FICO

AUGUST 1, 2019

With the rapid rise of data breaches around the globe, the fear of identity theft is at an all-time high. What does it have to do with identity theft? I recently attended a conference where US Postal Inspector Brian Plants shared his perspective on the manifestation of a classic account takeover scheme.

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Clearly Payments

JULY 16, 2024

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) , financial institutions account for 16.8% Account Takeover (ATO): Fraudsters gain unauthorized access to customer accounts to steal funds or conduct illicit transactions. million cases of medical identity theft, resulting in $41 billion in losses.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Not only does this pass through more hands and take more time than an electronic ACH payment , but there is also a huge amount of personal information present on a paper check, exposing the payer to potential identity theft. Beyond the inconvenience of mailing a paper check, there is an increased risk of identity theft.

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Fi911

JULY 8, 2024

This type of fraud can take various forms, including identity theft, chargeback fraud, and phishing attacks. Fraudsters exploit vulnerabilities in online payment systems and often use stolen credit card information or create fake accounts to make unauthorized purchases.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Effectiv, which demoed at FinovateFall 2023, was founded in 2021 to provide an open platform that integrates a wide range of risk solutions– including identity and payment fraud controls, underwriting, Know Your Business (KYB) and anti-money laundering (AML) tools– to facilitate decisions in real-time.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 17, 2024

Overall, 68 per cent of respondents either know or suspect that they’ve been a victim of online fraud or identity theft, or that they know someone who has been affected. Finding a solution Identity verification is a key part of the solution for companies looking to secure themselves and ensure that their users are genuine.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 17, 2024

Insights from behavioural analytics help mitigate: fraud in real-time prevent identity theft account takeover bot attacks next-generation bot attacks fraud rings This will empower businesses to provide a seamless customer experience. Jack Alton, CEO at NeuroID “We are in a new era of fraud driven by AI.

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Accertify

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Key topics include some of the year’s biggest trends such as identity theft and the use of synthetic identities, romantic scams, Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud and GenAI fraud. Accertify feature on page 77 and you can access the report here.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Identity theft to open a new account is the top-ranked concern at 30 per cent. Bank account takeover was ranked the crime most feared by 20 per cent of respondents. Biggest fears The FICO report also identifies the financial crimes that consumers are most worried about.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Payment card fraud, identity theft , account takeover and digital payment fraud have all increased significantly since March 2020. With that in mind, there are actions you can take right now to protect yourself from fraud and identity theft. COVID-related scams are rampant and rapidly evolving.

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Seon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As neobanks evolve, the one downside of their innovation is that it opens up many new methods of attack for fraudsters, such as identity theft, fraud rings, and account takeover attacks. Identity theft: Scammers can commit identity theft by using methods like phishing and vishing to impersonate genuine users.

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Fi911

JANUARY 18, 2024

They demonstrate the diverse methods and strategies employed by fraudsters to exploit individuals and financial institutions for their own gain: Identity Theft A criminal steals an individual’s personal information, such as Social Security number, bank account details, or credit card information, and uses it to impersonate the victim.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

As early as 2021, CNBC reported that criminals were exploiting weaknesses in the application processes of BNPL platforms, often using clever tactics like identity theft and account takeovers, making unsuspecting victims foot the bill. BNPL fraud is not a new phenomenon.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2024

Seventy-three per cent of respondents expect an uptick in these types of fraud: phishing, synthetic fraud, identity theft, account takeovers (ATO) and money-laundering. In fact, 71 per cent of respondents named it as the number one issue, particularly in automated attacks and deepfake technologies.

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Fi911

JULY 19, 2024

It includes fraudulent transactions, account takeover, and identity theft. Fraud These reason codes are used when the cardholder claims that their card was used without their authorization or knowledge. EMV Liability Shift Counterfeit Fraud 10.2: EMV Liability Shift Non-Counterfeit Fraud 10.3:

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

One of the biggest problems, Blanco said, is account takeover. . Account takeover, which involves the targeting of financial institution customer accounts to gain unauthorized access to funds, is an extremely common cybercrime affecting U.S. financial institutions,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

Banks have been facing a concerning rise in account takeover (ATO) attacks targeting their customers, with financial institutions (FIs) losses due to such schemes rising 72 percent from 2018 to 2019. The July FI Fraud Decisioning Playbook examines how FIs are working to better detect and defend against ATOs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

These machines can be vulnerable to fraud, however, ranging from physical techniques like card skimmers to digital methods like identity theft. Interactive teller machines (ITMs) offer a variety of services that are normally only available inside a physical branch, like loan applications and cash deposits.

