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UK Finance: Fraud is Down But Over £1billion is Still Stolen by Criminals – What’s Next for the UK?

The Fintech Times

Ben Donaldson, managing director of economic crime at UK Finance Commenting on the report, Ben Donaldson , managing director of economic crime at UK Finance, said: “ Nearly £1.2billion was stolen from customers in 2023 and the criminals who commit these crimes destroy lives and damage our society.

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Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Crypto Crime

Fintech News

The report by Chainalysis provides a deep dive into these changes, highlighting the decline in certain types of crypto crimes and the persistence, if not growth, of others, such as ransomware and darknet markets. However, the decrease in scamming and theft does not tell the whole story. billion (SG$ 32.51 billion (SG$20.06

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How Can Banks Stop Authorised Push Payment Fraud?

FICO

They have therefore turned their attention to crime where identity authentication is of limited use. The results speak for themselves; using targeted profiling of customer behavior to spot scams, 50% more scam transactions are detected. Look Out for APP Fraud Signals – Develop the Rules.

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Will Real-Time Payments Increase Financial Crime in the USA?

FICO

For many consumers and businesses, the ability to quickly send money directly from their bank account is a win in terms of convenience, but it isn’t without risk, when it comes to fraud and other types of financial crime. How RealTime Payments Impact Financial Crime. Account Takeover Fraud.

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COVID Crime: What Is Money Muling, and How Can We Fight It?

FICO

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a bulletin warning that this crime is on the rise, and published a Money Mule Awareness Guide to help the public fight money mules. During the FICO Virtual Event this past May, we predicated that money muling would be one of the top scams being perpetrated during the pandemic.

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Fraud Trends for 2022: Top 5 Includes "Scamdemic" and Bad Bots

FICO

Innovative Customer Communications for Fraud. Detecting possible fraud is important, but what you do with that suspicion may matter even more. Taking the most strident fraud prevention actions might seem the intuitive answer but suspicion is often unfounded, and most customers are not fraudsters.

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