fraud

Fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law, a criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.

Scam Texts Yield Billion-Dollar Bonanza for Chinese Criminals
Scam Texts Yield Billion-Dollar Bonanza for Chinese Criminals
October 15, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

The world of text message scams marked an unwelcome milestone last month. On a single day in September, Americans reported a record 330,000 scam messages...

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US and UK Announce Sanctions Targeting Online Scams and Money Laundering
US and UK Announce Sanctions Targeting Online Scams and Money Laundering
October 14, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

Government agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom are targeting cybercriminal networks in Southeast Asia. These cybercriminal networks were responsible for online scams...

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Banks Can Future-Proof Against AI Fraud by Engineering for Change
Banks Can Future-Proof Against AI Fraud by Engineering for Change
October 10, 2025  |  Authentication

Watch more: Digital Shift: Capital One, Jenna Kaye-Kauderer Novel threat vectors, like deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud and phishing powered by powerful language models, were once...

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Slow AP Workflows Threaten Supply Chains at a Critical Moment
Slow AP Workflows Threaten Supply Chains at a Critical Moment
October 09, 2025  |  Accounts Payable

Watch more: Need to Know: Finexio, Ernest Rolfson Since its inception, the accounts payable (AP) function has been a sleepy back-office chore. It represented the...

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Thredd and Featurespace Team for Better View of Fraud Attempts
Thredd and Featurespace Team for Better View of Fraud Attempts
October 08, 2025  |  Partnerships

Payments processor Thredd released an anti-fraud solution developed in tandem with Visa’s Featurespace. One View allows card transactions and non-card payments to be intelligently monitored...

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Top Payments Leaders on Why Trust Is the New Currency in Real-Time Money
Top Payments Leaders on Why Trust Is the New Currency in Real-Time Money
October 07, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

If 2025 has taught the payments and digital economy anything, it’s that volatility is now a feature, not a bug. Trade routes were replotted, consumer...

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Scientists Say AI Voices Now Match Humans
Scientists Say AI Voices Now Match Humans
October 06, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Until recently, the biggest concern for someone using a credit card abroad was that their bank might block the transaction as potential fraud. The fix...

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Discover Network, Worldpay Say AI Is Rewiring the Foundation of Global Money Movement
Discover Network, Worldpay Say AI Is Rewiring the Foundation of Global Money Movement
October 03, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: Virtual Roundtable Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries. Nowhere is its influence more immediate and more invisible to the average consumer than in the...

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Merchants Start Prepping for Post-Holiday Chargeback Wave
Merchants Start Prepping for Post-Holiday Chargeback Wave
October 01, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

The holiday season may drive record revenues, but it also brings with it a surge in fraud attempts. With scams, cyberattacks and chargebacks spiking during...

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