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5 Strategies for Fighting First-Party and Synthetic Identity Fraud

FICO

Now let’s take a deeper dive into how banks and telecoms organizations can accurately identify such frauds without putting unnecessary barriers in the way of legitimate customers. Banks and telecoms need to make it easier for customers to sign up, buy merchandise online, take out loans, open bank accounts, and use credit cards.

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What Is First-Party Fraud?

FICO

From banks to telcos to debt collection agencies, what looks like unrecoverable bad debt may in fact be first-party fraud. For many people, the word “fraud” evokes images of shadowy criminals using stolen identities and purloined credit card information to commit financial crimes. What Is First-Party Fraud? Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45.

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First-Party Fraud and the Hidden Drain on Revenues

FICO

Furthermore, you might automatically assume that first-party fraud only affects banks, but as telcos evolve into payment processing and handset financiers, they also are now feeling the pinch. In contrast, first-party fraud often masquerades as a credit risk problem; delinquent accounts are sent to collections for a progression of treatment.