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Nov 5, 20212 min read
Reports Show Merchants Struggle to Balance Fraud Prevention and Sales Conversion
Card Not Present channel Merchants cite order rejection rates of nearly 3 percent for domestic transactions and nearly 7 percent for...
Fraud Practice
Nov 5, 20211 min read
Couple Serving 5 Years for $1.2 Million in Friendly Fraud
An Indiana couple made over 2,700 purchases from Amazon over the period of a few years, creating new accounts and morphing their...
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Nov 5, 20216 min read
How WireCash Manages Fraud & Found Success Underwriting Digital Money Transfers to High Risk Markets
Sarasota, FL, May 22, 2018 / By: Justin McDonald, The Fraud Practice How well would your fraud management program perform if your...
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Nov 5, 20212 min read
NYPD Trials New Skimming Detection Device “Skim Reaper”
A computer science professor and two graduate students invented a device used to check ATMs and card readers to detect the presence of a...
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Nov 5, 20212 min read
124 Data Breaches Were Announced in the First Two Months of 2018 Following a Record-Setting 2017
There were nearly 17 million identity fraud victims in the United States in 2017, more than ever before. This increase is likely...
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Nov 5, 20213 min read
About Social Engineering: A Case Study and How it Relates to Spear Phishing
What is social engineering? Social engineering is a fraud technique used to deceive individuals or businesses into unknowingly providing...
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Nov 5, 20212 min read
Visa Canada Requires CVV on All eCommerce Transactions While Providing Merchants New Liability Shift
Visa Canada published a document titled The Future of Payment Security in Canada, detailing several new requirements related to ensuring...
Fraud Practice
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Superior Credit Consumers are Highest Risk Loan Stackers
Taking out multiple loans to get more funding than would be approved for any one loan is something that both real consumers do, and...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
FTC Focuses on Synthetic Identities as New Account Fraud Continues to Rise
According to recent data and studies, identity fraud and new account fraud continue to plague both banks and consumers, with 80 percent...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
eCommerce and Mobile Banking Fraud Lead 2016 Fraud Increase in the UK
Financial Fraud Action (FFA) UK, a financial services industry research and reporting group, recently released their 2016 year-end...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Post-EMV eCommerce Fraud Growth Abetted by Data Breaches
According to recent data from Experian, eCommerce fraud was 15 percent higher in the first half of 2016 compared the same period the year...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
MasterCard to Acquire NuData Security
At the end of March, MasterCard announced they had entered into an agreement to acquire NuData Security, the behavioral biometric and...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Both Card Present and Card Not Present Fraud Grew in 2016
According to estimates from Javelin Strategy and Research, there was an 8 percent increase in U.S. consumers impacted by payment card...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
The Holiday Season is Also Fraud Season
It’s no secret that fraudsters increase their activity and fraud attempts during the holiday season when many merchants are at peak...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
MasterCard Launches Identity Check App Supporting ‘Selfie’ Authentication for SecureCode
MasterCard released their Identity Check app in early October, which is now available in 12 countries across Europe and set to be...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Loyalty Fraud: Over 3 Billion Accounts and $48 Billion at Stake
Whether making fraudulent purchases to accrue loyalty points and rewards, or taking over legitimate customer accounts to steal and spend...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Visa and American Express Temporarily Ease EMV Chargeback Liability for Merchants
Announcements from three of the major card associations in June describe different approaches for reducing merchant liability and losses...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Over 150 Biometric and 2FA Products Certified to Meet FIDO’s Interoperability Standard
In early April, the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance announced that they have now certified over 150 two-factor authentication and...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
The Impact of Fraud Beyond Direct Financial Losses
Because eCommerce fraud is already painful with the reversal of funds, chargeback fees and lost product, the indirect costs are often...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
MasterCard to Launch Identity Check App in 14 Countries this Summer
MasterCard showcased their new Identity Check product at the Mobile World Congress in late February, announcing that after successful...
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