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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. Fighting these threats requires an equally wide range of defenses, says Jamie Armistead, Zelle vice president. How P2P Payment App Zelle Leverages AI To Fight Scams And Frauds.

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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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Orchestration to Fight the Crescendo of Scams and Fraud

FICO

A New York Times story about people being tricked into sending money to fraudsters (known in the UK as authorized push payment [APP] fraud ) on Zelle was one of the top stories for several days running, reverberating across news outlets worldwide. P2P like Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, CashApp). Transaction type (e.g.

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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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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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