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PSR Reveals Huge Disparity in How Banks Approach to APP Fraud Claims

The Fintech Times

In 2023, Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams totalled just shy of £341million in the UK, with new research highlighting that reimbursement varies significantly depending on who consumers bank with. In 2023 alone, 4.5 Under the existing voluntary reimbursement framework, 67 per cent of money lost to APP scams was reimbursed.

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How Advanced Technology is Driving Authorized Push Payment Fraud

Seon

Often, the fraudsters enter through impersonation, a romance scam or another type of social engineering fraud scam. APP fraud’s end goal is the transfer of money to an account controlled by a fraudster for something that never existed in the first place – be it goods, services or under the guise of “help.”

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APP Scams: What Impact Will the PSR’s Proposals in the UK Have?

FICO

FICO Admin Tue, 07/02/2019 - 05:23 by Matt Cox VP and General Manager, EMEA expand_less Back To Top Thu, 02/09/2023 - 11:40 Of the £609.8 million stolen through fraud in the UK last year, payment scams (or authorised push payment fraud or APP scams) accounted for 41%.

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