Fraud Prevention

Fraud Prevention
UK Banks Agree to Improve Data-Sharing in Anti-Fraud Battle
March 31, 2025

British banks, tech companies and telecoms are reportedly pledging to increase their data-sharing on fraud. This pledge, as the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (March 31), comes as the U.K. government is facing calls to show more leadership in helping fight online scammers. According to the report,...

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Auto Lenders Face Emerging Threat From AI-Powered Fraud Tools
March 25, 2025

Auto lenders face an emerging threat from artificial intelligence (AI)-powered fraud tools, according to Point Predictive. The “explosive growth” of these tools may impact lenders in 2025 and beyond, the provider of AI solutions for consumer lending said in a Tuesday (March 25) press release....

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77% of Banks Considering Tap-To-Authenticate Technology to Stop Fraud
March 14, 2025

America’s banks are under siege, and the enemy is invisible. Authentication-based fraud is skyrocketing, leaving financial institutions scrambling to fight back against an epidemic of stolen identities, hacked passwords and unauthorized transactions. These are just some of the findings detailed in “To Stamp Out Authentication-Based...

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Faster Payments Get Faster Fraud Defense
March 12, 2025

Faster payments means faster fraud, at least that’s the fear. FedNow® Service’s debut a year and a half ago, and traction gaining across The Clearing House’s RTP network (which recently crossed the 1 billion transaction mark) have given consumers and enterprises a broadening range of...

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Visa Says New Anti-Fraud Unit Blocked $350 Million in Scam Attempts
March 11, 2025

Visa says its new anti-fraud disruption department saved potential victims $350 million last year. The company’s scam disruption practice, announced Tuesday (March 11), part of Visa’s Payment Ecosystem Risk and Control (PERC), which itself blocked $40 billion in attempted fraud in 2024. “Visa has invested...

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Banks Outmaneuver Fraudsters by Beefing Up Human Intelligence
March 10, 2025

The payments landscape is more sophisticated than ever, but so are fraudsters. With financial institutions (FIs) deploying artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and other cutting-edge technologies to secure transactions, cybercriminals are increasingly finding that the easiest way in is through the weakest link: people....

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Report: Riskified Considering Sale After Receiving Takeover Interest
March 06, 2025

Fraud prevention software firm Riskified is reportedly exploring a sale and other options. The firm has received takeover interest and is reviewing those approaches from interested parties, Reuters reported Wednesday (March 5), citing unnamed sources. The deliberations are in their early stages and may not...

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Behavioral Analytics Inject ‘Smart Friction’ Into Battle Against Scams and Payments Fraud
March 05, 2025

Scams against banks and their customers have exploded. Fraudsters pull at human nature in a bid to gain access to accounts and drain them — pleading through texts, phone calls and artificial intelligence (AI) prompts for donations, romance, bail to get out of jail and...

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FTC Lawsuit Temporarily Halts ‘Phantom Debt Collection’ Scheme
March 03, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday (March 3) that its lawsuit led a federal court to temporarily halt the operations and freeze the assets of a “phantom debt collection” scheme and its operators. The commission’s complaint alleges that the operators of the scheme are...