Fraud Prevention

Fraud Prevention
Deep Dive: How FIs And Merchants Are Pushing Back Against Push Payment Fraud
November 17, 2020

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KeyBank On Fighting APP Fraud During The COVID-19 Pandemic
November 16, 2020

Fraudsters are preying on consumers’ anxieties by turning to authorized push payment (APP) fraud for COVID-19-related schemes. Deploying multiple fraud prevention tactics is therefore a must if banks hope to spot complex scams and outfox bad actors, says Megan Kakani, vice president of product and...

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KeyBank Battles Push-Payment Fraud With Machine Learning, Other Tactics
November 13, 2020

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California Freezes Unemployment Debit Cards Over Purported Fraud 
October 26, 2020

California officials have frozen about 350,000 unemployment debit cards over purported fraud, according to an AP report on Monday (Oct. 26). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...

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Perceptions Of Credit Card Frictions Critical For Merchants
October 23, 2020

Card declines, disputes and chargebacks are sprouting like weeds in a commerce environment dominated by card-not-present (CNP) transactions that are more prone to fraud. Each rejected charge is harmful in its own way, so companies are partnering to get ahead of the problem. Get the...

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Fraud Fighters Focusing On Better P2P Security
October 21, 2020

There’s no soft version, no smoothing it over. Companies charged with protecting people’s data lost ground in 2020, after an abysmal 2019 of breathtaking data breaches. Yes, the pandemic explains a great deal of the new action. Preparedness (or lack thereof) explains the rest. Get...

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Deep Dive: Fighting Back Against The Fraud Plaguing P2P Payment Apps
October 20, 2020

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Malware Hits Banks By Mimicking Video Conferencing App
October 19, 2020

Brazilian bank accounts are being hit by a new malware, called Vizom by IBM, that makes use of familiar overlay attack tactics to hijack devices in real time, according to a report by ZDNet. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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How Zelle Protects Users Against Scams And Frauds With AI, Analytics
October 19, 2020

Fraudsters are deploying tactics ranging from impersonating tax officials to selling fake PPE on peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Fighting these threats requires an equally wide-ranging defense, says Jamie Armistead, vice president of Zelle. In this month’s Preventing Financial Crime Playbook, Armistead...