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Retail Payments Fraud: How Consumers and Banks Can Fight Back

FICO

There’s a lot going on in the retail payments space – defined as transactions between two consumers, between consumers and businesses, or between two businesses. Some of the changes are related to new digital payments methods like P2P apps, tap-to-pay, and cryptocurrency, which are all growing options in retail environments.

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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

In its Annual Fraud Report 2024 , UK Finance detailed the amount its members reported as stolen through payment fraud and scams, with a primary focus on authorised push payment (APP) fraud and unauthorised fraud. Purchase scams Although less money was stolen, the total number of APP cases was up 12 per cent to 232,429.

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

FICO

At the last FICO World in 2019, a speaker from a UK bank talked about the increase of scams that were impacting them and their customers. It was a very popular session, but it seemed not many delegates had the degree of exposure to scams that some of the UK banks had experienced. It Isn’t Just a Pandemic – There’s Also a Scamdemic!

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