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Zelle: The Role Of AI In Stopping COVID-Related P2P Payment Scams

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COVID-era fraudsters use scams that range from impersonating tax officials to selling fake PPE on P2P payment apps. 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.

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Understanding Visa Plus: the Future of Money Transfers?

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Visa Plus, or Visa+, is a money transfer service designed to act as a bridge between different P2P payment platforms. This service is Visa’s answer to break down barriers in peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, enabling seamless money transfers between different payment providers.

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How Zelle Protects Users Against Scams And Frauds With AI, Analytics

PYMNTS

Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps have gained ubiquity over the past decade, supplanting or replacing cash transactions, personal checks or wire transfers for payments between individuals or sometimes even small businesses. It is no wonder that payment apps like CashApp , Venmo and Zelle are used by more than 70 percent of Americans.

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Fighting Scams and Authorized Push Payment Fraud in the US

FICO

Senator Elizabeth Warren, (D-MA) pointedly asked him about the number of fraudulent transactions Chase was seeing on the P2P payment platform Zelle. Scams and P2P Payments Are Front and Center. The big question is who should be liable for losses when it comes to P2P scams, and we’re seeing two schools of thought.

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What Is an EFT Payment?

Payment Savvy

This is where peer-to-peer (P2P) payments come in. P2P payments are electronic payments made between two individuals without needing a financial institution. Many different platforms facilitate P2P payments; Paypal and CashApp are two popular examples. Or what if you want to make a payment without using a bank at all?

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Orchestration to Fight the Crescendo of Scams and Fraud

FICO

For example, to assess a person to person (P2P) money transfer transaction for potential APP fraud, many pieces of customer data are relevant: Device (known or unknown computer, tablet or smartphone). P2P like Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, CashApp). Transaction type (e.g. to help inform future fraud decisions.

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Stopping Scams with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

FICO

By convincing individuals to send money through apps like Venmo, CashApp, Zelle and others, or adding a payee for traditional ACH transactions, fraudsters are perpetuating what is known in the financial industry as Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud (in the UK) or authorized user fraud (in the US). Banks can go on the offensive too.

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