Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Preventing Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams is one of the Payment Systems Regulators (PSR) top priorities. APP scams happen when victims are tricked into sending money to fraudsters posing as legitimate payees. of the losses (107.2 Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp together accounted for 1,590 incidents and 5.1

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Neopay

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Preventing Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams is one of the Payment Systems Regulators (PSR) top priorities. A new report from PSR shows how fraudsters exploit major platforms to scam consumers. APP scams happen when victims are tricked into sending money to fraudsters posing as legitimate payees.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 2, 2024

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. While this is promising, questions will arise whether the PSR and other regulators need to increase pressures in order to achieve results.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Despite preventative measures such as Confirmation of Payee (COP), stories of distraught victims losing large sums to clever scammers have not gone away. Whether voluntary or regulated, whether the banks lose out or the customers do, one thing is clear: the contingent reimbursement model shuts the stable door long after the horse has bolted.

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Seon

APRIL 18, 2024

Often, the fraudsters enter through impersonation, a romance scam or another type of social engineering fraud scam. The widespread adoption of real-time payments and regulations, including FedNow in the US and the European Union’s revised Payment Services Regulation (PSR) last summer, has further exacerbated this fraud.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

million stolen through fraud in the UK last year, payment scams (or authorised push payment fraud or APP scams) accounted for 41%. These are the known figures, but there will be far more unreported incidents, such is the embarrassment felt by those who have fallen victim to scammers, for example, a romance scam.

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