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Finovate

AUGUST 14, 2024

Use cases for Selfie Reverification include preventing account takeover, securing high-risk transactions, streamlining account recovery and re-verification/re-validation, and more. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Socure most recently demoed its technology on the Finovate stage at FinovateFall 2017.

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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. According to The Identity Theft Research Center (ITRC), 422 million individuals were impacted by a data breach in 2022 in the US alone 10. link] Accertify. link] PYMNTS.

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Seon

JUNE 24, 2024

The rise of online transactions and evolving cybercrime tactics highlight the urgent need for strong identity risk management and monitoring. Identity theft presents significant challenges to businesses, making proactive risk mitigation essential for regulatory compliance, trust, asset protection, and operational integrity.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 2, 2018

(The Paypers) A TransUnion study has revealed that 94% of financial services have experienced fraud within the last two years, such as identity theft, synthetic identity fraud or account takeover.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2017

Online retailers just got a new tool in the fight against identity theft and fraud. XOR Data Exchange , Austin-based data and analytics startup, just recently introduced a new resource for online retailers to fight the account takeovers as the number data breaches that include account login credentials grows.

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Innovative Payments Association

JUNE 26, 2024

Just a few days ago I learned that my mother was the victim of bank account fraud. Identity Theft: Scammers steal seniors' personal information to open accounts or make purchases in their name. Like most things, fraud hits a little differently when it is closer to home.

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FICO

MAY 19, 2020

This will result in more cases of account takeover during this time and for months ahead. As anti-fraud professionals, we should: Be aware of increased account takeover and customers susceptible to scams and help by educating our customers ( Here is some recent advice and tips for consumers ).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ragan noted that advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can help FIs embed defense mechanisms that glean deeper insights into consumer behavior and recognize anomalous patterns — in the process raising red flags to better prevent unauthorized transactions, identity theft and account takeover.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Consider the fact that, as estimated by Javelin Strategy and Research, the combined estimated losses of new account fraud and account takeover in the U.S. When it comes to identity and risk management, there are so many smaller hills along the way that you have to scale and figure out: Is this a fraudster?

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Fintech News

JUNE 6, 2024

Benefits of Digital Identity Verification Beyond Security The adoption of a complete and flexible identity verification platform, such as Jumio’s, is becoming increasingly important in the fight against scams and AI-driven fraud.

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Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

A BEC attack is when a fraudster gains unauthorized access to a business’s account. The most damaging form of BEC is account takeover (ATO) attacks. Ask an Expert CEO Fraud CEO fraud is a catch-all term for the exploitation of the account of a high-ranking organizational official, such as a CEO or an investor.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Hackers who used to amuse themselves stealing credit cards have raised the level of their identity theft game such that 2017 was a record year — 16.7 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. That fraud run saw $16.8

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FICO

JANUARY 22, 2020

Interestingly, nearly half of the respondents (46 percent) are currently only using 1 or 2 of these strategies , potentially leaving them more exposed to attack vectors such as identity theft, account takeovers, cyberattacks. Account takeovers were ranked second, with false accounts and money mules also rated as problems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Synthetic identity theft — and all its subsequent fraud events — remains a treasured tactic among cybercriminals, and even today’s AI has trouble detecting it. These fraudsters, on average, take about 12 to 18 months to build out false identities that can fool many of the anti-fraud measures in use.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

Account takeovers (ATOs), identity theft and phishing were found to be the most common methods of attack in this region. A recent report found that ASEAN nations are projected to lose $260 million to online fraud this year, with eCommerce companies bearing the brunt of these losses.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

One of the latest involves hackers successfully accomplishing account takeovers (ATOs) of users of Zelle, the digital payment service. acquire personal data via account takeovers. If it seems like cases of fraud and hacking are always in the news, that’s because new incidents pop up practically every day.

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FICO

JANUARY 11, 2021

Identity-based fraud takes many forms: application fraud , bust-out fraud , account takeover , synthetic identities and identity theft. In response, many institutions have deployed layered controls to ensure they are interacting with genuine customers and help stop identity fraud.

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FICO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

FICO’s EMEA general manager Matt Cox recently blogged : "Another rapidly rising phenomenon that has been highlighted by financial services organizations as even more challenging to identify and address than identity theft is synthetic fraud. Account takeover (ATO) fraud is also using BNPL as an easy gateway.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Many of these data breaches are the result of phishing, which dupes victims into giving up login credentials or other sensitive information that is either used for account takeovers or sold on dark-web marketplaces. This comes to approximately one hack every 39 seconds, and affects a wide range of businesses and customers.

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