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FinCEN Director Talks Digital Identity And Fraud Protection

PYMNTS

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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5 Common Types of Fraud that Threaten Neobanks

Seon

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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Socure Acquires Real-Time Risk Decisioning Company Effectiv for $136 Million

Finovate

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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Mapping Fraud’s DNA

PYMNTS

The various parts come together to produce a nefarious whole, one that targets personal and payment data to enable product or identity theft , account takeovers and other illegal activities that, left unchecked, can ruin lives and take down companies.

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Emergence of New Tech Like AI Will Cause an Uptake in New Fraud Attempts Reveals SEON

The Fintech Times

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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Survey: Real-time Payments Fraud Up for 4 out of 5 APAC Banks

FICO

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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AI Helps Businesses Get Smarter About Fraud

PYMNTS

One of the latest involves hackers successfully accomplishing account takeovers (ATOs) of users of Zelle, the digital payment service. AI isn’t just used for fraud detection in the financial industry – it can also help with regulation compliance and adherence to anti-money laundering (AML) standards.

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