Fraud Prevention

Fraud Prevention
Nearly 9 in 10 Card Issuers Turn to AI to Stop Fraud Without Blocking Sales
October 15, 2026

For card issuers, artificial intelligence is moving closer to the transaction itself. Eighty-nine percent of issuers plan to adopt or expand at least one AI fraud capability, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Investing Forward, Building the Edge,” done with Visa DPS. Half identify fraud...

Fraud Prevention
Brooklyn DA Shuts Down Multi-Million Dollar Crypto Scam Operation
October 14, 2026

Brooklyn’s district attorney’s office says it has disrupted a multinational cryptocurrency fraud operation targeting Russians in the U.S. The investigation by the office’s Virtual Currency Unit (VCU) and the FBI culminated in the seizure of 241 web domains and 112 servers, which revealed the millions...

Fraud Prevention
Finance Teams Finally Have Proof AI Fraud Tools Pay Off
October 14, 2026

Fraud teams have spent years weighing whether artificial intelligence (AI) can improve on manual controls. For companies that have deployed the technology, the results are becoming strikingly apparent. Seventy-seven percent of firms using AI-powered fraud defenses say they get better results than they did with...

Fraud Prevention
Tech Giants and Global Police Dismantle West African Scam Rings
October 13, 2026

A coordinated effort by international law enforcement agencies and tech companies to crack down on fraud and scams based in countries across West Africa led to the arrests of 30 suspected scammers and the removal of 3.7 million online profiles and accounts, the United Kingdom’s...

Fraud Prevention
PYMNTS Finds 42% of Companies Rely on Layered Defense to Combat Fraud
October 12, 2026

Forty-two percent of corporate finance departments deploy a stack of three or more artificial intelligence (AI) tools to secure their outgoing payments, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence and Bottomline collaboration “Prevention First: Building a Smarter Defense Against Payments Fraud.” This adoption reflects a broader evolution in how...

Fraud Prevention
Scamming Becomes $422 Billion Business With AI Assistance
October 11, 2026

Like many industries, scamming is getting an artificial intelligence-powered upgrade. That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 10) by Bloomberg News, citing data from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance estimating victims lost $442 billion across 42 countries last year, more than some valuations for the worldwide...

Fraud Prevention
2 Years of SDNY FinCrime Cases Show New Technology Scaling Old Vulnerabilities
October 09, 2026

Enterprise fraud and white-collar crime’s biggest shift over the past two years is less about the technology criminals use than the number of systems they can exploit. Across 24 months’ worth of cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New...

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What the Treasury and SEC Can Teach CFOs About Fraud
October 08, 2026

The most expensive fraud control is becoming the one that works perfectly, just a few seconds too late. Two developments from Washington this week, one from the U.S. Treasury Department and the other from the Securities and Exchange Commission, suggest that the next competitive advantage...

Fraud Prevention
Scams Move From the Inbox to the Text Screen
October 08, 2026

A bank can monitor a login, score a transaction and flag unusual account activity. It can’t see the text message that convinced its customer to send the money, which is giving scammers a lucrative way to switch up how they reach victims. The PYMNTS Intelligence...