the true target of fraudsters – it’s the access to more lucrative financial information and other such credentials that can be used for account takeovers and worse.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

banks are losing more than $31 billion every year to fraud, including account takeover and new account application fraud. LaSala pointed to data from Kaspersky Labs that show the number of mobile banking Trojans increased by 138 percent between 2017 and 2018. By way of one example, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The volume of food and beverage orders placed via mobile apps grew by 130 percent between 2016 and 2018, while 60 percent of U.S. consumers currently order delivery or takeout once a week. This move follows the 2018 launch of the Starbucks Delivers program in the region. Mobile ordering is more popular than ever.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Fraud protection has never been taken lightly by call centers, but the need for stricter authentication is reaching new levels in the face of automated bot attacks and near-daily account takeover (ATO) attempts. Consumers often turn to channels like Twitter to express issues they might have with a company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Call it the Great Trade-Off, perhaps: Consumers give up data to online merchants and marketers in exchange for free services, targeted offers, discounts and other benefits. However, part of that trade (even if not explicitly stated) is that consumers expect their data to be handled in a manner that protects their privacy and security.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The solution aims to help businesses revamp their identity management process, temper account seizes, make KYC compliance easier and lower false negatives. million consumers in 2018. In addition, NAF continues to use more sophisticated identity fraud tactics, including synthetic identities and complete impersonations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

that has garnered particularly strong traction among consumers aged 31 to 38. A 2018 survey found that 40 percent of American financial institution (FI) customers in this age bracket reported debit cards as their go-to payment instruments, while 36 percent favored credit cards. Debit is a core payment method in the U.S.

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FICO

JANUARY 6, 2020

Consumer Banking Predictions 2019: Four Trends to Watch. For my predictions, I’ll focus on four areas of tactical concern within consumer banking that I feel confident bank executives will make significant progress addressing 2019,” wrote Tim VanTassel , vice president of our credit lifecycle business line. Read the full post.

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Accertify

AUGUST 16, 2024

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As fraudsters become increasingly aggressive, new global regulations and solutions are being deployed to keep consumers, merchants and banks safe. Fraud is a massive global problem, and you can bet that right now, fraudsters are thinking up new ways to defraud consumers and businesses. billion, according to the most recent research.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Instead of coding up and alerting on known patterns of how fraud operates, machine learning analytics are sensitive to the complex, multi-variate attributes that predict fraud – whether it’s payments fraud, application fraud, account takeover, mass card compromise, or more. Learn More at FICO World 2018.

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