Fraud Prevention

Preventing fraud can include keeping your personal items and information safe, and safely navigating the internet. Keeping personal information secure is one of our most important responsibilities, and is the act of stopping various types of internet fraud. Due to the many different ways of committing fraud over the Internet, such as stolen.
Fraud Prevention
Experian To Leverage DataVisor’s AI Tech To Better Fight Fraud
November 05, 2019

Fraud detection company DataVisor has teamed up with Experian to integrate the company’s “unsupervised machine learning powered transactional risk assessment capabilities” into the Experian CrossCore platform. The move will help detect fraud patterns, the companies said in a press release. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Why Friendly Fraud Is Anything But Friendly
November 05, 2019

While there is little good to be said about criminal fraudsters who plague merchants by stealing credentials to snag goods with absolutely no intention of ever paying for them, they at least have the merit of being a fairly homogeneous group in terms of intention....

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Building A More Trustworthy eCommerce Marketplace
October 31, 2019

The thrill of the hunt — and chance to snag a good deal — is what drives millennials to local marketplaces. In this month’s Digital Fraud Tracker, Nathan Garnett, general counsel of online peer-to-peer (P2P) shopping marketplace OfferUp, explains how combining user ID verification badges,...

Fraud Prevention
OfferUp’s General Counsel On Keeping Marketplace Shoppers Safe From Scammers
October 30, 2019

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What It Takes To Outsmart Fraudsters In Emerging Markets
October 24, 2019

We might all be in the middle of one of the greatest — and most vital — cat-and-mouse games of all time. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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Deep Dive: Unsupervised Machine Learning Steps Up To Fight Fraud
October 03, 2019

Fraudsters are getting increasingly creative when stealing money and data, but many FIs, FinTechs and merchants are still taking established approaches to fraud, reacting to each incident and hoping the damage is minimal. New solutions like unsupervised ML could help businesses prevent fraud from happening...

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How More FIs Are Playing Offense Against Digital Fraud
October 03, 2019

This week, Mastercard launched Threat Scan, a global solution to help banks spot authorization weaknesses before a breach occurs. This new product is in line with recent cybersecurity trends toward identifying threats before they occur. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Chase Taps Machine Learning For Proactive Approach To Fraud
October 02, 2019

Banks have a Goldilocks problem: Authentication processes can’t be too rigorous for legitimate consumers, but also can’t be too lax so that fraudsters can easily exploit them. In the new Digital Fraud Tracker, Andrew Sloper, Chase’s head of digital authentication, tells PYMNTS how machine learning...

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Chase On Using Machine Learning To Crack Fraud’s Goldilocks Conundrum
October 01, 2019

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