Innovative Payments Association

JUNE 26, 2024

Fraud and scam activity can happen to anyone. Just a few days ago I learned that my mother was the victim of bank account fraud. There are a lot of senior citizens who are not as lucky or haven’t been that fortunate when it comes to scams or fraud. Use contact information from official sources.

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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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FICO

MAY 19, 2020

We need to be proactive in our communications to customers around scams. Banks need to ensure that any suspicious activities on their accounts can be confirmed with them quickly and efficiently and that if they do fall victims, that the situation is managed quickly to minimize the impact on their lives.

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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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FICO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Why consumers are moving to banks with the best fraud and scam prevention. One such cybercrime called Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud , is a scam where fraudsters trick a target into sending them money. Fraud and scam protection the top consideration when selecting a new financial account. Saxon Shirley.

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Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

The report states that these victims mostly lost their money to BEC scams. 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. Reported losses in 2020 exceeded $4.2 What Is a Business Email Compromise Attack?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

But the bad guys, armed with that very wealth of knowledge, schooled in what works in victimizing companies across sophisticated avenues such as business email compromise scams, are conducting asymmetrical warfare. There is also a wealth of public and private data that can be amassed in order to launch an offensive against a company.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Banks lost about $4 billion to account takeover (ATO) fraud attempts last year and fraudsters have been reluctant to abandon the scheme as this year progresses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

From counterfeiting to identity theft to phishing attacks, digital fraud takes many forms — and online shopping continues to make consumers and merchants vulnerable to such attacks. Third-party account takeovers were only responsible for 7 percent of fraud losses. International Issues.

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FICO

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Because customers value ease of use and good fraud protection most, FIs must balance scam protection with making things easy for good customers – but not TOO easy. However, this aversion to badly thought-out identity checks extends to use of existing accounts. Biometric Security Crucial for Fraud Protection and CX. FICO Admin.

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Seon

JUNE 21, 2023

Like any online account, virtual credit card accounts, the mobile wallets they are kept in, and even the online bank accounts they may be connected to are vulnerable to account takeover (ATO) fraud , phishing, and more sophisticated attacks, such as man-in-the-middle attacks.

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