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Binance Recovers Over $73Million in User Funds from External Hacks and Scams in 2024

The Fintech Times

This increase reflects the platform’s intensified security efforts to combat external hacks and scams. Approximately 80 per cent of these recoveries are linked to hacks, exploits and thefts that occurred outside the Binance platform, with the remaining 20 per cent involving external scams.

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Fraudsters Try New Spins On The BEC Scam

PYMNTS

Fraudsters are adding new twists to what has become an increasingly common scam targeting businesses’ B2B payments activity. Separate analysis from Singapore warned that monetary losses associated with BEC scams that specifically instruct targeted employees to send gift card redemption details are on the rise, too.

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The Big Spike In ‘CEO Fraud’

PYMNTS

All in, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received a total of 467,361 complaints, with reported losses exceeding $3.5 As for the scams themselves, those varied widely both in terms of tactics and targets. billion (or slightly over half) of all losses tracked in 2019.

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ChowNow: AI Helps Independent Restaurants Fight The Growing Threat of Digital Fraud

PYMNTS

More than $134 million was lost to such scams in 2019, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), while $117 million was lost to them during the first half of 2020 alone. Such schemes entail fraudsters falsely advertising offers from restaurants on social media, then duping victims into paying for them and absconding with the funds.

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PSR Reveals Huge Disparity in How Banks Approach to APP Fraud Claims

The Fintech Times

In 2023, Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams totalled just shy of £341million in the UK, with new research highlighting that reimbursement varies significantly depending on who consumers bank with. In the same year, victims reported 252,626 cases of APP scams – but not all reports resulted in refunds from their banks.

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European Card Fraud — How the UK Drove Down Losses 8%

FICO

It was a strong year for many European countries in reducing basis point fraud losses (a ratio of fraud losses to card sales), against the backdrop of increased transactional volume and value in 2019. The biggest threat today comes from digital fraud and scams, which continue to increase exponentially across all markets.

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European Card Fraud 2020: UK Shrinks Fraud Losses by £46M

FICO

FICO’s European Fraud Map for 2020, based on data from Euromonitor International , shows that the UK achieved the greatest fall in card fraud monetary losses among the 18 countries studied, dropping 7 percent and £46 million year-on-year. However, other nations did not fare as well. Source: FICO European Fraud Map. .