PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

But the bad news is that fraudsters see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to jump into the increased flow of transactions, Gary Sevounts , executive at fraud detection firm Kount , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. He added that fraudsters have been showing up across the board in terms of fraud types attempted.

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Fintech News

JUNE 6, 2024

Strengthening Defences: Banks’ Strategies to Combat Scams and Fraud To combat this growing threat, banks in ASEAN are implementing a range of measures to strengthen their defences against scams and fraud.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

Our daily adaptative model not only learns from what has happened in the past from a behaviour and transactional perspective but also analyses each day’s transactions to understand and prevent evolving fraudulent activity. What are some AI fraud trends we’re seeing in Latin America?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps like CashApp , PayPal , Venmo and Zelle are especially popular targets for financial crime, with fraud attacks against these apps increasing by 733 percent since 2016. Developments Around The Financial Crimes Space. The nation’s banks managed to reduce their financial crime losses by 374.3 billion) in attacks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

During this hectic time of year, merchants are particularly vulnerable to promotion abuse, account takeover and transaction fraud. To successfully address fraud, merchants need to have a fraud prevention strategy in place well before the holiday season.". Behavioral Biometrics Ensure You Are You .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

AI systems can prevent these attacks and are inexpensive when compared to the cost of human fraud prevention teams. QSRs and third-party ordering apps process thousands of transactions every day, making it impossible for human analysts to examine each exchange for fraud. AI to the Rescue.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

When it comes to deploying corporate resources in the battle against online fraud and account takeovers (ATOs), all too often, guiding principles fail to spot what’s really happening to a business in real time. What also jumped out at us was the pattern of behavior after an account takeover,” Huang told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

As bad guys wrangle account details, cobble together synthetic identities and conduct account takeover attacks with ferocity, the old rules-based systems, password challenges and other lines of defense provide only part of the picture as to whether “good” customers are buying or “bad” actors are, well, getting away with it.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

Fraud is a perennial concern for quick-service restaurants (QSRs), and digital channels open ample new avenues for cybercrime, with hackers targeting restaurants for their cash, data and even customers’ loyalty points. Digital And Analog Fraud Prevention.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

How exactly fraud attacks and fraud prevention will change in the post-PSD2 world remains unclear, but change is certain, according to observers. In fact, call center fraud already costs companies $0.58 The report covers ways in which call center operations are fighting fraud — including in Europe, the home of PSD2.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Account takeovers (ATOs) rose 347 percent from 2018 to 2019 — a problem that will only worsen if financial institutions (FIs) are not vigilant. Fraudsters seek to fly under the radar by stealing information through one channel that they then use to execute ATOs or other attacks.

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FICO

MAY 19, 2020

It's imperative that we do our best to protect our customers from fraud during this vulnerable time, especially when record numbers of people are losing their jobs, unable to work, and facing adversity with their health. 2) Top 5 Fraud Manager Considerations During COVID-19: Scams are now tailored, so we need to modify our strategies.

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FICO

MARCH 16, 2021

But when the consumer provides personal data and authorization credentials, the bogus service provider captures the information and uses it to commit an account takeover. . To find out more about the impacts of open banking on fraud and financial crime read Open Banking: Will it Increase Fraud and Financial Crime?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The future of eCommerce, and fraud prevention, is flipping the script from just stopping bad transactions to enabling personalized customer experiences. That is why legacy fraud prevention tools are becoming less and less efficient and effective.”. Behind each one of those interactions is an identity,” Sevount said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the study, the most common challenge cited by businesses was balancing fraud prevention and customer friction (68 percent), a 65 percent increase from the previous year. According to Kount CEO Brad Wiskirchen, AI and ML can help QSRs and other restaurants become more proactive about fraud rather than reactive. problematic.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Such firms cannot grow safely without robust security measures blocking fraud and other abuses from their offerings. Payment service providers (PSPs) must carefully attend to their know your customer (KYC) and know your customer’s customer (KYCC) checks, anti-money laundering (AML) strategies and other fraud prevention approaches.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

“This can really create a proactive communications strategy to significantly decrease the incidence of successful fraud attempts,” said Pangretic. On the “back end” of the business, Elan leverages state-of-the-art fraud detection tools to identify and prevent transactional fraud, account takeover and fraudulent applications.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

The FIs must decide in situations like these whether freezing the card payments will rescue the cardholders from fraudsters’ attacks or block legitimate customers from getting the items they need. AI-Powered Analysis Of Transaction Data Fuels Fraud Fighting.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Many digital fraud detection and prevention tools must be refined and trained for a period of 18 months to 2 years before they become familiar with the types of cybercrimes that come with those transactions, and how to stop them. The resulting transactions brought about by open banking aren’t the only digital fraud concerns for banks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

In a roundtable discussion, the last in the “Powering the Digital Shift” series with Karen Webster, six experts in money movement, fraud prevention, banking and financial technology discussed one sure bet: “Digital optional” is no option as we move toward contactless commerce. Looking At Digital IDs — And Friction.

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Seon

MAY 28, 2024

The importance of robust fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions in the iGaming sector cannot be overstated. There is an opportunity to boost profitability by refining fraud prevention and AML efforts. Strengthen Fraud Defenses Elevate iGaming security with advanced fraud and AML.

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Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

Thankfully, as BEC attacks are often a product of human error, many can be avoided with due diligence and training – both of which can be enhanced with the right fraud prevention tools. A BEC attack is when a fraudster gains unauthorized access to a business’s account. What Is a Business Email Compromise Attack?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The fraud prevention race is the same as it has always been, with merchants and security companies sprinting to stay ahead of cybercriminals to keep data safe and secure. Although fraud losses from banks, retailers and online platforms have continued into 2020, so has security innovation.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

The research also noted a 40 percent increase compared to February in the number of blocked attempts to guide users to phishing websites for one of the most-visited gaming platforms. . The following Deep Dive examines how fraudsters’ schemes target gamers as well as how data breaches enable bad actors to commit account takeover (ATO) fraud.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The fact remains that the very data that is readily available across all conduits of transactions – from phone numbers to Social Security numbers – are there for the taking, across all manner of firms, and can be used as building blocks to create sophisticated ways to defraud the innocent. The former has been around for a long time.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Training, Fagan noted, is often an area that sits on the funding chopping block, because the payout from the investment isn’t always as obvious. Fraud, Fagan noted, is complicated — one might be looking at an account takeover, or at a fraudster attempting to access a reward system and do some points looting.

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Seon

MAY 8, 2024

By using thousands of real-time device signals, from geolocation and IP information to behavioral data such as battery life, phone orientation and font count, suspicious setups and settings across desktop and mobile devices can be flagged and blocked.

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