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The Payments Association
OCTOBER 28, 2024
From shifts in unauthorised card fraud to the evolving nature of authorised push payment scams, there’s a lot to unpack—and a lot at stake. One of the most alarming trends identified in the report is the continued rise in social engineering scams, which now account for a significant portion of fraud activity. million cases recorded.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
They poke and prod, looking for various weaknesses to be exploited on online platforms, in company emails (as in Business Email Compromise, or BEC), through text messages and even the old-fashioned phone call that induces a victim to hurry online and send some money. He had access to both the internet and to his phone.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 10, 2019
Business enterprise compromise (BEC) scams are crossing borders, where fraudsters in Africa are targeting U.S. The scam involves communications from fraudsters impersonating company officials, suppliers or vendors, instructing unwitting victims to wire funds to accounts they have set up. companies and government agencies.
FICO
MAY 9, 2023
Home Blog Feed test How Guided AI Helps FICO Detect 59% More Scams in the UK Guided AI is akin to the nervous system in the Corpus AI Thu, 05/04/2023 - 04:33 JenniferPiccinino@fico.com by Scott Zoldi Chief Analytics Officer expand_less Back to top Tue, 05/09/2023 - 20:25 The problems we use machine learning (ML) to solve are often multi-faceted.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 26, 2019
22) the Justice Department unsealed an indictment —spanning 252 counts — against 80 defendants for alleged online scams that bilked firms and individuals of tens of millions of dollars. The individuals are charged with using business e-mail compromise (BEC) scams to dupe victims. Late this past week, on Thursday (Aug.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The fraud firm uses “physical checks to cash out money pilfered through business email compromise (BEC) attacks,” and it is “spread around multiple countries in Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya,” a press release said. . The threat actor set its sights on more 3,000 employees from 2,100 companies between April and August of 2019. .
FICO
APRIL 29, 2022
All these evolutions mean a changing landscape for retail fraud and scam trends. The New York Times recently ran a home page story on how criminals have concocted elaborate scams – complete with authentic ‘hold’ music – to impersonate bank customer service reps, tricking consumers into sending them money via Zelle.
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