Fraud Prevention

Fraud Prevention
Fiserv First To Offer Mastercard Decision Intelligence
March 07, 2018

Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology, announced news on Tuesday (March 6) that it is now offering Mastercard Decision Intelligence, a fraud detection service. In a press release, Fiserv said financial companies working with Fiserv will be able to access the service, which will...

Fraud Prevention
Visa Says Counterfeit Fraud At Chip-Enabled Merchants Plummets 70 Percent
February 23, 2018

Visa announced news on Friday (Feb. 23) that counterfeit fraud, as measured in dollars, dropped 70 percent in September 2017 compared to December of 2015. In an infographic provided by the payments giant, the company estimated that 2.7 million merchant locations now accept chip cards,...

Fraud Prevention
AI Puts Fraudulent Credit Card Testers To The Test
February 21, 2018

This is not a test. Beware the credit card test. There may be no escaping credit card fraud, as it comes in one form or another. Overall, one subset of card fraud is on the rise: Last year, Radial’s eCommerce Fraud Technology Lab said credit...

Fraud Prevention
Fed Says Payment Fraud Losses Top Of Mind For FIs
February 07, 2018

Payment fraud losses are top of mind for financial institutions around the country, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis reported. Based on a survey of close to 300 financial institutions (FIs), The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that payment fraud loss was an issue...

Fraud Prevention
Holiday Season Cons: More Calls Mean More Fraud For Contact Centers
December 22, 2017

No news probably isn’t good news when it comes to call center fraud during the holidays. IntraNext CEO Patrick Brown told Karen Webster in a recent interview that he had yet to hear any holiday horror stories from retail clients or read any online, but...

Fraud Prevention
Using Gift Cards To Buy Drugs: How Return Fraud Is Funding The Opioid Crisis
December 08, 2017

They say gift cards are the gift that always fits. Apparently, this is especially true if you’re a fraudster, and many are using this unlikely currency to support their drug habits. Law enforcement and drug users report that the scam isn’t hard to pull off,...

Fraud Prevention
SEC Puts The Hammer Down On ICO Scam
December 05, 2017

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced news on Monday (Dec. 4) that it obtained an emergency asset freeze to stop an initial coin offering (ICO) fraud that has already raised $15 million from thousands of investors since August. The move is the first enforcement...

Fraud Prevention
Account Takeover: An Evolution In eCommerce Fraud
November 21, 2017

  Place a stone in a stream and the water will flow on around it, diverted from its path but not from its destination. Unfortunately, fraud defenses work the same way. Shore up against one type of threat and those clever, fluid fraudsters will always...

Fraud Prevention
How Call Centers Cope With Ever-Changing Threats And Technology
November 17, 2017

Call centers are a $13 billion industry in the U.S. alone. In the inaugural PYMNTS Call Center Commerce Tracker™, in collaboration with IntraNext Systems, PYMNTS dives into the commerce ecosystem that drives them, along with news and a directory of top providers in the space....