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2.4KFraud PreventionHow Ticketmaster Rewards Fans And Bars Fraudsters
Some 11 million U.S. consumers were scammed into buying fake or nonexistent live concert tickets last year — a trend that puts...
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3.5KFraud PreventionHow Ticketmaster Uses AI To Sort Fans From Fraudsters
The holiday shopping season is kicking into high gear with retailers working aggressively to entice customers with deals and discounts. Fraudsters, sadly,...
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4.3KSecurity & FraudWhen Being Proactive Creates Fraud Blind Spots
When it comes to fighting fraud, it’s not really what you know – not exactly, at least. It’s what you don’t know,...
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2.9KFraud PreventionExperian To Leverage DataVisor’s AI Tech To Better Fight Fraud
Fraud detection company DataVisor has teamed up with Experian to integrate the company’s “unsupervised machine learning powered transactional risk assessment capabilities” into...
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3.3KFraud PreventionOfferUp’s General Counsel On Keeping Marketplace Shoppers Safe From Scammers
Online tools are saving customers time on acquiring goods and services. Unfortunately, these tools are also saving time for fraudsters, who are...
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3.1KSecurity & FraudDataVisor Launches Partner Program To Help Fraud-Proof Larger Businesses
Cybersecurity and fraud protection company DataVisor, which uses artificial intelligence to help with fraud solutions, has launched a program called ExtenD, with...
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8.9KNewsApple’s Missed Shot, Marcus Loss And Fraud Prevention Top Week’s News
Life is never boring in the world of payments and commerce, and the newest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender report is proof...
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3.2KFraud PreventionDeep Dive: Unsupervised Machine Learning Steps Up To Fight Fraud
Fraudsters are getting increasingly creative when stealing money and data, but many FIs, FinTechs and merchants are still taking established approaches to...
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5.3KFraud PreventionHow More FIs Are Playing Offense Against Digital Fraud
This week, Mastercard launched Threat Scan, a global solution to help banks spot authorization weaknesses before a breach occurs. This new product is in...
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3.8KFraud PreventionChase Taps Machine Learning For Proactive Approach To Fraud
Banks have a Goldilocks problem: Authentication processes can’t be too rigorous for legitimate consumers, but also can’t be too lax so that...
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6.4KFraud PreventionChase On Using Machine Learning To Crack Fraud’s Goldilocks Conundrum
The global threat of fraud shows no signs of slowing down. Losses related to fraud are valued at $14.7 billion, according to...
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3.8KFraud PreventionCurbing Digital Advertising’s Big Payments Fraud Problem
The complexity of online and mobile advertising — and the vast sums of money involved — make those areas extremely attractive for...
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3.7KSecurity & FraudDataVisor Launches Feature Platform To Automate Fraud Detection
DataVisor has announced the launch of its new Feature Platform, which automates fraud detection through the use of artificial intelligence and machine...
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2.1KFraud PreventionDeep Dive: How Ad Fraud Takes A Toll On Advertisers And Publishers
The global digital ad market is expected to be valued at $225 billion by 2020, so it is no wonder fraudsters are...
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2.7KSecurity & FraudA Focus On Ad Fraud And Solutions
Experts estimate that total fraud losses in 2018 totaled $3.9 trillion, an increase of 49.5 percent over the last 10 years. Fraud...
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2.6KFraud PreventionInside Facebook’s Efforts To Fight Ad Fraud
Facebook is a giant in the ad game, with 2.3 billion active monthly users and $16.6 billion in quarterly advertising revenue. However,...
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4.5KFraud PreventionTrending: How Facebook Unfriends Ad Fraudsters
Digital fraud continues to be one of the most pressing issues that marketplaces face today. Experts estimate that total fraud losses in...
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6.0KSecurity & FraudHow To Cut The Phishing Lines That Bind Us
Fraudsters are ever bolder when it comes to phishing scams, which are up 76 percent year over year. The best approach to...
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6.2KSecurity & FraudDeep Dive: Why Fraudsters See Value In Phishing
It is far too easy for modern consumers and businesses to be lured into digital scams, and phishing is one of the...
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4.9KSecurity & FraudPhishing Remains A Persistent Problem
Because of the huge number of emails sent daily – by some estimates, 3.7 billion people send around 269 billion emails every...
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3.9KSecurity & FraudWhy N26 Is Keeping Fraud Top Of Mind In The US Market
Meeting a consumer’s banking needs requires FIs to think locally — but when it comes to fighting fraud, it pays to think...
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6.3KSecurity & FraudInside N26’s Fraud Protection Strategy
Fraudsters are muscling their way into new territories when it comes to how they approach consumers for their personal information. As such,...
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3.6KFraud PreventionWhy AI Is Social Media Fraud’s New Best Friend
It can be difficult these days to remember the almost idyllic promise of social media when it first entered the general consumer...
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3.6KFraud PreventionDeep Dive: How Account Takeovers Are Affecting The $138B Gaming Industry
The $138 billion video game market has become a lightning rod for cybercriminals looking to make a quick buck. Game-related crime such...
