As cross-border transfers become a priority with merchants and processors across multiple payment methods, the risk of fraud losses multiplies. That pressure has led Rapyd Financial Networks Ltd. to launch a feature aimed at detecting fraudulent transactions across the company’s network, which operates in more than 100 countries and supports …
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COMMENTARY: Here Are the Key Factors Driving Digital Fraud in 2020
Over the last 24 months, organizations across the globe have experienced $42 billion in total fraud losses. An increasing number of businesses report higher losses related to fraudulent identities year over year, according to a report from Experian, from 51% in 2017 to 57% in 2019. Here are some of …
Read More »The Fallout From ID Fraud And Account Takeovers Includes a Lot More P2P Payment Fraud
Losses from identity fraud grew 13% in 2019 to $16.9 billion even though instances of ID fraud fell nearly 10%, according to the newly released 2020 Identity Fraud Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. The study also found that person-to-person payments fraud increased 733% from 2016 to 2019. Based on …
Read More »Growth in Mobile Fraud Far Outpaces Growth in M-Commerce, TransUnion Study Finds
With 78% of e-commerce transactions in 2019 coming from mobile devices, retailers have good reason to invest in their mobile-shopping experiences. Doing so, however, is not without risk, says credit-reporting agency TransUnion in its Global E-Commerce in 2020 report released Tuesday. The report is based on approximately 10 billion transactions …
Read More »Fraud Schemes Get ‘Scary’ as Chip Cards Push Crime Away From the Point of Sale
Payment-related fraud continues to diversify as EMV chip cards make counterfeit fraud at the point of sale far harder to commit. For example, the FBI last September said cumulative global losses, as reported to the bureau, from business email compromises and other email fraud totaled $26.2 billion from June 2016 to …
Read More »Some Fraudsters Are Emphasizing Quality in Their Attacks, Security Firm Says
So-called sophisticated attacks monitored by Mastercard Inc. subsidiary NuData Security jumped 430% in late 2019, with fraudsters deploying more human-aided online attacks rather than fully automated ones in order to fool the defenders. Those findings come from NuData’s “2019: Fraud Risk at a Glance” report released Thursday. NuData is a …
Read More »Balancing Consumer Expectations And Fraud Prevention
There are no perfect solutions for account-takeover fraud, but tactics such as consumer education and prevention at log-in can make a big difference, says Rich Huffman. According to Javelin Strategy & Research’s report entitled, “2018 Identity Fraud: Fraud Enters a New Era of Complexity,” account takeovers (ATOs) tripled in 2017, …
Read More »Survey Identifies Emerging Anti-Fraud Tools Favored by E-Commerce Merchants
The fraud-fighting tools of the future for e-commerce retailers include artificial intelligence, multimerchant velocity checks, and fingerprint identification, according to a poll of 166 merchants for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. None of those newer tools is in widespread use today, but more merchants plan to use them going …
Read More »The Sobering Lesson From the Latest AFP Survey: ‘Fraudsters Are One Step Ahead’
Payments executives may abhor fraudsters, but they have to admit the scamsters and hackers are a determined lot. The percentage of organizations sustaining actual or attempted payments fraud increased in 2017 for the fourth straight year, reaching a record high 78%, according to the latest “Payments Fraud And Control Survey” …
Read More »Tender Armor’s Cash Infusion Aimed at Growth And New Hires to Fight Online Fraud
Fraud-prevention specialist Tender Armor LLC intends to use the proceeds from its latest funding round to hire more personnel and launch its marketing efforts. Announced Thursday, the funding round, for an unspecified amount (though characterized as “multimillion”), is a big step in growing the startup, says Madeline K. Aufseeser, chief …
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