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Retail Payments Fraud: How Consumers and Banks Can Fight Back

FICO

Increasingly, the scams involve cryptocurrencies; The New York Times also recently investigating crypto romance scams in which victims are lured into paying criminals with fraudulent, and irrevocable, transfers into digital wallets. I blogged about this tragic phenomenon in 2018 and my advice rings as true as ever.

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The Coronavirus And The Fizzle Of Barren Store Shelves

PYMNTS

Cross-Border Payments: Cross-border transfers over SWIFT’s global payments innovation (also known as gpi) topped $77 trillion last year, almost double the $40 trillion that moved through the service in 2018. That’s up 40 percent over 2018. B2B Targeted: The FBI reports that Business email compromise (BEC) scams are on the rise.