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5.7KSecurity & FraudBNY Mellon’s AI-Based Fraud Detection Initiative
With the speed and volume of digital transactions increasing every year, fraudsters have become better at concealing their tracks. Hunting cybercriminals has...
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6.5KSecurity & FraudBNY Mellon’s AI Fix For Reducing False-Positives
With 83 percent of consumers in the U.S. owning laptops and 91 percent owning mobile devices, there’s never been greater opportunity for...
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9.3KSecurity & FraudFaster Payments, Faster Fraudsters
The following Deep Dive takes an in-depth look at how real-time payments and P2P services are enabling faster transactions for users and...
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6.0KSecurity & FraudSchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union’s Lesson In P2P Security
Usage of Zelle surged in 2018, with $119 billion exchanged in P2P transfers on the platform. That volume has attracted fraudsters eagerly...
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9.8KSecurity & FraudMaking P2P Payments Fraud-Free
In today’s digital payments ecosystem, businesses, banks and consumers alike want access to their money as fast as possible. While person-to-person (P2P)...
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7.5KFraud PreventionWhen Synthetic IDs Are As Good As The Real Thing
It’s no secret that digital criminals are becoming more sophisticated. So are the fraud defenses deployed by merchants, payment service providers and...
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6.2KSecurity & FraudInverting The Fraud Approach: Fraudsters Can Check In, But Never Leave
A single data breach in 2017 exposed 143 million Americans’ credit details and personal information, and incidents that occurred a year later...
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11.4KSecurity & FraudFraud’s New Paradigm: Let Fraudsters In, But Never Let Them Leave
Fraud is rampant and thriving. With a wealth of stolen credentials to pick from in the wake of several data breaches that...
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6.5KFraud PreventionWhen Fraud Risk Is Credit Risk In Disguise
Here’s a test: What’s fraud? Also, what’s a simple and legitimate matter of credit risk? Those aren’t trick questions, but rather a...
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6.0KSecurity & FraudLuxury Retail, Luxury Fraud: How Neiman Marcus Is Battling Fraudsters
Retailers are increasingly using new tools to differentiate between legit and fraudulent transactions. In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker, Neiman Marcus’ Chief...
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9.4KSecurity & FraudHow Neiman Marcus Uses AI To Fight Fraudsters
With the holiday shopping season in the rear view, retailers across the globe are tallying up their wins and losses. While the...
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6.4KFraud PreventionHow To Fight Online Fraud: Ruin Cybercrime’s ROI
Let’s get a few things straight, a couple of points that might go against what every payments and commerce professional knows, but...
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7.5KSecurity & FraudHow OfferUp Works To Safeguard Both Buyers And Sellers
Digital marketplaces have become beloved by buyers and sellers — and fraudsters. Nick Huzar, CEO of OfferUp, says most current authentication standards...
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8.3KSecurity & FraudOfferUp CEO On Making Marketplace Authentication Smarter
The world is constantly getting faster. As a result, the speed of commerce and payments is coming closer to real time. This...
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6.1KSecurity & FraudPODCAST: Why Fraudsters Are So Ready To Feast On Marketplaces This Holiday Season
Experts are predicting big things for the 2018 holiday shopping rush. eMarketer predicts that 2018 will be the first year in U.S. history that holiday spending...
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10.7KSecurity & FraudHow PSD2 And Open Banking Impact Security
In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker Deep Dive, PYMNTS examines the authentication challenges posed by PSD2, GDPR and other data sharing initiatives.
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8.1KSecurity & FraudThe Rising Tide Of Loyalty Fraud — And How To Stop It
Would one lock a Ducati to a lamppost with a loop of dental floss? Well, that’s about the equivalent of what’s protecting...
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9.3KSecurity & FraudTRENDING: Flimsy PINs, The Stalwart Protectors Of Billions Of Loyalty Rewards Dollars?
As data theft continues to surge, companies are looking to bolster their defenses to protect customers and prevent fraudsters from committing cybercrimes....
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9.8KSecurity & FraudDeep Dive: Fighting Fraud With AI And Machine Learning
In the inaugural Digital Fraud Tracker, PYMNTS takes a deep dive into the world of cybercrime, exploring the latest attack methods employed...
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4.9KSecurity & FraudHow Ally Balances Convenience And Risk
For digital-only banks, offering convenience and maintaining top-notch security is a delicate balance. One technique, according to Anand Talwar, deposits executive for...
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7.8KSecurity & FraudTRENDING: Solving Banking’s Security-Convenience Conundrum
Call it a Sophie’s Choice for the modern banking industry. Should banks and financial institutions (FIs) focus more on giving consumers the...
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3.3KFraud PreventionHelping Banks Find Fraudsters-In-Waiting
Banking during the pre-digital days involved transport. One had to visit a branch — and remember, there is a reason people still...
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6.8KSecurity & FraudDataVisor CEO On Winning The AML Arms Race
The best thing about living in the digital age, DataVisor CEO and Co-Founder Yinglian Xie told Karen Webster in a recent conversation,...
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6.4KSecurity & FraudHacker Tracker: DataVisor’s Global Insight Into Online Fraud
While the fraud ecosystem continues to rapidly develop and advance, big data may prove itself to be a strong weapon in combatting...
